Anti Christian Islamic terror attack in Sri Lanka

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... er-hideout

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Talk about a slow moving train wreck, This guy was right out in the open with his views. Hopefully our security people would be a bit more vigilant if any self styled Muslim clerics were acting like this.

Zaharan Hashim, a radical Muslim preacher accused of masterminding the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, never hid his hatred.

He railed against a local performance in which Muslim girls dared to dance. When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he raged about how Western infidel traditions were poisoning his hometown, Kattankudy.

There were, Zaharan said in one of his online sermons, three types of people: Muslims, those who had reached an accord with Muslims, and "people who need to be killed".

Idolaters, he added, "need to be slaughtered wherever you see them".

Zaharan has been described by Sri Lankan officials as having founded an obscure group with inchoate aims: a defacement of a Buddha statue, a diatribe against Sufi mystics.

But in his hometown, and later in the online world of radical Islam where his sermons were popular with a segment of Sri Lankan youth, it was clear for years that Zaharan's hateful cadences were designed to lure a new generation of militants

Kicked out of a strict Islamic College for telling his teachers they weren't extreme enough, sacked as Imam of a mosque for being too extreme, founded his own group and his own unofficial Mosque with funding from India, preached that the Sri Lankan flag should be burned and the country should be under Sharia Law, attracted followers both in Sri lanka and overseas.

This is what hate speech is.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/ma ... 51hjr.html