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Sri Lanka is mostly a Buddhist country, with almost three quarters of its over 20 million residents practising that faith.

Yet the country’s dominant religion had nothing to do with the horrific terrorist attacks that took place on Easter Sunday. Instead, it was the extremist members of one minority religion attacking the innocent members of another minority religion.

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In a series of bombings at churches and hotels, violent Islamists killed almost 300 people and injured 500 others. It was one of the more disturbing terrorist attacks we’ve seen in recent years.

What added to the alarming news were the reports that police in the country warned other law enforcement officials across the country that intelligence indicated an attack like this was being planned. They even identified a culprit in advance — National Thowheed Jamath, an Islamist terror organization, which is now being singled out by the government as the perpetrator.