View From The Right: Attacks in Sri Lanka

“When a demographic jihadism is considered as a threat by some whites, then it is termed as Islamophobia, but at the same time, the kafirophobia that inspires so many radical organisations is not even named,” the editorial argues.

Sri Lanka blasts: How the country stepped up its security after Easter Sunday attacks — The editorial talks of the perpetrators of the attacks and notes that “first, we have to accept that this Jamaat does not consist of a senseless, directionless, poverty-stricken, uneducated youth. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

The editorial in the Organiser on April 30 comments on the recent attacks on luxury hotels and churches in Sri Lanka and a mosque in New Zealand. It says that when “Bharat is finding its own way to fight state-sponsored terrorism from across the border and trying its best to build a consensus on defining and tackling terrorists, a new debate is shaping up globally”. It notes that “though the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, a local group called the National Thowheed Jamath is considered the main executor”. “This is believed as the revenge attack in response to the Christchurch terror strike by a few white supremacists,” it adds.