I have found that, in many places, respect often just means fear.

It is that people are scared of you.

When people are frightened of stealing because they believe there are very harsh punishments in their religion, it works as a warning.

They look at it very carefully and decide it is not worth it because of the painful punishment.

When you use strong, serious penalties in a fair legal way, they can work.

I strongly believe the three people linked to ISIS who were caught should face real, lawful punishment.

It reminds them that the consequences are real.

The reason why Sri Lanka is struggling is that there is often no clear punishment for theft, murder or dishonesty, so those things keep happening.

Before any of us knew it, it felt like the country had slipped toward being a failed state, because the public could not get a leader who truly punishes criminals.

They all picked AKD, but even with all the shows and speeches, ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Nothing has happened.