Jihadists don’t need a reason to kill anyone. Their revenge and retaliation claims are a psychological game to make us feel as if we are responsible for their violence against us.
After a mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand, some people worried that revenge attacks would follow. And indeed, the Sri Lanka bombings of churches seemed to follow that pattern. Soon the media was full of claims that ISIS had murdered hundreds of Christians as revenge for the New Zealand shootings.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s defense minister said Tuesday that the coordinated Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 321 people were in retaliation for the recent Christchurch mosque massacre in New Zealand.
“Extremist group named National Thowheed Jamaath carried out Sunday’s terror attacks in response to terror attacks in Christchurch,” Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardene said.
Like everything coming out of the Sri Lankan government, this should have been taken with a grain of salt. It’s not just the Jihadists who want to shift responsibility for the violence on to us. The Sri Lankan government ignored warnings about the attack. It’s convenient for them to shift the blame. Reports from ISIS and the terrorists have been mixed. But now the Caliph of ISIS has released a video.
“And as for your brothers in Sri Lanka,” he is heard saying while footage of the attackers and attacks rolls, “they have put joy in the hearts of the monotheists with their immersing operations that struck the homes of the Crusaders on their Easter, in vengeance for their brothers in Baghuz.”
This appeal to Baghuz (also spelled Baghouz), the last vestige of ISIS’ caliphate in Syria, reclaimed by coalition and Syria Democratic Forces in late March, is the most critical element of Baghdadi’s statements. The loss was a major blow to the so-called caliphate and a staple of some leaders’ narratives of the group’s “defeat.”
Why would ISIS care, let alone launch a major operation in Sri Lanka over mass shootings in New Zealand?
That never made any sense.
Baghdadi plausibly positions the attacks in relation to the defeat of ISIS in Baghuz.
ISIS badly needs credibility after its losses and the Sri Lanka bombings provided them. The media however has less interest in reporting this statement by Baghdadi because it finds the New Zealand meme far more politically useful for its purposes.
FYI says
Of course the unholy caliphate collapsed:isis subscribe to iLah,the pagan,savage Arab god of islam who calls himself
“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54.
Al iLah is not the actual Biblical God:Al iLah,like his “prophet” muhammed and his “holy” koran are all fake.
They threw away their islamic lives on a false god just as goliath the philistine did when his false god baal didn’t prevent his demise.
If you choose to live by the sword,you die by the sword{Matthew 26 v 52}
They chose evil and it is their false god,false prophet and false scripture that are to blame for the collapse of their evil caliphate.
t. says
“Jihadists don’t need a reason to kill anyone. Their revenge and retaliation claims are a psychological game to make us feel as if we are responsible for their violence against us.”
The above mentionned fact couldn’t have been stated any better.
FYI says
True.
But the koran ,allah and the sunnah of their prophet muhammed give them what they see as divine permission and justification for what they do.
It’s just a convenient excuse to kill.
Keys says
Just so, FYI.
Sanctified “Thou Shalt Kill”.
christianblood says
Islam is bad and evil and so is the (hollywoodized) cultural marxism that is reigning in the West today. Cultural marxism and Islamic fascism are the two sides of the same satanic coin and they collude to destroy everything!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=132&v=AOAGnZvuzsA
For Love is Lord of All says
Islam chose to reveal its evil on Christianity’s holiest day. Easter revealed through Christ’s crucifiction and resurrection that love is greater than death. “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is thy sting?”
1 Corinthians
cornelius says
DANIEL: Why would ISIS care, let alone launch a major operation in Sri Lanka over mass shootings in New Zealand?
Because Islam is a trans-national movement and the umma (Islamic community) is a transnational community. When I hear apologists claim that the various Islamic terror groups around the world are motivated by “local conflicts” (e.g., the Jihad in Nigeria is a “fight by herdsmen over grazing rights”), I’m galled. The Jihad in Nigeria is predicated on the same impetus as the Jihad everywhere else….to follow Muhammad’s commandment to “fight until all the religion is Allah’s”.
