Sri Lanka terror attack; over 200 dead

[rogue06]

Right, just like a young woman wearing a mini skirt is asking to be raped.

Just "asking for it"

It's no different than the leftist belief that conservatives deserve what they get if they have the audacity to wear a MAGA hat or openly admit to being conservative.

[firstfloor]

How so?

Maybe we are being too nice. Maybe we just admit that Islam is incompatible with western civilization, and it has to go. Destroy their holy places and burn their books.

There would need to be a period of adjustment. We would need to be straight with them; we’re doing it not for their benefit but for ours. We will show them how to kill a God, because this world cannot afford more than one God.

[Roy]

200 killed by terrorists and the main response here is to complain that Obama didn't say "Christians".

[Cow Poke]

200 killed by terrorists and the main response here is to complain that Obama didn't say "Christians".

I don't think that's the "main response", I'll go back and check.... I think the main response is that the media is so reluctant to call this what it was --- Islamic Terrorism - again!

HOWEVER, I have to agree that I find this focus on "Easter Worshipers" a bit odd. There are, indeed, many Christians who pretty much ONLY attend Church on Easter (and maybe Christmas), and it's maybe a way of noting that there were probably higher numbers of persons at risk because it was, indeed, an EASTER service.

[rogue06]

200 killed by terrorists and the main response here is to complain that Obama didn't say "Christians".

For someone who has a passion for picking nits this statement is not even close to accurate.

[Zymologist]

I only count five posts making mention of the "Easter worshippers" thing.

[rogue06]

I only count five posts making mention of the "Easter worshippers" thing.

And the first two pages were almost exclusively about who was responsible.

[Cow Poke]

I only count five posts making mention of the "Easter worshippers" thing.

Did you count this one?

[Roy]

I don't think that's the "main response", I'll go back and check.... I think the main response is that the media is so reluctant to call this what it was --- Islamic Terrorism - again!

That was my impression from this thread.

I haven't seen any reluctance on the part of the media here to say that Christians (and tourists) were targeted, or that the suspected culprits are Islamic.

[Cow Poke]

That was my impression from this thread.

I'm shocked.

I haven't seen any reluctance on the part of the media here to say that Christians (and tourists) were targeted, or that the suspected culprits are Islamic.

Absolutely stunned, in fact!

[mossrose]

I heard yesterday morning on our local news that "authorities were not naming" the culprits when, indeed, the Sri Lankan government had already mentioned the Islamic group. So there is definitely a reluctance to "name names" there.

To be fair, the local news did, in the same breath, mention that the attack was on Christians.

[Mountain Man]

Compare how this story is being covered by the media to the mosque attacks in New Zealand.

[rogue06]

Compare how this story is being covered by the media to the mosque attacks in New Zealand.

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[rogue06]

And just for Roy :

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[rogue06]

Compare how this story is being covered by the media to the mosque attacks in New Zealand.

I'd love to see an analysis of a comparison of the coverage.