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Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka jihad massacres

Apr 23, 2019 9:38 am By Robert Spencer

Contrary to widespread belief, the Islamic State does not have a long record of claiming responsibility for attacks in which it was not involved.

“Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bombings,” Reuters, April 23, 2019:

CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic state has claimed responsibility for coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka which killed 321 people and injured about 500 others, the group’s AMAQ news agency said on Tuesday.

The group did not give evidence for its claim.

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  1. KALU, O A says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 9:53 am

    The Muslim religion is a cancer on the body of mankind. IT IS POISON. AND THE SOONER IT IS EXCISED, THE BETTER FOR EVERYBODY.

    • christianblood says

      Apr 23, 2019 at 9:37 pm

      When fire in ‘Notre Dam’ museum means more to us than 900 Christians
      dead and wounded in Sri Lanka! Google Searches for ‘Notre Dam’ out number attacks on Sri Lankan Christians 7:1

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 23, 2019 at 10:19 pm

        christianblood just lied about this on another thread. I seldom cross-post, but I will in this case:

        christianblood wrote:

        Searches for “When fire in ‘Notre Dam’ museum means more to us than 900 Christians dead and wounded in Sri Lanka!!!

        Google Searches for ‘Notre Dam’ museum out number attacks on Sri Lankan Christians 7:1
        ……………………..

        This is not true at all.

        Searches for “attacks on Sri Lankan Christians” are 155,000,000, and “Notre Dam museum” just 3,790,000.

        And what if one uses less eccentric phrasing? Yahoo lists 46,900,000 results for “fire notre dame” and 47,000,000 for “sri lanka attacks”–note that searches for the attacks in sri lanka are still higher…

        https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/hugh-fitzgerald-netanyahu-vs-lieberman-on-gaza-part-three#comment-2090080

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 23, 2019 at 10:23 pm

        Note, also, that christianblood does not actually say anything critical of Muslims slaughtering these poor people–instead, he just castigates Westerners for their not caring as much about events in Sri Lanka as much as about those in France. And–as I indicated–even this is quite false.

  2. Heather says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 10:00 am

    Cancer or Virus, spreading throughout the world, infecting minds, moslims and non-moslims too.Where is the outrage for this attack? Where are the flowers and outpouring of grief as there was in NZ last week? Are we so used to terrorism being only from moslims? I think we must as the NZ killings were a one-off and everyone was surprised because it wasn’t moslim trash.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 23, 2019 at 8:36 pm

      Here is a candle-light vigil in Canada for the victims in Sri Lanka:

      https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/prayer-vigil-for-sri-lanka-to-take-place-in-surrey-monday-evening

      There have been others all over the world.

  3. DH says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 10:03 am

    On Christendom’s holiest day!
    I make a poor Christian. I don’t do forgiveness well.
    Blame my humanity, or my Jewish heritage; or simply dealing by the same trade terms (lex talionis; 321+ lives for similar, plus blood money), and all mosques outwith the umma allowed to fall unmaintained into their own footprint. Zero more to be built on non-umma soil. Mass repatriation for sharia and IS supporters…
    Oops, was that more than equal vendetta?
    Guess some folk go beyond an eye for an eye?
    What a satanic fraud those fundamentalists devils peddle!

    There is no Enoch but Enoch, and I am his prophet!

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Apr 23, 2019 at 12:31 pm

      Sometimes I too think that I make a poor Christian. How can I even consider resorting to violence against others when Christ told me to turn the other cheek? Yet how can I stand by when I see a thug about to cut the throat of a child and I can stop it if I will just make a well placed shot to the head of the thug?

      Sometimes we must choose between the lesser of two evils. Sometimes to choose passivity allows the greater evil to become even greater.

      If God wants Christianity to die God will destroy it. Until that day I will view all Christians as children of God and I will fight against those who want to kill them.

      • FYI says

        Apr 23, 2019 at 1:34 pm

        Actually DH and CES:what you both say is very,very interesting..

        “I think that I make a poor Christian” is the wisest thing any sincere Christian can say!

        For..

        “Blessed are the POOR IN SPIRIT for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven”
        Matthew 5 v 3

        Humility is the key…and you show it..

        If you say or think you are a poor christian :you have humility{and are wary of pride}
        If you say or think you are a fantastic christian: you lack humilty{and are subject to pride}

        You don’t have to be a Holy Joe…

        {@DH Don’t forget that Jesus Christ,St John the Baptist,St Peter,Mary were all of Jewish heritage:that’s a good thing actually because “it is from the Jews that salvation comes” John 4 v 22}

        And Christianity is not finished:the Prophetic teachings of Jesus Guarantee that.It is not that it is dying but rather that it is being refined and purified and the Wheat are being separated from the Chaff.
        {“He will come again in Glory to judge the living and the dead and His Kingdom will have no end”}

        That there would be an apparent decline in christianity{see Matthew chpt 24} was predicted by Jesus Christ:The next Chapter{Matthew 25 elaborates on what you need to know..}

        As for those murdered in their churches,be it in Nigeria or Sri lanka,they surely qualify as martyrs{the greatest honor in Catholicism,greater than simply being a saint}.

