Disgusting attack on Sri Lankans and Christians during Easter Sunday :(

LOL, Israeli army?

You can call it a "standard meaningless response" if you like Islamist terrorist bashing is of course acceptable but as far as I'm aware, we don't officially know that it was an Islamist terrorist group. Besides, the people above me were getting into stupid arguments about Quranic verses, which don't have a place in this thread - that's for other threads. That is what I was directly responding to

Exactly. As I say above, there are plenty of other threads on which to quibble about jihadists and whether Quranic verses support or do not support them. Or whether they are Muslim or not. This is not the place...

POST EDIT: Just seen news which seems to officially implicate a local Muslim group, so I stand corrected on that front. But I didn't know that info when I made the original comment

In general Islamist terrorist attacks are now such a common occurrence that its actually a surprise when it's not pepertrated by muslims.It doesn't take a genius to figure out who is behind it even without knowing all the facts.

That may be true, but I personally prefer to wait to hear evidence before blaming any ethnic or religious group for atrocities

It depends which religion we are talking about. Some religions are inherently violent, intolerant and supremacist. When followers of such religions act on the violent, intolerant and supremacist elements of those religions and explicitly claim that they are doing so - often citing chapter and verse, it is foolish, even dangerous to pretend that the religion has nothing to do with those actions.
The first step in solving a problem is accepting that you have one.

Something seems a bit off. The thing is the Sri Lankan Government apparently knew about this. Furthermore the church masses were all during the Tamil masses. Embers of the war?

Leave Christians alone.

Round up every single Islamic extremist in the country and deport them, shoot them, whatever...just don't let these scum roam the streets freely as they are simply promoting this terror attack. Disgusting in all ways you look at it, and it pisses me off that this is not getting as much coverage as say the Paris attacks. There is hardly any detailed coverage on this, if it happened in a Western Country every single media outlet would be making 2 or 3 hour interviews and documentaries about the attack.

it pisses me off that this is not getting as much coverage as say the Paris attacks. There is hardly any detailed coverage on this,

The problem here is claiming religion has anything to do with terrorism at all. While citing chapter and verse, they are spinning their own versions of what they think it means. No where does it justify the mass killing of people.

I would rather have people judge them for what they've done wrong: a disgusting attack on the life of human beings, rather than debate which religion they were "fighting" for.

This is not the thread for such an in-depth discussion, but some religions do indeed justify mass killings in their scriptures. And not just killings but all the other barbaric practices that we condemn them for. It's not like followers are obliged to act that way, but the justification is definitely there if you read them.


How do you suggest bringing an end to such attacks if you don't address the the motivation and justification? Those religions that contain these elements need and enlightened reformation. The approach to scripture needs to change.

What is wrong with this website?

Debating about who did it is not going to solve anything. Just leave it to those that actually know what they're dealing with - the counter terrorism officers and the government since they are the ones who can do something about it. No point worrying about stuff that you can't do anything about, unless of course you want to become or are already a counter terrorism officer.

which religions are you talking about...