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India intelligence official on Sri Lanka: target was clearly Catholics; Islamic State active in Sri Lanka since 2016

Apr 21, 2019 10:09 am By Robert Spencer

The denial and obfuscation regarding the jihad threat is certain to continue; the Sri Lanka jihad massacres remind us that it has a human cost.

“Sri Lanka has seen a spike in Jihadi activity since 2017,” by Vicky Nanjappa, OneIndia, April 21, 2019:

Colombo, Apr 21: The problem of the Islamic State has been rampant in Sri Lanka since 2016.

That year the Parliament was told that 32 Muslims from elite families had joined the ISIS.

The following year, scores of Sri Lankan ISIS terrorists had returned from Syria, following which there was a spike in Jihadi activity.

It may also be recalled that a postgraduate student from Sri Lanka, Mohammad Nizamdeen was charged with ISIS affiliated terror related offence in Australia. He was accused of being part of a plot to assassinate an Australian politician. Incidentally he is the nephew of MP Faiszer Musthapha, a cabinet minister in the Sri Lankan government

In January this year authorities in Sri Lanka seized a huge cache of explosives at Wanathawilluwa. It was said that this belonged to a module of the ISIS, who were attempting major blasts at historic Buddhist monuments. An imam and a maulvi were also arrested in connection with the incident.

On April 11, the police got an input that terrorists would target 11 Churches in the country. It warned that Catholics would be the target of the attack. Moreover the serial bombings that rocked Colombo bear the signature of the Islamic State. The nation has been under the radar of the Islamic State for nearly three years now.

It may be recalled that in 2016 there were reports that 32 elite Muslims had joined the Islamic State. The ISIS had warned that it would target the Buddhists in Sri Lanka.

Further looking at the pattern of the blast and also the fact that the attack was targeted only at the Catholics and foreigners, it suggests that the outfit has a hand behind this attack.

Initial reports that emerged after bomb blasts ripped Colombo suggest that a suicide bomber could have been involved.

One of the prime reasons for the casualty being so high could be due to the fact that a suicide bomber was involved. The attacks at the Shangri La hotel and the Batticalao Church appear to be the handiwork of a suicide bomber.

The initial impressions also indicate that RDX could have been used in the attack and hence the impact was so high. Over 100 people have been killed in the blasts that took place in Sri Lanka today. Reports suggest that the suicide bombers have been identified as Zahran Hashim and Abu Mohammad.

An Intelligence Bureau official in India tells OneIndia that the target was clearly the Catholics….

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  1. Buraq says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 10:11 am

    190 dead, and hundreds injured, many badly. Puts Christchurch into perspective!

    • Jayme says

      Apr 21, 2019 at 10:15 am

      New Zealand 50 dead world wide outrage Sri Lanka 2007 dead very little outrage.

      • Mary says

        Apr 21, 2019 at 10:22 am

        That’s because they were Christians not muslims.

      • Hindu American says

        Apr 21, 2019 at 11:21 am

        Will New York Times publish the names of all 207 murdered people with brief bios on each in a four-page spread?

        I think not.

        • b.a. freeman says

          Apr 21, 2019 at 6:53 pm

          it’s what to expect from the lying legacy media!

          +1

        • sidney penny says

          Apr 21, 2019 at 10:16 pm

          You think right.

          You are dealing with a bias media.(whether NZ or USA it does not matter.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Apr 21, 2019 at 10:25 am

      At the end of every Mass the priest says to the people, “The Mass is ended. Go in peace.” The people reply, “Thanks be to God.” This harkens back to the early days of the Church when Christians were under constant persecution and they never knew for certain if they would make it through their services without being attacked. Those days have returned.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 21, 2019 at 11:02 pm

      NEW YORK TIMES is complicit in supporting jihad by UNDERREPORTING JIHAD and failing to condemn the JIHAD DOCTRINE as medieval, savage and backwards.

      • Rufolino says

        Apr 22, 2019 at 4:02 am

        Hear hear, Mortimer.

      • WPM says

        Apr 22, 2019 at 7:29 am

        The New York Times, the MSM in Western Europe and America, the communist Pope ,all enabling appeases have little to say about the Jihadist doctrine, what is written in Islamic Holy books to make this violence a sacrament of Islam .