I’m not in any way contradicting Daniel’s claim that Sri Lanka was in response to Baghuz….but I am pointing out that Muslims have used and will continue to use far-off injustices perpetrated against their co-religionists in order to justify their own terror atrocities elsewhere. In many cases, the retaliation will be absolutely sincere.
Then again, fidelity to the umma only goes so far; Muslims will themselves gladly slaughter their co-religionists if it suits their purposes.
CRUSADER says
Remember the rioting by far flung Muslims “because of”:
Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg speech?
Cartoons drawn of Mohamhead?
Film on Mohamhead (inciting inflamed response in Benghazi)?
Umma gets affected….
Umma gets upset….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=499Aiwh_If0
FYI says
You mean… the islamic Ummah{“Community”}
Ummah gets affected..
Ummah gets upset…
Any old excuse to use violence:remember all that nonsense about muslims flying into a rage over cartoons of muhammed?
Well,once upon a time depictions of muhammed were perfectly acceptable in islam..in fact if you Google Buraq you can see depictions of muhammed on his fantasy beast:these come from islamic sources.
So this nonsense about cartoons of muhammed being offensive is simply ridiculous and an EXCUSE to bully others into submission and use violence to do so.
How would those muslims protesting about cartoons of muhammed explain away the fact that depictions of muhammed existed in the islamic world and were found in islamic sources?
Walter Sieruk says
Those jihad attacks in Sri Lanka were evil and murderous. Those jihad attacks were also based on the Qu ‘ran, Sura 2: 191, 5: 33. 9: 5, 111,112. 47:4.
Nevertheless there are still many apologists for Islam who insist on making the false claim that “Islam is a peaceful religion.” What unconscionable liars they are
Naram-Sin says
Muslims just go on killing, raping, and enslaving infidels, as they have for the last 1400 years. Then idiots in the west blame it on some rare event unrelated to Christians that are being murdered. Or they blame it on the crusades, which happened 300 years after the Muslims started killing, raping, and enslaving infidels. No matter what happens Muslims will continue killing, raping, and enslaving infidels so long as they perceive the west as weak. If we don’t wake up soon and stop covering for murderers, they will eventually get nuclear weapons or poison gas/germ weapons, then we will have to do the unthinkable to save ourselves. It is best we don’t let it come to that and treat Islam as the evil ideology it is, while it can still be managed.
gravenimage says
ISIS Caliph: Sri Lanka Bombings Revenge for Caliphate, Not New Zealand
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Now we have dueling Jihadists, claiming that bloody savagery was done in “revenge” for their specific “grievances”.
Of course, this is all bs–this is what Islam *always* demands. It is not as though Christians in Sri Lanka had anything to do with either the NZ shooting *or* with the eradication of the “Caliphate”.
alex says
Exactly. Largely brown, Sri Lankan Christians had nothing to do with a neo-pagan, eco-fascist, white supremacist terrorist murdering Muslims in New Zealand.
The poo-throwing, low-IQ, terrorist ape al-Baghdadi talks about a “war of attrition.” As someone recently wrote, “What does that mean, you pathetic coward? Does it mean that you’ll continue attacking and murdering innocent, defenseless and unsuspecting people until the world runs out of them, so that you’ll then take on real soldiers? No way….terrorists like you are chickens, because you know that real soldiers will quickly and soundly defeat you, which is why you target innocent people.”
I hope that when U.S. Marines or others finally kill al-Baghdadi, that they give him an unclean burial in swine leather, unlike Osama bin Laden, who should also have received an unclean burial. Also, it should be recorded and widely publicized over the media.
Lydia Church says
Regardless, they always have some unjustified and totally bogus claim to ‘revenge’.
….As they run, hot headed with irate anger, wild eyed, bearded mouths screaming curses, irrational, swords held high in the air, or bullets flying everywhere.
Yes, we know this scene well.
But no matter how far back you go… they started it.
Their instruction manual even dictates them to do so.
