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Approximately 10% of Sri Lanka is Muslim, in a few small pockets. More than that are Tamil spread over large distinct region. The Tamil insurrection lasted 26 years. Suppressing it cost up to 100,000 lives and more than that were expelled. Until now most Muslims in Sri Lanka and elsewhere have been passive when faced with radical voices, pleading personal innocence and not confronting the aggressive voices but rather claiming victimhood and fearing retribution. Having turned away from socialism, crushed rebellion, and instituted one of the fastest growing economies in Asia the people of Sri Lanka may be expected to have no sympathy for a scorpion that now threatens its host. The response may be decisive. It is possible that this will induce the Muslims to identify and expel the threats from their community. If that does not happen, if there is not a paradigm shift among Muslims, then we may see a wave of isolation and expulsion.