#MyJihad in Pakistan: Death toll rises to 81 in jihad attacks on billiard hall

There is, meanwhile, absolutely no investigation of the belief-system and ideology underlying this carnage, much less any attempt to combat it. That would be "Islamophobic." "Dozens killed in twin bombings on Pakistan billiards hall," by Mujib Ahmed and Andrew Mach for NBC News, January 10 (thanks to Kenneth):

Updated 7 p.m. ET: The death toll from twin bombings on a billiards hall Thursday in southwest Pakistan rose to 81, with at least 120 more injured, according to a senior police official.
Police officer Hamid Shakeel said the bombs went off about 10 minutes apart, The Associated Press reported, with the second blast causing the building to collapse. Several nearby shops, homes and offices were also damaged.

Lashkar e Jhangvi, a Sunni Muslim militant organization aligned with al-Qaida, took responsibility for the attack.

Many of the dead and wounded were Shiite Muslims, officials said; police officers, journalists and rescue workers who responded to the initial explosion were also among the dead, the AP reported....

The pool hall assault in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, was the third terrorist attack of the day in Pakistan.

Earlier, a bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers in a commercial area in Quetta killed 12 people and wounded more than 40 others, Shakeel said, the AP reported.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, a bomb in a crowded Sunni mosque in the northwest city of Mingora killed 22 people and wounded more than 70, said senior police officer Akhtar Hayyat, the AP reported.

It was one of the country's deadliest days in recent years.

The Pakistani government's failure to crack down on the killings of the country's Shiite were criticized by Human Rights Watch, which said more than 400 Shiites were killed in targeted attacks in Pakistan in 2012.

"2012 was the bloodiest year for Pakistan's Shia community in living memory and if this latest attack is any indication, 2013 has started on an even more dismal note," Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistan director at Human Rights Watch, told the AP.

"As Shia community members continue to be slaughtered in cold blood, the callousness and indifference of authorities offers a damning indictment of the state, its military and security agencies," Hasan said. "Pakistan's tolerance for religious extremists is not just destroying lives and alienating entire communities, it is destroying Pakistani society across the board."

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undaunted | January 11, 2013 7:35 AM | Reply

Hey, bars have billiard tables. Ergo...

http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2011/10/attacks-in-bars.html

https://me.yahoo.com/a/FwMNp.ks0u4Z8nzNZLkxIdwnglE-#78d5d | January 11, 2013 7:46 AM | Reply

The reader might very well notice the these imams and mullah's who mind program others into the wanting to be suicide/homocide bombers are never the ones who actually go go an commit the siuiide attacks. All these Islamic clerics do is brainwash other people into want to do it and then shese Muslim clerics send them out to commit the act of suicide bombing. All at the same time these same Islamic clerics sit in their nice safe homes. This initself say something about the real character of the imams and mullahs.

https://me.yahoo.com/a/FwMNp.ks0u4Z8nzNZLkxIdwnglE-#78d5d | January 11, 2013 8:22 AM | Reply

These jihadists are so viscious that they even murder other Muslims who differ with them a bit. How bloodthristy can they be ? Much of this viloence has to do with the far-fetched and nonsensicsl Islamic doctrine of a parasdise with many virgins for the jihadist who dies in a specific way. The end result of this belief is mass murder and mayhem. To put this another way, the French philosopher ,Voltaire, explained that "As long and men continue to believe in absurities they will contiune to commit atrocities.

duh_swami | January 11, 2013 8:34 AM | Reply

Pool is haram? Why didn't someone tell me before I won the tournament?...Who would think that playing pool in Pakistan could get you killed...
Maybe it's because playing pool is fun and the Ayatollah forbid having fun...But why would Sunni enforce a Shia clerics edicts? Maybe it's because the average players were Shia...That lets me off the hook, I'm a vegan...But it would be wise for Shia pool players to lay low for a while...

https://me.yahoo.com/a/FwMNp.ks0u4Z8nzNZLkxIdwnglE-#78d5d | January 11, 2013 9:18 AM | Reply

The above article not only services to expose the extreme violence of Islam but also it also shows the madness of Islam. The Bible teaches "The hearts of the sons of men are full of evil and there in madness in their hearts while they live, and after wards they join the dead." Ecclesiastes9:3. [NIV]

Meryl Petkoff | January 11, 2013 9:19 AM | Reply

Pool = haram, mass murder = halal

Pedohammed style! http://bit.ly/RoGNa8

SpeakUpForThem | January 11, 2013 9:39 AM | Reply

"members continue to be slaughtered in cold blood, the callousness and indifference of authorities offers a damning indictment of the state, its military and security agencies," Hasan said.

this statement should also be applied to o'bungle and hamhocks for their egregious lack of interest during the real live time viewing
of BENGHAZI. treason.

miriam rove | January 11, 2013 9:48 AM | Reply

The Pakistani government just called for three days of mourning.
M

SpeakUpForThem | January 11, 2013 9:48 AM | Reply

"members continue to be slaughtered in cold blood, the callousness and indifference of authorities offers a damning indictment of the state, its military and security agencies," Hasan said.

this statement should also be applied to o'bungle and hamhocks for their egregious lack of interest during the real live time viewing
of BENGHAZI. treason.

SpeakUpForThem | January 11, 2013 10:43 AM | Reply

"members continue to be slaughtered in cold blood, the callousness and indifference of authorities offers a damning indictment of the state, its military and security agencies," Hasan said.

this statement should also be applied to o'bungle and hamhocks for their egregious lack of interest during the real live time viewing
of BENGHAZI. treason.

godzaconic replied to comment from miriam rove | January 11, 2013 12:11 PM | Reply

Yup, that will make everything just fine.

dumbledoresarmy replied to comment from miriam rove | January 11, 2013 2:51 PM | Reply

Crocodile tears.

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