Hundreds Killed Hundreds Hurt In Many Hits On Hotels & Churches Across Sri Lanka

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/blasts-at-two-sri-lanka-churches-during-easter-mass-news-agency-afp-2026233

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/sri-lanka-colombo-blasts-1506589-2019-04-21

https://www.dawn.com/news/1477527/death-toll-from-easter-sunday-blasts-in-sri-lanka-rises-to-207-450-injured

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/21/asia/sri-lanka-explosions/index.html

Very awful, especially on Easter Sunday, early story, not a lot of info available yet, most likely a highly coordinated attack though. Shame on whoever did this, hopefully they are nabbed fast. Let's all wish that the numbers of those who are hurt or dead do not climb.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

It probably was a radical Islamist group, but it’s their own acts.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

I have bad feelings about this thread.

Indeed, it reeks of Islamophobia.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Only thing I was attempting to dismiss is any notion that this is the fault of Islam at large. I apologize if it was taken another way.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Unfortunately CNN is now reporting that the death toll has leaped up to just shy of 300.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Word is going around that the motive might have been a retaliation for New Zealand

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/716266428/sri-lankan-official-says-bombings-are-retaliation-for-new-zealand-massacre

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Isis has claimed responsibility, this is a reminder that they are still an active threat to any civilized peoples, and just because they no longer have turf does not mean they have been defeated or reduced to negligible threat levels, Trump you fool.

F$ck you daesh, the NZ mosque shooter had nothing to do with Sri Lankan churchgoers, just like you will never belong to Islam. You animals can claim no high ground either, you have bombed more mosques and killed more muslims by the scores than the nearest white nationalist.