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Sri Lanka: jihadist Easter church bomber spent hours praying in mosque before attack

Apr 30, 2019 2:18 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

“Chilling new footage shows the final hours of one of the Sri Lanka bombers as he prepared to carry out a devastating terror attack on Easter Sunday”. Mohammed Nasar Mohammed Azar  spent “hours before the attack readying himself in a nearby mosque” and praying; no surprise given the nature of jihadist holy war.

Sri Lanka remains under seige as authorities warn that the jihidists are “likely still at large and could be planning fresh attacks.” The threat is accentuated with upcoming Ramadan which begins on May 6th in Sri Lanka. As Robert Spencer notes on his video Why Ramadan is Full of Jihad Terror: “Ramadan is the month of Jihad, the month when Muslims strive to please Allah more fervently.”. Violence against women and children also escalates.

“Terrorist’s final prayer… before blowing himself up in a church: New footage shows final hours of Sri Lanka suicide bomber as he attends mosque before slaughtering 28 people”, by George Martin, Daily Mail, April 30, 2019:

Chilling new footage shows the final hours of one of the Sri Lanka bombers as he prepared to carry out a devastating terror attack on Easter Sunday.

CCTV footage shows Mohammed Nasar Mohammed Azar, 34, praying, chatting on the phone and scoping out his target before he blew himself up in the Zion church in Batticaloa.

Azar’s bomb killed 28 people in the church and more than 70 others were injured in the blast.

But harrowing new footage reveals he spent hours before the attack readying himself in a nearby mosque.

The security camera footage, obtained by Sky News, captures several hours of the terrorist’s intense build up to the bombing as he arrived in the east coast city at around 2am.

He is caught on camera pulling up outside the Jami Us-Salam mosque in Batticaloa, just minutes away from the Zion Church, carrying two bags.

For two hours starting at 3.13am Azar paces up and down outside the church and checks his phone.

At one point a police car drives near Azar, but he doesn’t seem fazed and the car drives off.

Azar eventually entered the mosque at 5.42am when the building was opened and spent several hours in prayer before slipping off to change into an outfit used in the bombing.

Just after 9.30am when the first bombs have already been set off in Colombo, Azar is caught on camera striding out of the mosque and disappearing out of shot in the direction of the nearby church.

He appears to pull out his phone and send a message before walking around the corner to his death. ….

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Filed Under: Featured, Jihad doctrine, Ramadan, Sri Lanka Tagged With: Batticaloa, Jami Us-Salam mosque, Mohammed Nasar Mohammed Azar, Zion church


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  1. Ashley says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 2:32 pm

    The threat is accentuated with upcoming Ramadan which begins on May 6th in Sri Lanka. As Robert Spencer notes on his video Why Ramadan is Full of Jihad Terror: “Ramadan is the month of Jihad, the month when Muslims strive to please Allah more fervently.”. Violence against women and children also escalates.
    _____________________

    Best for non-Muslims to approach Ramadan as a “shelter-in-place” month.

    Stock up…and don’t forget medications, pets, etc…

    This is going to be a long month hurricane…

    • mortimer says

      Apr 30, 2019 at 2:36 pm

      Thanks for that, Ashley. Ramadan is the MONTH OF JIHAD AND VICTORIES … so it is time to be wary of jihadists. Here’s the problem: even seasoned Muslim observers cannot pick out a jihadist-terrorist in a crowd of Muslims.

      It is best to be aware of your surroundings and if you are not trained in martial arts or firearms, then always look for the your Plan A and Plan B escape route … especially during Ramadan.

      It is becoming less and less possible for Muslims to deny the jihad doctrine and the Al Walaa wal Baraa doctrine of hatred directed from Muslims against the dirty kufaar.

      Ashely is correct if she is predicting a month of jihad. I agree, especially since Caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has reappeared.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    Since the Qu ‘ran does instruct in 9:111, “The believers slay and be slain for the Cause of Islam.” Likewise the Qu ‘ran teaches in 4:47. , “Let those [believers ] who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter fights in the Cause of Allah …is killed or gets great victory >We shall bestow on him great reward.”

    Such are the violent and deadly lies and deception of the false religion of Islam.

    Therefore those deluded jihadist suicide/homicide Muslims terrorists, who was also called a mujahedeen, The are very dangerous and delusional because they are under the spell of Islamic deception, so much so, that those jihadists actually view their murderous attacks as “martyrdom operations.” This is because they firmly believe that they will have a paradise, for themselves, after they die in a jihad attack. This is how strong the influence of the deceptive power of the false religion of Islam can be. This delusional madness which results in death and destruction is, somewhat, explained in the following quotation by a Christian author.

