FORECASTING THE ISLAMIC STATE IN SRI LANKA
“The government should carefully identify not only people, but the organizations that are promoting, educating and supporting ISIS and ban them. There are Sri Lankan and foreign organizations. If Sri Lanka can legally ban them, then the country can take legal actions against extremists. This is the purpose of having a large national security structure. Terrorism is a vicious by product of ideological extremism. If ideological extremism is neglected and ignored by any government, it will lead to terrorism in future”, said Prof Rohan Gunaratna two years and five months before the devastating Easter Sunday attacks in an interview of Ceylon Today. He was among the first to inform the presence of IS in Sri Lanka in an interview titled, “There are a few hundred ISIS supporters in Sri Lanka” dated November 27, 2016. He called the government to act or suffer from “terrorism.” Gunaratna is the coauthor of Three Pillars Of Radicalization: Needs, Networks and Narratives, Oxford University Press.
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