The Catholic archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Ranjith, “met with ambassadors of Islamic countries who expressed condolences over the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings and assured him, he said, that there was ‘no connection to Islam.'” No one who thinks could possibly take this seriously. To understand the 1,400-year link between bloody jihad conquest and normative Islam, read The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS. Muhammad also instructed his followers that “war is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.268).

Yet Cardinal Ranjith believes the ambassadors, who were from countries including Turkey (where leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan aims to “decimate” the Kurds, etc., and had Turkish soldiers recite the Qur’an before going out to battle them); Pakistan (known for its cruel blasphemy laws and violent persecution of Christians); Egypt (where Muslim Brotherhood violent persecution of Christians continues); Qatar (a Salafi state funder of jihad terror); and Saudi Arabia (a Wahhabi state funder of jihad terror). Ranjith was so pleased by the meeting that he fell for the ambassadors’ words of deceit, stating: “We are very happy and thankful to the ambassadors of the Islamic countries for having coming here to express their solidarity with us.”

Ranjith stands in stark contrast to high-ranking Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, who understands the nature of the jihad. Sarah has compared “the modern influx of Muslim migrants to the invasions of barbarian tribes that ultimately brought down the Roman Empire in a.d. 475.”

“Sri Lanka Cardinal Says Muslim Envoys Assured Him Bombings Had ‘No Connection to Islam,’” by Patrick Goodenough, CNS News, April 25, 2019: