How did religious extremism in Sri Lanka lead to the Easter Sunday attacks? | 101 East
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- Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter Sunday attacks have exposed a new divide in the island nation.
A local ISIL-inspired Muslim group carried out the coordinated suicide bombings, killing 253 people at churches and luxury hotels.
It shocked Sri Lankans because faith was never a factor in the country’s brutal 26-year civil conflict that ended in 2009.
But in the past decade, religious minorities - including Christians and Muslims - have been subjected to riots and discrimination.
Security analysts say a rise in more conservative teachings, values and behaviour by some Muslims has made parts of the community susceptible to radicalisation.
“There have been several signs that radicalisation and extremism is becoming a problem in this country,” says Nilanthan Niruthan, a counter-terrorism advisor to Sri Lanka’s armed forces.
“We really missed the trick here in terms of keeping an eye on our own safety.”
In the violent aftermath of the attacks, soldiers are out in force on Sri Lanka’s streets with wide powers to search, interrogate and arrest.
And with a government ban on face coverings, and shops and homes owned by Muslims vandalised or burnt down, Muslim leaders are voicing fears that a whole community is being demonised for the actions of a few.
As the nation reels with grief, 101 East reveals the religious and ethnic tensions simmering beneath the surface and investigates whether faith is the new frontline in Sri Lanka.
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It's called Islam, there is nothing called "extremism".
God bless Sri Lanka and keep the Christians safe from extremists!
But these extremists are probably the ones that God would bless. They are doing God's work according to their religious books.
@@suedimurekezi7221 islam never taught to kill anybody,quran learn us to pray namaz 5times aday,give charity to poor people and handicapped without any race,make fasting one month of Ramadan,visit holy place Mecca and Medina once in ur life,this is islam,we have no hate on other religions we love Jesus,islam is peace.
@@zahidahmad3422 . What does Quran say about Kafir/Jews/ Apostates???
@@zahidahmad3422 have you read the quran in its entirety. unfortunately there are some bad verses
@@brendanburgess2071 maybe u didn't read complete line of Quran that's why u got mistake,no problem next time read Quran in English u will convert to Islam automatically.
They don’t mention rushed badurdeens name because he is funded by qatar and AJ is funded by Qatar
seems AL Jazeera missed the incidents of hiding sword and weapons inside the mosque, non of temple or churches were found with any kind of weapons.
Aljazeera only sees the "buddhist's violence" because their funds hanging on that.
Not a single mention about Rishad Bathiudeen. The man at the center of this whole conspiracy.
No proofs😅😅
@@muhammadaqueel9623 there are
Somethings missing here. I guess AJ should have shown the swords they kept in the mosques and question one if those. With that, i believe this would have been more balanced reporting.
Exactly.
What more do you expect from a Qatari channel?
Was it only swords? I heard it there were other weapons found in mosques as well.
Mosques are open to all. How can they hide weapons there. Radicalisation doesn’t happen overnight, these people who kill innocents aren’t following Islam by the way.
This is exactly what happened in Kashmir, our youth had access to Saudi interpretation of Islam and they became radicalised, shocking to see how Saudi is the closet ally of US and yet Iran is the enemy.
Ibn Wahhab was a zionist agent, sent to destabilise the muslim world with harsh and unrealistic conservatism. A type ot KGB state. Spying on and denouncing your neighbour. They call themselves 'Salafist', but are simply Takfiri. The jews have also made a mockery of Christianity.
The straw man is real here
@@thefuture5386 Explain.
You mean Pakistan or IsI or Your father's Occupied Kashmir, Yes you are right!!
"and yet Iran is the enemy" Look no further than Israel.
I love Jesus my Lord and Saviour, he laid down his life so that we can have eternal life in Heaven. Praying for my brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka and across the world who are facing persecution from various groups. We must love all, including terrorists and murderers, because Jesus died for all of us.
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God Bless Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Wishes from India🇮🇳
Hinduism =terror
Is not religion
@@_ak3975 Hinduism and Christaiity ❤️
🐖💨Islam
@@_ak3975 Islam = potty
@@shubham943
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Could you imagine being responsible for this shitstorm and not resign ?! Keep hope Sri Lanka, was visiting a week before the bombings, beautiful country and great people.
Father please in Jesus name please save Christians all around the world. Father father father father please show them mercy may the hand of God touch them. Father give them strength and endurance by all means. Father we pray for you to answer our prayers see them through this one father. I am praying all the way from Africa for my Christian counterparts in Siri Lanka.
