Sri Lanka’s President has demanded the resignation of two top security officials after the Easter Sunday terrorr attack after it emerged key intelligence on attack targeting churches was withheld from ministers.
The perpetrators were educated in the UK and Australia. The question asks itself. What role did trendy Western fads play in unleashing this ISIS plague on the world?
Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene described the bombers as middle to upper class men whose families were financially stable and said many of them held degrees.
Daily Mail
Some of them had studied abroad, with at least one gaining a bachelor’s degree in the UK before going to Australia for post-graduate studies, then settling in Sri Lanka, he said.
The group were united in their belief that Islam should be the only religion in Sri Lanka, and that was what motivated their attack on Sunday.
The New Zealand PM said there was connection between the NZ mosque attacks and the Sri Lankan church bombings despite reports to the contrary.
Reuters
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday that her government was not aware of any intelligence suggesting that a devastating attack on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka was in retaliation for deadly shootings on a mosques in Christchurch.
Sri Lanka’s junior minister for defence, Ruwan Wijewardene, told parliament on Tuesday that an initial investigation had revealed the bombings on churches and hotels, which killed 321 people, had been carried out in revenge for deadly shootings in two New Zealand mosques on March 15.
But is that really so? The narrative all but proclaimed “we did it … we are guilty” even though the mosque perp was neither Kiwi nor Christian. Having admitted the sin was it not reasonable to expect someone would administer the penance upon the most defenseless?
As Marx said “every giant … presupposes a dwarf, every genius a hidebound philistine”. So then does every virtue signal presuppose a designated sinner. Virtue signaling is really another way of saying “blame them … blame them”.
This is why the Western virtuous wore hijabs, partly in solidarity but partly to say “I am not as these sinners”, meaning not the perp but what the virtuous believed the perp represented. Maybe Gaia forgives but ISIS does not.