{"id":66643,"date":"2017-06-04T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T23:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66643"},"modified":"2017-06-04T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T23:06:18","slug":"terror-strikes-why-no-reconciliation-between-christians-muslims-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/04\/terror-strikes-why-no-reconciliation-between-christians-muslims-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror strikes: Why no Reconciliation between Christians & Muslims in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong> \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Europe has become the latest theatre for a spate of terror attacks across EU nations. European media goes into panic sensationalism mode claiming assailants shouted \u2018Allah Akbar\u2019 and then automatically Muslims and their places of worship are attacked leaving many Muslims to live in fear and subject to blanket discrimination & hate speech. 91 mosques attacked in Germany in 2016 alone and over half of UK\u2019s mosques attacked since 9\/11. Of 743million population in Europe, Muslims account for 19million. More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe<\/em> in 2015 as a result of EU\/US illegal bombing of Middle East nations. At the same time there are allegations that the Al Qaeda and ISIS are creations of the US\/UK\/EU Governments as a geopolitical tool and a means to bring legislations claiming to protect the people but in reality to stifle people\u2019s rights and freedoms. However, while envoys of these countries peddling geopolitical interests are chorusing \u2018reconciliation\u2019 \u2018peaceful coexistence\u2019 \u2018multiculturalism\u2019 blah blah blah, why are the countries that pen these nomenclatures not applying what they preach to themselves. Where is the reconciliation between Christians & Muslims?<\/p>\n

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When Sri Lanka first experienced terror that was birthed and promoted by the Indian Government, no world leaders condemned India for training, arming and financing Tamil armed militant groups.<\/p>\n

When these armed militant groups turned themselves from initially portraying themselves as a freedom fighters into an uniformed command-structure based terrorist group killing civilians irrespective of whether they were Sinhalese, Muslims, Foreigners or even Tamils including their own cadres, all that the West and their bandwagon of representatives in the form of the UN, INGOs, foreign envoys did was to issue a heartless statement condemning the attacks but asking the Sri Lankan Government to return to the negotiating table. Sri Lanka suffered over 300 suicide attacks by the LTTE and it was always \u2018talk to the terrorists\u2019.<\/p>\n

But, when a supposed attack on American World Trade Centre occurred in 2001, without even investigating who was responsible both Iraq & Afghanistan were bombed. Please explain to us why Sri Lanka had to suffer terror attacks and talk to the terrorists but the West could bomb any country it deemed its enemy?<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton says \u2018we created Al Qaeda\u2019, Amnesty International says US supplied arms to ISIS, Wikileaks says CIA created ISIS while Edward Snowden\u2019s 2013 leak of classified NSA documents also reveal the collaboration of western intelligence agencies in creating ISIS.<\/p>\n

So when ISIS claims responsibility for a spate of attacks that has killed innocent people, in the backdrop of the accusations being made of their creators and handlers, you have to wonder who are the real \u2018terrorists\u2019.<\/p>\n