. For all the limits to what we know about this attack, the element of foreign interference is the single idea that does make sense.
This attack does not emerge organically from the Sri Lankan soil. It relies on ideas imported from a completely different context. It makes sense only once you swallow the globalised discourse begun by Osama bin Laden and adopted by Islamic State, of a global anti-Muslim conspiracy headed by what bin Laden called the “Crusader-Zionist complex”.
The phenomenon of global Islamist ideology infiltrating a local environment is not new. Indeed, it has done this everywhere it has gained traction. But typically this works by taking local grievances and casting them in a global light. Bin Laden’s ideological innovation was to insist that Muslims aggrieved by the autocrats who ruled over them should attack America because that was the real source of their power.
Perhaps the key to understanding this is the fact that churches were attacked in conjunction with luxury hotels. This groups Christians together with foreigners as a single target. In the process Sri Lankan Christians are transformed artificially into symbols of Western-ness, cast as agents of the Crusader-Zionist complex. That is the only way in which sense can be made of this tragedy.
And that’s what underscores its awfulness. To slaughter like this is atrocious. To do it to exploit and exacerbate existing tensions is wicked. But to do it where tensions didn’t exist in the first place, as if to create them from nothing, is a newly degenerate contribution to make.
Christians, Mr Obama, not 'Easter Worshippers,' as you referred to them as in your tweet.
Did waleed open his mouth again?
Utter lies ! Painting a different picture on the issue! Shame on giving platform to this guy!
What a shame..baseless theories
At least you responded and denounced the attacks finally. Every terrorist attack is motivated by religious hatred and bigotry. That’s the link, the “sense”, whatever you want to call it. Grievance against the West is an excuse seized on by perpetrators and apologists alike.
Great one in the sky told them to do it .
If you have a chance to read an article in the ISIS online magazine “Dabiq” this all makes perfect sense. The article is from August 2016 and is titled “Why We Hate You and Why We Fight You”.
😢 RIP.😢
Leave out “unique”. Note that being intellectually very bright has no correlation with being ethical. None.
Leave it Aly to make excuses for the muslim terrorism 🤦♂️
Dr Aly you are really stupid! Little you say makes sense. In your view Islam is good, but those few who are bad are so b/c the ideology of other nations has turned them into terrorists. So Nazism is good, but Hitler was bad b/c he was jailed and not allowed to become an artist.
No interviews or passionate editorials about the plight of Christians in non-western countries. It almost seems like he's tried to make it political as opposed to religious. Christians were bombed in their churches - it was fundamentally religious.
What a load of disjointed waffle.
Your words Dr Aly: “in several ways this attack simply makes no sense. That is significant because, although we habitually describe terrorism as being senseless violence, that is almost never really true.” It is always true you idiot!! Not even “Muslim sense” justifies it.
All we can all do is hope that we aren't anywhere near any place where a terrorist,or any crazed attack happens. smh waleedaly
Didn’t these people attended university in Australia?
Thus by extension Islam is uniquely senseless as history shows violent terrorism attacks are the long used and preferred tactic of choice of this anachronistic ideology!
Thanks Waleed, it was important that you condemned these attacks as well. I agree, all of these terrorist attacks are senseless. It does not mighty if they are against Christians or Muslims or any religion or race they are senseless.
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