** 24-Apr-2019 ISIS takes credit for Sri Lanka bombing
CH86 wrote:
> More blatant globalist propaganda, events have refuted the
> speculation advanced in these paragraphs. Meanwhile in the real
> world Buddhist nationalists are NOT chomping at the bit to murder
> westerners. That cannot be said for the Muslims, its has been
> proven over the last couple days that the perpetrators were
> islamicists. John's ingrained bias in favor globalist "controlled"
> politics and philo-islamic globalism, is obvious in the above
> post.
A fair amount of stuff being written in this thread is at best
misguided, and at worst utter nonsense.
Buddhists have done their share of genocide and terrorist acts. The
"killing fields" genocide in 1970s Cambodia was perpetrated by
Buddhists. The ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Rohingya
Muslims in Burma (Myanmar) is being perpetrated by Buddhists.
In the Sri Lanka civil war that ended in May 2009, it was the
Buddhists and Hindus that were perpetrating war crimes and terrorist
acts; the Muslims mostly stayed out of it.
So there are plenty of recent examples of Buddhist war crimes and
genocide, and there's no reason to reject them automatically as the
perpetrators of the Sri Lanka bombing.
Muslims make up 9.7% of the population, Roman Catholics make up 6.1%,
Hindu 12.6%, and Buddhists make up 70.2%. All of these groups were
traumatized by the Sri Lanka civil war.
The biggest mistake that people make is to assume that Sri Lanka
society is similar to American or European or Indian society, all of
which are in generational Crisis eras. In fact, Sri Lankan society is
in a generational Recovery era, like America in the 1950s. That was
the time when the Silent Generation were taking charge. They had been
so traumatized by the Great Depression and WW II, that Time Magazine
called them the Silent Generation because they just did their job and
never complained.
Sri Lanka's society today is like that, in a generational Recovery era
following the crisis civil war. Everyone -- the Sinhalese, the
Tamils, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Muslims -- everyone is still in
a state of shock, traumatized by the atrocities that had been
committed during the civil war, just doing their jobs, not
complaining.
Any one of these groups might have perpetrated the bombing on Sunday.
The main difference for the Muslim NTJ, based on news reports, is that
a small disaffected group of Muslims vandalizing Buddhist statues were
radicalized by ISIS operatives, and convinced to declare allegiance to
ISIS. They were probably offered money. They were then forced to
accept training, and to turn their targets away from Buddhist statuess
towards Christians and western tourists. News reports indicate
that this took many months, possibly a full year.
ISIS is currently in a state of crisis. They've lost their caliphate
in Syria and Iraq, but they haven't been wiped out. They have to
change their game plan, and what we're seeing is probably the first
example of a new tactic: Enter a country, find a small group of
disaffected Muslims, and use money and other incentives to convince
then to declare allegiance to ISIS, and then accept the ISIS
directions.
Al-Qaeda might imitate, and there might be similar attacks in other
countries in the next few months.