  2. Clare Maloney says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 10:36 am

    Myanmar has the right idea.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Apr 21, 2019 at 6:57 pm

      yes, they do; when attacked, defend oneself and one’s nation – which is *EXACTLY* what they are doing. had the british not imported thousands of bengalis in the late 19th century and early 20th century, whose descendants are the rohingya, myanmar would be seeing no violence.

  3. Richard says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 10:37 am

    Has anyone told the pope yet ?

    • peter says

      Apr 21, 2019 at 11:44 am

      The next thing this idiot pope will do is after the mayhem is over with full security back up will visit Sri lLanka and start kissing up to the muslims and preaching Christians to develop friendship with muslims and may wash the feet of couple of muslims and ask for the forgiveness of Christians by muslim brothers ..This idiot is adding to the misery of Christians all over the world .

      • FYI says

        Apr 21, 2019 at 5:54 pm

        You know what?Normally I would say that no intelligent human being should ever convert to islam:
        a religion that is misogynistic,racist,antisemitic,antichristian,violent and satanic.

        But an exception could be made for Mr Bergolio or{OK “pope” Francis:I don’t want to upset those members of the catholic Church who have an almost idolatrous devotion to the Great Man}

        1)According to many FAITHFUL Catholics he is a heretic{filial correction 2017,Dubbia 2016 etc}

        2)He is a great promoter of islam{and seems to think allah,who CURSES Christians k9:30 is the same as the God of Jesus,despite the fact that Jesus is a Jew John 4 v 22 and in the koran issa is an arabic speaking MUSLIM…}

        3)He spends a lot of time attacking…catholics{“Violent Catholics” he says.Where??}

        4)His “holiness” seems to spend a lot of time on his knees{slobbering,sniffing..}

        frankie should resign the Papacy immediately and become a muslim since he’s neither a christian nor a catholic.There,at the local mosque,he should feel at home with Al iLah’s fraudulently pious Carpet-Kissers;and he should be free to indulge in his favorite hobby of foot washing or islamic butt sniffing{there surely,to find where allah’s wisdom comes from..}

        • Pais says

          Apr 21, 2019 at 6:52 pm

          All of you people on this far-right website are hateful and have no remorse. Your ideology is absolutely twisted. People of every religion have been persecuted by other people of every religon or those who have none. The holocaust and the jews, the crusaders and the muslims, the Christians in armenia, athiests persecuting religious people in russia. Etc. And these acts of terror are happening everywhere for centuries and is still continuing. But you and your biased agenda will of course focus on that suits it and paint false images of the rest. Idiots.

        • GreekEmpress says

          Apr 21, 2019 at 7:23 pm

          And probably Omar Ilhan will come out and say “some more people did something”

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Apr 21, 2019 at 8:57 pm

          It’s puzzling to me why a person would deliver a tirade against being hateful and without remorse and then end it by calling the audience idiots. It completely negates everything that was presented before.

  4. CRUSADER says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 10:56 am

    Hey, Pope!

    Hear that?

    • FYI says

      Apr 21, 2019 at 6:10 pm

      Do you mean “The LISTENING POPE of the LISTENING CHURCH” that the Vatican PR have been promoting since he was ..ehm..”elected”{When BEN XVI had to step aside..}

      Whaaat?

      He can’t hear you:he’s too busy on his knees….

  5. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    It feels to me as if it is still Good Friday. Today should be a happy day and yet I find myself extremely sad. Instead of contemplating the risen Christ I can think only of pain and misery. This video clip most nearly expresses the way I feel right now. May all those who were martyred this Easter Sunday because of their faith be at peace with Jesus in Paradise today for He makes all things new.

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/india-intelligence-official-on-sri-lanka-target-was-clearly-catholics-islamic-state-active-in-sri-lanka-since-2016

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Apr 21, 2019 at 12:14 pm

      Oh dear. I am so upset I posted the wrong link. I apologize. This is what I meant to post:

      • CRUSADER says

        Apr 21, 2019 at 1:32 pm

        Take it easy on yourself.

        We need your chin up in this long good fight.

        God bless you.

