Sri Lanka’s security forces were warned at least 10 days before the bombings that the militant group was planning attacks against churches, but apparently took no action against it, indicating a catastrophic intelligence failure....
The group, National Thowheeth Jama’ath, had a reputation for vandalizing Buddhist statues but little history of carrying out terrorist attacks.
Rajitha Senaratne, the health minister, called the group “a local organization” and said the suicide bombers appeared to be Sri Lankan citizens. “All are locals,” he said at a news conference on Monday. But, he added, “there was an international network without which these attacks could not have succeeded.”...
No one has publicly claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Sri Lanka does not have much history of Islamist terrorism. The country is predominantly Buddhist, with significant Hindu, Muslim and Christian minorities.
April 22, 2019
The government of Sri Lanka blames an Islamist group — National Thowheeth Jama’ath.
The NYT reports.
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Religion of peace. First! Winning!
Gives a Buddhist majority an excuse to persecute Muslims
A "catastrophic intelligence failure"?
Looks more like a "don't give a damn" failure. They had the intelligence, just didn't do anything to protect their citizens.
Told you. The Indian press and "government sources" had it at least 24 hours ago.
"Sri Lanka does not have much history of Islamist terrorism."
They do now!
I guess I owe the Seventh Day Adventists an apology.
The story doesn't say how often it gets warnings. It might be daily. There are always two things traded off - how often you're willing to miss a valid warning and how often you're willing to act on an invalid warning.
They're both costs that may be better spend elsewhere, when they get out of line.
The thing to look for is what Muslim groups deplore the attacks and what don't. Calculate the relative populations.
I'm sort of surprised that nobody has claimed direct credit. Usually ISIS is quick to claim credit even for stuff that they had nothing to do with. Does this indicate a change in the strategy for the global jihad? That no group will claim direct credit anymore? I can't imagine ISIS recruitment has been so great lately. You'd think they'd want some hyper violent PR.
Charlie: That's exactly what I was going to write.
Funding and help probably from Iran with money Obama-Biden gave them.
Speaking of Obama-Biden, Joe runs for Prez and then resigns or dies in office. More Barack!
Ah, once again the “rush to judgement” was correct. White nationalists were not the culprits.
Islamic terrorism? Who'd've thunk it. My money was on Lutherans with bomb-laden casserole dishes.
it's usually muslims, but not all muslims
Not all Nazis were war criminals
Islamic extremist imam, Moulvi Zahran Hashim
Sri Lanka’s ... catastrophic intelligence failure
National IQ ~ 79
"Some people did something..."
Up next - lectures from the leftist press on how the negative reaction to the news is much worse than actual mass slaughter in the name of the left's favorite religion.
Omar - what say you, honey?
" I can't imagine ISIS recruitment has been so great lately. You'd think they'd want some hyper violent PR."
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Yes, they still offer so much career advancement potential. The cheery billboard route ain't resonating.
Sri Lanka’s security forces were warned at least 10 days before the bombings that the militant group was planning attacks against churches, but apparently took no action against it, indicating a catastrophic intelligence failure....
They used the Hillary/Obama pre-Benghazi/Egypt protocols. Do jack-shit.
But wait, Althouse told us that we had to wait, this could be just like Oklahoma City. On Easter. In Shri Lanka. With suicide bombers at multiple locations.
Althouse is a fucking retard when it comes to coddling pedophile worshipping savages, which is odd because the first thing they will do is enslave the feminazi's she promotes.
We knew it probably wasn't Lutherans.
Who was on Facebook two years ago, according to Robert posting.
Quick. Name another religion that encourages its members to use suicide vests.
President Mom Jeans: That's not accurate in the least. Get a clue. Ann doesn't coddle these savages.
Blames or identifies?
The writing is shoddy.
Somebody did something to somebody.
If you look at a distribution map of Islam in Asia, it goes along the southern tips of the land masses and then the islands south of the land mass. Thailand has a problem in the south resort areas that keeps cropping up. The Philippines and Indonesia follow the same pattern. Southern areas are Muslim and the northern are Buddhist or Hindu, or Christian. Pakistan is sort of an anomaly as a result of the Indian civil war in 1948. Plus, of course, the Muslims invaded India from the north.
In his book, "Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen describes serving in East Timor and seeing angry young men who spoke Arabic arriving and radicalizing the residents who had never been very devout Muslims. The agitators came from the Middle East and somebody must have been paying them or at least funding them,
Just to be clear,
"It's a religion of peace"
"It's a religion of peace"
"It's a religion of peace"
"It's a religion of peace"
"It's a religion of peace"
Our leftists and their allies have the perfect solution to this problem of Islamic terrorists abroad.... Invite all of them here on the taxpayer dime! Give them lots of welfare and freedom and immunity from everything! And when the inevitable bombings and massacres occur here, well... isn't that kind of the point from the left?
