Sri Lanka massacres

StriderX said:
Is it because the former was cut and dry from the beginning (literally had a manifesto and everything)? Whereas this took a few days to unravel.

She’s probably still in the wrong, but don’t rearrange the furniture for your amusement, just because a politician didn’t want to ride a bigoted bandwagon before the facts were clear.
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And yet since it was revealed who the attackers were she still hasn't piped up!
 
VincentHanna said:
It's different and here is why

The Christchurch attacker specifically targeted one mosque and his intent was to harm as many Muslim worshippers as possible.

However in Sri Lanka the terror attacks were more broad, they had two targets

A) Christian churches
B) Posh hotels full of international tourists

I saw a guy and one of his sons being interviewed on the news last night. He had lost his 19 year old son and 15 year old daughter who were at the breakfast buffet getting him some food. They were not Christians. Local people of all faiths who worked at the hotel died as well.

So blanket calling all the victims in Sri Lanka "Christian" isn't correct, even though Christians were one of the primary targets.


But in Christchurch, it's fairly safe to assume that worshippers in a mosque are Muslim. Plus the guy had a whole manifesto about why he did what he did.
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But as myself and others pointed out the tweets and statements specifically called out the hotel victims separately.

"The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers"

So your argument collapses as it's fairly safe to assume the people in the churches were Christians...
 
VincentHanna said:
What is this, the Christian forum? I still don't understand why it matters that they said Easter Worshippers instead of Christians.

I'm literally referring to Obama and Clinton, as I don't know who else you are referring to (I don't use twitter)

Clinton is a methodist Christian and Obama is a Christian. So you're complaining about two Christians using the term Easter Worshippers instead of Christians?
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So because people take umbrage with something this must be the Christian forum? When people speak in defence of Islam does that make this the Muslim forum?

The point is that Christianity is widely accepted as being the most persecuted religion in the world. This has been highlighted by this event where the reactions of those who wield significant power are seen to be very different in comparison to the recent attacks in NZ. The very fact that 2 of the most influential people on the planet can't even bring themselves to refer to the victims as Christians speaks volumes. You then have others who made a large amount of noise about the NZ attacks who have remained completely silent on these. The international reaction between the 2 events has had such a disparity it's unreal. People such as Milo Yiannopoulos were condemned for their 'right wing' viewpoints yet are we seeing condemnation of supporters of Islam? Which, let's face it, is the connecting thread in the majority of worldwide terrorist attacks (a couple of years ago just 4 of the many islamic terror groups were responsible for 75% of all terror related deaths in the world!). No, what we see instead is a defence of Islam and the teachings associated with it.

Take even this forum. Have a look at the attitudes and responses of some people in the NZ thread compared to this one. Where is Crazy for example with his spamming of graphs, charts and links about Islamic terror? I don't believe he's even commented on this thread.
 
doodah said:
How did I miss this? This is sig worthy. By what metric are you going by for this? I didn't realise they were such a downtrodden religion.

Are alter boys not the most persecuted group of people for a while over the last 5 or so decades?

It's amazing how your world view lines up with the likes of Fox News - us whites/Christians are the victims boohoo.
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By the metric that more Christians are murdered for their faith than any other in the world. Glad you think that that's hilarious and sigworthy though!

A recent source for you

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...acks-christians-worldwide-persecution-silence

"It is ignored in the west, but Christianity is the most persecuted religion. Why is there such silence on the issue?"
 
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doodah said:
I tend not to follow events at in much detail with the likes of Sri Lanka and Pakistan. I am aware of similar issues with Iraq/Syria (Yazidis) and Nigeria (Boko and the decades long tit for tat bloodbaths between Muslims and Christians) though, just didn't realise the problem was on a much larger scale.
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You didn't realise it because you dont follow events yet felt you knew enough to call my post a joke and say it was sigworthy?

Now what does that say about you?
 
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