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Sri Lanka expels 600 foreign nationals including 200 Islamic clerics

May 7, 2019 7:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“Sri Lanka has expelled over 600 foreign nationals, including around 200 Islamic clerics, since the Easter suicide bombings blamed on a local terror group, a minister told AFP Sunday….Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardena said …’we have reviewed the visas system and took a decision to tighten visa restrictions for religious teachers'”.

Kudos to Sri Lankan authorities. In less than a month Sri Lanka learned fast, moving from appeasement to a no-nonsense strategy in protecting its people from jihadists. Its leaders did not fold in the face of Islamic supremacist loudmouths.

While Sri Lanka was still in a state of shock following the deadly Easter Sunday jihad bombings, the country looked like it was doomed in the midst of a sudden, deadly jihadist onslaught.  Churches were shut down  while the country deployed thousands of security forces to protect mosques.  This disappointing news followed earlier dispiriting news that “Indian intelligence officials had warned their Sri Lankan counterparts of the attack just hours before the first bomb was detonated, but the Sri Lankans failed to act.”  To add to the blow,  its own archbishop Malcolm Ranjith met with Muslim envoys from jihad sponsoring states who assured him that the jihad bombings had “no connection to Islam,” and he shamefully and shamelessly believed them.

But then appeared a sudden ray of hope: Sri Lanka banned the burqa on security grounds, and ignored the reactive outrage of Muslim leaders. Hilmy Ahmed, vice-president of the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulema organisation, which represents Muslim clerics, in the face of the ban, accused Sri Lanka of “interfering with the religion without consulting the religious leadership”. Then, in a followup sweep, Sri Lankan authorities raided the headquarters of jihadist group National Thawheed Jammath–suspected of involvement in the Easter bombings, and discovered the existence of another suspected jihadist group. The two groups called for a jihadist “war against non-Muslims.”

Sri Lanka moved impressively amid its jihad crisis. It has now “expelled over 600 foreign nationals, including around 200 Islamic clerics” in a tough stance that should be noted and similarly replicated in all Western countries when jihadists are discovered to be spreading their doctrine of hate and murder against infidels.

“Sri Lanka Expels 200 Islamic Clerics After Easter Attacks”, Agence France-Presse, may 5, 2019:

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has expelled over 600 foreign nationals, including around 200 Islamic clerics, since the Easter suicide bombings blamed on a local terror group, a minister told AFP Sunday.

Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardena said the clerics had entered the country legally, but amid a security crackdown after the attacks were found to have overstayed their visas, for which fines were imposed and they were expelled from the island.

“Considering the current situation in the country, we have reviewed the visas system and took a decision to tighten visa restrictions for religious teachers,” Abeywardena said.

“Out of those who were sent out, about 200 were Islamic preachers.”

The Easter Sunday bombings that killed 257 people and wounded nearly 500 were led by a local cleric who is known to have travelled to India and had made contact with terrorists there.

The minister did not give the nationalities of those who have been expelled, but police have said many foreigners who have overstayed their visas since the Easter attacks were from Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Pakistan.

“There are religious institutions which have been getting down foreign preachers for decades,” Abeywardena said. “We have no issues with them, but there are some which mushroomed recently. We will pay more attention to them.”

The minister said the government was overhauling the country’s visa policy following fears that foreign clerics could radicalise locals for a repeat of the April 21 suicide bombings, which targeted three Christian churches and three luxury hotels….

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  1. black adder says

    May 7, 2019 at 7:14 am

    Better late than never… At least they are reacting more reasonably than Europe.

    • Patriot2G says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:20 am

      Where is the list of countries these foreign nationals were sent back to? We need that list.

    • mortimer says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:29 am

      Agree with b.a. It is reasonable to expel the foreign proponents and supporters of terrorism. Foreigners do not have a natural right to live in a foreign country not their own.

    • SweetOlBob says

      May 8, 2019 at 5:57 pm

      We are all too late. We should have started banning filthy muslims with the first one. But with our stupid, bleeding heart, liberals, ho say “Oh surely they don’t mean THAT !”
      “They are just repeating an old worn out text.” WRONG ! The text is old. It is murderous. It was crated by a hallucinating madman. In between his bouts of raping children and animals. It could only be followed by inbred, penis driven, misfits.
      But there it is and there they are.

