There is no justification for attacks against innocent Muslims, anywhere at any time, or attacks on any innocent people. The concern after a massacre of Christians by Muslims, however, should be on how the victims can be protected against further such attacks. Alan Keenan’s analysis here reflects the establishment media’s ironclad rule: whenever non-Muslims attack Muslims, Muslims are the victims. And when Muslims attack non-Muslims, Muslims are the victims. His remarks here are part of the larger practice of ignoring the ways in which jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to incite violence (and charging those who do look into this with “Islamophobia,”) and pretending that Muslims are being victimized worldwide, which is false.
“Sri Lanka Attacks May Lead To Further Violence Against Muslims, Says Crisis Analyst,” LBC, April 22, 2019:
A Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group told LBC that anti-Muslim sentiment in the country could spill over into further violence.
At least 290 people were killed in a series of explosions targeting churches and hotels, including eight British nationals.
Alan Keenan is a Sri Lanka Senior Analyst with the International Crisis Group and said there’s “a lot of anger” in the country and “a lot of confusion and fear”.
Speaking to LBC presenter Eddie Mair, he said the attacks may also feed into anti-Muslim sentiment that has been building in Sri Lanka recently.
Mr Keenan said: “This sentiment has been developing over the last five years, cultivated by radical militant groups of Buddhist including some monks.
“That has led already to major rioting last year and rioting in 2014, where Muslim shops, homes and mosques were burned out and a few people died in each incident.
“This will be seen as evidence that the fears and warnings of Muslim extremism, that these groups have been saying which previously had no evidence to back them up, are in fact true.
“That’s a very dangerous development and I’m afraid that if strong action isn’t taken and the right messages aren’t sent by government leaders and religious leaders of all groups, there’s a real possibility of further violence.”
Eddie asked Mr Keenan about how the attacks have affected the wider christian community in Sri Lanka
Mr Keenan said: “It leads them scared and no doubt angry.
“Previously, when Christian churches have been attacked, which they have been regularly in fact, it has been by militant Buddhists….
medforth says
Germany: Bishop’s crypt of Mainz Cathedral vandalized+++
Two gravestones in the bishop’s crypt of St. Martin’s Cathedral in Mainz (photo above) were smeared with paint by previously unknown perpetrators. According to the current state of the investigation, the graffiti could have been applied during the ongoing divine service on the afternoon of Easter Sunday, between 3 pm and 4 pm. The colour seems to be chalk, but whether the lettering can be removed completely and without damaging the gravestones cannot be estimated at present. A criminal complaint against unknown persons for damaging public property and the disturbance of the peace of the dead was filed ex officio and the investigation is ongoing. The police inspectorate Mainz 1 or any other police station will accept information.
Read more:
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/04/germany-bishops-crypt-of-mainz.html
murad says
From your analysis I analyze that you are crap.
CogitoErgoSum says
From your analysis, I analyze the same about you.
J D.S says
murad and those of his caliber have no business being accepted on Jihad Watch..So…. CognitoErgoSum is correct in his analysis of murad.
gravenimage says
Is murad applauding church desecration? It would not surprise me.
gravenimage says
UK: “Crisis analyst” says Sri Lanka jihad massacres could lead to violence against Muslims
…………………….
It’s the usual–who cares about all of those murdered Infidels–some Kuffar might give a Muslim a dirty look! Oh, the humanity…
God, I’m sick of this.
Dale says
Why wouldnt that be a natural fair and balanced response to
An act or war on humanities infidels.?
J D.S says
Graven…I’m sick of it too and the only satisfaction I get out of all this chaos is that those who blow themselves up in the murder of the innocent, is that they have been fooled , by the Old GEEZERS in Islam, and all suicide bombers will face the burning eternal fires if Hell…On the other hand those souls should have been saved and I feel God is shedding tears for their loss as well as the innocents but if the innocents were Christian they will spend eternity locked safe in God’s arms, whereas Islamist that fail to receive the atoning blood of Jesus Christ are doomed….Their lives have been stolen from them.
CRUSADER says
What’s there left to do for God but to wait for more souls to be saved and come to Christ, but the Evil One continues to deceive and it may be that upon the 2nd Coming, the Islam followers will have no choice but to be convicted and condemned. Sad for us all.
Renate says
There has to be an end to this insanity somewhere along the line.
CRUSADER says
GravenImage, hoping you had a good Easter celebration, despite things.
gravenimage says
I did, CRUSADER–hope you did as well.
WPM says
What is a capital offense in Islam hang bacon on the door of a Mosque in England be sent to prison for a sentence of over 2 years and killed by Moslem inmates when the guards are on a smoke break. What is a capital punishment offense going to Easter Sunday Mass in Sri Lanka (not a Moslem majority country) or drinking from the same bucket of water Moslems drink from in any Moslem majority country.
cfrread says
What the hell is a crisis analyst?
Decoding:
Atheist Globalist who hates Christians, is ignorant of history, culture and how civilisation developed, employed by Moslems and Globalists to rewrite news and blame non Moslems for all Moslem crimes.
Stefan says
…..for the Muslim will to conquer the whole world and convert it forcibly in Islam !!!
mortimer says
cfr, in the context of Sri Lanka, there is much racial and inter-religious rivalry. It is a very complex political mess. With that confusing mess, an expert analyst is needed.
Minor ethnic: Sri Lanka Tamil (11.1%) (2012 c…
Major ethnic: Sinhalese (74.9%) (2012 census)
According to the 2012 census Buddhists make up 70.1% of the population, Hindus 12.6%, Muslims 9.7% and Christians 7.6%.[24] Most Sinhalese are Buddhist; most Tamils are Hindu; and the Moors and Malays are mostly Muslim. Sizeable minorities of both Sinhalese and Tamils are Christians, most of whom are Roman Catholic. The Burgher population is mostly Roman Catholic or Presbyterian. The Veddahs have Animist and Buddhist practices. The 1978 constitution, while assuring freedom of religion, gives “the foremost place” Buddhism.[
James Cameron says
Very informative. And much needed, to avoid over-simplification. Thanks.
jule says
don’t atheists know what Islam thinks/does to them? The Globalist thing sounds plausible. So how to deal with that?
gravenimage says
There are actually a lot of Agnostics and Atheists here at Jihad Watch. Not all Atheists are like this idiot.
Besides, it is not clear whether Keenan is Atheist or not.
Michael Garant says
Always the victim….the useful idiots are again on their mission. It’s just that less and less people listen and even less believe the BS.
He’s as stupid as Theresa May whose main concern was to denounce violence against churches and hotels…….not the people, the churches and hotels.
Brits are scared shi—– of the muslims in their country, so naturally they will say anything and do anything to appease or at least not ”disturb” these victims.
somehistory says
bo expressed his feelings for the “Easter celebrators.” No one expresses sorrow for Christians. None of them feel any sorrow for the Christians. No matter how many are victims or how horrible the terror. People like that, including clinton, just don’t want to be left out when it comes to the news reporting of the ones who “tweeted” a response.
CRUSADER says
Obama is only nominally “christian”….
Heavily influenced to look the part when needs to,
but he has leanings toward spiritual islam….
Michael Copeland says
“These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I am not the strapping, young Muslim socialist that I used to be.”
Obama at a White House dinner
https://www.trapshooters.com/threads/obama-i-am-not-the-strapping-young-muslim-socialist-that-i-used-to-be.264004/
SweetOlBob says
obama* is “nominally Christian — Your Gluteous Maximus !
The little pencil necked fraud is 100% filthy muslim !
*Lower Case Intentional
windrush48 says
Obama is FRAUDULENTLY “christian” ….. as he was FRAUDULENTLY, CRIMINALLY, “president ….. and MUST be executed for his High Crimes against the Republic and her people.
alex says
SomeHistory: but don’t you realize, that the brown Christian Sri Lankans who were killed deserved it, because they were to blame for a neo-pagan, eco-fascist, white supremacist Australian who killed many innocent Muslim worshippers in a mosque over in New Zealand?? Come on, think!!! (sarc)
Graven: I know how you feel, I’m sick of it too. “Kill anyone who says that Islam is violent!! (sarc)”
somehistory says
Christians are attacked by violent Buddhist monks. Christians are attacked by violent moslims.
Who are the real aggressors? Who are the real victims?
And, the concern is for the moslims, naturally. The Christians who survived these bombings, will not be “attacking” moslims. But, the moslims are always the victims, even when they are the terrorists. Poor babies. Their demonic direction and their evil beliefs, just keep on getting them in trouble.
For the fear they feel…they must seek revenge. More bombings are already being planned. The State Department is warning about these.
windrush48 says
There is no such thing as a “violent, radical, buddhist” ….. it is a conflict in terminology – as is “moderate muslim”
Wallace Robinson says
Excellent analysis
somehistory says
windrush48
My other comment did not appear here where it should have …below your post. However, I did not write ““violent, radical, buddhist””
What I wrote, was what I read from the two news articles….Reuters and BBC…and quoting myself, I wrote “violent Buddhist monks.”
If you wish to argue with what I write, at least quote me correctly. I wrote what news articles…about Buddhist monks attacking Christians…reported in the same language they used.
Seth says
‘whenever non-Muslims attack Muslims, Muslims are the victims. And when Muslims attack non-Muslims, Muslims are the victims’
Bumper sticker.
CRUSADER says
make a meme
andrew mckendrick says
And when Muslims attack Muslims we are all to blame.
Jaladhi says
What makes this liar an expert on Sri Lanka?? Muslims are always victims no matter what they do – they are never at fault. With this kind of self-flagellation, these experts can never tell the truth. If there is a resentment against Muslims in Sri Lank there is a reason for it which the locals very well know and not these fake experts living about 8000 or 9000 miles away. Nobody should pay attention to this kind of prediction.
Toral Patel says
It must be great to be moslem, thousands of murders every year and every time they do it they have the left defend them and worry for their safety!!!
Raja says
Toral Patel,
They are the privileged class and the Koran says that in no uncertain terms. The stupid Left sings the same song. The former are the happiest class on the face of the earth.
Thank God being happy is a relative term.
b.a. freeman says
worldwide, about 10% of muslims are pious (according to surveys by pew research) … which means that the pious 10% that are being imported by the left in all western nations are serving as a proxy army for the left. who blames leftists when an islamic bomb goes off? nobody! the left doesn’t have to lift a finger, and this self-motivated army will bring society to its knees. of course, the left has to cover for the depredations of its “troops,” so that they can continue their destruction unmolested, but since they run education, all the legacy media, and almost all of the government in *every* western government, that’s a fairly easy task; they’re preaching to the choir. all they have to do is keep covering until things get really bad, then declare martial law (everybody will be *so* glad!). and a few assassinations after that, they’ll be able to declare a people’s republic and start the roundups of troublemakers and wreckers like us folks posting here.
i’m pretty sure that’s the plan, anyway; i think they have forgotten that the ummah isn’t likely to cooperate. i’m willing to bet that most of the civil wars will start when the new hard-core leftist governments try to “fix” the muslim problem by mass murder. should be interesting, in the chinese curse sense (“may U live in interesting times”).
CRUSADER says
“Unholy Alliance”
(David Horowitz)
James Lincoln says
This Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group is a little bit slow on the draw.
The UK has already had, and continues to have, a real crisis. For example:
Where was he when Muslims literally invaded Savile Town, Yorkshire UK, now 99% – no that is not a typo – Muslim???
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, James, I see that it is true. Here is a link to an article I found concerning Savile Town dated November 2016. At that time only 48 of 4,033 people living there were white British. The Muslims want it that way.
My favorite line from the article is a quote made by a Muslim spokesman for the community: “If Muhammad did not do it, we don’t do it.” Yes, and if Muhammad DID do it, they will do it. (Muhammad wanted nothing to do with Christians, Jews and all non-Muslims unless it was to make them submit to Islam.)
Here is a link to the article in the Daily Mail:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3899540/Go-away-shouldn-t-Don-t-come-corner-Yorkshire-no-white-residents.html
gravenimage says
I was just going to link to that grim story.
CRUSADER says
Does being “white” mean Christian or Jew?
What about “white” Muslims?
CogitoErgoSum says
It would be racist to assume that all British are white but virtuous to assume that Muslims are not white. Why did people develop different skin colors for different locations on the Earth? Are there any physical problems that develop when people suited for one certain place on the planet move to and stay in another place on the planet? If people remain and reproduce in one place long enough will natural selection once again select for the most suitable skin color or does avoiding being in the sun counteract that? I suppose it will take thousands of years to find out for sure.
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
Just read that entire article. That’s terrifying. I knew the situation was already bad, but after reading that, the situation, in regards to Islam in the UK, is far worse than I thought. God help England…
CRUSADER says
What?
somehistory says
CogitoErgoSum
It matters not the skin color…what’s under the skin is what matters. and the mindset of the moslims in that town prove it. As to does the mindset of moslims everywhere.
Terrible for the little kids born into that kind of existence. And for those who are forced to move in order to live.
abad says
Deportation would be a better solution to the problem.
The bottom line is this:
Islam has NO place in western society. It just doesn’t.
Islam is anti-Constitutional.
Islam is anti-social behaviour.
Islam is anti-social behaviour.
Gary says
So true. Sick of the murdering “Religion of Peace”
CRUSADER says
“Islam: Religion of Peace? The Violation of Natural Rights and Western Cover-Up”
Book by Mario Alexis Portella
Jaladhi says
Islam has no place among humans on this earth. Period.
somehistory says
Jaladh
The Truth that many don’t want to know or have said or even ponder.
abad says
+1
CRUSADER says
People might say you are “bigoted” !!!
CRUSADER says
You can say “anti-social behaviour” twice, that’s for sure, for sure.
Heather says
islam has NO place on Earth full stop.
Naildriver says
As if this is a rarity from Islam’s devotees. We all know that it won’t be long before another monstrous atrocity is carried out against non-Muslims by Islamic devotees, perhaps 10 thousand miles away; and guys like Keenan will do the bidding of terrorists as expected, and lobby to weaken, rather than find a good defense and effective policy to forestall such predictable Muslim actions. Such people may be paid in fact by Islamic organizations and such evidence should be investigated and reported.
He suggests the Buddhists have attacked churches, — and murdered hundreds of Christians and foreigners?
I find few Muslims above the age of puberty ‘innocent’ in this world of information — even most the dirt poor have ‘smart’ cell phones and access to computers.
Nobody has an excuse to remain ignorant in this days world, but we’ve created a system that demands ignorance or demands faking ignorance.
If this is war — and I’m pretty sure it is, Muslims all, are as culpable as the populations in Germany or Japan in WWII; and, Muslims follow a system that they benefit from by way of its fanatical and murderous members — just as the poor whites and wives of slave owners in the old Confederate States prior to 1861 had advantages from that intolerable system. There is going to be hell to pay and I’d rather it be the evil doers–Muslim devotees.
I know this site condemns violence, but policies that would on the short term evoke violence from Muslim terrorists should be employed.
Such as the forced marginalization of Muslims in Western societies.
In the USA, Muslims should be forbidden from participating in our government, armed forces, daycare centers, and public schools as teachers or workers — let ’em stew in their own juice.
There is the comparison to Jews and what they suffered and the racial barbarities suffered by blacks that would have to be surmounted, but Islam is indeed more accurately compared as the Nazi or Communists than Jews, or blacks.
Word Smiths need to work upon these intolerable disadvantages the West is currently forced to endure rather than foster endless lies, as this above Keenan.
Islam is indeed an enemy because it is supremacist, murderous, bigoted, sexist, violent, and opposed to all Western values and human rights. Islam fosters the worst character in mankind — and Islam’s best devotees grovel at the very depths of human depravity in example to Mohammed. Has the USA ever had a worse enemy or a more dangerous one?
CRUSADER says
How do you go about barring Muslims?
Aren’t they like Body Snatched people?
Too hard to tell unless you look into their deceptive minds,
unless they go around in garb and beard and niqab while
demanding their own wash basins and yelling toward the east
“olly olly oxen free”….
Naildriver says
How did the government bar communists or Japanese Americans? At my University, I was merely asked if I was a communist. Dicy methods. Mosque membership? Good question!
But the important thing about a mixing pot, one has to crush up some of the ingredients — and Islam certainly needs crushing; and, I think the mere honest declaration from the government that Islam isn’t ok would be of immense help — perhaps via a ruling against Islam to say they are not entitled to practice all forms of Islam in the USA , since such practices make it an enemy to our constitution — such that Muslims can be marginalized lawfully, would be a good start; before tattooing the cresent moon upon their foreheads — and, I wouldn’t approve of that; just good sneering at em.
CogitoErgoSum says
How did Muslims go about getting rid of Christians and Jews in places like Turkey and the Middle East? The Muslims themselves have already shown us the way to get rid of groups of unwanted people. You make them either renounce their religion or make their lives miserable for them until they wither away. As for the part about killing them, well, I’m not willing to go that far but, you know … you can either let them destroy you or you can become almost as bad as they are. Very poor choices either way. The only thing to do is try to decide which choice will result in the least amount of evil for those who will come after us … or hope for a miracle from God. I guess right now we will trust in God until we reach a point where we feel that failure to act risks the wrath of God upon us. It will get much, much worse to reach that point and things at the time may be nearly as bad as the wrath of God itself.
Got to keep hoping for that miracle.
CRUSADER says
How about work to support legislation efforts against Shariah as antithesis of U.S. Constitution….
http://www.ACTforAmerica.org/issues
Troy Laarman says
I read a prophecy allegedly from Mohammed that said, eventually the people would reject Islam and it would return to the snake hole it came from.. Islam is a false religion, and when the FACTS are presented in a logical way it is easy to see. A great many Muslims are leaving Islam because of this realization that they have been enslaved by a barbaric cult full of hate and hypocrisy. The truth shall set you free. This is an information war. For the first time in history all the islamic texts are available translated into nearly every tounge..when ignorant Muslims learn what their prophet really did those who are not wicked recoil in discust. Most Muslims do not know the Quran they only know the lies they have been tought..fight them with the truth…if that fails we know what needs to be done.
somehistory says
Troy Laarman
“I read a prophecy allegedly from Mohammed that said, eventually the people would reject Islam and it would return to the snake hole it came from”
I have read that too.
Kay says
The atrocities happen so frequently that people don’t even remember them— except the maimed and bereaved.
tim gallagher says
Well, I don’t know about the situation in Sri Lanka and maybe this “expert” is right in saying that Buddhists have been picking on Muslims there. But my reaction to this report and this “expert” saying that yet another Muslim terrorist attack, whether in Sri Lanka or Nigeria or any other place, might lead to violence against Muslims is “Well, duh!” What would this “expert” expect. The idea that any group of people, such as Muslims, can go around committing endless terrorist atrocities in most countries in the world and that there wouldn’t eventually be violence against Muslims from fed-up non-Muslim victims is nuts. Why wouldn’t there be some payback against Muslims. Personally, I am amazed that there is so little retaliation against Muslims in response to the violence Muslims continually inflict on non-Muslims all over the world. This “expert” seems like an idiot to me. Does he seriously think that, when Muslims endlessly kill non-Muslims, there won’t be a fightback and violence against Muslims by non-Muslims. I think Muslims seem to get away with atrocious behaviour almost with impunity. As Robert Spencer often says, somehow Muslims manage to play the victim when the non-Muslims the Muslims murder are the true victims. It’s a strange trick they play. A lot of the media help the Muslim BS about being the victims. I think more and more people aren’t buying that type of crap anymore. I hope that’s the case. Even the slowest learners may be finally waking up.
WPM says
Islamics kill Christians on Easter Sunday one of the High Holy days in the Christian year ,what the Hell does this have to do with Buddhist??Buddhist did not site their “Holy Books” and attack Christians on their High Holy day why are they sudden responsible for Jihadist action??God almighty you might as well go full Western retarded progressive and” blame greenhouse gases “for the attack!
gravenimage says
+1
Raja says
Yest WPM,
Global warming must be the cause of the problem of ideology of killings…
tim gallagher says
WPM, I consider myself to be about as far away from the outlook of the Western leftards who excuse Islam as anyone could possibly be. I thought my comment and other comments I make made that clear. I am saying that I am constantly amazed that there is not a huge amount of retaliation against Muslims because of the atrocious way they always behave towards non-Muslims everywhere in the world. I believe a lot more retaliation is well and truly deserved. My opinion is that Islam is barbaric and evil and my solution is that Muslims should not be allowed into any non-Muslim country. Then, we would have none of the problems Islam brings. The comment I made which seems to have made you go ballistic is simply that I said I have no idea what the situation is in Sri Lanka leading up the Muslim attacks on Christians churches and the hotels. Because I don’t know much about Sri Lanka and maybe this supposed “expert” does know more than I do. Generally, I do blame Islam, and only Islam, for the atrocities it commits throughout the world.. Of course, you are right that it makes no sense that Muslims attack Christians because Buddhists are picking on them. But why look for logic with hate-filled Muslims? They hate every non-Muslim and will attack all non-Muslims. I am a Christian and I am mightily pissed off about the Muslim attacks on churches in Sri Lanka and everywhere else. BUt then, everything about Islam angers me. What I do know is that Islam is the vilest ideology in this sorry world and I would love to see it become extinct. That is always my position and I think it is a long way from the ludicrous views of the apologists for Islam, whose outlook I will never comprehend. As someone who is very hardline in my attitude towards Islam, I am a little angry to be in any way associated with “retarded western progressives”. I’ll bet that I’m every bit as tough on Islam as you are. Nevertheless, thanks for your comment as I presume it was meant to be constructive and meant to stop me from straying into foolishness.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for your comment, Peter35 and Kay. I feel very much like you, Peter35, in that I am troubled about how slow much of the world is in fighting back against Islam, despite all the atrocities MUslims are always committing against non-Muslims. I live in hope. I keep thinking, come on, you pathetic, slow learning fools, wake up and fight back against Islam. And, what I mean is, the majority in our countries still don’t seem to have woken up. Quite a lot have woken up, but nowhere near the majority. At least, that’s how it seems in Australia where I live. It is weird how so many people still don’t seem to get it.
