{"id":87625,"date":"2019-04-25T03:32:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87625"},"modified":"2019-04-25T03:37:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:37:06","slug":"sri-lanka-attacks-who-are-national-thowheed-jamath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/25\/sri-lanka-attacks-who-are-national-thowheed-jamath\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka attacks: Who are The National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A previously little-known group called the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) is being accused of having carried out the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan officials pinned the blame on the NTJ at a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until Monday, when the Sri Lankan government spokesman mentioned its name, very few people had heard of the NTJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group is believed to have splintered off from another hardline Islamist group in the country, the Sri Lanka Thowheed Jamath (SLTJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While still relatively unknown, the SLTJ is a bit more established.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.lk\/article\/580594\/Police-arrest-Thawheed-Jamath-Secretary-as-hate-speech--religious-tensions-simmer-again\">Its secretary, Abdul Razik, was arrested in 2016<\/a>&nbsp;for inciting hatred against Buddhists. He later issued an apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath4-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath5.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath5-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath6-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87630\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath7.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath7-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Jamath3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka News A previously little-known group called the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) is being accused of having carried out the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan officials pinned the blame on the NTJ at a news conference on Monday. Until Monday, when the Sri Lankan government spokesman mentioned its name, very few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}