Jesus ,peace be upon him,said love thy neighbor as thy self. THAT is ALL we need to know. Not god.not huge reams of scripture. Forget everything. Forget religion. Remember the only message. If the worshippers were following Jesus's message ,they would have spoken to the suicide bombers and asked why are you carrying a backpack on Easter Sunday? It's not Christmas. Is it heavy? Can I help you? No one cares about their neighbours. Love thy neighbor as yourself
vijaya fernando your message is powerful love thy neighbour was one of the best words of Jesus Christ. Now days we are all busy we don't talk to each other anymore technology has taken over our lives. We need to communicate with our neighbours and friends so we are all on the same side of this fight against anti Christ.
@@vijayafernando1 HOW DO U KNOW NO ONE ASKED HIM B4 HE BLEW THEM UP .THEY ALLOWED THEM INTO THEIR CHURCH THEY DIDNT SHUT THE DOOR ON THEM
@@vijayafernando1 No one is supposed to talk to each other during mass. And before you say loving the neighbour is important at that time. So is loving God. And its not wrong to give one hour of 168 hours at the mass focusing only on God. Doesnt mean that we dont ignore a soul who's seeking help even at a mass. If the guy remotely had the look of 'Give me help' we would have helped. And helped to what? Blowing up hundreds. Thanks for your advice but its incredibly stupid. I go to the Kochchikade chyrch and have seen many people from outstation come with bags. Should i go upto each one and ask? Hey why are you bringing a bag? Dont be stupid. Unlike a bomb blast like this had already happened.. no sane human bring would do that. Not even you. It may have saved lives but we didnt know! Its still the invading the personal space of a person for someone to go upto a person and ask whats in your bag.
SAD people are killing in the NAME of RELIGION.......
My friend wanted to join military intelligence and he changed his mind because the government were going to brainwash him. All the terror is supported my military intelligence. So,you work it out
People also killed in the name of capitalism and communism. Human ideologies will always compete with one another if they wanna survive.
Isn’t that how a lot of wars get started !! And as far as the action of a few , those few did a shitload of damage !!
It's been happening ever since the invention of religion!
No, they are doing it because religious say so.
Now u say “religious extremists “ why not Islamic bombers ???
Christianity or bible terrorism
@@_ak3975 Are you an extremist too?
Yes because of it is "ALjazeer" so called as state controlled media
Al Jazeera comes from a country where there is no democracy or no place for people of ther religion..Now they are preaching...
in Malaysia we have multi-religion and even multi-races and yet we live peacefully. Alhamdullilah
I pray for Sri Lankan people to be united, because united we stronger
Terima kasih, saya suka Malaysia.... dan ayam goreng hehe
In malaysia you have Bhumiputra policy. Sri Lanka doesnt
@@starrynight43451 Yes, despite the bumiputra policy, other ethnicity/races are okay with that. Of course there are some who creates problems and issues but in overall everyone live in harmony and peaceful in Malaysia
we are trying but the one sided media like aljazeera doesn't help it
6:38 Tamil Christian song..
magilvom! magilvom!
dhinam aga magil vom !
yesu rajan nam sontham aagiraar.
A common Tamil evangelical Christian song . Poor kids. Hearing this with eyes full of tears.
I pray that all our people (especially the ones with extreme views) will wake up and realize that the only way for our beautiful country to develop, prosper and have lasting peace is for our people to stop all their hatred, hate speeches and NOT let Racism ruin our beautiful country...
Why do you get Indian narrators to interpret Sri Lankans ? Does Al Jazeera think that all Brown people are from India and speak like Indians ?
only the people who believe the Islam can do this kind of things, but always, other Muslim will say those bad people were not real Muslim... so in the real world, we had this so called "Schrödinger's Muslim": you will never know if a Muslim is real or fake, until he does something bad....
Ur giving bad messages to people to create violence again,stop ur hateful comments just try to make peace both communities, don't create hate,islam peaceful religion.
Extremism is not only in islam, but also in reporting by Al jazeera.
This is SICK !! These people are blinded by their ignorance.
Yes, believing in some fairy tale in 21st century and killing in name of it.
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -Steven Weinberg
24 IS linked militants have just hit disliked 😂😂😂
Uigher conflict in china
Insurgency in Bangladesh
Rohingyas in burma
Seperatists in Kashmir
Ethnic Muslim cleaning in the Caucasus
Fighting with the Christians in EU and USA
Conflict with the people of the uk regarding sharia law
Conflict with the Jews in Israel.
