Letter to Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher on your visit to Sri Lanka

Dear Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Welcome to Sri Lanka! I am pleased to see that you have met the Prime Minister and that you will be visiting the Easter Sunday attack sites in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is a beautiful country with wonderful people. Ten years after the end of the three-decade war, the entire nation was shocked by the Easter Sunday attack in 2019.

How the US government responded to Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attack

The response of the United States of America especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attack is a defining moment in the history of counter terrorism. Immediately after Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attack on April 21, 2019 that killed five US nationals, a FBI team located in Singapore flew into Colombo.

Zahran Hashim speech recorded a day before the Easter Sunday attack in 2019

In this disturbing video, we can witness the shocking truth behind Zahran Hashim and his cohort of suicide bombers, as they orchestrate one of the most worst terrorist attacks in the history of Sri Lanka.

I present this footage to the public, fully aware of its unsettling content. This speech of his sheds light on the atrocities committed by those who fall victim to the dangerous allure of extremism. In it, we see the group consisting of Zahran (the leader and the bomber of Shangri-La) and what most likely are his 7 co-suicide bombers, excluding Fathima Jiffry who blew herself up in Mahawila Gardens in Dematagoda. All participants in the video are wearing outfits similar to the Islamic State (IS) members, and have behind them a banner of the IS flag.

Thaslim is a true hero of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka was saved from an islandwide terrorist attack by M. R. M. Thaslim said Professor Rohan Gunaratna at the launch of his new book “Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre-Lessons for the International Community” at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies in Colombo on July 28, 2023.

Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre

Radical Islam is an enduring global challenge that presents a national and international security threat. Instigation by hate preachers, inadequate government, societal attention, religious and reciprocal radicalization have allowed this threat to manifest into terrorist violence. Extremist ideologies have infiltrated religious, educational, and digital spaces and thus, terrorism’s shadow continues to shroud the safety and […]