Christians getting massacred in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the holiest of Christian days, honoring the crucifixion of Jesus — a Jew — during Passover, is the most recent reminder of what extremes Muslim fundamental terrorists will go to kill Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and even their fellow Muslims, to gain converts and territory for their dream Caliphate.
Sri Lankan police had been given an intelligence alert 10 days before the bombing, warning that suicide bombers planned to hit “prominent churches.” However, government dysfunctionality prevented the information from reaching the prime minister or his cabinet.
“A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama’ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches….” The alert said. The NTJ is a radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka that was linked last year to the vandalism of Buddhist statutes.
Transnational jihadist terrorist organizations like ISIS, are believed to have supported the NTJ. ISIS is claiming credit for the bombings, to encourage more spectacular attacks against what it calls “nationals of the Crusader and Christians” to make headlines, showing it has avenged its humiliating defeat in Iraq and Syria.
Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus are the majority of the 22 million people in Sri Lanka, with Christians and Muslims each making up less than 10% of the population.
Combating any jihadist terrorist organization that views the entire world as a theatre of war cannot be achieved by military means alone.
In my 2007 book Custom Maid Knowledge for New World Disorder, I devoted a chapter — Good Riddance to Religious Crusades — to religious intolerance, its history and proposed solutions. The chapter opens with former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir’s quote, We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.
In a sub chapter titled Right Road, I write:
The road to understanding other religions and
interpretations of history in the 21st century is
being built by professors Dan Bar-On, a social
psychology professor at Ben Gurion University
in Israel, and Sami Adwan, an education professor
at Bethlehem University in the West Bank. Together,
with teams of Israeli and Palestinian historians,
they devised a series of booklets that set the competing
versions of history side-by-side on the same pages
for Israeli and Palestinian students. The professors
say the project is an effort to bridge the chasm between
the two peoples. “The way a conflict or history is taught
n the classroom can either support that conflict or
support coexistence,” Adwan said. “The project aims
to break down the stereotypes and build nuanced
understandings.” Added Bar-On: What we’re talking
about is the disarming of history, where the teaching
of history no longer feeds the conflict.”“One student’s hero can no longer be the other’s terrorist
if true knowledge is to be imparted to our children.“Jews, Jesus and early Christians, like all true believers,
preached love and tolerance. Religious teachings of
loving each other, neighbor, friend and foe have to again
become cornerstones of civilization in the 21st century if
we are to survive.”
There is no room for religious intolerance or hatred in the New World Disorder. Not the Muslim extremist intolerance that played out in Sri Lanka, or the Christian extremist intolerance that killed 50 Muslims praying in mosques in New Zealand.