        + + +

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Apr 21, 2019 at 3:35 pm

          Virtus et honos

  6. Georg says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    Wherever you go on earth and finding this fucking religion there is acrimony, malaise and often viciousness. Looking forward to all the imams and heads of state in Muslim majority countries wearing crosses and drinking wine in a show of virtue signaling, err, solidarity. *waiting*

  7. gravenimage says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 4:27 pm

    India intelligence official on Sri Lanka: target was clearly Catholics; Islamic State active in Sri Lanka since 2016
    ……………………

    No surprise.

  8. brane pilot says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    This is what a 10% Muslim population gets you.
    The USA is already at 3%.

  9. somehistory says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    They targeted Catholics…in their churches and other religions’ church too…. and “foreigners” and murdered several Americans, as well as people from other countries. So, they hit their targets. Must be time to pass out candy and plan the next attack when
    “some moslims will do something evil and demonic.” And some people will die.

  10. na says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 10:04 pm

    Evangelical Christians, CSI in “India and Sri Lanka” are not proper Christians/Religious. They are just business groups formed for money laundering. But Catholics are not so bad. Catholics are most relevant Christians/Religious like orthodox or Islam. This act is not expected. Alert is the only way. Watch them always. Look at Saudi they killed 4 terrorists last day. No attack in Saudi, Switzerland,Mongolia and China.

  11. sidney penny says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 10:07 pm

    “Colombo, Apr 21: The problem of the Islamic State has been rampant in Sri Lanka since 2016.

    That year the Parliament was told that 32 Muslims from elite families had joined the ISIS.

    The following year, scores of Sri Lankan ISIS terrorists had returned from Syria, following which there was a spike in Jihadi activity.”

    Why do so many Muslims from all around the world, including Sri Lanka and India misunderstand the peaceful religion of Islam.

    and notice the word elite families.( no poverty here and even if there was there are a lot of poor Buddhist and Hindu Sri Lankans)

    • Georg says

      Apr 22, 2019 at 2:29 am

      “and notice the word elite families.( no poverty here and even if there was there are a lot of poor Buddhist and Hindu Sri Lankans)”

      There are poor people all over the world who do not behead and target innocents. The left runs interference for the operative factor of Islam because they fetishize its antipathy for the West they hate with their mouths and love with their feet.

  12. sidney penny says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    “t may also be recalled that a postgraduate student from Sri Lanka, Mohammad Nizamdeen was charged with ISIS affiliated terror related offence in Australia. He was accused of being part of a plot to assassinate an Australian politician. Incidentally he is the nephew of MP Faiszer Musthapha, a cabinet minister in the Sri Lankan government”

    The One India report should clarify this that this Muslim was set up by his friend and the charges have been dropped.Why the student did not say to the investigating Police that the writing was not his is baffling.

  13. sidney penny says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 10:22 pm

    “On Easter Sunder in 2019 in Sri Lanka some people did something.”

    Rep Ilhan Abdullahi Omar ,(Minnesota Democratic)

    • Max Priapi says

      Apr 22, 2019 at 11:35 am

      Some People doing something again and again. And again and again, we are surprised and amazed as to the root cause. Let us all hold our hands in Kumbaya, bend over and kiss our asses Goodbye.

  14. mortimer says

    Apr 21, 2019 at 11:00 pm

    Well said, Robert Spencer ! Quote: “The denial and obfuscation regarding the jihad threat is certain to continue.”

    Meanwhile, between 700 and 1,000 people are being SLAUGHTERED by MERCILESS JIHADISTS every month … a total of between 8,400 and 1,200 KILLED BY JIHAD EVERY YEAR.

    But the COMPLICIT BOUGHT-OFF JOURNALISTS CONTINUE TO UNDERREPORT JIHAD MURDERS so that Islam may be EXONERATED of its guilt in promoting JIHAD.

  15. Paddy OConnor says

    Apr 22, 2019 at 3:15 am

    Mohammedan attacks motivated,in part, by cowardice and appeasement.In Sri Lanka Ind.Intel. say target clearly Catholics. Just look at the cowardice and appeasement of the Pope and most all his men.

  16. Max Priapi says

    Apr 22, 2019 at 11:44 am

    A little bit of History. When the Portuguese landed in Sri Lanka in the northern part of Sri Lanka and instituted an inquisition against the Muslim traders there, thousands of Muslims fled to the South to be given refuge by the Sri Lanka King of Kandy. Well, mission accomplished and favor returned.

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