The National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ), that is, the National Tauhid Organization. Tauhid is Islam’s absolute monotheism that sees virtually every other religion as idolatrous.
“Sri Lanka government says local Islamist group behind blasts,” AFP, April 22, 2019:
The Sri Lankan government suspects that a local Islamist extremist group called National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesperson Rajitha Senaratne said Monday.
Senaratne, who is also a cabinet minister, added that the government was investigating whether the group had “international support.”
Sri Lankan authorities have ordered a state of emergency to be introduced from midnight Monday.
Documents seen by AFP show Sri Lanka’s police chief issued a warning on April 11, saying that a “foreign intelligence agency” had reported NTJ was planning attacks on churches and the Indian high commission.
Not much is known about the NTJ, a radical Muslim group that has been linked to the vandalizing of Buddhist statues….
Deborah Edwards says
And we have blanket worldwide news about the Christchurch shooting , I had to google this to find any reports at all …..absolutely disgraceful and so much for the BBC ……who are Islamist apologists all the time ….
Demsci says
Like all of us so shocked by these atrocities, But comforted a bit we do now have confirmation of near irrefutable evidence of Islam’s role in them.
As always perplexed about solutions, esp. Since there seems to be a worldwide “Red-Green alliance”. And the ongoing Islamic violence and lack of solution in sight often makes me despondent. That’s why I sometimes brainstorm; consider this:
Brandon Straka created “Walkaway”, Candace Owens “Blexit” and Elizabeth Pipko “Jexodus”. All about the call for Democrats in general and esp. Of African American and Jewish American descent to step out of the Democratic Party.
How about “Mexit” or “Mexodus”, with the call to all these nominal Muslims to step out of Islam?!
Saying: Look, “ordinary Muslims, this atrocity was carried out in YOUR name”. It was inspired by YOUR most sacred texts. And there is no way around it; If you love Islam above all else, and Islam prophits from these atrocities then you too prophit from these atrocities. Even if you abhor and condemn them. But that should not be enough to ease your conscience, because choice of Religion is a choice for adult sane humans, which you are.
Changing your indentity from a Muslim-identity to another one, IS possible, somewhere in the past 1400 years your ancestors changed their religion, so why can’t you, seeing it as “moving on”. After you discovered all these problems Islam gave and still gives, see history and news, for the rest of mankind that is, and then YOU yourself,
Ask yourself if this really is what God intended to happen with the intervention you claim he made with Mohammed as his instrument. And if it is n’t true, what benefit gives Islam that is not given by the other religions or atheism?
WALK AWAY.
Michael Copeland says
The penalty for leaving Islam is death.
This sentence can be carried out, vigilante-style, by anyone.
There is no penalty, “since it is killing someone who deserves to die”.
Demsci says
Michael Copeland, I KNOW that.
Please consider that some of us think about Islam’s badness ever since 9/11. And that was in 2001. So for 17 years and counting.
And thus we also NOW KNOW so much how our opponents, the Muslim apologists and leftists, have responded to this and what our target audience, the general public , the voters, believe, either from US or THEM. And don’t underestimate our opponents and THEIR tricks and influence!
No offense, but you still seem to be in the early stages of reaction.
Dennis Pasek says
The only people who deserve refugee status from predominantly Islamic countries are bona-fide provable Kafirs and apostates from Islam.
CRUSADER says
Ex-Imam, Mark Gabriel, walked away and became a Christian Convert and inspiring author.
Demsci says
Thanks Crusader, great example and he may he be among the first of many!
CRUSADER says
CHEERS !!!
Dennis Pasek says
Also remember “Son of Hamas”, another incredibly courageous and outspoken apostate from Islam
Brian hoff says
You have no right to ask preaceful muslim to leave Islam than peaceful religion. You arenot than very religious person since you make this supid request.
gravenimage says
How “preachful”–nice Freudian slip there–are Muslim like “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”? Not very. He has many times gloated over Muslims imposing brutal Shari’ah law on us.
And yes–everyone has the right to ask Muslims or anyone else to leave their faith or change their minds on any subject.
But then, “Brian hoff” has made it clear that he does not believe in freedom of speech.
gravenimage says
Notice, too, that “DefenderofIslam” had nothing critical to say about these horrifying Jihad terror attacks. No surprise there.
Dennis Pasek says
*ALL* “peaceful” mozlems provide aid, comfort and concealment, even if only passively, to the relatively small percentage of actively militant violent jihadists. Therefore they are all complicit unless they leave. The Kafir world has every right to demand justice in the Kafir meaning of the term.
Demsci says
Very true, but Ex Muslims don;’t and therefore if at all possible stimulate apostasy in the West. The number of Ex-Muslim websites is growing fast. And Muslims have no real good intellectual defense of Islam.
Demsci says
Furthermore we can put pressure on leftists to also put pressure on Muslims to “Walk away” somehow.
