Sri Lanka

We awaken to learn of the latest horrific Islamic attack-this time in Sri Lanka, a majority Buddhist country with Muslim, Christian and Hindu minorities. As Christians were celebrating Easter, a series of coordinated attacks took place in several churches and hotels frequented by tourists. At this point the death toll stands over 200 including several foreigners.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48001720

Of course, the BBC, like the major news organizations, says nothing about who the perpetrators might be. Abundance of  caution? Perhaps. Jihad Watch seems to have much more information based on regional news reports. Two of the perps have been identified.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/sri-lanka-two-muslims-identified-as-attackers-in-easter-jihad-massacres-death-toll-now-165

It also appears that ISIS is claiming responsibility.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/islamic-state-say-sri-lanka-jihad-massacres-were-revenge-for-attacks-on-mosques-and-muslims

Arrests have been made, and it appears the police are tracking the events leading up to the explosions.

https://www.news18.com/news/world/sri-lanka-blasts-live-seventh-explosion-rocks-island-nation-185-killed-on-easter-in-decades-worst-terror-attack-2110779.html

We can talk all we want about how ISIS has been defeated on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq. As a fighting army, that may well be true. However, many of the surviving fighters and their families are attempting to return to the Western countries from which many of them came. Astonishingly, the Europeans are actually debating whether to allow them to return. In Sweden, they are already welcoming them back with new identities, job training, and efforts to “re-integrate” them back into the societies they never integrated into to begin with. Even in the US, they are attempting to use the courts to force the government to allow them back in-at least their surviving widows, as illustrated by the case of an ISIS widow from Alabama, who is represented by a CAIR official/attorney.

ISIS clearly still has the ability to strike via terror as is evidenced by today’s events in Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the Teresa Mays and Pope Francis’ of the world wring their hands and insist that Islam is a religion of peace, which it is not.  The problem is that we are not just fighting against fighters/atmies like ISIS or Al Qaeda; we are fighting against an idea. That idea has a name. It is Islam.