Business as usual, though many will look for a way to blame the enmity of Sunnis and Shi'ites, which spans well over a millennium, on 234-year-old America. "Attacks on Iraqi pilgrims kill at least 33," by Jomana Karadesh for CNN, July 7:
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- The relentless violence against Shiite pilgrims intensified Wednesday evening, with at least 33 people killed by bomb attacks, officials said.
The attacks, which occurred despite heightened security, left 110 people injured, an Interior Ministry official told CNN. Two people died in separate incidents earlier in the day.
A suicide bomber struck at pilgrims in northern Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Adhamiya district as they were walking toward neighboring Kadhimiya, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have gathered to mark the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Musa al-Kadhim. At least 28 were killed and 63 wounded, the official said.
Two roadside bombs left at least five pilgrims dead and 36 wounded in eastern Baghdad's mostly Shiite districts of New Baghdad and al-Fudhailiya, the official said.
A roadside bomb targeting pilgrims exploded in al-Bayaain, in southeastern Baghdad, wounding at least six. In central Baghdad, another five pilgrims were wounded in a roadside bomb blast.
The attacks came a day after bombings left at least nine dead and 43 wounded. Pilgrims have been targeted since Friday.
The capital is under tight security for the pilgrimage, with many roads blocked and a ban on motorcycles and bicycles in place.
Security measures include: Vehicles to transport pilgrims; thousands of deployed troops; security cameras in and around the shrine; aerial surveillance; and 500 personnel to combat the threat of female suicide bombers.
The Kadhimiya shrine is one of the holiest to Shiite Muslims around the world. The imam died more than 1,200 years ago.
Of course America will be blamed for everything. It already is. Sunni members of the Iraqi Parliament blame the Americans for not being able to force the Shi'a to give up the power they naturally acquired when the Sunni despotism (disguised as Ba'athism) of Saddam Hussein came to an end. Shi'a blame the Americans for not backing them, when the Americans prate of democracy and the Shi'a parties won a clear majority, even if Allawi, backed by the Sunnis, managed to squeak two more votes for his party than did Maliki for his. And in Afghanistan Karzai is ready to turn on a dime to blame the Americans -- he's already been doing it. And in Pakistan? Oh, don't even ask about Pakistan.
Through the prism of Islam, when you view the universe, you have revealed to you a never-ending series of Infidel conspiracies to thwart Muslims and Islam, when all Muslims know that by right -- as Allah gives us to see the right -- Islam should everywhere dominate, and Muslims rule, everywhere.
Kto vinovat? Who is guilty? The Kuffar, by Allah. The horrible Kuffar.
"A suicide bomber struck at pilgrims in northern Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Adhamiya district as they were walking toward neighboring Kadhimiya, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have gathered to mark the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Musa al-Kadhim."
As a Muslim you can go on a pilgrimage to mark the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, who himself was a Muslim killed by other Muslims...and you yourself will get killed by Muslims who object to you showing up to give recognition of a Muslim Murdered by other Muslims...
Muslims understand this and don't care ...it has alway been this way in Islam...tomorrow , they themselves will become the hunters and go out to seek and kill other Muslims for being Muslims...
Muslims understand Islam...
It cannot be denied that religious leaders have a powerful social influence. This is dangerous because they are only experts at religious text and their views do not reflect the real needs of the people. Much of the worlds problems are caused by once efficient secular governments overpowered by superstitious radicals, Turkey is the latest example.
...their views do not reflect the real needs of the people.
Except that "the people" may have different than you idea about what views "reflect the real needs of the people".
Turkey is the latest example.
And then there were none...
There was a certain tribe of natives, who had a Hatfield and McCoy feud going with another tribe of natives...A man of tribe A killed a man of tribe B...
Tribe B retaliated, and killed A's cousin, so A and some friends killed two of B's uncles, their brothers killed two of A's sisters and an aunt...This had been going on for several hundred years...What had started out as about 20,000 individuals in each tribe, had dwindled to about 200, and they were still trying to kill each other...
Sunni and Shia have not yet reached 'and then there were none', but they are working on it...
Islam has proven itself to be a danger to civilization, their attempt to enforce sharia law on outsiders will backfire. There is no room for superstitious lunatics in a modern world that respects individual freedom. Billions of non- believers have now come out of hiding to howl that there is no god. China can be used as an example of how a nation can prosper socially and morally without any help from an invisible universal mind.
I observe that our visitor, 'Morris Wise', claims that 'billions of non-believers have now come out of hiding'.
Really? 'Billions'?
There are around six billion people, total, presently alive on earth.
Of those, it is roughly estimated that there are around 1.9 billion who identify as Christians, about 1.3 who identify as Muslims (some of whom may well be secret apostates - but they don't dare own up to it, if they live in a Muslim country, or in a Muslim 'community' or family, even in the West, in case they get their throats slit), about 938 million listed as 'non-believers' (most of these would be those who have been officially indoctrinated into atheism-or-else, in China, Vietnam, North Korea, and under the Soviets; in North Korea, expressing *religious* belief of any kind in public is liable to get you killed out of hand...or killed slowly and nastily in the death camps), about 820 million identifying as Hindus, about 400 million identifying as Buddhists, and some 383 million following Chinese traditional beliefs.
Somehow, seems to me that this doesn't represent 'billions of non-believers'.
Millions, yes; but not 'billions'. Maybe one billion, tops. One billion is not 'billions'. A singular is not a plural.
When viewing the sectarian violence that is so prevalent in islam, I am often reminded of the nursery rhyme about the cats of Kilkenny.
There once were two cats of Kilkenny,
Each thought there was one cat too many;
So they fought and they fit,
And they scratched and they bit,
Till, excepting their nails
And the tips of their tails,
Instead of two cats, there weren’t any.
Conserve your ammo.....let 'em kill each other off.
I, too, am often reminded of that little rhyme.
And Our Hugh is wont to allude, at times, to a classic children's book by one Wanda Ga'g, entitled "Millions of Cats". If you don't know it, look it up.