    “Muslims killed while waging jihad are often honored as martyrs. Also, the prophet Muhammad said that they would be guaranteed passage to paradise. Narrated Abu Huraira in Hadith 9:549:
    ‘Allah’s Apostle said “Allah guarantees to the person who carries out jihad or His Cause and nothing compelled him to go out but the jihad for His Cause and belief in His Words, that he will either admit him into paradise or return him with the reward or the bounty he has earned to his residence from where he came out.’ [1]

    As for the first part of this above quote about a “guarantee’’ of entering into a paradise for a Muslim who dies fighting in the jihad is a falsehood and false doctrine of a “guarantee “. Which a both tragic and sad for many reasons as well as bogus way of God. For Jesus taught not the above but clearly did teach that He is the genuine and only way to heaven. For example, John 14:6 gives the very words of Jesus Which are “I am the way ,the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father ,but by Me.”

    [1] ISLAM AND THE BIBLE: WHY TWO FAITH COLLIDE BY David Goldmann page 122

  3. Pete says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 3:00 pm

    Its too lote to tell the sharmuta he died for nothing. A bloody looser.
    Unfortunately innocent people had their life blown to bit because of his false beliefs.
    Islam is a curse

  4. mgoldberg says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    This is the kind of story that really should be brought to the public, everywhere. Not in the sense of screaming truths but rather, to simply show that the Jihadist mentality of Islam is a threat, and to anyone, anywhere.
    No… every muslim is not such a threat, but the Jihadist is indeed, capable of some of the most vicious terrible murderings, as a result of the teachings of Mohammed dealing with infidels. Only when this is made apparent, can ther ever be a push back against the possibilities of the Jihadist

  5. Heather says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 3:34 pm

    Praying? in a mosk hahaha It’s what we call cursing.

    • FYI says

      Apr 30, 2019 at 6:40 pm

      Exactly.

      So,who do muslims “pray” to?

      They certainly don’t pray to the Biblical God{Of Moses,of Jesus}

      muslims “pray” to another god entierly.The god of their mass-murdering “prophet” muhammed{APFh,allah prays for him}

      They “pray” to Al-iLah {“The BEST of deceivers” k3:54} the pagan god of the Arabs.

      The god of hate{of al walaa wal baraa}
      The god who tells muslims in his koran it is OK to violate God’s Commandments{The Exodus 20+2 Chief laws}

      {I mean, what part of “Thou shalt Not commit murder” 6th Commandment does the islamic brain not understand?
      Just because their pagan god Al ilah says in k2:191 it is ok in his unholy koran does not mean you can commit murder and get away with it;the whole point of those commandments is that you must obey them.It seems muslims,despite all their false piety and contrived holiness, cannot understand that..}

      And what is that fatiha “prayer” only a curse against the Jews and Christians{who are cursed in the koran k9:30}?

      A mosque is not dedicated to the Judeo-Christian God:it is dedicated to the pagan Arab god Al ilah{a god
      whose greatest enemy,Sahih Muslim vol 5 hadith #5611 is a man called Malik al Amlak{the king of kings}..}

      In the OT the choice of 2 Paths was given:-

      “If the Lord is God, follow Him.
      But if baal be god,follow him”
      I kings 18:21

      It is easy to see who baal is represented by today:Al iLah,the pagan Arab god of the muslims.

  6. ntesdorf says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    Stand by for the usual Ramadan Bombathon. One sign will be increased gatherings in the Mosque of people getting guidance before going out and committing wholesale murder in the name of Allah.

  7. gravenimage says

    May 1, 2019 at 12:48 am

    Sri Lanka: jihadist Easter church bomber spent hours praying in mosque before attack
    ……………….

    Another pious murderer. This is *very* common among Jihad murderers.

  8. Joe@joemail.com says

    May 1, 2019 at 7:57 am

    What a f#!ked religion – the more religious you are, the more evil you are. What a scourge on this earth.

    You can’t fool us. We are wise to your evil.

  9. J D.S says

    May 1, 2019 at 9:49 am

    Muslims can pray till hell freezes and their prayers are just blowing in the wind. They pray to a nonexistent god made up by Muhammad (IF HE EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED ..MADE UP ) Anyway..as long as muslims seem to be, in their eyes, winning their fight, they’ll continue to believe, falsely, that their allah’s moon is shining on them.

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