200 christians killed in sri lanka

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/ ... 22214.html

and no where does feminists and leftists and liberals talk about this, as usual.

when muslims and jews gets killed, the whole left talks about racism , antisemitism, islamphobia etc. but why are the left so quiet about christianity phobia? the only thing i seen left people do is mocking these dead christians in sri lanka,

I'm a leftie.
I'm not mocking the dead christians in sri lanka. They're tragic victims in a fake struggle of religions, where the real struggle is universal, ubiquitous and between the classes. They are victims in a fight of ethnic, fundamenatlist and nationalist violence resulting from the need to nationalize, ultimately stemming from 19th century colonialism.
I'm sorry for the christian people in asian countries, as the asian peoples have quite the reason to hold a grudge against all things western, including christianity.

ok but why do i see so many leftists on facebook mocking dead christians? especially on cnn. vast majority of leftists behave just like trump supporters...

My guess is that with the left, especially the younger ones, Christianity = establishment.

Which is worse: Mocking the deaths of 200+ Christians, or politicizing their deaths to advance a personal agenda against an unrelated political group?

I'd say that both acts are equally heinous, but not as heinous as a Muslims targeting others for mass-murder.

It's not fair----why does this stuff have to happen?

It very might be Tamil fanatics who are doing this.

Sri Lanka is a scenic country. It used to be called Ceylon.

As someone who has been abused by evangelical Christians from the time I was a child till my young adult years, I find it extremely difficult to empathize with those who shared that faith, even if the religion that they learn there is very different from the one we're taught here.

I actually had an argument about this last night with my girlfriend. If all you've been told your entire life by Christians are how worthless you are, how you're going to Hell no matter what you do, and how you'll always be under the thumb of "God's chosen people" (and a lot of my peers on the left have experienced something similar to this), it's really hard to see Christianity as anything else other than a religion of hypocrisy, lies, and deceit.

Similarly with Islam, we're not as familiar. We hear of how brutal they are in the media abroad, but until I (and others) see it first-hand, we probably won't understand the full brunt the way "born-again" Christianity has, especially when the version of it in the U.S. has by and large been seen as far more moderate. Yeah, there were like... 2-3 honor killings reported in the last 10 years in the U.S., but compare that to the HUNDREDS of stories of Christian abuse (not even counting those that go unreported), and it's not hard to see why the left would see Islam as a more peaceful religion than Christianity.

Case in point, I've known about a dozen Muslims in my life mostly because I'm an engineering major and somewhat because I was politically involved with the left at the time. They all have lived pretty normal lives. However, of those that were Christian or formerly Christian, ALMOST ALL of them have been abused in some way by their family or church community. So of course, they feel a need to get back at their abusers.

Nothing excuses this sort of terrorism.

I've had some lousy encounters with "Christians," too.

Doesn't mean I want to kill me a Christian....

Kill? No. He asked why there's no sympathy for those who are. I just tried to give an explanation.

I've been chewed out for giving too much sympathy to those I find "innocent" Christians in the past. And while I understand where they are coming from, I feel like the cruelty can only cause more pain.

Don't blame the victims.

I'm sorry, but the title of this thread is officially disapproved. The people killed are to be officially called "Easter worshippers and tourists" — and be sure not to use the word "Christian" or "church" in any of your statements.

This is how it's done:

You find supposed "innocents" in all faiths.

All those radical Muslims who blew themselves and others up had no doubt about their own "innocence." And the guilt of those whom they blew up.

I just feel people should really reflect upon things before taking drastic actions. And/or be enough of an individual person not to join these radical organizations which are bent on destruction and nothing else.

So by using a generic term, you de-personalize the victims.

How cute.

Not.

I think he's trying to be sarcastic.

I don't.

Here is what we know

* At 8:45 a.m. Sunday, bombs tore apart three Christian churches, one in the capital of Colombo, and two others in the cities of Negombo and Batticaloa.

* Four hotels in Colombo were also attacked: the Shangri-La, the Cinnamon Grand, the Tropical Inn and the Kingsbury. There was another explosion at a housing complex in Dematagoda.

* Those targeted were members of Sri Lanka's Christian population and guests at the island nation's luxury hotels. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said "several U.S. citizens" were among those killed.

* The government of Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked social media services like Facebook and WhatsApp to prevent the spread of misinformation.

* Sri Lanka's police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said 24 suspects have been apprehended and the attacks appear to have been carried out by suicide bombers.

* Sri Lanka experienced a vicious 26-year long civil war between its Sinhala Buddhist majority and minority Tamil Tiger ethnic group that ended in 2009.


Source: This CBS Article.