The acts of violence against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka are truly appalling, and my deepest sympathies go out to all of those affected at this tragic time.
We must stand together to make sure that no one should ever have to practise their faith in fear.
— Theresa May (@theresa_may) April 21, 2019
Yes, Ms. May, this was the work of anti-hotel and anti-church building zealots.
Britain’s Prime Minister can’t name the victims — Christians — for fear of offending the Muslim communities in the UK whose votes she desperately needs. For the same reason, she most certainly cannot mention the fact that many of the victims were celebrating Easter, or name the attackers, or explain the basis upon which they chose their targets.
Theresa May epitomizes the cowardice and pusillanimity of modern Western leaders. And that is why her country, and other nations of the West, are in such a precarious state.
cfrread says
When that traitorous trash tweeted about NZ she couldn’t mention the word Moslem or Islam enough.
Apparently for May the real disaster is not the Christians being murdered by Moslems, but buildings being damaged by an unknown, unnamed ‘Terror group’.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, was it the style of architecture they didn’t like or what? That’s really the best she could think to say? Does she even know what day it is?
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Naildriver says
Do politicians and news media talk to one another, to joke about, or take bets, of who did the best job lying — and, laugh hysterically for not mentioning either Islam or Muslims at all?
smoris says
This woman and her kind are a very big part of the problem. In fact, the worst part of the problem because without her type we would confront this evil and beat it back into the stone age whence it came. Normal people will not tolerate this. Yet it is forced upon us – not so much by the opportunist Muslims but by those who allow it, like Mrs. May.
Jaladhi says
The cowardice of the Western leaders is truly appalling! Muslim violence always becomes simple violence, no mention of Islam and Muslims. Lack of courage to call out Muslims for their jihadi massacres only encourages them to take it to another level!
Hindu American says
May’s tweet in response to Christchurch shooting where 49 people died: “On behalf of the UK, my deepest condolences to the people of New Zealand after the horrifying terrorist attack in Christchurch. My thoughts are with all of those affected by this sickening act of violence.”
May’s tweet in response to Sri Lanka bombings where 207 people (and counting) died: “The acts of violence against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka are truly appalling, and my deepest sympathies go out to all of those affected at this tragic time.”
Notice the difference?
CRUSADER says
Belief in God Through Times of Suffering
—- Ravi Zacharias Ministries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areRxjXQlQ8
Jaladhi says
Disgusting!! And quite expected if she has already converted to Islam. Also check how the Islamic nations specially from those who pretend to be very pious are responding – I haven’t heard from them. Their hypocrisy has no bounds!! They have no value to non-Muslim lives!
Malcolm (South Afric) says
It is appalling that the international community of governments, tolerates this type of violence, to the extent of welcoming them into their countries and capitulating to their demands, to the accusations of islamophobia.
CRUSADER says
International Community, Media, Politicians, and yes Clergy too….
All are Dhimmis under the Red/Green Axis….
Read more on this in David Horowitz’s “Unholy Alliance”….
CRUSADER says
pusillus ‘very small’ + animus ‘mind’
FYI says
pusillus pustulus
That must be her latin name..
CRUSADER says
Yes, indeed, for your information, that’s quite so.
VERITAS !
Crusades Were Right says
Looks like the UK government has identified a new hate/terror threat: “buildingophobia”.
CRUSADER says
Frighting new phobia !
elee says
It’s not new……at least where the builders are Jews.
harryzenz says
BBC App say ‘not clear who is responsible’ (12 mins ago).
Orwellian days for news reporting.
Shocking days all over the world for Christianity. Only Trump can save them now.
Rufolino says
For the BBC it will NEVER be clear, because that would not suit their agenda.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Possibly, harryzenz, but Trump is suffering from early to middle stages of dementia and will be fully incapacitated soon. We need to stop leaning on the government. It is up to the people now. BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES. THEY ARE CESSPOOLS OF HATRED.
CRUSADER says
Understanding Islam – Daniel Pipes
The Middle East with Daniel Pipes: Chapter 1 of 5
Is Islam a religion of peace?
