[arista]

[Special task force officers have raided a
property following the Terrorist Attacks]

[arista]

https://news.sky.com/story/six-explo...unday-11699701


The 5 British Dead
are 3 with British Passports
and 2 with Joint British /USA Passports

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Some LBC callers theorise that it's related to the upcoming elections over there.


Fair enough - east of Spain.


Irrelevant.

Not necessarily irrelevant.
Islam is roughly 500 years younger than Christianity. If we assume that religions evolve in a simillar way and go through a period of violent zealotry then Islamist terrorists are equivalent to Christian zealots of the 15th and 16th centuries. Which would cover inquisition, religious wars in Europe and St. Bartholomew's Massacre in France where thousands of Hugenots were slaughtered in broad daylight. Even the then French King was taking potshots at people from his palace windows.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Not necessarily irrelevant.
Islam is roughly 500 years younger than Christianity. If we assume that religions evolve in a simillar way and go through a period of violent zealotry then Islamist terrorists are equivalent to Christian zealots of the 15th and 16th centuries. Which would cover inquisition, religious wars in Europe and St. Bartholomew's Massacre in France where thousands of Hugenots were slaughtered in broad daylight. Even the then French King was taking potshots at people from his palace windows.

so you are saying we should not let this unevolved religion people into the UK as they are going to be violent?

[Twosugars]

we should carry on what we're doing, fighting extremism wherever it rears its head, Islam or far right, they share a lot tbh

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

we should carry on what we're doing, fighting extremism wherever it rears its head, Islam or far right, they share a lot tbh

well one is huge and the other is tiny by comparison so best we focus on the big one

as we are rightly doing

[Twosugars]

we have two eyes, we can watch both

[arista]

[A bomb goes off as Special Task Force
personnel raid a home near Dematagoda in Colombo ]
[update : Sadly 3 of that Special Force Were killed, reported on AL JazeeraHD]


So far 7 Arrested


[Religion in Sri Lanka:
Theravada Buddhism is Sri Lanka's biggest religious group,
making up about 70.2% of the population, according to the most recent census.
It is the religion of Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority. It is given primary place in the
country's laws and is singled out in the constitution.
Hindus and Muslims make up 12.6% and 9.7% of the population respectively.
Sri Lanka is also home to about 1.5 million Christians,
according to the 2012 census, the vast majority of them Roman Catholic.]
BBC Data

[arista]

[Alf]

Stop killing people you horrible bastards!

[arista]

The Ministry had a warning
a few weeks ago that a Radical Muslim Group would attack.
But it was not specified what kind of attack


[Officials have described the explosions as
a terror attack by religious extremists]

https://news.sky.com/story/sri-lanka...otels-11699695

[Cherie]

290 dead now

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Cherie

290 dead now

it's a horrifying attack with every probability that it's ongoing. Seems to me that it had some high level support within the country too. People were well aware that things were being planned and did nothing, with leaders claiming they weren't informed. That doesn't ring true to me at all.

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

it's a horrifying attack with every probability that it's ongoing. Seems to me that it had some high level support within the country too. People were well aware that things were being planned and did nothing, with leaders claiming they weren't informed. That doesn't ring true to me at all.

That's a not true
The ministry man said it was not specified
what type of attack was coming.


It was on GMBHD itv this morning
The BBC are also saying what you said

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by arista

That's a not true
The ministry man said it was not specified
what type of attack was coming.


It was on GMBHD itv this morning
The BBC are also saying what you said

don't you know an excuse when you hear it? There is no way an attack of this size went down in Sri Lanka without senior people being involved in it.

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

don't you know an excuse when you hear it? There is no way an attack of this size went down in Sri Lanka without senior people being involved in it.

That would have to be proved.

[Cherie]

THREE children of ASOS billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen have been killed by suicide bombers in the Sri Lanka terror attacks.
A spokesperson for Povlsen – Scotland’s largest landowner – confirmed that three of his four children were among the 290 people killed after blasts hit churches and luxury hotels across the country on Sunday

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Cherie

THREE children of ASOS billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen have been killed by suicide bombers in the Sri Lanka terror attacks.
A spokesperson for Povlsen – Scotland’s largest landowner – confirmed that three of his four children were among the 290 people killed after blasts hit churches and luxury hotels across the country on Sunday

My God I cant imagine the pain that must cause,one is bad enough but three,heartbreaking.

[arista]

[Cherie]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...ck-tv-14441476

TV chef and daughter killed when a bomb was detonated in the breakfast area, she posted this picture just before she was killed

senseless barbarity

[arista]

[arista]

Sadly 8 British nationals now dead

https://news.sky.com/story/six-explo...unday-11699701

[Livia]

Lucky it wasn't mosques attacked or this story would have been overwhelming in the press..... already people are kind of trying to , if not justify it, then minimise it, bringing up the alt right where they took no part in this offense. When the alt Right carry out some atrocity I don't see anyone saying, yeah but.... Muslims. It's not a competition. And if it was, fundamentalist Islam would be winning. And if you don't believe that, take a look a America's most wanted list.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Not necessarily irrelevant.
Islam is roughly 500 years younger than Christianity. If we assume that religions evolve in a simillar way and go through a period of violent zealotry then Islamist terrorists are equivalent to Christian zealots of the 15th and 16th centuries. Which would cover inquisition, religious wars in Europe and St. Bartholomew's Massacre in France where thousands of Hugenots were slaughtered in broad daylight. Even the then French King was taking potshots at people from his palace windows.

Except this is the 21st Century. Are we supposed to wait for these savages to catch up to the rest of the world? How many gays are they going to throw off buildings before it's acceptable for us to say they're wrong instead of making excuses for them?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

how many UK citizens have been killed by Muslim terrorits in the last 5 years and how many by RW terrorists?


i doubt, imo, any Brit is worried about RW terrorism

The Left aren't doing much to combat anti-Semitism... it's not just the far Right attacking synagogues. Labour has made anti-Semitism acceptable amongst its followers, while rushing to the defence of the Muslim community, many of whole are peaceful. Of course... the Jewish community are also peaceful to the point that we have no subgroup at war with the UK but still Jews are acceptable targets for Corbyn and his supporters.