More jihadist mayhem in Turkey. From AP, :
Two suicide attackers stormed a Masonic lodge Tuesday, opening fire with automatic weapons and setting off explosions that killed one person and wounded five.One of the attackers also died and the other was injured in the assault, which comes months after four suicide bombings blamed on al-Qaida killed dozens in Istanbul.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, said Gov. Muammer Guler.
''Two assailants shot the guard in his feet and raked the restaurant of the lodge with gunfire, then detonated bombs,'' Guler said.
Police said the attackers strapped between eight and 10 homemade pipe bombs to their vests.
Yakup Yildirim, who rushed the scene to help the injured, said survivors told him that one of the attackers chanted ''Allahu Akbar'' (God is great) before he detonated the bomb -- which could indicate the attack was the responsibility of radical Islamic militants.
Gee, ya think?
But I thought suicide bombers were only desperately oppressed Palestineans? These guys must have not realized they were machine gunning a restaurant full of Turks. Religion of peace strikes again.
Here is a shock: Islam hates Masons.
http://www.allaahuakbar.net/free-masons/
Warning, you need a strong stomach to read this garbage.
The Manichaeism borrowed by early Islam from Persia, and that underlies the essential problem for Infidels, is that for Muslims, all people are divided into two categories: Muslim (Good) and non-Muslim (Bad). Even if the Muslim is objectively wicked, he is still a Muslim; even if the non-Muslim seems to be doing good, like the American soldiers building schools, hospitals, roads, not to mention the handing out of all those soccer balls to winsome, not-yet-completely-inculcated children, he is simply doing the seductive work of "Shaytan" and is bad.
And all loyalties -- to the state, to a group no matter how innocuous it is -- the Lions, the Elks, the Moose, or even Kramden and Norton's Raccoons of The Honeymooners fame -- are to be regarded with hostility. Hence the attack on the Masons of Istanbul. Nothing at all, no other loyalty, but that to Islam, is permissible.
I read about half of that free mason article. I started laughing about half way through. The part about the movie Independence Day being used as a fear factor to help the masons take over control of the world really got me. Muslims have such impressionable minds.
Muslims are so afraid of being perceived as doing, thinking, being Un-Muslim, that they believe any pap tham comes out of their clerics' mouths. The Koran is so tortured and convoluted in its language, for most, it's impossible to understand UNLESS someone else tells them what it means.
Thus, if an Imman tells them that the Koran says that any nationalistic or even community-oriented organization such as the Masons or Rotary Club, is evil or non-Islamic, he can pull a passage that he says gives meaning to his proclamation. Sometimes the passage seems clear, and sometimes it requires a scholar to "interpret it." Interpretation is always subjective and the interpreter can give any meaning he wants that seems to make sense. This is especially true for the instruction of the illiterate.