Daniel Pipes, a leading Islamic scholar, says yes and no.
If Islam prevails, becoming the worlds pervasive religion, the answer is yes; and since it will require war for Islam to prevail, for the time being the answer is no. But to begin to understand Islam, Pipes says it should be viewed in its several forms: traditional, radical, and modern, the last of which is only in the act of becoming.
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“An excellent primer on what remains one of the most important issues of our time.” The Vorthos Forum
Daniel Pipes is the director of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank. Currently the Taube/Diller distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution, he earned a doctorate in early Islamic history from Harvard in 1978. He is the author of 12 books, including Militant Islam Reaches America and Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics. He writes a weekly column for the Jerusalem Post.
[Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHmapCXl_Bo
CRUSADER says
Is it convenient for Pipes to say that Traditional Muslims would never attack a foreign remote Kafir capital (NYC/DC 9-11 for instance)? Wasn’t the notion that Constantinople and Rome were to be attacked and taken over by Muslims? Didn’t the hadith suggest that Mohamhead confirmed this?
Is it disingenuous of Pipes to be okay with Moderate Reformed (Apostate) Islam to grow and develop in order for Muslims to find a path out of their current status? Who will determine what Islam is as a belief system for that path? What to do about the perfection of the Koran? What to do with abrogation of verses? Whose version will be determined correct, and by whom, and for whom?
Can Islam really just be a marketplace of belief, pick and choose whatever you feel from it?
What sort of transcendent faith would it be if it is just suited to post-modern wants and desires?
What say you?
Wellington says
Pipes knows a lot (including being fluent in Arabic) and he is a decent man (I have actually met him), but he has an enormous blind spot when it comes to Islam, specifically he truly does believe that Islam can come into the modern world and take its place along other major faiths and live in harmony with them, replete with tolerance and a Golden Rule for all on this earth. He maintains that much of Sharia (essentially the most awful stuff) is really only applicable to the seventh century or so even though no major school of Islamic theology to this day, at least that I know of, agrees with him here. Nonetheless, he persists in asserting this. Though Jewish himself, I believe he has some Muslim friends of the Zuhdi Jasser variety, that is to say Muslims who believe in a fantasy version of Islam that does not exist.
Pipes is a fine example of a good and knowledgeable person, brave too, who is wrong on one very big matter. Glaringly so. What he does not grasp is that Islam is the one major religion that is also a totalitarian ideology, as Bertrand Russell pointed out a century ago, and there is no reforming a totalitarian ideology. Might as well try to reform Nazism or Marxism as reform Islam. And just because many Muslims don’t fully implement Islam’s many nefarious tenets (e.g., death for apostasy as authorized even in the Koran, Sura 4:89) means nothing because an ideology must be gauged, must be judged, by what it says and never by the fact that many adherents of that ideology are lax or uninterested in enforcing the ideology’s tenets.
Marxism, as an example, requires the violent sweeping away of the upper and middle classes, in short it is in theory a prescription for genocide. And even though during the Cold War or even to this day many Marxists (I’m reminded most aptly of Italian and French Communists during the Cold War) didn’t or don’t want to implement this Marxist tenet, which is the class struggle theory, means nothing because the tenet is still there and for all time. And so is it the case with the many iniquitous tenets of Islam, the condoning of rape as authorized in Suras 4, 23, 33 and 70 being another example that can be placed alongside death for apostasy as demonstrative of just how putrid Islam truly is.
gravenimage says
How is standing up against Islam a sign of dementia?
Terry Gain says
Very good Wellington. My heart sings every time you describe the ideology of Islam as an ideology. But since some still think of it as a religion I am surprised you haven’t described the dilemma differently. You say there is no reforming a totalitarian ideology. Why didn’t you say there is no reforming the word of God? In any event, we are ad idem on the possibility of Islam being reformed. Happy Easter.
Wellington says
Every religion, Terry, is an ideology, so my sometimes describing Islam as an ideology is something you read too much into.
There are secular ideologies and religious ideologies. Some secular ideologies are evil (or stupid or both), examples being Nazism, Marxism and anarchism. Some religious ideologies are evil (or stupid or both), examples being Islam, Satanism and Wiccanism.
Pretty simple here. Wish you’d finally get this.
gravenimage says
Terry, not every religion is the word of God–that is, not every religion is true. I believe you are well aware that Wellington does not consider Islam to be the word of God, and not just because he is Agnostic.
I have posted the definition of religion here many times–by that yardstick, Islam is indeed a religion. It is just a false and evil religion, as some few others have also been.
And religion and ideology are not mutually exclusive concepts. All religions are also ideologies (although not all ideologies are religions).
This minor disagreement aside, I would like to wish you and yours a very Happy Easter!
Jaladhi says
What nonsense that radical Islam is the product of 20th century!! Then how do does he explain Islamic invasions that started right from the seventh century?? Or he conveniently forgets it. Either he is not willing to tell the truth about Islam or he doesn’t know Islam at all!
There is no moderate Islam or radical Islam – Islam is Islam and it all radical and enslavement machine!
CRUSADER says
Pipes apparently doesn’t want to be on the Islamist radar.
Wellington says
CRUSADER: Pipes is most definitely on the “Islamist radar” and has gotten numerous death threats because he has dared to criticize the most radical portion of the Islamic world. If you read my 1:17 P.M. post above I detail the situation with Pipes. It has nothing to do with him being a coward. In fact, far from it. I think him dead wrong on there being a good Islam lurking out there somewhere but the man is brave and was warning the Western world about the worst of the Islamic world long before 9/11.
I am certain Robert Spencer himself would back me up on what I have just written about Pipes not being afraid at all. Wrong? Yes, as I see it. Afraid? Absolutely not.
elee says
Huge applause for Jaladhi, above. The worst and most explicit parts of the hateful corpus of sharia got written in the 3 centuries immediately after the life and death of the Fat Dwarf.
gravenimage says
Dr. Pipes is *definitely* on the “Islamist radar”. Anyone who speaks out against Jihad, as he courageously does, is very much at risk.
He is too optimistic about the possibility of reforming Islam, but this has nothing to do with any sort of cowardice on his part.
Her, Pipes writes about death threats against those who dare challenge Islam–as well as people self-censoring out of fear:
“Admitting Censorship due to Islamist Intimidation”
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2006/04/media-admits-censorship-due-to-islamist
This is *not* something Pipes himself does.
By the way, the brave and stalwart Ayaan Hirsi Ali has an almost identical blind spot–and she certainly isn’t censoring herself for Islam.
elee says
There are those within and outside of Islam who harbor hopes for the “Mecca Muslims” of the world. Muslims call them apostate and treat them accordingly.
Terry Gain says
Beneaththeveil
Are you already demented? Your attack on Trump is vicious and without merit. And the solution to this problem is not to boycott Muslim countries but to vote into office politicians with the wisdom and courage to ban further Muslim immigration.
seabird says
Pres. Trump has already tried that (banning Muslims from the country) and it was deemed illegal.
What he could (and should) do is declare a moratorium on all immigration for 3-5 years due to the shortage of immigration Judges and years of backlogged cases
until (as he once said);
“we can figure out what the hell is going on”.
gravenimage says
Actually, the “Muslim ban” was eventually upheld by the Supreme Court last year.
Muslim immigration is now down 90%–that is actually quite an achievement.
gravenimage says
I agree with you about Dr. Pipes, Wellington. He is a decent and brave man, and understands more about Islam than most. I definitely consider him an Anti-Jihadist.
But yes–he has a large blind spot in believing that Islam can be reformed.
revereridesagain says
I’m not surprised that I had to come to JihadWatch to get the most thorough and honest coverage of this atrocity. Everyone else is dancing around the issue of who the “terrorists” might be.
