Image from Buddhists Questioning Bodu Bala Sena :: Yes, believe it or not Buddhists can be extremists. Has happened quite often in Sri Lanka's history, where the majority are Sinhala (ethnic group) Buddhists (religion). However, the vast majority of Sri Lankans are decent human beings - caught between the politics and violence of power hungry extremists, corruption, poverty, a bad economy, & under-development due to a 30 year long civil war that just ended in 2009. The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) is a Buddhist extremists group (like all ethno-religious fascism, they want a Sri Lanka for one group only - or that is primarily (or perhaps all) Sinhala & Buddhist, even though the island has always been a multi-ethnic, multi-religious (& also some "no religion", & secular) nation since 1948 (& prior to that, an old civilization with various kingdoms going back thousands of years, started by immigrants from various parts of the world - Sinhala Buddhists fr