[ April 18, 2024 ]
This is no surprise, and it is likely that many more than eleven mosques were preaching hatred of the kuffar and the necessity to wage war against them. Those eleven mosques were preaching authentic Islamic texts and teachings. The rest of them are, too. But Sri Lankan authorities, as well as authorities all over the West, are in total denial about where the ideological impetus for attacks such as the one in Sri Lanka comes from.
“Sri Lanka Media: 11 Mosques Near Easter Bomber’s Home ‘Openly’ Preached Fundamentalism,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, April 25, 2019 (thanks to Wendy):
Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror newspaper published a bombshell report Thursday revealing that the suspected Easter jihad mastermind preached in a neighborhood hosting at least 11 mosques known to practice some form of Wahhabism or fundamentalist Islam.
Story continues below advertisementWahhabism is a traditionally Saudi fundamentalist ideology of Sunni Islam named after Muslim scholar Muhammad bin Abd al Wahhab widely accused of inspiring the birth of several Sunni jihadist groups, such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka bombings.
The report casts further doubt on claims by senior Sri Lankan officials that they were not aware of any impending attacks on Christians or threat of jihadi terrorism on their soil. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced Tuesday he had asked for the resignations of his head of national police and secretary of defense after a letter surfaced from Indian intelligence agencies warning prior to the massacre that Islamic terrorists were planning to attack Christians in the country on Easter.
Local and international media reports have identified Zahran Hashim, the founder of a Sri Lankan Islamist group known as National Thawheed Jama’ath (NTJ), as the “mastermind” of the attacks. At press time, authorities do not believe he personally conducted any of the six suicide attacks. Some reports claim a man appearing in Islamic State propaganda claiming responsibility for the attack – the only one not covering his face – is Hashim.
In the Daily Mirror report, Hashim’s sister Mohomed Hashim Madaniya claimed the entire Hashim family went “missing” a week before the attacks and distances herself from the suspected jihadist. The alleged current head of the NTJ, Moulavi Thawufeek, also distances the group from Hashim and claims that NTJ had been warning Sri Lankan police for years that Hashim was spreading violent Islamic beliefs through sermons at his mosque.
Hashim is believed to have founded NTJ in 2011. Sri Lankan police still identify him as the leader of the group. Conflicting reports have identified NTJ as a splinter group from a larger similarly named outfit called the Sri Lanka Tawheed Jama’ath, though it is unclear what relationship the groups have or if they ever truly split apart.
Deputy Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene went further to say that Hashim’s group “had split from the main body” of the NTJ, which he founded.
Hashim had made a name for himself with thousands of followers on Facebook and Youtube with jihadist screeds calling for violence against non-Muslims. All those speaking to the Daily Mirror claim they distanced themselves from him after he began publishing the videos.
A representative for the Badriya Mosque in Kattankudy, the neighborhood where Hashim preached, told the newspaper that the area hosted nearly a dozen fundamentalist mosques:
Katankudy [sic] a small area of land with one of the highest density of population comprises 63 mosques. 8 of the mosques follow the Fundamentalist strand openly and the other barring 3 mosques follow “different degrees of wahabist ideology” H. M Ameer from the Badriya Mosque told the Daily Mirror. “The Jammiyathul Ulama are also supporters of the Wahabi ideology” he and Jaseem told the Daily Mirror.
Ameer told the newspaper that members of the mosque “informed authorities of [Hashim] starting in 2012.”
“We in fact gave dockets to 11 authorities including the Secretary of Defence, the Inspector General and the Attorney General detailing the extremism carried out by Zahran and his ideology,” Ameer told the Daily Mirror.
Another member of the mosque, Mohomed Jaseem, told the newspaper, “We told them that these guys were preaching some crazy radicalised fundamentalism and that there is a threat to our lives. We did this from as far back as 2012.”…
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12 Comments
4 years ago
What’s all of this talk about “wahabi” and “radical”. It’s nothing more than moslems just bein’ moslems. A moslem is a moslem is a moslem. They are ALL the same. And, they live in fear of “retaliation” from “Easter worshippers and travelers”. Those poor little pieces of drek (moslems).
4 years ago
4 years ago
Surely, no one is shocked; the preaching of hatred for all who are not Muslim is Islam’s base tenet. Islam is radical; historically it is a fact. Nothing has changed within the bowels of Islam and it never will. Nor does the dissemination of hatred for non-Muslims only befall Sri Lanka’s mosques; loathing, hatred, anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity or others are the foundation of this faux-religion; it is a cult of death.
There is one certainty, Sri Lanka’s media is not pumping-out fake-news and treasonous bile like the West’s MSM.
The dullard and treasonous likes of the EU, the UK, Canada, and America’s Islamic Party, the Democrats are the Enemies of Western Civilization; the above and others are akin to Islam, of that there is no doubt.
4 years ago
This article proves an argument I have affirmatively stated on numerous occasions. The fact that the belief system (Islam) has as its philosophy a direction that all its believers must recognize that they are the only acceptable faith, and that they should dominate all societies, and that they shall expect to be violent towards non-believers which will result in benefits to those who act violently in the “hereafter,” all of which is being used as justification by those radicals among them that act on the violence towards “others,” has left me with the belief that the only way to fight these horrible believers is to prosecute them wherever they can be found, and to begin a world-wide dialogue that states that committing these acts of violence will leave those who do so in Purgatory, Hell or Dead without redemption. This way we can try to turn them away from believing that they will receive any benefits in the so-called hereafter. I do hope that we get serious about actually checking their houses of worship to determine which Iman’s and Mullah’s are promoting violence, and follow up with prosecution. Unless we get serious about stopping them from prompting these acts of violence, we are all in danger.
4 years ago
Mosques are the real weapons factories where suicide bombers are trained , programmed and directed. Explosives have no volition only volatility.
4 years ago
Muslim scholar Muhammad bin Abd al Wahhab????What are we gonna do when we discover the one-eyed one horned flying purple people eater is allahs mother, will the song be banned?
4 years ago
religion of peace
4 years ago
All mosques (aka satanic temples) spread hate speech, “kill all kuffars”.
4 years ago
Understand something my fellow citizens, there is no such thing as radical Islam, there is only Islam ! Wether a Muslim attends a mosque or not determines his or her approach to jihad. Those that attend mosques we tend to describe as radical in their views. When the time is right they will kill !
4 years ago
Muslums sure do love their AK’s. I wonder if banana clips ever have a tendency to jam?
4 years ago
Does this surprise ANYONE? There are 2 million Muslims in Sri Lanka by the way, with probably a growing population every year. Hurray.
