Whoops -- actually it wasn't Islamophobes. The culprits were, of course, Sunni jihadists. The Sunni/Shi'ite Jihad continues. "Bomb in Baghdad strikes Shiite pilgrims, kills 6," by Sinan Salaheddin for Associated Press, August 16 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
BAGHDAD – Iraqi police and hospital officials say a car bombing targeting Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad has killed six people and wounded 11 others.The officials say the parked car exploded at about 9 a.m. Saturday near minibuses assembled to pick up pilgrims in the city's mainly Shiite district of Shaab....
Several bombings in recent days have targeted Shiites heading to Karbala for a major religious festival. U.S. and Iraqi troops have stepped up security measures for the pilgrimage but the hundreds of thousands of travelers remain vulnerable on the road.
How does a Muslim going to pray identify the Muslim coming to blow him up?.....
OK, OK, I know this is a trick question..
How does a practitioner of the religion of peace deliberately target a fellow-believer?
(not a trick question!)
HA!
How does a practitioner of the religion of peace deliberately target a fellow-believer?
(not a trick question!)
Posted by: PMK
By denying that he's a fellow-believer, and by saying that he has hijacked the ROP.
You forgot to mention that all of this has nothing to do with Islam!
Jihad either...
All due to "occupying forces".
It is the Jews fault...
what are you islamophobes? This kind of stuff happens all the time here in the US. Why, just last week in my hometown, the Lutherans at Church of the Redeemer attacked the processional at the (Italian) Catholic outdoor mass.
/sarc (did I really need this?)
The mighty GOP made the Muslims attack the other Muslims.
These bombers are no credit to Mo'Mad. Mo's minions would have ridden down on these pesky pilgrims to personally relieve them of their property, their dignity, and their lives.
Car bombers are wimps. If they're too afraid of defenseless coreligioanists to kill them individually, one on one, I doubt their illah will find them desirable assets to Paradise.
I mean, just look at all the booty they left uncollected! Probably the equivalent of ten or twenty bucks, per person. Look at those persons left behind! Some of them would have made dandy slaves and concubines, no doubt.
Car bombers are just wannabes.
You forgot to mention that all of this has nothing to do with Islam!
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at August 17, 2008 9:10 AM
Because, you see, Islam is peace: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html (not that his habibs, in Riyadh have asked him to parrrot).
Killing people is a sport for Muslims. If they can't find a Jew, Christian, American, or other non Muslim, they kill each other. Why don't we get smart; just get out of their way and let them have at each other.
Maybe they were just racists?
Maybe they just didn't like muslims?
Why don't we get smart; just get out of their way and let them have at each other.
Posted by: Spot on at August 17, 2008 9:43 AM
Exactly, Spot on.
Muslim-Brother-on-Muslim-Brother-internal-sporitual struggle is an internal matter, which "Muslims Brothers" should resolve, whichever way they see fit.
For terror against non-muslims, Muslim community should be held accountable.
eve_anne_gelical,
Your sarcasm is not so far-fetched. In my hometown there were large numbers of various eastern European ethnics. Sixty or seventy years ago, many were still first-generation immigrants, and still bore all the grudges of their homelands. In particular, the Serbian Orthodox church and the Croatian Catholic church were on the same street, about half a block apart. It was not unknown for brawls to break out if both congregations happened to finish their services at the same time. I don't believe that anyone was ever killed or crippled though. And, as I say, this was quite a while back.
ebonystone l have one up when l was younger and went to our Fr.Catholic church, it was across the road from the English Catholic church, and you know we each had our own church bus! The one thing the English had on us, they had a school bus and we walked to school :), but after school and church we all played together, and our fathers all worked together in the mines, and mothers all shopped in the same stores. but seems the muslims need to kill each other, the more islam is unvieled the more we come to know its a death cult.
For the record:
I don't care about Iraq.
I don't care about Iraqis' quality of life.
But, if Iraq or its agents attack the USA, there is a price to be paid - and, that price does not include a blank check drawn upon the American taxpayer.
"Killing people is a sport for Muslims. If they can't find a Jew, Christian, American, or other non Muslim, they kill each other. Why don't we get smart; just get out of their way and let them have at each other. "
Because as long as we Kafir continue to exist, muslim-on-muslim violence will only amount to a close second. Killing us infidels always grabs the coveted first.
So we should just keep killing them right back!
Sadly, the violence in Iraq is more complex than a simple Sunni/Shiite split would explain. Abu Muqawama, Abu Aardvark and SWJ have all touched on the political aspects.
An interesting meme has developed that defines the political split as between the Iraqi powers that be and the so-called "powers that aren't". I lack the understanding to test the veracity of the claims, but we ignore the political aspect of this violence at our own peril.
Someone ask charlie if this is too fact-heavy a post.