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Sri Lanka MP Says Gov Failed to Stop Attacking Because of Muslim Politicians

May 10, 2019 3:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield

After the Sri Lanka massacre of Christians there has unfortunately been far too little discussion about why the massacre was allowed to happen. And the Sri Lankan government quickly shut down social media, to cheers from the government party in the United States, to avoid any discussion about it.

We know that the Sri Lankan government had an early warning about the attack. We know that they knew these Islamic groups were a threat.

Why was nothing done?

One Sri Lankan MP has an answer.

MP Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero claims that three years ago intelligence officers had given the President a report regarding extremist group arming themselves and shootouts between these groups, but no action was taken out of fear of Muslim politicians.

He made these comments during an event held today (10) for the launch of the Sri Lanka National Council’s five-point national plan to prevent the infiltration of Islamic State terrorism into the country.

Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith and several other religious leaders attended the event held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo.

Sri Lanka National Council’s president, Venerable Rathana Thero, further alleged that a haul of explosives were found in the Wanathawilluwa area which were linked to a politician. “But they were released.”

He stated that these extremists had existed in the country since 2013 and that they were armed and prominently seen only after 2015,

The MP said that when this started to grow from 2015, the government did not touch this matter out of fear of the Muslim politicians. “That is the true story.”

He alleged that intelligence units had previously reported that extremist groups were arming themselves. He said that in 2016, right in front of the President and himself, intelligence officers had provided a report on these groups arming themselves and shootouts between them.

“But nothing was done regarding this out of fear of politicians,” he said.

MP Thero is a Buddhist monk in a region where Buddhist monks have taken the lead in fighting against Islamic violence and caliphatism.

The media won’t cover this. Instead it will focus on manufacturing Muslim victimhood in Sri Lanka. And the countdown to the next Muslim terrorist attack continues.

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  1. PRCS says

    May 10, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    “out of fear of Muslim politicians”

    In what way?

    Violent Muslim politicians?
    Muslim politicians ‘whipping up’ the local umma?

    • Jayme says

      May 10, 2019 at 4:31 pm

      Not sure about there but in Canada BLM/Antifa are more or less a tool for muslims leaders to use and this is why people are scared of them.

  2. katherine says

    May 10, 2019 at 7:22 pm

    Fear of Muslim politicians – how many ? Looks like Sri Lanka is is being perceived as another soft target ripe for the taking. The majority Buddhists like those in of historical Afghanistan and Pakistan are mentally too weak to resist this Jihad manoeuvre.

    Wirathu had probably wasted his time in the country – they never learned anything.

    • Susan Bolle says

      May 10, 2019 at 11:36 pm

      Yes, ‘ripe for the taking’…just like the Philippine Island that they control. They’re like cockroaches.
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/philippines-scores-of-islamic-state-fighters-on-mindanao-island

  3. ciudadanocr says

    May 10, 2019 at 7:26 pm

    Once again PC kills

    • Jule Bacal says

      May 12, 2019 at 12:57 am

      Thats exactly it. We have to start just saying the baldfaced Truth about what Islam is and does no matter what. And now WE have Omar Usa. Well, just the simple facts are much better received than curse words or jokes about camels etc…..that does close everyones ears and loses hands down

  4. Anjuli Pandavar says

    May 10, 2019 at 7:42 pm

    “Gov Failed to Stop Attacking Because of Muslim Politicians”
    —
    And there I was thinking that the presence of Muslims in government was a laudable thing, you know, proof of integration and all that. Mmm, it has to be a freak case. Not all Muslims, surely. Their presence in the armed forces will prove I had nothing to worry about all along. I should be ashamed of my Islamophobia.

    • infidel says

      May 11, 2019 at 9:53 am

      Super comment as always..

  5. gravenimage says

    May 10, 2019 at 10:48 pm

    Sri Lanka MP Says Gov Failed to Stop Attacking Because of Muslim Politicians
    ………………

    Just appalling. And there is this degree of pandering there, even though Muslims only make up 10% of the population.

    Thanks to this MP for speaking out.

  6. elee says

    May 11, 2019 at 12:10 am

    When the world first learned of this atrocity I speculated here that there were Muslims in the security apparatus hence no preemption. Now what are our governments not preempting as we speak

  7. Eric Jones says

    May 11, 2019 at 1:35 am

    More capitulation to Islam. What a shame.

