Terrible news this morning .More than 280 innocent people have been murdered and at least 500 hundred injured in a series of 8 simultaneous bomb blasts at 3 churches and 3 luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.
The BBC is reporting that three police officers were also killed during the arrest of 7 suspects. A further 17 arrests have since been made .
With the Christchurch Mosque killings still raw in our own nation’s memory our hearts go out to the families and friends of the dead and injured.
At this stage no one has apparently claimed responsibility for the attack but there is little doubt that it is an act of extremism .
While putting a label on such horrific acts doesn’t explain them, it does help us to see how dangerous fundamentalist beliefs of any sort can be whether they happen in New Zealand, Sri Lanka ,Somalia, Egypt or again just last week in Northern Ireland.
It also reminds us that hatred knows no colour, race or religion.
If we are to have any hope of defusing it in our species we need to put a lot more resource into understanding what drives some people to do commit such terrible acts of violence.
Because currently we know more about the dark side of the moon than we do about the dark side of humanity.
Bryan Bruce is one of NZs most respected documentary makers and public intellectuals who has tirelessly exposed NZs neoliberal economic settings as the main cause for social issues.
Indeed, Bryan.
Well said.
This is a tragedy on a colossal scale. To understand what drives this kind of mass-murder is as important as stamping it out.
You’ve called it correctly, Andy. It’s started.
There is a code to all the numbers quoted in the Press. Look them up in Strong’s Concordance.
Stand firm. Yah Bless
Good God – are you for real?
Shocking. + 1 “our hearts go out to the families and friends of the dead and injured.”
I am now in deep shock that this is a deliberate widespread attack on Christians so I am now living in fear of my life now as I was bought up as a christian and these thugs are effectively threatening my life.
I wish the hearts and souls of those families affected be healed by the grace of god.
Peace will only be restored when these thugs are caught and made accountable for their crimes against all peaceful loving Christians.
Peaceful Christians? You mean like the US and European militaries that have left the planet awash with the deaths of millions of non-Christians? No only that, they refuse to be held accountable for war crimes they have committed along the way. Even Jesus had something to say about motes and beams….
“…we need to put a lot more resource into understanding what drives some people to do commit such terrible acts of violence.” Yes.
I have never forgotten how the Dom-Post published an editorial post 9/11 wondering what the Muslim world had against the Western World, i.e. us. The Dom-Post may have been stumped, but a group of ordinary people in my workplace discussed it at every opportunity throughout that day and we had little trouble in coming up with reasons which I think we all agreed upon and largely agreed with.
The saddest damn thing was a respected Indian colleague coming in that morning and saying that she wanted us to know that she was not a Muslim.
The Sri Lanka carnage is unbelievably horrific and evil.Whether the political will and skill exists to address these festering poisons and hatreds, I don’t know.
Xenophobic Hysteria Chaos Cascade catalyzed by Catholic scandals and the Christchurch shooting is my opinion. As a quantum physicist
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