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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 21 2019, @07:43PM (18 children)
It was Mohammed's intention to use the Jews, and the Christians.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Sunday April 21 2019, @07:57PM (12 children)
You seem incapable of answering my simple yes/no question, instead trying to divert the topic yet again. Do you ever worry that you're unwilling and/or unable to admit past incorrectness even when you internally know that you were wrong? What would such a quality say about an individual?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 21 2019, @08:47PM (11 children)
Which part of ruling the world have we missed here? Which part of Sharia law? Which part of "kill the infidels"? I am incapable of answering a simple yes/no answer, because there is no simple yes/no answer, thank you very much. It's Islam against the world.
No, Islam is NOT descended from Christianity, any more than Christianity is descended from the Druids. Christianity has "borrowed" Easter, and the Christmas tree from other religions, and Islam has done the same. Mohammed put lipstick on a pig when he talked about the "Children of the Book". That doesn't stop Muslims from collecting jizya when and where they can. That doesn't stop them kidnapping Christian girls, and raping them, and declaaring them to be Muslim.
You want a yes/no answer? Then ask a question that has a yes/no answer. Islam is NOT descended from Christianity, and they have precious little in common with Judaism or Christianity.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:00PM (9 children)
Simple yes/no question, from two of my comments ago: "Do you agree that the original statement I quoted is unequivocally wrong?"
The statement, for reference:
When answering this simple yes/no question, please keep in mind that the Koran says Jesus was born of a virgin mother.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:06PM
Runaway is a Republican, they don't know how to address their own emotions except for anger. Being wrong on an emotional topic is not something he can handle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:26PM (2 children)
The Hebrew "Almah" translates as "unmarried woman" and not "virgin". So I also don't understand what you're asking here?
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:46PM (1 child)
The claim of Mary being a virgin in the Koran doesn't rest on the definition of this word:
Sauce. [clearquran.com] I can't read the original language, but it's my understanding that this is well accepted in the Muslim world.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:14PM
Right but Mohammed was illiterate as was most of the world population, the stories were passed on and embellished via oral tradition before being written down. I don't know if Runaway is religious but as an atheist, I don't accept immaculate conception as fact any more than I accept Mohammed riding a Buraq to heaven. In that regard, the repetition of the myth becomes irrelevant and there's zero import of universalist Christian values in Islam.
Classical Arabic with so many ambiguous loan words that it can't be clearly translated. What is it with religious texts and "virgins"? [inquirer.net]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:46PM (4 children)
Christians worship Jesus as God. Muslims demoted Jesus to a mere prophet. As I stated, Mohammed gave a little lip service to the "children of the book". He used what he could take from another religion, as Christianity has done with a dozen other religions. So, once again, Christianity and Islam share almost nothing. To Christians, Moslems are infidels, because they reject Christ. To Moslems, Christians are infidels, because they reject Mohammed.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:02PM (3 children)
This is what I'm talking about. Last comment you indicated you would answer a simple yes/no question, but this comment you're still incapable of saying "yes, I was unequivocally wrong in making that statement," even though you know you were; you're talking around it instead of saying it. This is like pulling teeth, man! If you can't admit to the external world that you were wrong on a little sub-point how can you possibly expect yourself to adapt to your own wrongness about the world and improve your own model of reality over time? Please, do yourself a favor; just say that you were wrong. It's okay. You don't have to let go of your greater world view yet, just admit that one little statement was factually incorrect. It's not a big deal, trust me. Here, wrap this thread around the loose tooth, I'll tie the other end to that door knob...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:23PM (2 children)
So, one group worships Jesus as God, as part of the Trinity. The other group says Jesus isn't very special, he was just a prophet. So - you say that they "share" Jesus? No, they don't share Jesus.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:54PM
You are saying Jesus is only 1/3 god? That kind of talk, after the Council of Nicea, can get you burned at the stake! Careful, Runaway, you are dabbling in topics you know nothing about.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Monday April 22 2019, @03:16PM
Here's something the bible has in common with The Terminator: they both have a character named "John," albeit very different characters. Having had a good night's sleep are you still unwilling to admit that Christianity and Islam share the quality of having a character named Jesus who was the son of a virgin, even if you want to call them different characters? You can't admit that those religions share anything other than Abrahamic roots just because you said it once yesterday, and now you're still unwilling to admit that "ONLY" was an overstatement? What good can come of this stubbornness? How can others take your arguments in good faith when you pick a linguistic accident as your hill to die on? I know it's probably wasted energy, but I'm trying to prod you into a chance for personal growth here. I hope that you at least reflect on this as a wasted opportunity at some point, and think about how this conversation could have been handled differently.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:08PM
Pretty sure it don't say that, it just says "kill all the Runaways", which is why Runaway is so scared, and why he is trying to rope the rest of us in. And, to add to the list of things that Runaway does not know, "infidel" is not the same thing as "unbeliever". This is not Imperialist Christianity of the Pontifex Maximus we are talking about here.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @09:55PM (4 children)
What Islamophobe websight did you copy this from, you idiot Runaway? Citation needed, so the insanity will be clear to all.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:46PM (3 children)
Have you read the Koran?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:55PM (2 children)
Yes. Have you? Or are you just relying on the batshit crazy rightwing nut-job Cliff's Notes version?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @11:11PM
Why do Muslims pray facing Bakkah, home of the Kaaba? The Kaaba is a pagan representation of Saturn yet Islam considers idolatry and polytheism shirk. All Muslims are Mushrikun, condemned to everlasting hell by their own religion. Indeed, might one say that Islam is Islamophobic?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @12:33PM
Obviously not.
His response was clear,
And no, obviously you haven't. Or, you've read the Sunday School version that they give our to Western morons to convert them without showing the real book.