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Lethal bungling: Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 24/4/2019

A country bathed in the blood of decades of communal violence continues to teeter before the next provocation, the next inflammatory message.

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It's appalling that there is so little comment about the massacre of innocent Christian men, women and children in Sri Lanka by Islamist fascists. In comparison, there were a number of threads on OLO about the massacre of innocent Muslim men, women and children by a White-supremacist fascist in Christchurch.

Fascists feed each other. In fact, they need each other. Both are pre-civilized, with the psychotic philosophy that if someone from group A kills someone from my group, B, then I can kill anybody from group A - man, woman or child, innocent or guilty of some offence, it doesn't matter. This is fascism, pure and simple: collective, or group guilt for the actions of someone assumed to be part of a group, whatever 'group' might mean.

If I believed in conspiracy theories of any sort, I would suspect that there were deranged people all around the world who believed in the End of Days, the Apocalypse, Armageddon, whatev, who were co-ordinating their fascist attacks, on a sort of tit-for-tat basis - Gramscian fascists bringing down bourgeois society on the "Left', god-knows-what fruit-cakes plotting to destroy all human societies on the Right and replace them with their gods' heaven-on-earth. Surely not.

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Sunday, 28 April 2019 6:30:24 PM
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Much easier to blame poor security than the obvious Islamic motivation for the massacres
Posted by runner, Monday, 29 April 2019 4:05:15 PM
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