As I have said, the Iraqi jihad is not dead. From Reuters:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A string of bombs that killed at least 31 people in Baghdad on Thursday underlined warnings by U.S. and Iraqi officials that violence will not cease with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.In the deadliest blast, a roadside bomb in a crowded market in eastern New Baghdad district killed 13 people and wounded 28, police said.
One wonders what will happen to Islam when it has finally killed off all the people inhabiting this planet...
1400 people died last month in iraq from the Jihadists attacks..5000 over the last 5 months.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
The site linked keeps a deatiled tally of the holy war.
Qur’an:9:29 “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”
Ishaq:325 “Muslims, fight in Allah’s Cause. Stand firm and you will prosper. Help the Prophet, obey him, give him your allegiance, and your religion will be victorious.”
I like to think that with every terrorist's bomb that kills innocents, more and more Iraqis are turning against insurgents. Some of those people have to realize that it's not the Americans who are killing all the civilians, it's the terrorists.
It would not suprise me that even the Sunni's are getting tired of the violence and what has happened, with the big cheese having been taken out this will give confidence to the Iraqis that ending terrorism can be done.
Bye to a (fill in the blank)....
The vid....
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/06/08/video-zarqawi-airstrike/
This will Not make Islam happy.........Spanish Socialist MPs hope to persuade parliament to back a landmark project seeking human-like rights for apes such as chimpanzees and orang-utans. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5058986.stm
"It would not suprise me that even the Sunni's are getting tired of the violence..."
-- from a posting above
They will never get tired. They are used to it. They will not ever surrender power to the Shi'a. It is an affront, to the superior Sunnis, inside Iraq, and outside Iraq. They may temporarily pretend to accept the new order. But they never will.
Hugh- Is it, for lack of a better term, the Shi'a's "pope/saints problem" (doctrine) or racial/ethnic as well which the Sunni's find abominable?
There is an ethnic element, in that some of the Sunnis sense "Persianness" -- sometimes correctly -- in the Shi'a. But after all, Shi'a Islam began among Arabs, not Persians -- but then was adopted by them, and there has always been a strong Persian-vs.-Arab element in the adherence to, and attacks on, Shi'a Islam.
Don't look only at what Zarqawi says. Nor at what is said by imams in Saudi Arabia. No, look instead at what Mubarak said a few weeks ago about the Shi'a. That's the kind of thing that reveals the scope of the dislike or hatred felt for the Shi'a.
And of course, not a syllable of protest came from the Arab League when the Kurds were being massacred. That's to be expected. They weren't Arabs. They were being killed by Arabs. So who cares? But not a syllable of protest came from the Arab League when the Shi'a were being massacred. That is telling. These so-called "takfiri" are not a mere handful. There is one Sunni terrorist group in Pakistan that specializes in killing, not Infidels, but Shi'a -- or rather, for them the Shi'a are Infidels. This goes back to the first half-century of Islam. It has continued to this day. It will not be solved by Infidels, or even more money being lavished upon Iraq by Infidels.
Hugh:
I wonder if this is the group the Archbishop of Canterbury congratulated recently.
The Archbishop of Canterbury sent a congratulatory letter to a madrassa in Pakistan after they'd shown him round and, evidently, told him they were interested in "promoting interfaith peace". They are linked with a terrorist group that has killed hundreds of Shia.
Here's the link.
I can only feel contempt for the man. It's his business to know who he is congratulating not to congratulate people on the basis of what they say to him and his aspirations for "inter-faith dialogue" without knowing what he's dialoguing with. He's a fool - and not a "holy fool" but a dangerous and irresponsible twerp.
Interesting. I knew the conflict went back 1300 years but now it seems to have morphed from stictly theological differneces to racial one when I see Arab countries hav'nt even been allowed to open embassies in Shi'a controlled Iraq while other countries have and when I see Arab Shi'a like Sadr maginalized (or attempting to) by non-arab ayatollahs like Sistani. I guess my main question was rehtorial if Arabs have a Arab supremacy complex, yes they do, but how much % wise does this play in the hatred? Or is it all about power thus wealth or loss of it.
Drarnit::
I always forget to write something right after I post... so used to being able to edit..:)
Anyway I did'nt see what Mubarak said a few weeks ago about the Shi'a? Do you have a link please?
Did all the good Muslims in Palestine and Pakistan dance after this latest atrocity?
On the original story - will good news never cease?
Hugh
Was Sipah-e-Sahaba the organization you had in mind? I have never read about them attacking anyone else, unlike Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad, et al.
The Archbishop of Canterbury needs to take a leaf out of Cardinal Pell's book. It truly mystifies me how red alert signs are everywhere about Islam and yet the kowtowing continues. I used to think it was because most people don't care unless something affects them personally. However when you consider 9/11, Madrid, London, Bali, etc. etc. a lot of people have been personally affected. As others on this site have pointed out it could take many more Islamist atrocities before the gloves are off.
Zebo asked.. "Anyway I didn't see what Mubarak said a few weeks ago about the Shi'a? Do you have a link please?"
Zebo, I found that article on the Australian broadcaster SBS's web site a few weeks (maybe a month?) ago. It may still be there.
Strange with all the Sunni protests about the US "occupation" of Iraq, here was Mubarak pleading for the coalition to remain in place otherwise with whole mid-east would be engulfed in a Shia vs. Sunni battle.
Which only goes to prove that the sooner we get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the better it is for all of us infidels. Leave them to it.
cathkins writes: "The Archbishop of Canterbury needs to take a leaf out of Cardinal Pell's book. It truly mystifies me how red alert signs are everywhere about Islam and yet the kowtowing continues."
The kowtowing is directly due to the infestation in the West of the left-wing termites: nonjudgmentalism, moral relativism and multiculturalism. That infestation has now invaded even the Christian Church, making it increasingly difficult even for devout Christians to pass moral judgment on the actions and goals of Islamists (or on Saddam or on anyone else).
Episcopalianism, for example, is pretty far gone; it's rotting away as we speak. At the present rate of decay, in much less than ten more years it will be indistinguishable from the Unitarian Universalists. At which point it will be dead.
The mos will keep killing each other and civil war looms its head over iraq regardless of how many troops we loose or dollars that we spend in iraq.
Arm both sides and let them kill each other until their is a winner.
I don't know Steven, there has always been a strain of self blame and guilt in Xtianity that is its strength and weakness
Infidel Pride,
Do you want the good news to cease ? ;)