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people’s representatives,

himsa,
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called ‘Arab spring’, the continuing conflict in

ell 1978). Thus, it has ‘betrayed’ the essentials of Buddhism ( Thambiah

reconstruction and political justice after thirty years of one of the Asia’s most violent civil wars. This

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ways this neatly fits into what Juergensmeyer has labelled ‘e mail ethnicity’.

Inside the global rebellion,

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Lanka, and every effort must be made to reverse the trend. However, Sri Lanka’s population density

Halal

halal

k, though it is not forbidden. The speaker’s action was thus nothing but a gratuitous insult to
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niqub(

Bhumi
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Putra

Little has been done to analyse the role the Muslims have played as an ‘in between’ community during

selves as the “state

custodians” in the aftermath of military victory.

nikayas

Literally: “Son of the soil” in Sanskrit. This political term for the dominant indigenous population was
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minorities. However, implications of such ideology is detrimental, not just to the country’s economy,

Nigayas

hijab niqab

select and ‘tailor make’ its basics. This is how we end up having Sinhala Buddhism( or Thai

m this ‘ cost effective’ strategy is justified by

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