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BlogTo profiles hot geek Amber MacArthur. ⇒

   7 December 2006, lunch time

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  1. She has an interesting post on her blog linking to a reconstruction project in Ampara in collaboration with a Canadian development agency.

    Also, turning my naive/ignorant filter on:
    I’ve never really noticed this before, but it stood out in the demographics section. Since when are Muslims an ethnic group as opposed to a religious group? (also note that there are 575 adherents to Islam that are not Muslim apparently)

    I always assumed that the ethnic breakdown was Tamil, Sinhalese, Burgher, misc., and the religious breakdown was Hindu, Christian, Islam, Buddhist, misc. Does following Islam remove your ethnicity?

    by haran on December 8 2006, 3:06 am   #

  2. The Tamil Muslims may consider themselves their own ethnic group, separate from the other Tamils on the Island? That would be my guess. (The LTTE certainly seems to see it that way.) As for the discrepancies in numbers, there might be people who are part of a Tamil Muslim family, but who are not Muslim themselves anymore? (Know what I mean?) And yes, its all strange I agree.

    by ramanan on December 8 2006, 9:17 am   #

  3. That’s precisely my question since by definition you can’t be a part of a Muslim family ethnically, and not religiously. (Since they’re defining ethnicity by religion.)

    by haran on December 8 2006, 5:36 pm   #

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