Themainthreat to thisgroupis said to be Ramiro Valdes, a hardlineformerinteriorminister ousted byraul, who now heads afinancial enterprise that belongs totheministry.
At their recent rallies, the most prominent new hardlinegroup, the Buddhist Strength Force (Bodu Bala Sena, BBS) have used coarse, derogatory language to describe Muslim imams and have told the Sinhalese majority not to rent property to Muslims.
This week, leaders of the Islamic Defenders Front, a hardline Muslim group in Indonesia, announced they had obtained a copy of the Supreme Court's ruling and urged the district attorney's office to enforce it.