Despite Karzai's statement below, there has been no eruption of outrage from the Muslim world -- a reaction that is a certainty when non-Muslims fight back against jihadists.
"Afghan car bomb kills 14 children," from CNN, December 28 (thanks to all who sent this in):
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb blast near a voter registration site killed 16 people, 14 of them children, and wounded 58 in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, according to a senior police official and the U.S. military.
A Taliban spokesman said one of his group's fighters carried out the attack.
When security guards stopped the car at the entrance to the Mandozai district headquarters, the driver detonated the explosives inside the car, Khost provincial security chief Mohammad Yaqoub said.
A security guard and an Afghan National Army soldier were among the dead. There were no military casualties, said U.S. Col. Gregory Julian. Coalition and Afghan forces worked together to evacuate the wounded to military and civilian hospitals, he said.
The military released photos of the incident, saying they "provide further proof the Afghan militants are not interested in the welfare nor benefit of the Afghan people."
Dozens of tribal elders were meeting nearby in the district administrative office at the time of the bombing, the police official said. The Mandozai district is in the Khost province.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, said the suicide bombing was carried out by Qari Hameedullah, a Taliban fighter.
Elsewhere, a rocket attack in Kabul killed three teenage sisters and injured four other people Saturday night, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said in a statement.
The girls died when one of two rockets fired on Kabul crashed into a house in the southern part of the city. In the statement, Karzai called those who fired the rockets "enemies of Afghanistan" who "can't achieve anything by firing rockets but the killing of innocent civilians."
Not unlike Hamas.
The president called the suicide bombing an "un-Islamic act" and said those behind it "are not aware of the Islamic teachings which outlaw the killing of innocent people. Those who ordered and executed this attack cannot escape the revenge of Afghans and God's punishment."
Shouldn't that read: "Taliban claims credit" ??
"The president called the suicide bombing an "un-Islamic act" and said those behind it "are not aware of the Islamic teachings which outlaw the killing of innocent people. Those who ordered and executed this attack cannot escape the revenge of Afghans and God's punishment.""
Is the President aware of Islamic teachings that allow the killing of non-Muslims, something stated many times in the Qur'an and the Hadith and subsequently understood by all schools of Islamic jurisprudence throughout history up until the present day?
no one cares about murdered children
unless Israel or the USA can be blamed
Where are the pictures of the murdered children?
The stories from broken hearted families?
Ploome above has it right...
Ploome- no one cares about murdered children
unless Israel or the USA can be blamed
- I think this is Israel, USA and India now.
This obviously is Mullah Omar's taliban which is an ISI asset.
Well, if they breed them to be 'martyrs' then shouldn't we all be glad that they went where Allah wants them to be?
muslims hate more than they love their children.
They breed their children to be martyrs they teach them hate for the Jews and other non Muslims. We have seen here on this site in Pakistan they use false information about the partition of India and denigrate Hindus. We have seen that Palestinians use their children and teach them hatred towards the Jews.
The president called the suicide bombing an "un-Islamic act" and said those behind it "are not aware of the Islamic teachings which outlaw the killing of innocent people.
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Jihad on kids. Appalling.
Amazing, isn't it, just how many Muslims seem to be unaware of the ban on the killing of innocent people? Also, would Karzai have used the same rhetoric if the victims had been Infidel children? Or would he not consider them "innocents"?
In any case, many Muslims seem little perturbed by horrors like this. Any children "accidently" killed by "Shahids" are considered Martyrs as well.
If these "Taliban" had been properly and timely killed by western forces, this never would have happened.
Let's not blame this entirely on the West.
As long as there is Islam there will be Taliban like groups. Sunffing Islam is gonna be difficult. (Duh..)
Snuffin' Islamic radicals is not quite so hard, but in the end only dulls that particular sword of Islam. Plenty of bodies to grab up weapons in Pakistan and Iran to replace those blown apart for Allah.
By the way, the video http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=video/video_show.php&id=52052# of these children dying is quite disturbing in the cold blooded nature of the attack. This "martyr", got popped short of his target and despite the kids being clearly visible, he detonates to kill the 2 guys that stopped him. I guess the kids were just collateral damage along with everyone else in the area.
The true cutting edge of Islam is not the one that inflicts terror on those who refuse to submit. It's the one unseen and slow to draw blood. The Jihad that begins with footbaths and hiding the Cross so as not to offend "anyone".
Look at the UK. Is it too late for them? Have they discovered the fire burning in time? I wonder. Some have seen the flames, and know them for what they are. Others see them and call them something else...something less "alarming".
When people who are calling for your death are allowed to meet in public places for the purpose of persuading others to join them in the killing, and it's all in the local paper...ya got t' be pretty stupid to ignore it all. Now THIS, you can blame the West for. For inventing Political Correctness and Multiculturalism. I blame the media more than anyone/thing else. Buncha liberal tree huggin' morons bent on our destruction without even knowing it.
Islam is a lie and truth is killing it.
The president called the suicide bombing an "un-Islamic act" and said those behind it "are not aware of the Islamic teachings which outlaw the killing of innocent people. Those who ordered and executed this attack cannot escape the revenge of Afghans and God's punishment."
Islam also teaches that only Muslims are "innocent people". Muslims are to have no dealings with non-Muslims and not take any of them as friends. Try telling us that Mr. President.
If there were no infidels, the Sunnis and Shi'ites would be slaughtering each other as 'apostates'.
Islam: a killer creed.