Terry Gain says
revere
I’m not doubting you but who is denying that these atrocities were committed by Muslims?
gravenimage says
Terry, I know that the BBC won’t say. Here is one story, from just a few hours ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48008073
Most other MSM outlets seem to have admitted this is Islamic terrorism.
ex-UKIP voter says
18/4/2019 Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative Party) – BBC Radio 4 ‘World At One’
“Anti-Islam comments are deeply disgraceful…I oppose them…I am against them”.
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Mr Nigel Farage (Mr Brexit – apparently) shared a stage with former members of the Revolutionary Communist Party and International Marxist Brigade on 29th March 2019 and also thinks that only a racist would dare to utter a word against Islam.
……………………………………………………………………
So, in a nutshell, I will be spoiling my ballot paper at the next election.
ex-UKIP voter says
correction
International Marxist Group
CRUSADER says
It is a coin toss!
Daniel Pipes – Islam and the Future of Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaaHtvRbEXg
D J says
So why not return to UKIP?
They understand the problem of Islam.
Georg says
Obama characterized it as “an attack on humanity.” Monumental creep.
Ren says
Islam is the culprit, but May probably is not seeing it.
elee says
Hey folks…….when some undeniable jihad massacre like this happens……don’t excoriate your political leaders, whatever their shortcomings. Call these things to their attention. Loudly and repeatedly. Call them to the attention of the voters net door to you. Don’t say you already tried that, try again harder. Tell your press, tell your neighbours. Don’t expect instant conversions before your very eyes, just keep working at it. About the time folks get tired of hearing you talk about this batch of infamies there will be more. Do that kafir business about reasoning together and sharing information. Oh, IMHO and all, and with greatest respect to those who grieve in anger.
b.a. freeman says
well put, elee. unfortunately, i expect the worst anyway, but we simply *MUST* try to reach as many people as possible. and in the meantime, while obeying the law (since law is what holds a republic together), one should also set aside supplies of shelf-stable food and water, along with whatever legal weaponry one can. one will need it as society begins to collapse, and the civil wars start.
Bacherbazistan says
Our political leaders deserve treason trials not just excoriation, they know full well what they are allowing into our countries.
gravenimage says
Agreed, elee.
jayell says
May’s track record as regards oppression of Christians is absolutely appalling. The woman is an out-and-out disgrace. What a good job we’ll soon be shot of her.
gravenimage says
UK’s May condemns “acts of violence against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka”
…………………….
Nice to hear, I suppose.
But she does not indicate who was responsible–one might almost think this was some unfortunate natural disaster, or a building collapse or something. No Muslims involved…
Bacherbazistan says
Any word from Pope Francis yet?
So much for his inter faith agreement with islam.
gravenimage says
He said he denounced the cruel violence of the attacks–but never said why the attacks happened, or in the name of what creed.
Rufolino says
You can be pretty sure that right now, the Pope is thinking up his strategy to excuse the religion of peace for the sttacks.
sidney penny says
“Britain’s Prime Minister can’t name the victims — Christians — for fear of offending the Muslim communities in the UK whose votes she desperately needs. For the same reason, she most certainly cannot mention the fact that many of the victims were celebrating Easter, or name the attackers, or explain the basis upon which they chose their targets.”
Your intro comments are spot on Mr Spencer.
Did you not say if you cannot name the problem how will you find the solution?
Western politician avoid the I word and the M word
na says
Yes killing others is a kind of terrorism. whether it is christian or Muslim, we can not defend.condemn.A protest or seminar is necessary.
gravenimage says
I don’t think a seminar is going to do much good here–this is denial over the threat of Islam.
David M says
I’m in Australia, and the MSM will absolutely not say “Muslim” in their reports of this. Unlike New Zealand when they couldn’t say “Muslim” enough.
Amnon says
I am waiting for jucinda Arden to don a huge crucifix around her beck as she goes a virtue signalling at the press conference.
P. Douglas says
As long as the “Children of Satan” are allowed to roam free in your lands; you shall always be in danger of their insane “Jihad” attacks!
You will either remove them from your lands OR they shall murder or remove YOU!
The choice is now yours.