Kay says
Yes, it’s crazy. But I did see several sources name historical Buddhist violence and thereby implicitly shift the focus.
Crusades Were Right says
Testing.
Crusades Were Right says
Yay!
CRUSADER says
Yahoo!!
God is great!!
TKF says
300 dead? Don’t worry about it, it’s just something somebody did. Now, let’s get back to wringing our hands over Islamophobia and focus on the real victims….Muslim, as per always.
mortimer says
Too true, but if it weren’t so horribly stupid and deadly Muslim logic would be comical. ‘Something somebody did.’
Yeah … ‘someone’ we can’t quite figure out who, what or why they committed criminal acts.
jayell says
Yes, let’s not argue about who killed who……(apologies to Monty Python and the Hoily Grail)
Crusades Were Right says
You’re SO right, Mr K! Lots of things should be done to reassure the Muslim community in the UK, e.g.:
* converting St Paul’s Cathedral to a mosque (I mean, why wait until the pesky thing burns down, like Notre Dame, and then building a mosque on the site? Let’s just cut to the chase instead!)
* banning free speech (Can’t risk offending them, or making them feel unsafe. What else are prisons for, for crying out loud?)
* bringing lots more to the UK (Safety in numbers, you see)
And don’t worry, Mr K – the Advocates for Islam in the UK (formerly known as the Conservative and Labour Parties) will take care of this, and much much more.
Sorted!
sidney penny says
“Alan Keenan’s analysis here reflects the establishment media’s ironclad rule: whenever non-Muslims attack Muslims, Muslims are the victims.And when Muslims attack non-Muslims, Muslims are the victims.”
It is almost like inviting non Muslims to attack Muslims ( so Muslims can become future victims)
Need to repeat what Robert Spencer says:
“There is no justification for attacks against innocent Muslims, anywhere at any time, or attacks on any innocent people.”
DRHazard says
“A Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group”; fools just love their pretentious credentials. And Muslims just love pretending they are movers and shakers when in reality their moment in the Sun ended 600 years ago. But those Golden Age Muslims wouldn’t have dreamed of the time when their heirs, in alliance with libtards, would be calling criticism of Islam equivalent to violence against Muslims, and instead of subjugating Kaffirs would be turning to them for protection. Islam has been dismantled by the Internet, so now the hard hand of censorship is the only thing saving it from irrelevance.
Martin says
video – Alan Keenan – Intro in Dutch – then the interview in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8nMewH6GgU
CogitoErgoSum says
Got to be careful. There’s always the possibility that Pope Francis will go nuts and call for a new Crusade (1 in a billion trillion).—– although the possibillity of Pope Francis just going nuts is much greater.
James Cameron says
He’s a prisoner of a very bad recent Papal tradition of insisting on being positive about crappy religions and ideologies even when the harm they do is extremely obvious. So Islam, like Communism, benefits from this. This “new orientation” goes back to 1964, in the case of Islam. This is one “tradition” he and other Popes need to do away with entirely where Islam is concerned. I blame that fool John XXIII for starting this Pollyannaness.
Raja says
The Islamic community should not be targeted. Fair enough. The whites / all kinds of right wingers should not targeted for the lone brainless Aussie in NZ .
An evil ideology is OK, that is AFTER ALL victim. An deranged individual is inspired by non existent ideology and hence all of the community is a threat to international peace.No not a threat to international peace but threat to marauding Muslims thanks to Koran.
Just SICK of the evil MSM and irrational Messrs Analysts.
Craig W says
But …
How could massacres carried out by “The Religion of Peace” lead to violence?
It makes no sense whatsoever!
Regardless, you made your bed.
Oren says
ISRAELI NEWS TITLE, THE EUROPEANS ARE LIARS WHO LIE ABOUT ISLAM ON MSM NEWS!!
https://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/400022
Click translate from Hebrew.
They lie about women getting raped, why should they be believed about the Notre Dame?!?
CRUSADER says
say what?
somehistory says
People like him seem to want a world where moslims commit acts of terror when and where and upon whomever they want to….and everyone then just says, “hey, don’t feel bad or complain or mourn” because moslims won’t like it and they may feel like someone will do something in retribution against them.
Retribution which they so richly deserve, but rarely ever happens. Some victims try to defend against the attacks, but most are just murdered or maimed, raped or enslaved. And the governments deny that islam is responsible and that only “a few” moslims are likely to engage in terror.
Divine Retribution is coming. That is a Promise from the God of Christians. (2 Thessalonians 1:8)
tgusa says
“anti-Muslim sentiment in the country could spill over into further violence.”
If he is really that concerned he can always launch a new career as a human shield. Doesn’t pay much but it would be virtuous, for a short time.
SoloStiX says
I sure as hell hope so, Muslims don’t respond at all, except to violence, if people go around shaming Muslims, then that is a great thing for America, and for the entire world, Im a Catholic I have read the quean (part of it till I got mad and quit half way through) and it literally teaches you to hate anyone that isn’t Muslim, any religion that teaches you to hate others, is not a religion at all, it’s a hate group… The only thing we and people around the world can do, is to literally shame/belittle/ rid Muslims in anyway shape or form around the world, that’s the only option left, the entire muslim religion needs to be wiped out/off the map, along with any Country that preaches/teaches hatred, e.g. Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, various middle eastern and African Countries/states, it’s sad that there are people out there that hate others enough to harm Christians, the only we Christians have left to respond is to do the same to the muslims until they are no more (no, praying about it will not and has not helped what-so-ever, at all, praying doesn’t make physical things actually happen so there’s no hope with that, us Christians can either fight back, or be run/mowed down and over.
