When the Wahhabis came, with their austere ideology and abundant coffers, the town of Kattankudy yielded fertile ground. In this part of Sri Lanka, faith was often the sole sustaining force during the civil war that raged for nearly three decades. Wahhabism — a hard-line strain of Islam blamed for breeding militancy —proposed a direct path to God, albeit one that aimed to return the religion to the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Monday, April 29, 2019
Extremism found fertile ground in Sri Lankan hometown of mastermind
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