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| Muslim Socio-culture and Majority-Minority Relations in recent Sri Lanka | ||
| 作者 | Long, Ahmad Sunawari (著) ; Abd. Rahman, Zaizul (著) ; Razick, Ahamed Sarjoon (著) ; Salleh, Kamarudin (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Politics and Law |
| 卷期 | v.10 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2017 |
| 頁次 | 105 - 113 |
| 出版者 | Canadian Center of Science and Education |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.ccsenet.org/ |
| 出版地 | Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada [列治文山, 安大略, 加拿大] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Ahmad Sunawari Long, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia; Zaizul Ab. Rahman, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia; Ahamed Sarjoon Razick, The National University of Malaysia (UKM) & South Eastern University of Sri Lanka; Kamarudin Salleh, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia. |
| 關鍵詞 | Muslim Socio-culture; majority-minority relations; Buddhists; Sri Lanka |
| 摘要 | Sri Lanka is a nation in which multi-religious, multi-ethnic multi-language people live. Buddhists are the majority, while Muslims form the second minority group next to Tamils. Since historical times, the community relationship between Buddhists and Muslims has been prevailing. However, recently, a disturbing trend has been widely spreading among the Buddhists and Muslims. This situation has emerged during the aftermath of the anti-Muslim campaigns set by a number of Buddhist Nationalist Groups (BNGs), with their main goal being to propagate incorrect opinions about the Muslims to promote negative views about their socio-culture, and to distort the idea of a peaceful relationship between Buddhists and Muslims in the country. Accordingly, in the past several years, they have campaigned against halal certification on consumer goods, hijab and niqab of Muslim women, cattle slaughtering, places of worship and prayer services, among others. Moreover, they spread out the illusion that the above aspects of Muslim socio-culture are notable threats to the Buddhist people. So, these aspects are assumed by the Buddhists to be obstacles for maintaining a community relationship with Muslims. On the above background, analyzing the extent to which the above aspects influence the majority-Buddhists and minority-Muslims relationship, and determining as to whether an unfastened relationship will prevail between them, are the main objectives of this study. Based on the results, it is certainly affirmed that the above Muslim socio-cultural aspects, except slaughtering of cattle, have not pushed their influences to damage the Buddhist-Muslim relationship in Sri Lanka. In this respect, it was found that the aspect of 'slaughtering of cattle' is the only obstacle to the Buddhist-Muslim relationship. Furthermore, the recent campaigns have not changed the Buddhists' mood in terms of maintaining a better relationship with Muslims. Moreover, the campaigns did not change their habits in keeping up the relationships with Muslims, without any break as how they behaved during the war (1984-2009) and pre-war periods. However, it is worthy to note that the BNGs have succeeded through their campaigns to create a negative Muslim stereotype among a small population of Buddhists in Sri Lanka. |
| 目次 | Abstract 105 Keywords 105 1. Introduction 105 2. Materials and Method 106 3. Results and Discussion 106 Item 1: Controversial aspects of Muslim socio-culture to Buddhists 107 Halal 107 Worship places and prayer services 107 Slaughtering of cattle 108 Hijab and Niqab of Muslim woman 109 Item 2: Post-tension Majority-Minority Relations 110 4. Conclusion 112 References 112 Copyrights 113 |
| ISSN | 19139047 (P); 19139055 (E) |
| DOI | 10.5539/jpl.v10n2p105 |
| 點閱次數 | 45 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.06.27 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.06.27 |
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