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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @03:05PM (4 children)
> Because these people were most likely killed by Muslims, we should ignore it because it might make people hate Muslims.
Because these people were most likely killed by extremists, we should stigmatize[1] religious and political extremists of all stripes.
ftfy
[1] -- maybe there is a better word here?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @04:16PM
it's not extremist for islam. it's just islam. "non extremist" muslims are just slackers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:54PM (2 children)
Maybe you should ask a German how sympathizing with non-extremist Muslim immigrants is doing for them.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @11:28PM (1 child)
Or maybe you should ask Germans how sympathizing with crazy racist Fascist extremists worked out for them. (Hint: not well!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @04:09PM
Stop being so xenophobic you ignorant racist. He was a poor immigrant, a political refugee, and a moderate follower of windmill of peace ism.