From CNN, :
KARACHI, Pakistan -- At least 15 people have been killed and 90 injured by a suspected suicide bomber at a Shiite mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said.Hundreds rioted across the city after the bombing, throwing stones and torching buildings.
According to an officer at the scene, the bombing appeared to be a suicide attack.
President Pervez Musharraf condemned Friday's blast as a "heinous act of terrorism" and ordered police to trace the culprits, according to The Associated Press. ...
Video showed the blood-spattered and shattered interior of the mosque with body parts littering the floor along with discarded worship caps and prayer rugs. ...
The mosque is housed in a religious school for students aged between 4 and 18. The school is run by the government and has separate mosques for Sunni and Shiite Muslim worshippers.
Witnesses told AP though that most of the victims were adults who were praying at the mosque.
There have been frequent terrorist attacks and sectarian violence in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and its business hub. Police there have been on high alert since April when they raided a building and found weapons and explosives.
About 80 percent of Pakistan's 150 million people are Sunni, and the rest Shiite. They live mainly in peace, but radical groups on both sides frequently carry out deadly attacks.
Comment by one of the Saudi princes today, on MEMRI: The Zionists created and are backing Al-Quaida. All of these attacks on other arabs are Zionist-backed.
Lord God. We need to get this (idiotic) stuff (lies) broadcast into people's homes on a daily basis. Tho I suppose the 'mainstream' press would ridicule it.
Anyone here have any pull with Fox News?
My dear Gary,
"Comment by one of the Saudi princes today, on MEMRI: The Zionists created and are backing Al-Quaida. All of these attacks on other arabs are Zionist-backed."
FYI, we had that story here last Monday:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/001798.php
Cordially,
Robert Spencer
Murder and suicide are two sides of the same system.
World needs Ataturks and not hypocrites like
Musharraf. Musharraf wants to use jihad to only
burn hindus and for kashmir. But it has also
burnt an american reporter, french and chinese engineers building weapons for pakistan and now
shias who are fighting over who should have
been the 4th caliph in 7th century AD. Fire
and jihadi hatred are alike. They dont discriminate in who to burn.
Ok, this is not a nice thing to say, but I just have to say it.
Is this the peace we are supposed to expect if we embrace Islam?
If so, then what makes the distinction between killing Muslims intrafaith and infidels interfaith? That just doesn't make any sense to me - that is, if Islam is "the religion of peace." ;-)