Sunni-Shi'ite Jihad Update from CNN:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents shot and killed at least 14 pilgrims from India and Pakistan, one of several attacks in Iraq that have killed a dozen other people during the last 24 hours.
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The attacks against the pilgrims began when gunmen halted their bus on a highway west of the largely Sunni city of Ramadi. After forcing the pilgrims off the bus, the gunmen shot them, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
Eleven Pakistanis and three Indians -- all of them headed for the holy Shiite city of Karbala -- were killed, and their bodies were taken to a hospital in Karbala.
It is not clear whether the gunmen were aware these were foreign pilgrims, and thus looking to create an international incident, when they initiated the attack. But given the occasion for which Shi'ites are gathering in Karbala, there will undoubtedly be more attempts at such attacks in the coming days.
Shiite pilgrims are going to Karbala next week to celebrate the birthday of Muhammed al-Mahdi, the 12th historic imam revered by Shiites. This imam "is expected to return at the end of time as the messianic imam who will restore justice and equity on earth," the Oxford Dictionary of Islam explains.
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It's free, so see you there.
Stuff happens of Islamic pilgrimages same as the mass stampedes at the Hajj. The Iraq Sunnis are far more beastly when it comes to killing Muslim innocents.
Please make an iraquization already, we need it. We don´t want troops there.
As Shiites they should have known better than to go through a Sunni dominated islamofascist town.
americaningermany, the problem as I see it is not Iraq, it is not Afghanistan, it is not Shiite, it is not Sunni. The problem is islam. Until we become committed to the idea of wiping out the source of the problem, it will be like cutting the rattle off of a rattlesnake. The problem will always grow back unless you figure out that what you need to do is cut off the snake's head.
We need to send more such "Indians" to karbala. Better they shaheed themselves over there than create a mess here.
Al qaida's second in command captured. Muslim pilgrims killed. Has sense finally dawned on Allah ? If this good sense continues, may he then dismantle Islam itself and quietly retire into oblivion.
Arjun, I guess they "shaheed" of stayed at home, eh?
"Xtians"?
How clever! Did you come up with that all by yourself, Dumbass?
THIS SITE IS JIHADWATCH, NOT CHRISTIANWATCH
Is that clear enough for you?
I like when muslims kill each other. It is funny and entertaining. I hope America stays in Iraq so that more muslims can have the opportunity to kill other muslims. It's the coolest thing a muslim can do if it can't kill an infidel.
I have recently stopped considering muslims as human. Once the muslim is stripped of human clothing, all that is left is naked evil. That is what we confront. Evil in human form not humans commiting evil.
We in America should know that the "spreading of Democracy" line out of the US Military is a line of bullshit. Our Military is not there to spread Democracy. We are there to kill muslims and to cause muslims to kill each other and to bring misery and suffering to the muslim populations in other lands. As punishment for what islam has done to America.
I just wish the uprising in America would begin. Hopefully Khatami's visit triggers the muslims into jihad in America. Then we can start the long-awaited forced detention and deportation of muslims. A few thousand executions would be good too.
And then we can begin to deal with the muslim infesting Saudi Arabia. Arabs. Scums of the Earth.
Remember. The Enemy: islam and the muslims that spread it.