Checkmate.
alex says
Lydia: well, yes. Even if one were to make fun of the ululating of Islamist terrorists (ie .”Aloha snackbar! Walla-walla-allah peepee-weewee!” or whatever) that would be a death-worthy offense.
na says
Means revenge for new Zealand shooting is still pending. Thanks to that old wise woman Jessica Andean. If possible do revenge in New Zealand itself. Do not come to other place.
gravenimage says
Why should you want Muslims to murder New Zealanders? The shooter wasn’t even from there. Almost all New Zealanders–and Australians, for that matter–have condemned this shooting.
This babbling about “revenge” from Muslims is just so much Taqiyya–Muslims have *always* targeted Infidels.
And who is “Jessica Andean”? Do you mean New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern? She is a dhimmi and an appeaser of Islam, but she didn’t directly cause any of this insanity.
na says
I am sorry. I thought shooter was from NL. you are right he was from Aus. I mean isis will defensively do a revenge. all countries and Govt should have alert.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the reply, na. I don’t want to see New Zealanders * Australians suffer for the actions of a mad man that very few there support.
And the very fact that Muslims can’t keep their stories straight about what these horrific Jihad attacks in Sri Lanka were supposedly in “revenge” for casts doubt on the claim from the beginning.
na says
gravenimage ,
That was just a troll not serious, I just mentioned about the weak policies of NL towards terrorism. I think a country like NL and PM, very weak. Not strong like China in that region. soft mind like NL PM is not a solution.
Is it possible revenge in China, Saudi, Switzerland, Mongolia etc. Revenge is allowed in countries like EU, America,Russia etc because of open boarder and policy. Europe should take strong action against extremism.
infidel says
Robert Spencer and JW-ers
LEST WE FORGET:
Today is the 16th Anniversary of the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Marad Beach Jehaad massacre in Northern Kerala (Kerala is one of the southern-most states of India).
On this day in 2993, 50 armed to the teeth Muslim fishermen, who were long standing smiling neighbors to their Hindu fishermen, suddenly became beasts of jehaad and descended on their hapless Hindu neighbors and completely blindsided them with such a cruel and horrible attack, the scars of which have still not healed even today……
IMAGINE, that one day, Ur long standing smiling neighbor suddenly barged in Ur home armed to the teeth and starts butchering Ur family in front of Ur eyes…. even b4 U can comprehend what is happening…..complete blindsiding… JUST IMAGINE
https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/story/20030519-two-massacres-in-over-one-year-show-even-kerala-is-not-free-of-communal-violence-792882-2003-05-19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marad_massacre
infidel says
All this leads to another Islamic TRUISM from the annals of the infidel:
It is not wise for a khafir to have a Muslim neighbor, how much ever peaceful and loving and affectionate they are to U… because, the lines of the Koran will speak thru them anytime and if not thru them, through their kith and kin….
infidel says
Sorry .. it was 2003 and not 2993
infidel says
Another thing if U notice after going thru the links, U see how these creatures flee after horrible acts of Jehaad, expecting retaliation… (which almost all times never comes anyway)… See how guilty and fearful these creatures are, knowing the weight of the appalling acts of mass murder they commit from time2time .. and yet play victims and go unpunished…
John Lloyd Scharf says
Muhammadanism struck Sri Lanka because mosques like the one in New Zealand preach it., There is no satan but Allah and Muhammad is the pimp of his whorehouse paradise. Attacks by Muhammadans happen because they model themselves on Muhammad; they call their perfect man.
Qur’an(33:21) sūrat l-aḥzāb
Sahih International: There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often.
Yusuf Ali: Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engages much in the Praise of Allah.
Shakir: Certainly you have in the Messenger of Allah an excellent exemplar for him who hopes in Allah and the latter day and remembers Allah much
http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=33&verse=21
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Muhammad blackmailed, kidnapped, tortured, robbed, raped, and murdered unarmed men, women, and children. He then made it a sacrament for his followers to do the same.