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#15000359
Sivad wrote:Those poor people, they were just trying live as lavishly as possible right in front of the brutal oppression and crushing mass poverty and some maniac had to resent their oblivious decadence and blow them up. Oh, the humaineety.


No one deserves to be be murdered; neither the wealthy nor the low paid waiters, room cleaners, laundry workers etc
#15000362
fuser wrote:So according to you @Rich , Hindus are the majority in Indian subcontinent then it will make Buddhist a minority in the subcontinent. How the hell you came to the bullshit conclusion that only Muslims can be minority here.

This is utter nonsense, Buddhist are the majority in Srilanka, don't deny the obvious reality just so that you can go on another one of your "oh no Muslims" tirade.

Obvious reality? Lets take Britain. We have lots of minorities, who have essentially arrived since the start of World War II. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Pagans, Chinese, Indian, Thais, Burmese, West Indians, Poles and Czechs. While some individuals may commit crimes, none of them engage in campaigns of terror on behalf those groups. Tamils are a majority in North East Sri Lanka.

Muslims are unique in their behaviour, as small recently arrived minorities. It may only be a small minority of Muslims that engage in these extreme acts, but it is very much indicative of how the majority of Muslims, will behave once they become a majority of the population. As we've seen in Afghanistan, Western Iraq and Syria, you go to bed in a sea of moderate, peaceful, tolerant loveable Muslims. You wake up in an Islamic terror state. Assuming you wake up at all that is.
#15000365
Separatist Tamil Tigers and other rebel groups targeted the Central Bank, a shopping mall, a Buddhist temple and hotels popular with tourists in Sri Lanka’s decadeslong civil war. Ruwan Wijewardene said the bombings were carried out by an extremist group but he was not naming it or suspects to avoid any communal violence. I suspect that the Tamil Tigers were responsible for the blasts that killed 200. The Tamil Tigers vowed to carve out a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka.

Officials have warned against sowing divisions in following the attacks, which come nearly ten years after a violent, decades-long civil war between the Tamil Tigers, a separatist militant organization, and the Sri Lankan government. It's estimated that 70,000 people were killed during that conflict, which ended in 2009. But the violence in the country has largely subsided since then.

In a statement, Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera said the attacks are "a diabolical attempt to create racial and religious tensions in this country yet again, thereby pulling the country backwards." He called on Sri Lankans to unite, and thwart "this heinous attempt to drag our country back into the dark past."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ja ... ons-easter
#15000370
ThirdTerm wrote:Separatist Tamil Tigers and other rebel groups targeted the Central Bank, a shopping mall, a Buddhist temple and hotels popular with tourists in Sri Lanka’s decadeslong civil war. Ruwan Wijewardene said the bombings were carried out by an extremist group but he was not naming it or suspects to avoid any communal violence. I suspect that the Tamil Tigers were responsible for the blasts that killed 200. The Tamil Tigers vowed to carve out a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka.


These are not tamil tigers
and why would tamil tigers bomb christians and make themselves look bad in the eyes of the (western) world?
this was clearly done by ISIS
#15000391
Stormsmith wrote:No one deserves to be be murdered; neither the wealthy nor the low paid waiters, room cleaners, laundry workers etc


It's funny how you people think the carnage is something that happens to you, you are the carnage. We all deserve the world we get, terrorists and tourists deserve each other. The problem with terrorism isn't that people don't deserve it, they obviously do, the problem with it is that it's pointless and that it only serves to perpetuate the madness.
#15000424
One of the suicide bombers checked into the Cinnamon Grand hotel in Colombo under the name Mohamed Azzam Mohamed, Indian media wrote. He reportedly set off an explosive at the hotel’s busy restaurant while standing in line for the Easter Sunday breakfast buffet.
Two more suicide bombers, who were behind the attacks on the Shangri La hotel and a church in Batticaloa, have also been reportedly identified as Zahran Hashim and Abu Mohammed, according to a report by an Indian News 18 TV Channel. No other details about the alleged perpetrators have been revealed so far.


excerpt from
https://www.rt.com/news/457160-sri-lank ... r-attacks/

This seems to clarify the type of terrorists that did this.
#15000426
What is really outstanding about this to me is that they chose to attack Christians in a country where they already are an extreme minority and do not have much in the way of political power -- and they, too, are a minority.

