Seems that they had warnings of a possible attack . Going to be some angry relatives I fear .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6944279/Sri-Lankan-police-warned-Easter-terror-attack-TEN-DAYS-bombings.html
âA foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jamaâath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo,â the alert said.
The NTJ is a radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka that was linked last year to the vandalisation of Buddhist statues.
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Well , we have to wait to see the evidence . I just find it sad that people were not at least warned 
200+ dead, the government declared a curfew.
Death toll has soared to 290 now. Very minimal coverage for such a horrible attack!
I think itâs getting a lot of coverage .
Barely. I donât see much of it on my feed or on the news or much conversations about it. Even on here, people seem to care more about the Notre Dame.
I could care less about the Notre DameâŚ
Iâve been reading a bit about it. Sri Lankaâs got quite a complicated mix of religions, and most people donât know much or anything about the goings on there.
I think itâs getting lots of coverage, though. Even the US president has tweeted about it. Thereâs just not much to say since we know so little about the country.
Its certainly getting less than if something happened in a western country. Which is somewhat understandable. Itâs like when Paris got attacked in 2015 people were saying âwhy is the media making a big deal out of this when it happens all the time in the middle East and no one cares. Racists!â And I was thinking well itâs kinda like how youâd be more concerned if there was a crime wave in your town than a crime wave in the town 100km away thatâs known for crime.
That being said it seems to have been an attack on westerners, as well as Christianity (and although the plight of third world Christians doesnât seem to concern a lot of people, christianity to many outside the west is synonymous with the west)
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Itâs getting non stop coverage on CNN right now.
âActs of terrorismâ, might be more suitable than âacts of violenceâ. âAgainst Christians and foreign touristsâ rather than âchurches and hotelsâ. But what do I know, all around very tragic.
For people following the subject. Thereâs a wall of silence on Christian persecution. This happens every Easter.
2012, for instance, shootings by Boko Haram gunmen in Nigerian churches left 38 people dead. Nigerian Christians face life and death every day with extreme violence and persecutions. A friend of mine here in Italy that I met is a Nigerian Christian who fled after the violence was so bad and fled in fear to Syria to eventually make his way to Italy on a tiny life raft. Imagine things so bad you go live in Syria for 7 months to make a high risk trip on a tiny lift raft across the sea.
Easter season 2015, an attack on the University of Garissa in Kenya targeting Christian students left 148 people dead.
In 2016, 75 people died and at least 300 were injured when bombs exploded in a park in the heavily Christian neighborhood of Lahore in Pakistan as people were celebrating after Easter services.
In 2017, Christians in Egypt were in fear of going out for Easter after 2 bombings on churches that left 45 death.
Theyâll never say estimated 8,000 to up to 100,00 in some high estimates of Christians are martyred each year. The narrative is Christians are rich oppressive westerners while other religions are the oppressed minorities. Even though most of these persecution is coming from one particular religion from organizated groups to even the state level. Itâs not the convenient truth to say.
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An attack by one minority religion against another. Itâs so stupid. Do Islamists in Sri Lanka really think their biggest enemy in the country is Christians? This is a good argument for just getting rid of religion altogether.
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Almost makes one wonder why they substitute 'christian" with Easter Worshipers and Church goers ? Why play down the ( alleged) Islam part of the suspects? Some pretty awful video of one of the suspects out there . It seems relevant to the story . Terrible scale of casualties. What will they ban , I wonder , to try and prevent another attack ?
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we could be living at the edge of the end of times
Even the Sri Lanka gov are willing to say the suspects are part of a radical Islamic group.
The rest of the world has chosen to say âreligious extremistsâ âsmall religious fundamentalistsâ.
Is this really extremism when it happens all the time. Not just on Easter.
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Well, thatâs not the bit that has me scratching my head. If it were one or two that did it, I might think an Easter worshipers is a Christian, no big deal. But when they all start doing it in unison. Thatâs kind of weird.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1120013694073810944
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1119964696810070017
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1119965006966267904
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1119973288741097472
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1119987511118520326
Not one mention of a Christian anywhere. Well, to be fair on the ones I clicked on there was one exception, Beto must not have got the memo.
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What is a Easter worshipper? Iâve never heard of a more stupid term. Christians donât worship EasterâŚ
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I think itâs done simply to emphasize that these are Christians celebrating a high holiday. It means the terrorist acts are more heinous.
I donât see how that makes sense. How much do you need to emphasize the importance of Christmas or Easter? It would be as stupid as saying Ramadan worshippers. Or Yom Kippur or hanukkah worshippers.