What the ISIL bombers behind the slaughter in Sri Lanka share with all the other terrorists who have tortured our world in recent years
At least two of the suicide bombers had law degrees. Two were brothers from a wealthy Colombo family, one of whom attended university in the United Kingdom and earned a postgraduate degree in Australia. There were nine of them altogether, eight men and a woman. Most were “well-educated and come from middle or upper-middle class,” Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lanka’s deputy defence minister, told reporters.
The atrocities they committed do not constitute some understandable if misguided act of resistance to Western imperialist hegemony A video released by ISIL’s propaganda arm, the Amaq news agency, shows the killers swearing their loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIL’s genocidaire-in-chief. The ritual is overseen by Mohammed Cassim Zaharan, a vile Islamist hate preacher also known as Zaharan Hashmi, who headed up a Sri Lankan Islamist supremacist group known as the National Thowheeth Jama’ath.
It did not begin with al-Qaida, otherwise known as the World Islamic Front for Combat Against the Jews and Crusaders, and it did not end when the Saudi multimillionaire construction magnate Osama bin Laden was killed following a nighttime U.S. Navy Seals raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.
It’s what possessed Tarrant’s role model, the Knights Templar fantasist and Norwegian Armed Forces reject Anders Breivik, when he set out on a killing spree in July 2011, in Oslo, leaving 78 corpses in his wake. It’s what preoccupied Robert Gregory Bowers, the 46-year-old truck driver, conspiracy theorist and racist loner facing 63 charges arising from last October’s mass shooting during Shabbat services at the L’Simcha synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 Jews dead.
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