Over 650 anti-Muslim attacks followed one shrine’s destruction since 2011

Evidence

The recent calibrated attacks against Muslims began in late 2011 when a Sinhalese mob destroyed a nearly 300-year-old Sufishrine. Since then, more than 650 attacks against mosques, businesses, and homes have taken place throughout the island, with a number of newly formed groups leading the fray (DeVotta 2018, 282). — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1370