CRUSADER says
Bill Warner suggests that we in the West need to read the Koran, in order to see its faults clearly.
Thereby we can make up our minds with evidence first hand.
Presumably, the Koran published by Tommy Robinson also meant to do the same for the West.
Steven RSA says
“There is no justification for attacks against innocent Muslims, anywhere at any time, or attacks on any innocent people.” The word defenseless should be used, not innocent. All Muslims are at war with all non-Muslims, it is only the method and degree that vary. Consciously or not, no muslim is innocent.
t says
yeah I was gonna say from another angle that I disagree with what Robert implied, that it’s ok to attack guilty people (from “it’s not ok to attack innocent people”). Most of the time if not nearly all of the time, it ain’t right for lynch mobs to take justice into their own hands EVEN against someone they think or know is guilty of a heinous crime (or guilty of aiding and abetting or cheering it on). That’s up to the authorities. And if the authorities are derelict in their duty, then we’ll just have to try to wake up society to persuade our authorities to get off their ass. If that situation goes on too long though, there’s the potential for a crisis. I don’t think that tipping point is here yet in the West, but our ship o’ state is definitively headed in that general direction. So yeah, all Muslims are guilty of belonging to Islam, just as all Nazis are guilty of belonging to the Hitler cult. There might be a whole lotta variation of different degrees of guilt there, but it shouldn’t be OUR problem to sort that out.
Lydia Church says
Testing
Lydia Church says
Well let me reflect on the comments made by muslims in the wake of the notre dame fire:
“we rejoice in things that hurt them…” (meaning Christians at large)
Among many similar comments. So……
So should we now rejoice in things that hurt muslims?
Again I am not advocating for anyone to die.
But if ‘things happen’ as ‘backlash’ and they happen to ‘some people’ because ‘someone did something’ and God allowed it…. then…
Ask me if I care.
All their sympathy is placating and phony!
And we are CHRISTIANS!!! Not ‘Easter worshippers’!
The terrorists were muslims.
That is not ‘islamophobia.’
That is TRUTH.
na says
UK is a terrorist center, they have far right extremists and jihadists. The streets look like Pakistani slums. Everywhere beggars and black clothing plus ape bearded and ginger bearded people. Sharia police, drug lobbies, mosques, pubs.many Brits converting to Islam,……
gravenimage says
You consider pubs to be a problem?
na says
teetotalers hate pub.
Internet is full of trap, just to create some lazy people. Yes from internet you can get some clue about people’s character. Internet is very useful to identify people from terrorist nations.
But you westerners should monitor your real world, need to have attachment with families,neighborhood. that is the failure of west. If you have more connection means you are able to catch more news about terrorists. Their financial sources check, name is correct or not, what religion he is, is he/she harmful and anti social?……. and u should know a lot from your societies.
Now a days that is important one. At least know what is going on, around you and your home. More affinity!!! If a person is anti social then try to improve him if he does not obey rules then deport them. In 3rd world many countries have started “jail tourism”. because they are not getting culprits. But in Europe you have majority of terrorists.
gravenimage says
na wrote:
teetotalers hate pub.
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I don’t drink, and i don’t hate pubs at all. I go to pubs and beer gardens with my husband and friends, and I certainly defend the right of people to go to pubs.
I am not a fan of alcoholism, but that is a different matter.
More:
Internet is full of trap, just to create some lazy people. Yes from internet you can get some clue about people’s character. Internet is very useful to identify people from terrorist nations.
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Anything can be a trap, if you spend all your time there. The internet is a tool–it can be used to learn or to watch silly kitten film clips or to watch cruel beheading videos; to connect with people defending the good–as here at Jihad Watch–or those plotting to destroy it.
It is the same with books or any other source of information.
More:
But you westerners should monitor your real world, need to have attachment with families,neighborhood. that is the failure of west. If you have more connection means you are able to catch more news about terrorists.
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Your belief that Westerners have no personal corrections is mistaken. Some people have always been isolated; most are not.
More:
Their financial sources check, name is correct or not, what religion he is, is he/she harmful and anti social?……. and u should know a lot from your societies.
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Generally we do not monitor each other, unless someone seems dangerous. Monitoring your neighbors for any behavior that does not fit the norm is more something Muslims do. That being said, of course we should be alert for threats–especially Jihad threats.
And, actually, the West is as good or better at ferreting out Jihad terror attacks as are less individualistic societies.
More:
Now a days that is important one. At least know what is going on, around you and your home. More affinity!!! If a person is anti social then try to improve him if he does not obey rules then deport them. In 3rd world many countries have started “jail tourism”. because they are not getting culprits. But in Europe you have majority of terrorists.
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Actually, the majority of Jihad terror attacks do not take place in the West–you are quite mistaken. But given that they barely existed here just twenty years ago, there are all too many here.
CRUSADER says
No need to hang out drinking ale at the pubs, mate.
To see what Shariah has done to London, just need to pass through Heathrow.
Back to the pubs, however. Teetotalers aren’t found at pubs, so what’s the problem?
Chinese are very sneaky, and very very good at detecting things from big brother camera systems via internet.
gravenimage says
Few teetotalers are trying to shut down pubs–and none of them violently.
Rana says
https://www.facebook.com/Beingsrilanka/videos/522801734791564/
kuriakose says
I came across this extremely disturbing piece of news courtesy of a muhameddan who is crowing that Europe will be theirs.