Inga and her pals will be far, far more worried about someone saying something bad about Islam than the 200 dead Christians and their families... what's more important to leftists than the tender feelings of Muslims as they commit atrocity after atrocity? Besides, 200 dead Christians murdered by Islamists is known as "the average week" in Nigeria. And Michelle Obama showed how much the left cares about that... a "hashtag" campaign is the most the left can do. Besides give pallets of cash to Islamist terrorists and cheer them on, of course.
Sri Lanka’s security forces were warned at least 10 days before the bombings that the militant group was planning attacks against churches, but apparently took no action against it, indicating a catastrophic intelligence failure
No, this indicates that Sri Lanka’s governing class doesn't care about protecting Christian from Muslim terrorists.
Which makes them similar to the governing classes of most Western nations. Heck, Hillary and Barack can't even say "it's horrible that Islamist terrorists murdered Christians"! So you know they wouldn't care about stopping such an attack.
"Sri Lanka’s security forces were warned at least 10 days before the bombings that the militant group was planning attacks against churches, but apparently took no action against it".
Well, what action were they supposed to take? If you allow Muzzies into your country, and you don't intern them in concentration camps, they are going to blow people up. It's what they do. It's their fucking religion already. They aren't trying to be coy about it.
It's okay to endlessly speculate on how beliefs in white nationalism or, for that matter, wearing MAGA hats are signs of moral decay and that such immorality lead to acts of violence. Similar speculation about Muslims is verboten. This has led to white nationalism and the wearing of MAGA hats........ I don't object to criticism of white racism but criticism of Islam is not white racism............You would think that there would be many voices in the Muslim community wondering WTF. It's not just the terrorism. Why do Muslim countries routinely produce such leaders as Saddam, Assad, Qaddafi? That's in countries where they are the majority. Where they are in the minority, they produce terrorists. There's something out of joint about Islam.
We don't yet know for sure that it's Islamists who perpetrated this horrible crime. But I'll say this as if it was, because it usually is and has been for 40+ years now (just in our modern times).
It's bad when you cannot name the murderers for fear of retribution by more murderers. It's even worse when you cannot name the victims (Christians, Catholics) because you fear retribution by the murderers and seek to appease them.
Gutless leadership, media, and politicians giving ground to a murder cult that exists all over the world. Call it what you like, but it's a murder cult. And if I were part of this cult, I'd leave it. Find God somewhere else. He/She/It exists everywhere....or nowhere, depending on your point of view. But to think He/She/It exists only in your cult and that those outside of your cult need to die, well...that should just not be accepted by anyone on earth. Not by anyone on earth.
If you want to live, if you love life, if you have an ounce of compassion for others, you call the murderers for what they are: point them out and cull them from civil society. To acquiesce to the whines of some such as Ihlan or Rashida is to stand in line and submit, jumping up and down to make it so you are sure you'll be seen as a good submitter. If Ihlan and Rashida don't speak up today, about this, they have no moral grounds to speak up about anything to me. And, I already know they won't except to accuse others such as me, as being anti-Islam. I'm anti murder cult.
"The government of Sri Lanka blames an Islamist group — National Thowheeth Jama’ath."
Not to be confused with the Thowheeth National Jama'ath.
Ann doesn't coddle these savages.
Althouse does indeed defend Islam on a regular basis. Almost as much as she attacks Catholics.
The Tamil Tigers also used suicide bombers.
One of the very few, or perhaps the only exception to the suicide bomber rule.
Kamikaze pilots?
Tamils actually started the recent suicide bomber usage, and radical Islam picked it up.
Great point by Buwaya that I did not know, that 10% of Tamils in Ceylon/Sri Lanke are Moslem. I thought Tamils were Hindu (that is different than Buddhism).
I honestly thought the perpetrators were most likely Tamils.
Sri Lanke probably makes a lot of money off tourists, so trying to not kill the golden goose.
some more people did something
some more people did something
Too specific. Rather, things were done.
10% of Sri Lanka is Muslim. The country is a perfect example of how "Diversity in NOT our strength". The country has been wracked by religious and ethnic conflict for years.
Omar is raking in the cash
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/16/politics/ilhan-omar-fundraising-haul-congress/index.html
could it be those Somali refugees in her districts writing the big checks?
Who could be funding a anti-semite, islam covering mouthpiece? who?
Its all about the Benjamins for her
Yes I had some links about prabhakan who was the Tamil bin laden, it took 20 years to bring him to ground on that small isle, about half way through the ltte uprooted sizable contingents of moslems from places like batticola (sic)
another man made disaster
Islam is not responsible
No true Muslim would have blown himself up
I worry about Islamophobia after this
I will put on a dish dash in solidarity
Hopefully Sri Lanka will pass gun control right away
He was the mastermind of the rajiv Gandhi assasination.
gahrie said...
