{"id":279,"date":"2023-07-26T12:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:10:53","slug":"sri-lankas-easter-sunday-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/26\/sri-lankas-easter-sunday-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Sunday Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Radical Islam is an enduring global challenge that presents a national and international security threat. Instigation by hate preachers, inadequate government, societal attention, religious and reciprocal radicalization have allowed this threat to manifest into terrorist violence. Extremist ideologies have infiltrated religious, educational, and digital spaces and thus, terrorism\u2019s shadow continues to shroud the safety and stability of countries and communities worldwide today.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/book_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123\" width=\"197\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/book_1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/book_1-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Published: Jul\/2023  ISBN: 9789814954631  Length: 312 Pages<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>On 21 April 2019, the world\u2019s most dangerous threat movement, the Islamic State, mounted one of its deadliest attacks in Sri Lanka. The surge of fear, suspicion, and prejudice following what is now known as \u2018Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Sunday Massacre\u2019 fragmented the country, imbuing hatred and anger against the Muslim community. Years later, the radicalization pipeline remains intact, and the threat persists. With the global expansion of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, will the world witness attacks of a similar or greater scale in the future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equal parts treatise and reference material,<em>\u00a0Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community<\/em>\u00a0answers this question by tracing the genesis, threat trajectory, and aftermath of the bombings and the personalities behind them. With unprecedented access to accounts from Islamic State detainees, affected families, intelligence specialists, and investigators, the book reflects on lessons learned and provides insight into how such attacks are organized and what measures can be taken to prevent or respond to these threats effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR COPY<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radical Islam is an enduring global challenge that presents a national and international security threat. Instigation by hate preachers, inadequate government, societal attention, religious and reciprocal radicalization have allowed this threat to manifest into terrorist violence. Extremist ideologies have infiltrated religious, educational, and digital spaces and thus, terrorism\u2019s shadow continues to shroud the safety and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,16,17],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohangunaratna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}