Dr Jan Loop of the School of History will lead a Kent team examining the many ways in which the Muslim holy book influenced European cultural, religious and intellectual history in the period 1150-1850.
The funding is being made through the European Research Council’s (ERC) Synergy Grant and Kent will receive €2.5 million over the coming six years.
Dr Loop said: ‘The Qur’an is deeply imbedded in the political and religious thought of Europe and is part of the intellectual repertoire of Medieval and Early Modern Europeans. As such, this research will question the belief that Islam is ‘foreign’ to Europe but also challenge certain Islamic fundamentalist views about the Qur’an.’
See https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/culture/19586/kent-to-play-leading-role-in-e10-million-research-project-on-the-quran-in-europe
So what is the game of the EU? Downplaying the Judeo Christian heritage and making claims it was the quran that played a big role in shaping European civilisation? I cannot believe what I’m reading.
It all points to me that they are trying to create a new world religion. It will have to (at least claimed to be) based on islam, as there would be no way a muhameddan would accept anything unless it is primarily islam.
Muhameddan reformers like Majid Nawaz etc will happily adopt this as their mantra. The pope too seems to be an agent of such a move, making strenous efforts to pander to the muhameddans and claiming that Christianity and islam share the same god etc. Nobody really worries about Christian resistance to such moves.
Those who speak out against islam, having understood how evil islam is, can be easily disposed of by laws being introduced to combat ‘islamophobia’ .
But I guess opposition will also come from traditional mulslims who will fight changes and reinterpretations of their quran.
gravenimage says
We see this all the time–pretending that Islam was a part of the civilized world. What rot.
CRUSADER says
James Michener, after combing the world, felt that Sri Lankans / Ceylonians
were / are — to him — the most beautiful appearing people.
Something to reflect on, as we witness the people of that island nation divide against each other in mayhem and contention.
Maybe beauty is only skin deep, in this sense?
CRUSADER says
“At Muhammad’s own death an attempt was made to deify him, but the man who was to become his administrative successor killed the hysteria with one of the noblest speeches in religious history: “If there are any among you who worshipped Muhammad, he is dead. But if it is God you worshipped, He lives for ever”
– James A. Michener –
Reader’s Digest, American Edition, May 1955
kuriakose says
GI
The EU leaders know full well what islam is. But they lack the will to combat it. To combat it would need draconian measures which they will not undertake. As such, their efforts are attempts to portray islam in light that would go well with a mainly western audience and western educated muhameddans. They are willing to spent that much money after all (probably bankrolled by the rich muhameddans) on such a project. I see that many western intellectuals are of the mind that it is better that they try to create a peaceful version of islam. Even Daniel Pipes has come round to this viewpoint. What do they care about some of us who would resist islam in any form? Just collateral damage, that’s all.
Interestingly we see some oppostion politicians in Europe joining islam after fighting it. Is it a case of ‘if you can’t beat them, join them ‘ ?
CRUSADER says
It’s more likely civil war will occur.
Daniel Pipes gave Europe a 47% chance of acquiescing to Shariah
and a 47% chance of fighting to the living hell to get the Islamists to surrender.
But then again, Pipes smokes a pipe dream which smoke screens him from being on the radar of “Islamophobia” by coming up with a notion that Islam can become a fantasy shadow of itself once cherry picked.
gravenimage says
There are a lot of people in the West who are in denial about Islam–including many in leadership positions. As for draconian measures, not really–just ending Muslims flooding into the West would be a good start. Of course, some idiots do consider even this to be “draconian”, rather than simple common sense.
CogitoErgoSum says
I’d say the Black Death played a bigger role in the cultural, religious and intellectual development of Europe than did Islam in the period 1150-1850. Next would come the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment. Islam would be just a small blip until the past few decades and it’s intention is to destroy everything that’s come before … just like the Black Death.
CogitoErgoSum says
Oh yes, I forgot to mention the Industrial Revolution … and yes, sometimes I type “it’s” when I should type “its,” doggone it.
CRUSADER says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQc-WDMnow
gravenimage says
I’d add the Renaissance as well, CogitoErgoSum.
CRUSADER says
Islam brought the Black Death.
CogitoErgoSum says
I can hear the Muslims saying, “Rats.” And the Europeans yelling back at them, “Yes, you rats!” Thank Edison for the invention of the record player so I can listen to “Rats in My Room” by Leona Anderson from her album “Music to Suffer By.” (I dare you to look it up on YouTube and listen.)
gravenimage says
Not sure that would be my first choice–but I am glad that it is available.
There is no music in Islam.
Rob says
My local paper pleaded at the time of the Boston Marathon bombing ‘let there be no backlash’. Always ready to paint the perp as victim or likely victim.
CRUSADER says
Bernie “Marx” Sanders wants to allow the convicted terrorist of that Boston bombing to VOTE.
jayell says
“A Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group told LBC that anti-Muslim sentiment in the country could spill over into further violence….”
Wow! Really? Hasn’t this perceptive genius heard of ’cause and effect’ Sorry, I forgot. We’re all supposed sit around and do nothing as these ‘best of people’ just go around the place murdering, raping, blowing things up, burning down churches and cathedrals, driving vehicles into people and demanding then re-entry into the land of the civilised after they’ve finished sewing up suicide belts and tip-toeing around decapitated corpses (so that they can enjoy the the free education, healthcare, housing and everything else that the ‘magic passport’ entitles them to – or so they think).
David Grisez says
These views that mostly make Muslims out to be the victims is getting ridiculous. We need truthful accurate views on these terrible events. And there is no way around it the facts are that most of the terrorist events are committed by Muslims.
