in recent years, sri lankan muslims have become more affected with the growing influence of salafism due to investment from saudi arabia, and there had been wary from sri lankan sufi muslims of increasing wahhabism among sri lankan muslims. the brutal 2019 sri lanka easter bombings revealed that the radical national thowheeth jama'ath, a salafi influenced organization, was behind the bombings, leading to increasing censorship of salafi movement in sri lanka.