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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday massacre. The claim, made more than 48 hours after the coordinated series of attacks targeting churches and downtown hotels on April 21 is yet to be independently verified, but appears to have been accepted by the authorities. The government has also claimed that the local partner of this murderous enterprise was a little-known organisation called the National Thawheed Jamath (NTJ), or a breakaway from it. What is beyond doubt is that every single suicide bomber – reportedly eight men and one woman – were Lankan Muslims, many of them from middle and upper-middle-class families, successful businessmen and professionals, even parents approaching middle age, rather than hot-headed young men. They had everything to live for, and chose to die, taking with them more than 250 innocent lives. (Initial figures of more than 350 deaths have been revised by the government) That choice is in stark contrast to the conduct of the community the bombers belonged to. Lankan Muslims have not resorted to politically motivated violence, not even when they were attacked. And they have been attacked repeatedly, by Sinhala-Buddhist mobs and by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelum (LTTE). The last such incident was the anti-Muslim riot of Digana, Kandy, in March 2018. But the community never employed retaliatory violence. After each attack, they’d pick themselves up, and return to the work of living. They received little commendation, and even less justice; on the contrary, every single crime of every single Islamic terrorist or extremist anywhere in the world was held against them as part of the rise of Islamophobia in Sri Lanka, as elsewhere. Though they themselves had not opted for political violence, Lankan Muslims were forced to bear the burden for others’ crimes
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan housewife Fathima Fazla thought of her neighbors in the grand three-storey home across the street as the wealthy celebrities of her humble Colombo suburb. She had no idea how infamous they would become. Two brothers who lived at the white house on Mahawela Gardens have emerged as the key players in the suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed more than 350 people and stunned an island State that had enjoyed a decade of relative peace. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks on three churches and four hotels. Inshaf Ibrahim, a 33-year-old copper factory owner, detonated his explosive device during the busy breakfast buffet at the luxury Shangri-La hotel, a source close of the family said. When police went later that day to raid the family home, his younger brother Ilham Ibrahim detonated a bomb that killed him, his wife and the couple’s three children, the source told Reuters, requesting anonymity for fear of reprisals. “They seemed like good people,” Fazla told Reuters from her rundown home opposite the Ibrahim family residence, now cordoned off with crime-scene tape and marshaled by police. The brothers’ names were also reported in local media. Sri Lankan authorities have not released the identities of any of the bombers, and police did not respond to request for comment. The brother’s father, Mohamed Ibrahim, was arrested as police investigate those behind the attacks, police said. Ibrahim, a wealthy spice trader and pillar of the business community, had six sons and three daughters. He was admired by many who knew him.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Waterglass
We hunted Nazi's for decades after WWII.
Probably will have to do the same with ISIS.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Waterglass
You can't justify trillions of dollars of military spending without a credible enemy.
originally posted by: Spacespider
Put a bounty on every ISIS warrior in the world.. and let the hunt begin.
We need to eradicate all extremist in this world, who would like their children to grow up in fear of terror
I know right..Im sure all the people killed by terrorists agree with you.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Waterglass
Why are the LOL "Masters of the world" #ing with us?