Most were “well-educated and come from (the) middle or upper-middle class,” Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lanka’s deputy defence minister, told reporters. The atrocities they committed do not constitute some understandable if misguided act of resistance to Western imperialist hegemony. This makes the Sri Lanka bloodshed one of the worst terrorist outrages since al-Qaida’s 9/11 slaughters in the United States. It’s all the same rationale for the enslavement and murder of Jews, or Christians, or Muslims, or women. All they reveal is that they want us to be mistrustful of one another, to be fearful of one another, to hate one another.

Source: National Post April 24, 2019 17:26 UTC