Sri Lanka Bombings

[BansheeOne]

In isolation, sure, but after the DNC closed ranks in behind Rep Omar after her anti-semitic remarks and made it about "generalized hatred and racism" it's clear that they have a problem calling out certain groups. They fine calling out white supremacists specifically. But Radical Muslims...Nope. It's just generic terms more often than not.

Banshee, remember, where do I work? Who have I interacted with from time to time for 23 years?

 

Oh, having worked in politics for ten years on my part, I'm quite aware of the mechanisms of evasive language, and how it gets copied and excused by copartisans. Often for minute, though not necessarily nefarious reasons. Yesterday's San Diego synagogue shooting triggers me to remember how German politicians tend to speak of "people of Jewish faith" rather than plain "Jews". Nonsensical trouble, you might (and I do) think, not least since I've learned there's more to Jewish identity than faith. In fact, actual Jews tend to be pissed off by this circumspect reference, an attempt to distance yourself from the racial use of "Juden" by the Nazis (who didn't care if individuals were observant, or even from families long converted to Christianity).

 

BTW, the San Diego incident also provides me with this example of different sources using the same cloudy language. However, unless one should believe that the Anti-Defamation League and Simon Wiesenthal Center of all people are colluding to downplay the Jewish angle by making inclusive reference to "houses of worship" etc., I maintain that it's merely used in the expectation that the audience is fully aware of which believers worship at which places for which holidays.

 

After synagogue attack, leaders warn of resurgent anti-Semitism, urge action

Pittsburgh synagogue, ADL and other community heads and politicians raise alarm over rise of anti-Jewish hate, call for more be done to stem violence

 

By TOI staff and Agencies

Today, 4:44 am

 

Jewish community leaders called for redoubled action against anti-Semitism and other forms of hate as officials in the US and Israel reeled following a shooting a California synagogue on the last day of Passover Saturday.

 

[...]

 

The Anti-Defamation League said the shooting was a “reminder of the enduring virulence of anti-Semitism. It must serve as a call to action for us as a society to deal once and for all with this hate.”

 

“People of all faiths should not have to live in fear of going to their house of worship. From Charleston to Pittsburgh to Oak Creek and from Christchurch to Sri Lanka, and now Poway, we need to say ‘enough is enough.’”

 

[...]

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles said in a statement that the shooting was “a horrific reminder that the flames of hatred still burn strong among some.”

 

“An attack, on any house of worship, from churches in Sri Lanka and France to synagogues in Jerusalem or Pittsburgh to mosques in Christchurch, are an assault on human dignity and our rights as people of faith to pray to God,” it added.

 

[...]

 

“No one should have to fear going to their place of worship, and no one should be targeted for practicing the tenets of their faith,” California Gov. Gavin Newsome said in a statement.

 

[...]

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-synagogue-attack-leaders-warn-of-resurgent-anti-semitism-urge-action/

[Ivanhoe]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/04/27/asia/sri-lanka-police-shootout-intl/index.html

Sainthamaruthu, Sri Lanka(CNN) Ten civilians -- including six children -- are dead along with six suspected terrorists after a shootout between police and alleged militants late Friday in eastern Sri Lanka, authorities said.

At least two suspected terrorists are on the run following an explosion that witnesses told CNN turned a house in Sainthamaruthu "into fire."

Earlier Friday, authorities had seized a large cache of explosives, 100,000 ball bearings and ISIS uniforms and flags from a garage a few miles from the shootout.

 

[rmgill]

 

Oh, having worked in politics for ten years on my part, I'm quite aware of the mechanisms of evasive language, and how it gets copied and excused by copartisans. Often for minute, though not necessarily nefarious reasons. Yesterday's San Diego synagogue shooting triggers me to remember how German politicians tend to speak of "people of Jewish faith" rather than plain "Jews". Nonsensical trouble, you might (and I do) think, not least since I've learned there's more to Jewish identity than faith. In fact, actual Jews tend to be pissed off by this circumspect reference, an attempt to distance yourself from the racial use of "Juden" by the Nazis (who didn't care if individuals were observant, or even from families long converted to Christianity).

 

 

The issues is that it's VERY partisan one sided. The DNC allows such yahoos to stay in their party. The GOP actively eschews folks who skyline themselves like that and drums them out of the party. You can see this time and again over the years with various Republicans who have stepped outside of reasonable discourse.

[rmgill]

As if on cue...

The New York Times published this...

[NickM]

So what's the deal here? Sri Lanka's civil war started with that pogrom against Tamils after a squad sized army patrol got massacred in July 1983. That couldn't have come 'out of the blue'. Is somebody trying to do the same there in Sri Lanka: create an anti Muslim backlash that will force millions of Sri Lankans into the arms of Daesh?