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According the Beeb (BBC):
At least 137 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police and hospital sources say.
At least eight blasts were reported. Three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo's Kochchikade district were targeted during Easter services.
The Shangri-La, Kingsbury, Cinnamon Grand and a fourth hotel, all in Colombo, were also hit.
A curfew has been imposed from 18:00 to 06:00 local time (12:30-00:30 GMT).
The government also said there would a temporary block on the use of major social media networks.
No group has yet said it was responsible for the attacks.
Update:"At least 207 people have been killed and 450 hurt in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police say."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Entropy on Sunday April 21 2019, @12:52PM (35 children)
It's survived since 1260.. I'm sure the fire isn't part of the larger terrorist attacks on churches all over the globe.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @01:17PM (13 children)
Oh please. If ND was an inside job it wouldn't have started in the scaffolding around the spire. It would have started inside the cathedral where it would have ruined the irreplaceable artwork.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @02:34PM
You mean where all of the cameras and security is that would have been harder to set light to and escape
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @03:54PM (2 children)
Except all the artwork have been moved already for the planned renovation.
And the fire started shortly after it was closed to tourists.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday April 22 2019, @06:12PM (1 child)
That's definitely when I would plan a terrorist attack!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @01:12AM
That's going on your permanent record.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @06:15PM (8 children)
It was easier for the four Moslems to light a fire on the roof, because it would have been difficult to get their drone through the front door.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @11:33PM (7 children)
Do we have an official Soylent drinking game? Should have these rules:
- Blaming the problems of late stage capitalism on Muslims: take a drink
- Blaming the problems of late stage capitalism on Moslems: take two drinks
- "Muslim isn't a race!": finish your drink
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @12:06AM (2 children)
All fun and games until an Islamic extremist kills your friends or relatives.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @03:18AM (1 child)
...and then it's hilarious!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @02:55PM
Predator drone
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @12:15AM (1 child)
Not all M words are the same (bold below added by your obedient AC)--
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/524 [historynewsnetwork.org]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @05:31AM
So, yes, both words have the same meaning
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 22 2019, @04:51PM
- letting muslims in to have the system incorrectly calling itself capitalism continue among a divided society, and who cares if they win, we have among them who will bow to mammon anyway: ?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @10:03AM
If we import many more of them you won't be able to drink.
Just like what is happening in London.
(Score: 4, Funny) by ikanreed on Sunday April 21 2019, @03:03PM
If you're not sure of that benign fact, it's because you're retarded.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday April 21 2019, @03:22PM (18 children)
Events don't support your theory. If the event at ND was part of a bigger plan of coordinated attacks then why weren't there any other churches or hotels in France targeted at the same time? There is also the issue of timing, if it was some grand plan being put into effect why didn't it all happen the same day?
A good conspiracy theory should make you go "hmmm' thoughtfully or trigger aggressive denial. An incredulous "what?" is not acceptable.
Please consider taking a refresher course in conspiracy theory construction, even my 12 year old Nephew could come up with a better one and he has only taken the intro classes.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @04:00PM (1 child)
Various churches have been vandalized in the past week already.
It's just a trend I guess.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @06:18PM
Just recently the son of a sheriff deputy was arrested for burning down three African American churches in Louisiana. Maybe he's vacationing in France?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @04:39PM (14 children)
There have been a string of "church attacks" going on this entire year:
https://www.catholicireland.net/france-shocked-by-spate-of-church-attacks/ [catholicireland.net]
(Score: 5, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday April 21 2019, @05:59PM (13 children)
The "church attacks" your referring to is minor stuff, breaking and entering, desecration, theft and such, common vandalism with no injuries reported. Compared to eight coordinated explosions and 207 dead so far It isn't even on the same page.
The OP was insinuating a connection between last weeks fire at ND in France and the current event in Sri Lanka that isn't supported by the facts currently available. And that was what my comment was addressing.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @06:24PM (12 children)
"The most notable attack occurred on 17th March, when Saint Sulpice, the second biggest church in Paris, was set on fire shortly after midday Mass in an incident that police are describing as arson. The damage is estimated at hundreds of millions of euros – and it could have been much worse but for the prompt response by firefighters."
That is minor?
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday April 21 2019, @06:45PM (11 children)
no injuries or deaths reported.
So yeah, minor. At least in my book.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:15PM (3 children)
Same for Notre Dame... these are all "minor" events according to you.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday April 21 2019, @11:45PM (2 children)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @06:54AM (1 child)
So as long as the place gets evacuated, buildings can be demolished at will by random assholes without you even raising an eyebrow. Got it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 23 2019, @04:02AM
Because relative harm means nothing to you? Burning down a cathedral in the middle of a crowded mass would indeed do more than raise an eyebrow for me. A cathedral merely catching fire in the midst of a risky renovation? Not so much. It's just going to cost them more to renovate it in the end.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @08:35AM (6 children)
So, if someone burned down your house with no injuries or deaths that is "minor"?
A check to see if a statement or contract is fair: turn it around with the position of each party swapped. Do they both agree it is fair?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 23 2019, @04:04AM (5 children)
Particularly, given I have insurance, absolutely. Particularly since the alternative here is burning down my house with my loved ones in it. Houses can be replaced. That makes destruction of such minor.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday April 23 2019, @08:20AM (4 children)
This is like telling us the holocaust is minor compared to Holocaust and global thermonuclear war, quite agreeable but content free.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 23 2019, @01:44PM (3 children)
Which would be a true thing.
Except that it's not. You would be stating a nontrivial fact about the relative harm of the two.
And since when have we been concerned about the low content of SN posts?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday April 24 2019, @06:28PM (2 children)
no you wouldn't. A sum of two disgraces is always worse than either. Think pulseaudio and systemd.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday April 24 2019, @06:38PM
>comment ID #834444
Getting quads of fours in a post about pulseaudio and systemd as disgraces? the universe is telling us something.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 24 2019, @10:32PM
Wasn't relevant to the discussion, not least because nobody claimed otherwise about the above.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @07:40AM
The grand plan doesn't need to do everything on the same day. That is just how you'd do it.
The grand plan is a well-verified conspiracy, not just a theory. You can read about it in the Koran. That book contains the not-so-secret plans to wage war on the rest of us. The plans are pretty high-level. Details are filled in according to circumstances. If somebody invents a new weapon, it gets used.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 21 2019, @04:49PM
Coincidences happen. Here, we have a reasonable alternate explanation that something caught fire in the construction area with lots of flammable stuff available.
As to the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, they already have home-brew terrorist groups such as the LTTE [wikipedia.org] capable of such attacks.