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Sri Lankan authorities raid headquarters of jihadist group suspected of Easter bombings, discover a second group

Apr 29, 2019 2:53 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Aside from the group National Thawheed Jammath which Sri Lankan officials have suspected to be behind the Easter Sunday bombings, another group Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim, has now been implicated.

Sri Lankan police  raided the headquarters of National Thawheed Jammath and believe that “the group’s founder, Zahran Hashim, masterminded the Easter Sunday attacks”, but are now saying that “the bombings were carried out by two local Islamist groups, including the one established by Zahran” in a jihadist “war against non-Muslims“.

Sri Lanka has just banned the burqa for justifiable security reasons as the country attempts to restore peace and control, but Islamic groups in the country are angry. It is most telling when Muslim groups refuse to help countries being attacked by the jihad and instead claim “victimology”.

“Sri Lankan police raid HQ of Islamic group suspected of attacks”, The Guardian, April 29, 2019:

Sri Lankan police have raided the headquarters of a hardline Islamist group founded by the suspected ringleader behind the Easter suicide bombings of churches and hotels. It comes as a ban on face coverings is due to come into force on Monday.

Armed police in the town of Kattankudy searched the headquarters of the National Thawheed Jammath (NTJ) and detained one man at the premises, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. Police did not comment.

On Saturday the government banned the NTJ under new emergency laws. The authorities believe the group’s founder, Zahran Hashim, masterminded the Easter Sunday attacks and was one of the nine suicide bombers who killed at least 250 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Police suspect the bombings were carried out by two local Islamist groups, including the one established by Zahran. Around 10,000 soldiers have been deployed around the island as the authorities hunt for more suspects.

The authorities have named the other group suspected of involvement as Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim.

Police sources told Reuters on Sunday that Zahran’s father and two brothers had been killed two days earlier in a gun battle with security forces. A relative identified the three men in a video circulating on social media calling for war against non-Muslims……

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Sri Lanka Tagged With: Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim, Kattankudy, National Thawheed Jammath, Zahran Hashim


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  1. elee says

    Apr 29, 2019 at 3:04 pm

    Good I suppose………but no substitute for CRIPPLING PREEMPTION

    • J D.S says

      Apr 30, 2019 at 9:56 am

      Who are the SRi Lanka police? Islamist , Jews, Christian , mix or what???

  2. abad says

    Apr 29, 2019 at 5:49 pm

    Sri Lanka needs to prosecute them, kick out the remaining Moslems send them to Pakistan. Shut down the mosques in Sri Lanka, too.

  3. DHazard says

    Apr 29, 2019 at 5:53 pm

    If the Sri Lankan government can ban a political party then why can’t it ban a political religion? Islam is definitely both a religion and a political platform. Just call it the Islamic Party and BAN THE F..K OUT OF IT!

    Put this in the “never gonna happen” bucket. Mine is filled with 100% textually correct Islamophobia.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Apr 29, 2019 at 6:15 pm

      “Islam is not like Christianity. Our Islam is a political movement”.
      Mullah Krekar
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuI57GeVXyI at 8.02

      “We are an ideological political movement”
      Anjem Choudary

      “All Islam is politics”
      Ayatollah Khomeini
      Ibn Warraq, THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM, page 332.

  4. Mike Poulin says

    Apr 29, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    So we just had Divine Mercy Sunday at Mass this last Sunday.. with barely a mention of repentance and reparations….I’m still waiting for Divine Justice Sunday…
    Oh yeah, and no mention at all of the 250 Catholic Sri Lankans slaughtered on Easter by the followers of MoMo from the pastor…
    – and this is a “traditional” Latin Mass parish…I am afraid to report stunning lack of manly righteous anger in the US Catholic Church….

  5. gravenimage says

    Apr 29, 2019 at 9:27 pm

    Sri Lankan authorities raid headquarters of jihadist group suspected of Easter bombings, discover a second group
    …………………

    Gee, what a surprise…

    • Indiana Tom says

      Apr 30, 2019 at 5:42 am

      SSDD.