"Althouse does indeed defend Islam on a regular basis. Almost as much as she attacks Catholics."
?? I don't recall any instance of her doing either.
Blogger Mattman26 said...
I guess I owe the Seventh Day Adventists an apology.
I was certain it was the Episcopalians.
Name another religion that can plan and carry out a coordinated simultaneous suicide mission attack in 7, or more, separate locations.
However, it does not take that many out of the total population to do it. Viz. Obama bin Laden's 9/11 attack on the US.
Also that in Ireland, the "X" IRA groups of the moment would get financing and arms by working with Algerian rebels or Columbian cocaine traffickers to make up for lack of popular support in Ireland.
Anyone think Freder will comment in this thread?
The death toll is now over 300 and bombs and booby traps are still going off./
The terror attack crisis targeting Christians in Sri Lanka appears to be ongoing, keeping the country in fear as more bombs are located and police continue to hunt down the plotters. The country remains in a state of national emergency, with major social media platforms cut as authorities say they are clamping down on "disinformation".
On Monday police attempted to defuse another bomb found in a van parked near St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Colombo — one of three Christian sites targeted during Easter services on Sunday — after a series of eight bombings took 290 lives and injured many hundreds more. Dramatic video shows what local media said was a controlled explosion by police, but which may have been a failed attempt to defuse the bomb.
A bomb tech can be seen sprinting from the vehicle just as it explodes in the Reuters footage below:
Michael, I don't know if you saw it or not, but you were mentioned in Clarice Feldman's article yesterday- she linked to your April 4th essay on Chicagoboyz.
The Tamil Tigers also used suicide bombers.
One of the very few, or perhaps the only exception to the suicide bomber rule.
Plus female suicide bombers. One killed Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi's son.
At its height, Nazi Party membership was 10% of Germany.
Islam is not compatible with The West.
W and Obama are fucking idiots for not cutting off Muslim immigration to the US.
Par for the course:
https://www.steynonline.com/9317/taqiyya-for-easter
Yancy, I did see that. It was a link to this post at Chicago boyz.
Jesus wept.
I always wonder how one recruits suicide bombers and I think I have figured it out.
1. Low IQ males.
2. Steep them in hatred and religious fanaticism.
3. In the case of the Hamaa and perhaps others, offer to pay their families money after the mission is accomplished.
4. That whole 72 virgins thing in Paradise.
Blogger buwaya said...
The Tamil Tigers also used suicide bombers. One of the very few, or perhaps the only exception to the suicide bomber rule.
Blogger Bob Boyd said...
Kamikaze pilots?
I think you have to distinguish at least that the Kamikaze went after legitimate military targets.
miss omar, apparently can't tell the difference between civilian casualties in a church, and
combatants at Mogadishu,
some context:
http://mackenzieinstitute.com/funding-terror-the-liberation-tigers-of-tamil-eelam-and-their-criminal-activities-in-canada-and-the-western-world/
Where's Freder? I mean, we were a bunch of 'fucking morons' for thinking it might be Islamic terrorists behind several, coordinated bombings on Easter Sunday.
Come on, boy. Speak up.
I wonder, if this atrocity will anger both Tamil and Sinhalese (the majority group), and unite them against a common menace.
tamils are not particularly disposed to muslims in the first place, so much like the Buddhists in the Rakhine province>
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/04/22/brigitte-gabriel-finds-ilhan-omars-response-to-sri-lanka-attack-truly-disheartening/
as steyn points, they dwelled on how they suppressed the ltte:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47994298
mccullough said...
W and Obama are fucking idiots for not cutting off Muslim immigration to the US
They aren't idiots.
They just had different goals for our country.
some more context, re the earlier matter:
https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1120381585096892417
This is the religion that formed Ilan Omar and we see how it affects her. Do we really think she could be that far from going over the edge to radical Islam?
I found Freder:
Andy West
✔
@AndyWestTV
There is no excuse for terror attacks against innocent people but as a journalist I saw Western Christian missionaries unscrupulpusly converting Buddhist orphans for food and shelter after the Asian tsunami. Don't send your prayers.
I'm not totally convinced that this is an Islamic organization. A literal translation of "National Thowheeth Jama’ath" is "National Society for the Prevention of Lisping."
I'm not totally convinced that this is an Islamic organization. A literal translation of "National Thowheeth Jama’ath" is "National Society for the Prevention of Lisping."
Well, they don't like gays...
> I always wonder how one recruits suicide bombers and I think I have figured it out.
> 1. Low IQ males.
Like bin Laden?