Christianity is literally the fourth largest religion in Sri Lanka.

This was done out of pure malice towards Christians and can't be thought of as having any relevance to Sri Lankan politics specifically.
#15000433
Rancid wrote:I don't understand. What does this comment mean? :?:


After The New Zealand mosque massacres, well-meaning liberal politicians including the prime minister were seen wearing Muslim dress on their heads in a show of solidarity wit the Muslim community. The poster is asking if the Muslim leaders will reciprocate this gesture of solidarity and wear
Christian crosses after the Sri Lanka massacres.
#15000436
Ter wrote:
After The New Zealand mosque massacres, well-meaning liberal politicians including the prime minister were seen wearing Muslim dress on their heads in a show of solidarity wit the Muslim community. The poster is asking if the Muslim leaders will reciprocate this gesture of solidarity and wear
Christian crosses after the Sri Lanka massacres.



Aaaaaaaahhh, got it. Thanks for filling me in.
#15000446
Tamil Tigers can't be behind this if they are this splinter group will be one of the most stupid group or it will be a false flag operation, those churches were literally Tamil churches i.e. Tamilian Christians went to them, and Tamilian Christians were a massive supporter of Tamil Tigers, why would they kill the people they claim to protect.
#15000448
It's likely that the group behind the attacks is the National Thowheed Jamath. On April 11, a top Sri Lankan police official issued an advisory warning of potential suicide attacks on churches, in which deputy inspector general Priyalal Dassanayake wrote that a radical Islamist group called National Thoweeth Jama’ath was planning nationwide attacks. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe acknowledged that some information about a planned attack had been circulating. The members of the National Thowheed Jamath are ethnic Tamils, who aim to create hatred, fear and divisions in society. The Tamil Tigers came back stronger as the National Thowheed Jamath to further their separatist cause, armed with the tactics of the global jihadist movement.

Until now, National Thowheeth Jama’ath was known mainly in Sri Lanka for vandalizing Buddhist statues. In 2016, its secretary, Abdul Razik, was arrested on charges of inciting racism.

But while Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, was ravaged by decades of civil war that ended in 2009, it has little history of militant Islamist violence.

In that internecine conflict, the Sri Lankan government, largely led by a Buddhist elite, put down a rebellion by ethnic Tamils, who are primarily Hindu but also include Muslims and Christians.

The goal of National Thowheeth Jama’ath is not insurrection, said Anne Speckhard, the director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism. Instead, it aims to spread the global jihadist movement to Sri Lanka and to create hatred, fear and divisions in society.

“It is not about a separatist movement,” she said. “It is about religion and punishing.”

The coordinated suicide bombings on Sunday, targeting members of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic minority and guests at hotels favored by foreign tourists, were similar to those carried out elsewhere by major Islamist militant groups, Ms. Speckhard said.

“These attacks appear to be quite different and look as if they came right out of the ISIS, Al Qaeda, global militant jihadist playbook, as these are attacks fomenting religious hatred by attacking multiple churches on a high religious holiday,” she said.

The Tamils were among the first groups in the world to use suicide bombings as a common tactic. The civil war ended a decade ago after a large-scale operation by the army that defeated the Tamils and killed their leader.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/worl ... maath.html
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#15000471
Some people did something to some Easter worshippers. The logic of the MSM is basically that Easter worshippers are worth about 1/10th of a honk, perhaps less, based upon how they cover things. I'm not sure what other logic could explain discrepancies in coverage.

I also don't know what the logic is supposed to be in dressing like a Muslim to show solidarity when Muslims have a policy of not reciprocating such a thing. If you want to feel sympathy for them then fine, I feel sympathetic for them in a way but if they have an official policy of not doing something for you no matter what, probably you are wasting your time doing it for them, unless you are trying to signal that you are better than they are or something, which is apparently not what is going on there.

Basically there are certain international norms of diplomacy and socialization that Muslims explicitly reject and there seems to be no point in pretending otherwise.

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