        Interesting thing about the reportage of the Sri Lanka atrocities:Both Obama and Hilary Clinton referred to the Victims in Tweets as “Easter Worshippers”:they cannot even bring themselves to use the word “Christian”. I mean,christians don’t worship Easter or are defined as being “Easter Worshippers”.
        And both clinton and obama used the SAME expression..

        obama “Tourists and Easter Worshippers” 21 Apr 2019
        clinton “Easter worshippers and travelers” 21 Apr 2019

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Apr 23, 2019 at 2:15 pm

          Indeed, the people who were killed on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka were Christians and the people who killed them were Muslims. Feel no shame in telling the truth, only in the act which brings shame when the truth is told about it.

      • Rufolino says

        Apr 24, 2019 at 5:52 am

        Intolerance HAS TO BE DEFEATED. “When intolerance is tolerated, intolerance will win”.

  4. TKF says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 10:16 am

    More Islam = More terror. Duh. It is an ideology that preaches killing and violence. Everyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past twenty years knows that.

  5. warren nicodemus says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 10:51 am

    Democrats including Obam@ & Hill@ry .
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/22/obama-clinton-democrats-denounce-attacks-on-easter-worshippers-not-christians/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190422

    • warren nicodemus says

      Apr 23, 2019 at 11:25 am

      Here’s another .

      • warren nicodemus says

        Apr 23, 2019 at 11:31 am

        # 2

  6. Shannon says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 11:07 am

    well, why would they (IS) give evidence to their claim? that would make them predictable, I guess? They are already very predictable on a few fronts but one thing I have noticed is that they usually don’t give more fine details of attacks. The predictability comes with the ideology of Islam’s sacred texts.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Apr 23, 2019 at 1:42 pm

      Yes, to understand ISIS we need to understand the Quran. Yet to understand the Quran most of the leaders of the West turn to Muslims to explain the Quran while not realizing that Muslims believe it is okay to deceive infidels if it is for the greater good of Islam. That is why I prefer to listen to Robert Spencer, a Christian, when I want help with understanding the Quran and ISIS. I find him more trustworthy than any Muslim whose religion allows deception to be a part of the “truth.”

      • Rufolino says

        Apr 24, 2019 at 6:45 am

        Hear, hear !

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 12:03 pm

    Of this vicious brutal mass murders by ISIS in Sir Lanka ,three important thing should be known and remembered .

    First,, those jihadist /Muslims of ISIS in Sri Lanka with their Islamic violence did inflect violent and deadly jihad attacks against the Catholics in their churches as well as mass murder in other places ,strongly reflects the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran. As, for example, the Quran instructs in Sura 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Nevertheless, the apologists for Islam still have the gall to make the claim the “Islam is a peaceful religion.” What an outlandishly false claim to make

    Second, one of the explanations as to how such totally unconscionable, ruthless, vicious actions which are evil and demonic. One type of answer about those murderous Muslims of ISIS is given in the following .

    The jihadists of ISIS are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam. This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.” To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of ISIS.

    Third, tthose brutal vicious jihadist/ Muslims of ISIS with their murderous Islamic actions in Sri Lanka is despicable and most heinous . Those brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS are actually putting in to the practice, with all their ruthless actions, the violence and killing that is part of the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran. Which contain the doctrine of extreme violent force for the advancement of Islam. As seen in the Koran, for example, 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. So in spite of the strong denials by many, ISIS is an actual Islamic organization.

    Likewise the malicious, bloodthirsty violence jihadists who make up ISIS are real Muslims. Nevertheless, there are some who might , understandably, wonder and then ask “Just how can those jihadists of ISIS ,being so very religious , also at the time also be so very malice-filled ,unfeeling and deadly ? “ The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are extremely heartless, cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [ K.J.V.] In this case of the members of ISIS this “hot iron” is Islam.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    One of the explanations as to how such totally unconscionable, ruthless, vicious actions which are evil and demonic. One type of answer about those murderous Muslims of ISIS is given in the following .

    The jihadists of ISIS are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam. This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.” To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of ISIS.

  9. Rarely says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 1:26 pm

    I guess ISIS isn’t dead but has just moved into another theater of operations. So, “Who’s next?” Defeated ISIS “warriors” returning from the defeat to their homes in the West are now “peaceful” and/or can be “deprogrammed”? Do you believe in the Easter Bunny? Well, many, far too many, of our politicians do.
    So much for living “in interesting times”. Personally I’d rather be bored.

  10. libertyORdeath says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 4:15 pm

    It seems they only held off because of the planned subsequent attacks. The worst part is that Sri Lanka not only knew about the plan but also who and what group EXACTLY would carry them out. Shame on them for their “Islamophobia” phobia.

  11. gravenimage says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 8:29 pm

    Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka jihad massacres
    …………………..

    ISIS is still a huge threat.

  12. na says

    Apr 23, 2019 at 11:39 pm

    Some radical imam cum scientists of Isis-korasan developing technologies to destroy Shiva Linga. They have noticed a warship of USA in north pole. Which has similar shape of a Shaivalinga. They are thinking that is Shiva Linga.

  13. johnjjj says

    Apr 24, 2019 at 6:57 am

    Interesting as Allah was responsible. People claiming responsibility is against the Koran. ISIS may have to reconsider. Ma’shallah.

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