  6. Martin says

    Apr 29, 2019 at 9:32 pm

    Sky News Exclusive: What made this bomber attack Sri Lanka?

    One of the perpetrators of the most recent Sri Lanka attack, attributed to supporters of Islamic State, was filmed on CCTV – in the hours before the attack.

    In pictures released to Sky News, Mohammed Nasar Mohammed Azar is shown arriving in the town – where he exploded his device inside a church – killing 27 people.

  7. sidney penny says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 12:31 am

    “Sri Lanka has just banned the burqa for justifiable security reasons as the country attempts to restore peace and control, but Islamic groups in the country are angry. It is most telling when Muslim groups refuse to help countries being attacked by the jihad and instead claim “victimology”.”

    Everything is conceived to be anti Muslim.

  8. Kirsch says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 1:41 am

    Oh the Joys of Islam islam, from beautiful Ceylon to Cape town, from Dublin to Sulawesi.. Even Mustafa Kemal Ataturk knew of the feculent toxicity of islam, quoting him directly ,

    ” Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives”

    Saint Juan de Ribera who expelled the extant Muslim descendant Moriscos from Spain stated most accurately,

    “Islam remains an impious, blasphemous, vicious cult, an innovation of the devil and the direct way into the fires of hell. It does not even merit the name of being called a religion”

    The Sri Lankan authorities have banned full head coverings, they will eventually need to expel muslims if the Theravada Buddhist, Christian and Hindu cultures are to survive.

    They will need faith for these coming battles, but if they keep their faith, they will prevail over Islam, Sri Lankans remove it now ( peacefully) remove its powers, or wait and let it fester and face a brutal, bloody battle to breathe in the future. Your choice.

  9. CRUSADER says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 4:19 am

    A second group?

    Reminds me of that scene in “Casablanca”
    about being “Shocked! Shocked to find out….”

    • Joe says

      Apr 30, 2019 at 7:00 am

      So that makes 2 local groups and ISIS. So this is not a “loan wolf” guy who is “crazy” and “radical”. We could be looking at 20 to 30 Muslims who carried out this mass murder on the holiest Christian day in the most sacred place because the victims were not Muslim.

  10. SuchindranathAiyerS says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 6:25 am

    Taliban (students of the Quran) raised in Sunni Arab funded Mosques and Madrassas all over the World and trained by Al Qaeda (the base) created by US and Pakistan, its heirs successors and assigns have formed themselves into any number or regiments with unique names. It is a hydra..

  11. elee says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 11:46 am

    Sympathy for all who suggested packing them all off to Pakistan. Problem is…..if you do that who’s going to surveill them? Want to trust the safety of our world to a Muslim “government”? Isn’t that what we were doing in 2000?

  12. Tom says

    Apr 30, 2019 at 12:13 pm

    The victims in this Sri Lanka situation are the Non Muslims being preyed upon by radical Muslim groups. The average Muslim must take a stand one way or the other and either stand with their radical Muslim brothers or with the rest of the Sri Lankan people. There is NO grey area that Muslims seem to always retreat into in order to claim victim status.

    Every time that a radical attacks a mosque or Muslims those in our general communities immediately condemn the action, which sends the message that we do not support such attacks.

    The Muslim community however does not immediately condemn attacks by Islamists on non Muslim communities, rather the Muslims take the position that they are the victims of some imagined revenge, which never occurs on a community to community basis.

    This shows us that most Muslims will not, as a community, condemn Islamic Jihad violence against their fellow citizens, but will immediately and collectively throw up their hands and say “nothing to do with me, I am afraid of you my fellow citizen” and “it is nothing to do with my religion, it is just some people who do some bad things”.

    They abrogate their responsibility to their country and their fellow citizens, in favour of Islam.

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