Now with sri lanka and even all the way in the Philippines
Boko haram in w. Africa
I can go on and on and on. How Is it that every major conflict has one religion behind it? You can't deny facts when it's staring you at the face. I know where the problem is, and so should you!
Islam is peaceful and happy religion wtf
Some extremists coward people's are doing this using the name of Islam in wrong way. I hope you understand bro
....Its all About Politics most of the time these attacks are political related if you only look on it very closely....
Let me know if you need exact precise details.
It's really sad that the gov really screwed up. This is so sad. All those lives 😥
GOD BLESS SRI LANKA!
So sad. God bless and save Sri Lanka
18:06 you guys want to stop from checking your ID and your house from the govt.soldier?why should they stop checking to those who are cooperating with those terrorists...leading to losing of thousands of lives.They should stop doing bad things,if they want to stop frisking
Those who planted this kind of attack should be thrown to the lack of fire. May God bless them in heaven and bring peace to them. RIP all my fellow neighbour, brothers and sisters. Amen
So sad in srilanka
This is a global phenomenon
not a lone case.
there is something odd about those "bombings" a litl like our phoney ones here in the uk
I am not gonna lie mate, it's a bit odd.
Even the Manchester, and other ones were all known to the intelligence agencies.
Just weird how they all happened "to be ignored"...!
The Book is the Source of All Problems
10:32
20:00
21:25
Lets hurt others and then play victim card at the same time.
I agree with father perera
God is Love.
Love each other and nothing else.
Jesus taught us to Love each other. Not to hate and kill those who don't believe.
Wtf is wrong with you?
What a shame !!! What an insult for Lord Buddha and his noble teaching ... !!!’
Rocky A exactly, that country is a total insult to Buddha and Buddhism. Let’s not forget, there was war crimes and genocide from this country. Total insult to Buddha, Buddhist clergies and Buddhism in that country.
@@JR-cp5zb but Buddhists don't bomb innocent kid praying in church
@@black-iv7zc really? are you sure? have u seen whats happening in myanmar?
@@AmranSidek Buddhism in mynmar is considered a myth in therevada ( they follow mahayana which btw has a vast difference in the teachings ). Therevada is followed in sri lanka and promotes no violence whether you like it or not!
@@lankanichor8503 lol check yourself Myanmar follows theravada not mahayana🤣🤣🤣
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RIP
And god bless the family of them who died in bomb blast ..
Very hard to see this 😭😭😭💔💔💔💔
>still #1 travel destination 2019 lonely planet?
Mr.zaharan..WTF...😡😡😡
This church is reconstructed beautifuly by the sri lanka Navy...
every Religion is in peace with each other. but one not the Islam..
To be your religion , to be our religion.
Thanks Allah we live in a country it's freedom of religion and your opinions means nothing peace out hater
What is the common theme among religious conflicts? Islam. Every single time.
@@shamsmubarak7 MSM Uigher conflict in china
Kashmir in India
Rohingyas in burma
Seperatists in Kashmir
Ethnic Muslim cleaning in the Caucasus
Fighting with the Christians in EU and USA
Conflict with the Jews in Israel.
Now with sri lanka and even all the way in the Philippines
Boko haram in w. Africa
I can go on and on and on. How Is it that every major conflict has one religion behind it? You can't deny facts when it's staring you at the face. I know where the problem is, and so should you!
@@Bobby-dm3oj Uighur Conflict? 😂😂😂😂 The Uighurs are fighting against the Hans? From where? Concentration camps, reeducation centers? The Uighurs were in their homelands of East Turkestan way before the Chinese invaded. Learn some history. Lol. That's just one response to one of your so-called points. 😂😂😂😂😂
@@er6205 uighurs started carrying out terror attacks on innocents and public places killing many people and the chinese govt decided to deal with it communist style,.its unfortunate that innocents also suffer but it started with uighurs . if u want to fight for independence get a proper army and declare war ,if u choose to terrorise, the chinese govt will also terrorize u too .
For a few bad guys a large section suffers. So, the logic that only few have extremist ideology prevail in comparison to the whole is now meaningless. The few bought irreparable damage to the society. RIP.
Salafi look to Saudi Arabia
Look isrehell
We are in solidarity with all the Srilankans who live in fear due to whoever was responsible. We don't believe any Muslim could have created a disaster such as this... We condemn the action of whoever did it...
