Nationalists invoke South Korea fears to rally Buddhists against Christians.

Evidence

The Buddhist organizations fan the public’s fears by claiming that just as South Korea was made a majority Christian country following World War II, Sri Lanka too will soon become a majority Christian island if the Christian organizations are allowed free reign in the country. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 243

Categorization

• XREF: A real manufactured-threat mechanism: a historical analogy (South Korea ‘fell’ to Christianity) deployed as future-scenario-building for the ingroup, a cognitive device found across nationalist movements. Links to the reader’s study of how constructed threat narratives recruit plausible historical precedents. — connects to: Sinhalese political Buddhism emerged as a protest against Christian and Western dominance. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 94