Kay says
Yes.
We call it the persecuted church without naming who is murdering and who is being murdered.
And that’s the least evasive of how we address the issue.
It seems what passes as civil war is most likely Mohammeden takeover.
SB says
What a moron
Listen very carefully says
Maybe our security services should adopt a different tactic and ask questions instead of carrying out surveillance on those whom they consider to be far right extremists.
My extremism:
No to Islamisation
No to uncontrolled immigration
Yes to freedom of speech
Yes to limited government
I’m not an ethno-nationalist who wishes to wage a war against non-whites in order to ensure a future for “my people”. However, if a person of colour threatened me I would try to defend myself. Fair enough?
According to the BBC the death toll in Sri Lanka has now risen to 310.
Islamic terrorists killed 310 people.
That’s all a crisis analyst should be focussing on right now.
kuriakose says
What miserable leaders and traitors have we nurtured and promoted in our countries who let their people be treated with such shameful contempt by the mussulman?
Marigold says
Fact 1 The majority of terrorist attacks around the world since 9/11 have been committed by people identifying as Muslims.
Fact 2 These people use their so called sacred text the Koran to justify their actions.
Fact 3 Muslims think the Koran is a book which can’t be improved upon.
Fact 4 The 3 facts above does not neccesarily make all Muslims terrorists.
However, I want to know how this so called ”expert” can explain these undisputable facts which are supposed to make Muslims the victims?
Who has ever heard of him anyway?
CRUSADER says
Simple as 1, 2, 3….
K. says
Ponder the existence of any “innocent Muslim” especially in light of their stance that unbelievers can’t be innocent in principle. Any belief in absence of proof is a choice and any choice comes wih responsibility.
Or Else! says
Islam is a 1400-year-old vicious pit bull…but the Left thinks it’s a service dog that’s always being abused.
Islam sits nicely on the naive, sheltering Left’s lap….for now.
The software….Islam 1.0….that’s the problem. Supremacist at the core…and woe to those who have other ideas…..like true freedom, democracy, respect/tolerance, equal justice under Western law, etc.
Trouble says
Jihadis are the murderous political arm of Islam. They are either instructed or act alone and feel justified as stated in their text. This is the danger faced by non Muslims.
Been reported that Satan’s work in Sri Lanka was in retaliation to the Mosque moslem attack in New Zealand. Mega B.Sh….
The purportrator of that attack was not a catholic, nor Christian stating he felt closer to China’s ideology. I.E communist and his grievances with fatal consequences seemed to have been spurred by many recent extremist Islamic violence and other vile doings across the continent of Europe of which overwhelmed any reason or purpose. His manifesto was suppressed due to the Islamophobia committee.
The response from n.z prime minister was lauded as leadership by the moslem community and how all westerners should act : Islamic prayers in parliament, non stop news coverage headscarfs,conversions,condemnations, apologies, and the word Jesus removed from something notable. Bearing in mind this was a western commonwealth country that most certainly deserved its own respect especially in the Parliament.
NOTHING appeases them. Not even the Pope.
Catholics this time. Last time it was copts in Egypt because they weren’t happy with General Sisi ( anti Muslim brotherhood).
Telling was Turkish FM ,s tweet with any rational person scratching their head- how can you even compare recent Islamic violence with 50 people in New Zealand and why.
some other fascists in WW2 did that FM. The order was for every nazi killed, they would kill 10.
somebodies aren’t happy with the French and Italians ( historically Roman Catholic )
mainly because of the oil and territory in the Aegean Sea. French and Italian companies have secured deals with Greece, Cyprus and Israel. TheTreaty of Lausanne ( (Paris) And because Matteo recently said he doesn’t want Turkey in the E.U. (Most countries in Europe are Catholic )Both countries had or have dealings downsouth in Lybia. It’s not the Persians,they want to do business with Europe. The answer lies in the ethnicity of the terrorist organisation and it’s alliances not the ethnicity of the happy backpackers.Nothing to do with New Zealand it’s about grudges and revenge, modern,civilised behaviour.
gravenimage says
Christians in Sri Lanka had nothing to do with the NZ shooting.
SAF says
whenever there are non-Muslims attacked and murdered and churches burned the concern is not for those who suffer… but for fear of reprisal… there is a definite problem with these people who think not of those who are persecuted..
David says
The approach is same always. When muslims attack the leftists say the purpose of terrorists is to make us divide and hate muslims we won’t let them win. Their approach seems to revolve around the topmost truth that Islam is peace and muslims can never be evil.
Pete says
If the Christians followed the idea of, “Strike me once. I will strike you a thousand times.” Eventually the problem will be solved one way or another.
Naram-Sin says
Yes, eventually people will get tired of Muslim attacks and the government not protecting them from Muslim extremists, and they’ll start trying to defend themselves.
somehistory says
That is what the BBC reported…saying they stood apart from the other monks, other buddhists because they wanted to eliminate Christians from the island.
It is not the first instance of my having read accounts of buddhists engaging in violence.
I have never read their books…only books and articles about their books…so I have no idea if violence is ever “allowed” in their teachings.
Sonja says
The International Crisis Group is an organisation initiated and funded by George Soros. You only have to read the Wikipedia entry to get the idea of what sort of organisation it is. No credibility. Biased “analysis” is just furthering an agenda under the guise of impartiality.
Richard says
Robert, thank you for defining this so coherently. Keenan’s narrative is typically ludicrous and puts me in mind of the old pun, “Muslims fear backlash after next week’s Jihad bloodbath”.