Remember the underwear bomber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is the youngest of 16 children[7] of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a wealthy Nigerian banker and businessman, and is a son of his second wife, Aisha.[8] The father was described by The Times in 2009 as being "one of the richest men in Africa."[9] He is a former Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria and former Nigerian Federal Commissioner for Economic Development.[7][9][10]
The family comes from Funtua in Katsina State. Abdulmutallab was raised initially in an affluent neighbourhood of Kaduna,[11][12] in Nigeria's north.[7] He attended the Essence International School in Kaduna as a young child. He also took classes at the Rabiatu Mutallib Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, which had been named for his grandfather, at that time.[13] He also attended The British School of Lomé, Togo.[14] Considered a gifted student, he also enjoyed playing PlayStation and basketball.[11] Abdulmutallab studied at University College London in September 2005, where he studied Engineering and Business Finance,[15] and earned a degree in mechanical engineering in June 2008.[16]
According to one of his cousins, as a teenager, Abdulmutallab became very pious as a Muslim, and detached himself from others his age. He condemned his father's banking profession as "immoral" and "un-Islamic" for charging interest, urging him to quit. "That kind of detachment from others and singular focus on Islam was a common thread in Mr. Abdulmutallab's life, according to family members, friends and classmates."[11]
We are just now learning from WaPoo that "far right' think Christianity is under attack just because churches are targeted on Easter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/04/22/christianity-under-attack-sri-lanka-church-bombings-stoke-far-right-anger-west/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d97123cb3780
> Although Christian minorities are targeted around the world, analysts say that the vast majority of terrorism victims globally are Muslims.
Victims from who?
We may never know from this "reporting", which is a summary of left wing twitter.
https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/1106532154232766465
Hillary Clinton
My heart breaks for New Zealand & the global Muslim community. We must continue to fight the perpetuation and normalization of Islamophobia and racism in all its forms.
White supremacist terrorists must be condemned by leaders everywhere. Their murderous hatred must be stopped.
5:26 AM - 15 Mar 2019
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1120013694073810944
Hillary Clinton
On this holy weekend for many faiths, we must stand united against hatred and violence. I'm praying for everyone affected by today's horrific attacks on Easter worshippers and travelers in Sri Lanka.
10:17 AM - 21 Apr 2019
Gosh, I miss Obama. He was such an original thinker.
He has stood with so many, while leading from behind.
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1119964696810070017
Barack Obama
The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity. On a day devoted to love, redemption, and renewal, we pray for the victims and stand with the people of Sri Lanka.
7:02 AM - 21 Apr 2019
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1119987511118520326
Ilhan Omar
As countless people attend Easter service today, our prayers are with the people of Sri Lanka who lost loved ones in these horrible attacks. No person, of any faith, should be fearful in their house of worship.
8:33 AM - 21 Apr 2019
Dave Begley said...
I always wonder how one recruits suicide bombers and I think I have figured it out.
5. They're not getting any pussy.
except in Egypt, phillipines, Iraq, et al, oh and that church in munich the other day,
"Anyone think Freder will comment in this thread?"
Hah! I had that exact thought. Of course Freder is far too much of a pussy and whinging girl's blouse to show his face on a topic where he was so thoroughly disgraced.
From "Sri Lanka is all too familiar with suicide bombing":
...it was in the 1980s in Lebanon that suicide bombing as a phenomenon really began. In 1983, a suicide bomber drove a truck into a U.S. Marine base in Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. military personnel.
As it happened, several Tamil Tigers were training in Hezbollah terrorist camps in Lebanon at the time. Four years later, in July 1987, the Lebanon attack was essentially copied. A single driver, known as Captain Miller, drove a truck with explosives into a military base in Sri Lanka. The base had originally been a school near Nelliady, in Tamil territory, and the Tamil Tigers were determined to retake it from Sri Lankan forces. Between 20 and 40 people are thought to have been killed in the attack, which ultimately established Captain Miller as a Tamil hero.
“The Tamil Tigers were the world’s leader in suicide terrorism from 1980 to 2003, carrying out more attacks than any Islamic group,” Robert Pape, a political science professor at the University of Chicago, told The Washington Post. In 2009, Pape said he counted 273 people he could verify killed themselves carrying out suicide attacks for the Tamil Tigers, about 130 more than Hamas had during “the life of their suicide campaigns.” ...
The Tamil Tigers also pioneered the coordinated use of multiple suicide bombers at a single target. “They had a group of the Black Tigers that were especially proficient at these multiple coordinated attacks,” said Pape, author of “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.”
Personally, I'm waiting for the demand by Muslims that the Hagia Sofia be turned back into the Christian church it originally was as justice for this attack by Muslims against Christians.
indicating a catastrophic intelligence failure....
Multicultural societies work great as long as you have really, really, intense domestic spying. As long as the spies never blink, everything will work out fine.
David Begley
Not just low IQ males. Atta and company were high IQ.
And for the next trick:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertPostings/status/1120688684498477056
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