Posted on 04/21/2019 10:05:53 PM PDT by Innovative
Whew! For a little while I was wondering if the Tamil Tigers, a Hindu separatist group, were back, ten years after the Sri Lankan armed forces defeated them.
(Hint: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23)
That's John Paul II, and as much of anticommunist as Ronald Reagan. It was May 14, 1999, at he was receiving a Islamic delegation in the Vatican. It was a gift and he was being courteous.
Popes are not going to be rude to invited guests in the Vatican, no matter how many years of bloodshed there has been. He was also 79 and maybe a bit senile.
Lol thanx widget. I instinctively thought it was the marxist Argentinian. I better get some new glasses. Still reckon popes shouldn’t be kissing glorified toilet paper
Can’t they be courteous without grovelling. May as well have bent over for the tea towel heads and received one in the khyber pass
You’re welcome and thanks for taking it well. It’s way past my bed timem so thinking and posting is like drinking and pretty much anything for me.
Such a tiny island country, and so much carnage. What a bunch of Sri wankers these terrorists were.
Sri Lanka’s primary security threat for decades has been Tamil separatists, they were decisively defeated after a decades long civil war.
This attack is somewhat of an anomaly, I am not surprised that the Sri Lankans were slow to act, Islamic extremists have been someone else’s problem, not theirs.
Further, this was a well prepared, professional, complex and coordinated attack against multiple targets. I think that any concerns the Sri Lankan security forces had were directed against the less complex attack options that we have seen more recently. If I were them, I would have been looking for a lone knife wielder or 1-2 men driving a truck through a crowd.
When one considers that Sri Lanka has a total population of only about 22 million, then one realizes that this would be equivalent to 4,500 dead and 7,500 injured if a comparable wave of Muslim terrorism had occurred in the U.S.A. That is more than one-and-a-half times as many victims as America suffered due to 9-11.
Ponder that for a minute.
Regards,
No one claimed responsibility for the Notre Dame fire either. All of this killing and damage happened in Holy Week. A short circuit? Yeah right.
Man, the post VII Popes have done a lot of bone headed things.
Agreed.
In Third World countries, if they arrest 24 people in less than one day, it just means they did a mass round up of the government’s most irritating enemies.
It certainly has been an “interesting” week.
Nice gift from them for the holiday
will morning TV show have huge coverage of Easter Massacre? I am having doubts.
Sweden and France are both less than 10% Muslim, yet they have major issues to contend with.
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