Posted on 04/21/2019 9:46:41 PM PDT by robowombat
Sri Lanka: Seven Muslims arrested for Easter Sunday jihad massacres, death toll passes 190
Sri Lanka’s defense minister Ruwan Wijewardena “blamed religious extremists for what he called the ‘unfortunate terrorist incident.'”
But even in this hour of crisis neither he nor other authorities worldwide will dare to identify exactly what kind of “religious extremists” were involved, even though Indian media has already identified two of them by name: Zahran Hashim and Abu Mohammad.
The jihad advances with impunity, and the powers of the world cower before it, portray Muslims as the true victims, and kowtow to its enablers and allies.
“Sri Lanka blasts: Seven suspects arrested as death toll reaches 190,” 9News, April 21, 2019:
Seven suspects have been arrested over the Easter Sunday terror bombings at churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, that killed at least 190 people and wounded hundreds more.
Sri Lanka’s defense minister Ruwan Wijewardena confirmed the arrests, according to Associated Press.
Eight blasts, thought to have been targeting worshippers and tourists, were reported across the country today, in the worst bout of violence in Sri Lanka since the South Asian country’s bloody civil war ended a decade ago. The death toll is expected to rise.
The government has imposed an island-wide curfew and a social media shutdown.
Earlier, the defense minister blamed religious extremists for what he called the “unfortunate terrorist incident”.
He said those “involved in this unfortunate terrorist incident will be taken into custody as soon as possible.”
About 8.45am local time, six near-simultaneous explosions occurred across three churches and three hotels.
St. Anthony’s Shrine and the hotels, Shangri-La, Kingsbury and the Cinnamon Grand, are in Colombo, the capital, and are frequented by foreign tourists.
The other blasts were at St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, a majority Catholic town north of Colombo, and at Zion Church in the eastern town of Batticaloa
Suicide bombers: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)
More on this story. “Blasts at Sri Lanka hotels and churches kill 156,” AFP, April 21, 2019:
A string of blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 156 people, including 35 foreigners.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe condemned the attacks as “cowardly” and said the government was working to “contain the situation”.
Images circulating on social media and local news stations showed extensive damage at one of three churches targeted in the near simultaneous blasts on Sunday morning.
Much of the church roof was blown out in the explosion, with roof tiles and splintered wood littering the floor and pools of blood in between wounded worshippers.
The injured flooded into local hospitals, where officials reported hundreds of wounded were being admitted.
The nature of the blasts was not immediately clear and there were no immediate claims of responsibility.
But documents seen by AFP show that Sri Lanka’s police chief Pujuth Jayasundara issued an intelligence alert to top officers 10 days ago, warning that suicide bombers planned to hit “prominent churches”.
“A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama’ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo,” the alert said.
The NTJ is a radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka that was linked last year to the vandalisation of Buddhist statues
Good lord please stop! About 2/3 of the post on the thread are either islamist crap or Catholic investigation themes.
It’s getting boring
Was listening to the radio tonight, our mainstream press is apparently going to try to spin the islamist attack as “part of rising nationalism.”
Dear God: You can obliterate Mecca any time now. That centuries old experiment has failed miserably.
Makeawreckamecca.
please be advised; notre dame was a cigarette.
Heard it was a “local militant group.”
That’s about all you will hear in the mainstream media.
Islam will not be mentioned, and names of those arrested will be hidden.
Not surprised...time to outlaw Islam...
Sometimes FR truly disgusts me.
Correction they were apparently “Christians” and important to use that term since Hillary, Obava and others are calling them ‘Easter Worshipers’.
It’s not just catholic churches being attacked.
This is all lies! Didn’t g bush say moozlums were “The Religion of Peace”?
I really could care less what the politicians have to say about muslims. They’ve all shown they’re too afraid to call it as it is.
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