    Eric

  8. Joe says

    May 11, 2019 at 6:04 am

    In the USA, our politicians seem to heavily favor Muslim politicians. We should wonder how Islamic aggression in Sri Lanka is different from the same thing in the USA.

  9. LadyTess says

    May 11, 2019 at 6:20 am

    Muslim=death & distruction …where ever they go

  10. DP111 says

    May 11, 2019 at 7:09 am

    Muslims believe that if the victim either forgives the Jihadis or does not retaliate, it is because Allah has decreed it so, for he has rotted the mind of the kuffar to defeat.

    Its why Muslims will not apologize for the crimes of their fellow Jihadis – the successful Jihad was the will of Allah. Thus offering forgiveness, not retaliating or even castigating ourselves for Islamophobia, encourages further Jihad attacks.

    This is from the secular PoV as far as war on earth is concerned.

    • Brian hoff says

      May 11, 2019 at 9:25 pm

      Totally false in the past muslim have said the terrorist who commit these acts arenot consider muslim. Did any Irsh Catholic church say they where sorry for the acts of terrorism done by the IRA.

  11. infidel says

    May 11, 2019 at 9:47 am

    What is the big revelation here?? The MP said NOTHING NEW!!. We see it all the time in India. See how the leaders in India are constantly afraid of Muslim leaders because of their bloc votes and constant violence and riots threat. Even before the first partition in 1947, Jinnah, the leader of Muslim League and founder of Jehaadi Pak and the man who partitioned India literally held the Indian National Congress and its leaders like Gandhi to Ransom; See how Trudeau in Canada, the Dems in the USA, the lib leaders in the EU SHIVER in their boots at the sight of Muslim leaders of their respective lands. Only a few leaders like Trump, Modi, Netanyahu, Putin etc stand up to these Islamic thugs and Muslims hate these leaders to death. Muslim hate non Muslim leaders who stand up for Non Muslims. IMHO, any non Muslim leader who is acting scared of Muslim leaders in his land, is nothing but a betrayer of his own people.

  12. brane pilot says

    May 11, 2019 at 10:08 am

    An ad hoc standard for the onset of relentless Islamic violence in non-Muslim societies is when 10% of the population is Muslim.
    Muslims make up about 10% the population of Sri Lanka.
    Europe will be there in a decade.
    The USA in two or three decades at current immigration levels.
    When Jihadist violence starts, submission and accommodation is the only politically correct response.
    The governments will crush any anti-Islam pushback as ‘bigotry’.

    Islam is the royal road to Globalist Totalitarianism that so-called ‘Progressive Democracies’ now lust for.
    There is no other explanation for pro-Islam/pro-Jihad policies of Western governments.

    • infidel says

      May 11, 2019 at 10:31 am

      At 1% population, Muslim is just about full human outside (of course he is full animal inside). He will act very friendly to U and even take Mandir Prasad and act very patriotic.. At 5%, Muslim become one fourth animal on the outside and loses fear of the laws of the land. At 10-15%, Muslim becomes half animal outside and loses complete fear of police (this is the situation in India today). Now he fears only the non Muslim army. At about 25%, Muslim becomes three fourth animal on the outside and starts challenging the army and throwing stones, but still some fear is still there. At about 33%, Muslim becomes full animal on the outside and even loses fear of army and start openly rioting and cutting and killing and bombing on the streets and does Ghazwa…This is the pattern that has been going repeatedly for the past 1400 years.

      • Foe says

        May 11, 2019 at 4:51 pm

        Exactly infidel. Their entire cult is based upon perpetrating Taqiyya.

  13. Foe says

    May 11, 2019 at 4:49 pm

    Islamics would have been wiped out centuries ago, the only reason they weren’t is because of the Satanic doctrine of pacifism which rules the entire world now, especially in the minds of Christians. Turn the other cheek, love your enemy, bs. More like turn the world over to Satan and his servants and prepare to be their next victim.

  14. Marigold says

    May 12, 2019 at 6:03 am

    The MP is most probably right.Does anyone know just how many Muslim MP’s there are in Sri Lanka?

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