Love,
Zayd, Bengaluru, India
Exactly correct its not Muslim how blasted bombs its must be United States or Israeli no no !!! it must be Hindus or Sir Lanka itself to win the next election may be Tom & Jerry or UFO etc etc....
Zayd why are you guys always in denial mode? Whole world knows which religion the bombers belonged to. Shame on you!
@@deepakj4358 You mean to say Russia and China are doing the right thing to Ukraine and Taiwan
Hmm religion... *sigh If religion teaches us to hate any group, better not to have religion
Imagine it happened during Vesak Day celebrations! Sri Lanka would have cleansed of followers of peaceful religion. Sinhalas are not westerners or hindus to put up with these nonsence!
See they let these people do their thing after beong warned about their intentions... This means that they want to lash out against islamic community as whole. You cant return wrong with bigger wrong , what logic are people using now days!?!
It wasn't religion but political done by sirisena here's why
Their first intended target was independence day they later changed it
Second on december 1 month before manawella prevention of terrorism act was ammended only used for stopping terrorism
Third police was changed from defense ministry to justice
Fourth few years back hizbullah cultural center zaharan was stoned on a speech for hatred but was rejected by fundamental human rights
So in a whole unp sirisena ranil did it
I find this so sad. Same as the "buddhists" of Myanmar and their persecution of the Rohingya - the "buddhists" of Sri Lanka can't be allowed to get away with it. How ironic is it that Buddhism is meant to be a peaceful religion of love and mindfulness when this sort of extremist, separatist bullshit occurs. Shame on all these violent thugs.
Matt M Buddhism is not all Rosy as many people think. Theravada Buddhism is what is practiced in srilanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand. Can you see any patterns? They all had civil war. When Buddhism is their core religion, shouldn’t they be practicing peace instead of war? How come all those countries had war? What were the clergies doing, encouraging war? They are killing people under the name of religion. Buddha not happy 😔😞😢😢😢
@@JR-cp5zb Dont talk shits about things you dont know
JESUS Christ
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Well done AL JAZEERA!, Investigate more on this SL issue....
He he
yeah just on sided media
When one person has delusions we call it insanity, but when a lot of people have delusions we call it religion. Adults who believe in imaginary beings are stupid. THE ONLY TRUE GOD IS THE ONE WHO SHOWS HIM SELF TO EVERYONE. NOT FAITH BUT FACTS. Good people do Good things, bad people do bad things, but religion can make good people do bad things.
Mp Hezbullah behind this
It's Sri Lanka ex presidents job , he wants his brother gothabeya to appoint as a president in the coming 2019 December election and he badly wanna to be the prime minister , imagine a country with younger brother is a the president and older brother is the prime minister , they already sold the sea ports to China , what else greedy for power these corrupted politicians , I'm a Sri Lankan , if you have money you are the king in Sri Lanka , if you have no money you get nothing and eventually if you speak up and your voice heard these 2 brothers will get in the white van and you will never see your families ever again. It's the truth about Sri Lanka . It's not isis it's all inside job , not even a 20minutes of the bomb blast ex president Mahindra Rajapaksa walked to the Church in kochikada . Wow ! Unbelievable ! This country will never grow sad but it's the truth
@Sharon Xavier can you speak english?
The ports were sold by ranil.... Just remember, our country was doing much better and we were actually developing when the previous government existed. Ever since the new government came to power, they have done nothing, apart from the bond scam
U mean the quran was also written by Rajapaksa family.
@MSM you are from tamil diaspora he didn't even come 20 miniuites before to kochikade he was at hatton
The present Lankan government did this ( funded this ), so they came to power
Evidences?
Evidences?
that is one big illusion
What about children,and innocent killed in muslim countries by usa,israel,india...?
bruhh what? so everything that happened here should not be considered?
"Innocent killed in muslim countries by India", really dude? high on cocaine? 😂
@@shubham943 😹😹😹
And you are fine with this?
Patali Champika Ranawaka is himself a extremist and have openly criticized the Holy Quran. Al Jazeera should have interviewed someone better than him.
Anaz Nizar oh please better than Muslim politicians we have here who has direct connections to the bombers
Holy Quran😀😁😂😂
Bible fox news terrorist or rape
Bible holy sick
Yo thats why they intervied "hisbullah" who caught funding the bombers and making him as innocennt lol