  2. underbed cat says

    May 7, 2019 at 8:30 am

    Smart move to remove (root out) islamic clerics i.e. imams.

    • Tom says

      May 8, 2019 at 11:27 am

      At least Sri Lanka has the balls to recognize where the threat originates and act accordingly. Unlike our cowardly politicians who simply make excuses and turn a wilfully blind eye to the hatred being spewed by many Imam’s in the west.

  3. Niemoller says

    May 7, 2019 at 9:12 am

    To compare, a month out from 9/11, Bush was holding hands with the Saudi royal financiers of terror and inviting in more Islamists to teach us the wonders of sharia. He eventually appointed an Afghan-native, Zalmay Khalizad, as the US representative to the UN. Who says terror doesn’t pay?

    In other words, Bush is a monumental useful idiot guilty of massive political manslaughter (should be a crime).

    • mortimer says

      May 7, 2019 at 9:34 am

      Bush and the oil sheikhs made deals. Soddy Barbaria has been financing Islamic expansionism using our money. One of the answers to bring peace from jihad is for everyone to stop buying oil from the Gulf countries.

      • Niemoller says

        May 7, 2019 at 10:11 am

        An embargo of Mid East oil would be great now that the US has enough to export. Many other steps needed also to end global jihad.

        I forgot to add Bush’s practical endorsement of Obama for President, the best American friend jihadists ever had after Bush.

        • Niemoller says

          May 7, 2019 at 10:13 am

          That should say political jihadists and Islamists, since Bush did them a favor by taking out their more combative jihadists using trillions in American taxpayer money.

  4. elee says

    May 7, 2019 at 10:06 am

    I contemplate a dissenting vote. These guys are toxic waste; consider the havoc they’ve already wrought. It isn’t sufficient to release them into the world with no tracking. I didn’t go to the Agence France-Press original and try to puzzle through the French…….so if these guys are subject to some meaningful surveillance, good. If not, consider: when we learned about asymptomatic carriers, and identified a cook now known as Typhoid Mary as one, we didn’t just buy her a train ticket to Canada and wash our hands of it all. Sir Lanka made the mistake of foregoing CRIPPLING PREEMPTION and hundreds paid the price. So now has that government swapped its known devils for an unknown number of unknown devils?

  5. Anjuli Pandavar says

    May 7, 2019 at 10:29 am

    “We have reviewed the visas system and took a decision to tighten visa restrictions for religious teachers”. Watch out for a spike in visa applications from “traders”, “merchants” and “businessmen”.

  6. Savvy Kafir says

    May 7, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    Finally! — A breath of sane air. I hope we’ll be seeing that word “expels” a lot more frequently, around the non-Muslim world, in the not-so-distant future.

    For Sri Lanka, that’s 600 gone, and about 2 million to go.

  7. gravenimage says

    May 7, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    Sri Lanka expels 600 foreign nationals including 200 Islamic clerics
    ……………..

    *Good*.

  8. abad says

    May 7, 2019 at 10:18 pm

    Good news.

    Islam has no place in Sri Lanka.

  9. Golem 2 says

    May 8, 2019 at 11:55 am

    Islam has no place in a civilized Country.

  10. Eric Jones says

    May 8, 2019 at 7:49 pm

    What is missing from this article is how many of the 600 foreign nationals where Christians if any? Its good that the 200 Muslim clerics were removed. Were all of the remaining 400 removed Muslims? This is not clear in this article.

    Eric

  11. Eric Jones says

    May 8, 2019 at 7:54 pm

    I ask again. Aside from the 200 Muslim clerics; were all of the remaining 400 Muslims?

    Eric

  12. Makenomistake says

    May 14, 2019 at 10:15 am

    It is just the beginning to say. Myanmar showed us the way. Let the musalmans understand it that they are all in an inhuman hell by being infected with ‘islam’ , which they call their ‘religion’. They must revert to normal human life. The sooner, the better. Islam is absolutely incompatible with humanity.

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