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By N Sathiya Moorthy
Unveiling a memorial at the Borella Cemetery for the martyred victims on the second anniversary of the Easter serial-blasts, Colombo Archbishop, His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, was quoted as saying that the brutal act was a result of political extremism, not religious extremism . The 2019 attacks were unleashed by a group, which tried to consolidate their political power by using religious extremism as a tool.
Until the good Cardinal explained later that he was referring only to international Islamic extremism, without any relation whatsoever to the nation s contemporary politics, his original statement was prone to misinterpretation and mis-representation. Considering that the Cardinal has been vocal and vociferous in wanting to bring to book all the culprits behind the heinous act, and justifiably so, and multiple political names have been making media headlines in this regard, some over-active social media minds were already speculating and naming