I understand that leftists like AOC are deeply concerned about climate change, to the point of fearing the “end of the world”. And therefore desperately in need for “environmental measures” and very drastic ones at that.
That means “Leverage”.
Conservatives could respond by saying; just like you we also have a desperate urgent problem, with Islam. And we want to stimulate that Muslims leave it.
And leftists really have radical different opinions from Muslims and generally are in agreement about lack of truth of Islam with Conservatives. And now leftists can see how destructieve at least some interpretations of Islam are. And it is lefists who posit how “the Islam does not exist” meaning that it’s core texts are so multi-interpretable. And alas it is undeniable that a too big part of Muslims interpret those core texts in a violent way.
So there you have it Leftists, if you continue to shield this religion so urgently dangerous for us, then we don;’t care to perish through climate change, as far as we can believe it. And if you won;t help us, in a effort to let Muslims walk out of Islam, then we won;t help you with your urgently dangerous problem. Since it will only change the or a big catastrophe, not avert it altogether.
Michael Copeland says
“some interpretations of Islam”.
There is only one interpretation, or understanding, of “Kill them wherever you find them”.
Kill means kill.
thebigW says
Good catch Michael Copeland. ain’t it funny how the ones with the “hopeful solutions” sprinkled with harmony & hope are the ones who don’t have a clue about how bad Islam is (not “some interpretations” of it)
Demsci says
Oh, I probably actually think Islam is worse than you think it is. And the reason why is that you RESPECT Islam’s clarity. And the clarity of interpretation by its 1,6 billion followers.
But if you take into account the 2 possibilities of still prescriptive (as you believe) or now only descriptive, only meant for the beginning of Islam (as so many apologists and leftists tell the naïeve public), then you start to see the UNCLARITY, Ambiguity of Islam’s core texts and the interpretations of its followers and hence the variation among them.
So whereas you credit the founder of Islam with the ability to be clear and his followers to clearly interpret what he meant,
and thereby confirm that what the Quran says of itself and that Muslims themselves ALWAYS (must) say; that Islam is clear.
I despise Islam’s founder much more in disputing that he was capable of delivering a really clear message, in disputing that the Quran IS a clear book.
You thus seem to respect Islam, the Quran, MORE than I do.
thebigW says
the ambiguity and complications and diversity in Islam are just variations on when, where, how, and who Muslims should kill (and when and how they should lie to us about the killing).
Demsci says
First of all; my own opinion sure enough IS that Islam is really BAD.
But I also am keenly aware what apologists and leftists indoctrinate the public with and what of it the often infuriating uninformed public believes from them. I thus try to work with what the public by and large believes and NOT my own opinion about Islam.
You say “kill means kill”, but remember that Leftists so often infuriatingly respond to this with; Oh, but the Old Testament contains even more violent commands.
And then, we must time and again explain that the Old Testament for Christians is only DEScriptive and no longer PREScriptive, that the peaceful new testament took its place.
And of course Muslim apologists and leftists tell the public that it is the same with these violent Islamic texts; that they are only DEScriptive.
So it is not I who misunderstand Islam on this point, it is the public, the voters, that will answer you that “Oh, you see, that “kill-command” it is only descriptive no longer prescriptive.
Hence my conclusion; if the possibilities descriptive and prescriptive are brought into play; YES THERE ARE MULTIPLE INTERPRETATIONS of seemingly clear Islamic tenets and commands. By the public, not by me.
CRUSADER says
WALK AWAY is a campaign already set up by former-liberal Brandon Straka….
Dennis Pasek says
Many of those “some interpretations” of Islam are unambiguously clarified when you recognize and apply the extremely important principle of ‘abrogation’ to Islamic scripture.
Demsci says
Yes, this is very relevant. Medinan over Meccan peaceful verses.
But also very relevant it is to distinquish between prescriptive and merely descriptive-to be seen in context as they say.
You see, vast numbers of Muslims are perhaps to be called confused, and even bigger numbers of the general public also. They seem to think that, just like the Old Testament, many Islamic violent texts, including the Medina’s verses, are now no longer prescriptive valid, but only descriptive only, to be seen only in the context of the time of beginning Islam.
How are you going to solve that problem? The vast majority of the public will never believe you when you say Islam is clear and bad, because then you “paint all Muslims with one brush”. Something that turns nearly every body outside of our group off and gets you the label “bigot.”
elee says
INCAPACITATING PREEMPTION
Brian hoff says
This is hear say.
gravenimage says
Uh huh–“hear say” right from the horse’s mouth:
“Islamic State says Sri Lanka jihad massacres were revenge…”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/islamic-state-say-sri-lanka-jihad-massacres-were-revenge-for-attacks-on-mosques-and-muslims
Notice that “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–won’t say anything critical of these attacks.
CRUSADER says
You HEARD it.
They SAID it.
It is what it is.