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Easter Massacre in Sri Lanka
What the “Religion of Peace” hath wrought at many churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
Many foreigners were murdered in their church pews, including some Americans. My heart breaks, and anger rages.
Published in Islamist Terrorism
Same here. Yet we’re not supposed to jump to conclusions about the Notre Dame fire.
More prayers going out this Easter . . .
It’s unreal. Islam is Satanic.
I understand this was caused by faulty elevator electrical work.
The possible cause du jour, most likely a trial balloon floated to keep us from thinking the obvious initial probable cause . . .
Systematic ethnic cleansing of Christians in majority-Moslem countries.
Sri Lanka is predominantly Buddhist. About 10% are Moslem. Most of the people I know from Sri Lanka are Tamil and Hindu. Christians are a small minority among the Sinhalese but are politically important. And St Thomas brought Chrisianity to Sri Lanka in the first century.
(Sigh)
They hit a few Easter brunches as well. From Breitbart:
From the same article,
Yup. Faulty electrical wires.
‘Some more people keep doing something’.
It doesn’t take many Muslims to wreak havoc with violence sanctioned by their religion . . .
C’mon, @Stad. Looked at from the vantage point of The Moment After, the situations are dramatically different.
In Sri Lanka, there’s no “jumping to” anything, because only one explanation has been put on the table by the killers: “we killed lots of infidels and we’re devastated that we didn’t kill more.”
In Paris, there really was a rehab project of long-standing, and accidental scaffolding fires really do happen. Sure; it’s wrong to “forbid” even thinking about terrorism, but terrorism is hardly the obvious conclusion, and so it is just as wrong to “jump” there as if it is obvious.
I disagree. It’s the obvious conclusion. However, I give myself the right to do so because I will be the first person to admit I’m wrong if it turns out otherwise. Admitting I’m wrong comes naturally after 30+ years of marriage . . .
Sickened.
No one was stipulating it was a certainty that the Notre Dame fire was terrorism. But how could you not engage the possibility it was?
I’m not even sure what this means. Modern scaffolding is 100% metal, at least in this country, and from the pictures I saw, the scaffolding at Notre Dame was, too. There are no scaffolding fires.
Waiting for the wall to wall, 24/7, worldwide coverage ala New Zealand.
Oh wait.
Crickets.
Oh Sri Lanka, not again I hope.
I was wondering the same. I wouldn’t doubt Muslim aggression but I want to have my facts straight. I’m getting a lot of different stories.
There was probably plenty of stuff on the scaffolding that burns, though.
I don’t know. Our contracts usually say we have to clean up on a daily basis.
Control of combustables, fire watches, extra supervision for hot work are all safety measures taken to prevent fires from occurring. If these were really professional old church repairmen, they should have extensive experience in doing hot work around extensive wooden structures.