Jihad against soccer fans. By Kim Gamel for the Associated Press:
BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombings struck soccer fans in Baghdad as they were celebrating Iraq's victory in the Asian Cup semifinal on Wednesday, killing at least 27 people and wounding more than 100, officials said.
The victims were among the thousands of revelers who took to the streets of the capital after the country's national soccer team beat South Korea to reach the tournament's final against Saudi Arabia on Sunday in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The first attack took place about 6:30 p.m. when a bomber exploded in a crowd of people cheering near a well-known ice cream parlor in Baghdad's western neighborhood of Mansour, according to police and hospital officials. At least 11 people were killed and more than 60 wounded, the officials said.
Another suicide car bomber detonated his payload about 45 minutes later in the midst of dozens of vehicles filled with revelers near an Iraqi army checkpoint in the eastern district of Ghadeer, killing at least 16 people, including two soldiers, and wounding nearly 60, area officials said.
All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information.
The second attack occurred as Iraqis of all ages were packed on top of cars, pickups and minibuses, waving Iraqi flags and shirts, while others danced in the streets near the checkpoint. Men put towels over their heads or sprayed cars with water for relief in the hot summer weather.
Thousands of fans also gathered in the central district of Karradah to celebrate, dancing, beating drums and chanting "Iraq, Iraq." Elsewhere in city, traffic snarled as cars, Iraqi flags flying from their windows, moved slowly amid hundreds of fans. Motorists honked their horns.
The successful run in the Asian Cup has been a cause of much joy in this wartorn country, with Iraqis saying the mixed makeup of the team showed the country's rival ethnic and religious factions can unite despite years of sectarian violence.
Something for the Iraqi people to come together with.
This should show the Iraqi people what Al Qaeda and Sharia law is all about.
(5) Narrated Abu 'Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari: that he heard the Prophet saying, "From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful. Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection."
Muhammadans are only allowed to be slaves to Allah.
Reproduction is good. Hence, fighting and sex are good.
Anything life-enhancing (e.g. music, art, sports) is strictly HARAM!!!!!!! Absolutely forbidden.
So Sad. They knocked out favourites Australia so they have a good chance of winning the whole thing.
Misery loves company
They don't have company
They don't like it when misery doesn't have company, so they try to make it so.
Pathetic.
Sports, except those of a martial nature, are forbidden by Islam as corrupting.
This is simply the fundamentalists showing the Iraqis their true Koranic future.
"There is no fun in Islam."
it is becoming more apparent that the iraqis just do not get it after thousands have been murdered by their fellow muslims...........
if you do not destroy those trying to murder you, you will probably be killed by your enemies........
if the iraqis are this stupid they should wipe each other out..............
The soccer players' shorts exposed more leg than is permitted under strict Sharia law.
The death and destruction that followed, is a natural tradition, among the followers.
What a shame. The Iraqis were acting like normal human beings, enjoying a sports event, celebrating a victory, eating ice cream on a hot day, having fun.
When will they get tired of the militant muslims determined to blow up their own people in the name of allah ? When will they become disgusted with the daily diet of death and carnage ? When will they rise up and realize they are their own worst enemy ?
Islam is a thrill kill cult...plain and simple...