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Jihad against the Yazidis. "Suicide truck bombers strike members of ancient religious sect in northwestern Iraq; dozens killed," from The Associated Press (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
BAGHDAD: Three suicide truck bombers hit members of an ancient religious sect in northwestern Iraq, killing at least 20 people and wounding 70, police said.All the blasts occurred about 8 p.m. in two residential areas primarily inhabited by Yazidis near the town of Qahataniya, 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, police and city officials said.
Several shops were set ablaze and apartment buildings were destroyed by the powerful explosions.
[...]
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attacks. But they bore the hallmark of al-Qaida in Iraq, which has been regrouping in the north of the country after being driven from safe havens in Anbar and Diyala provinces.
Yazidis — a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by some Muslims and Christians — have been the frequent target of violence in northern Iraq, particularly in areas surrounding Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
The stoning death in April of a Yazidi teenager who had recently converted to Islam after she fell in love with a Muslim and ran off with him appears to have triggered some of the worst attacks. Police said 18-year-old Duaa Khalil Aswad was killed by relatives who disapproved of the match.
A grainy video showing gruesome scenes of the woman's killing was later distributed on Iraqi Web sites, but its authenticity could not be independently verified.
Two weeks later, gunmen shot and killed 23 Yazidis execution-style after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths after checking their identification cards in what was believed to have been retaliation for the woman's death.
The bodies of two Yazidi men who had been stoned to death also turned up in the morgue in the northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, six days after they had been kidnapped while they were en route to Baghdad to sell olives, police said.
Police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir and a Sunni tribal leader said Akbar Hassan, 38, and Ayad Khadir, 50, had been kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked insurgents who took them to the predominantly Sunni village of al-Saeeda and ordered the residents to stone them because they were "infidels." The villagers refused, so the insurgents killed the men themselves, Qadir said.
Sheik Ismael al-Hadidi, a Sunni tribal leader in Kirkuk, said about 40 gunmen had distributed fliers signed by the al-Qaida front group the Islamic State of Iraq in the village saying that the killing of the two Yazidi men was in retaliation for the killing of the Yazidi woman in April.
The bodies were left outside for 24 hours before being buried because the villagers were afraid of the gunmen. But some villagers later told al-Hadidi, who informed the family of the slain men, who lived near Mosul.
"By this savage act, the insurgents wanted to win the support and the sympathy of the Sunni residents of al-Saeeda village, but the Sunni villagers' refusal to participate in the stoning shows that those insurgents have failed and they are unpopular," al-Hadidi said.
Relatives traveled to Kirkuk but were afraid to go to the village, so five police cars were sent to retrieve the bodies, al-Hadidi said.
"This is a criminal act carried out by cowards who want to exploit the story of the slain Yazidi woman," one of them, 44-year-old Sami Benda, said. "The two men killed were only peasants who were planning to sell their crops in Baghdad, they have nothing to do with political and religious disputes. We are still paying the price of a foolish, wrong act conducted by small number of Yazidis who stoned the woman."
Posted by Robert at August 14, 2007 6:25 PM
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just being reported by various media: Russian Federation Moscow-St.Petersburg train bombed near city of Novgorod -at least 60 injured with no deaths yet reported; saudi-wahhabi agitated, funded, supported, muslim terrorists -a.k.a. chechen "rebels" suspected
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at August 14, 2007 7:10 PM
Its a gisgusting example of jihad.
I bet CNN doesn't report this .
Posted by: purplemarbles at August 14, 2007 7:19 PM
'Nobody claimed responsibility for the attacks.'
I bet it was muslims.
Posted by: infidel! at August 14, 2007 7:30 PM
Yazidi bombing ,,now up to 175 killed...
Posted by: Madduck at August 14, 2007 7:45 PM
If I recall the Yazidis are satan worshiper and consider Mohammad a prophet of said satan, They understand Islam .
at August 14, 2007 7:48 PM
Ho hum. Another day at the office of islam.
Posted by: CapitalistGig at August 14, 2007 7:54 PM
It cant be an all bad day when a few jihadis are killed.
islam is truly a scumbag death religion.
Posted by: dgene at August 14, 2007 8:06 PM
OT:
I'm looking for a hadith about Muhammad being an arsonist, like when some of his followers didn't show up for the prayers he would set their huts on fire.
Anybody?
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at August 14, 2007 8:19 PM
I hope that members of the media who understand what is truly going on, as far as Islam is concerned, will hightlight this tragic news. This horrible incident illustrates that many Muslims are at war with anyone not Muslim. The MSM wants the story to be between Islam and 'right-wing Christians' or Muslims vs Jews supporting the 'evil, oppressive' Israeli government.
Posted by: maryrose at August 14, 2007 8:30 PM
Elric66 schooled me on a hadith today. I'll look for the link.
Posted by: CapitalistGig at August 14, 2007 8:30 PM
Well, aren't we all "paying the price of a foolish, wrong act conducted by small number" of {religious extremists} who {committed atrocities} against {innocents not involved the alleged action that spawned the retaliation}.
Fill in your favorite {specifics} and you have the state of the world-vs-Islam today.
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at August 14, 2007 8:35 PM
sheik yer'mami,
take a look at this link-(you may have to cruise around, my question was about the role of the messiah)
http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/Intro/islamic jesus.html
Posted by: CapitalistGig at August 14, 2007 8:41 PM
Most Yazidis are Kurdish . They are currently trying to get out of Iraq and go to Europe for a better life.
Posted by: purplemarbles at August 14, 2007 8:57 PM
Found it here, but is this the one?
From Ali Sinas FFI:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/muslisms_west.htm
The holy Prophet of Allah felt so strong about this prayer that he like a typical sick dictator even contemplated burning the houses of those who don’t attend.
"I felt a strong desire to command a man to lead the people in prayer. Then command some men to fetch firewood, then go to the people who have left off praying in congregation and set their houses on fire. By the One in whose hand the soul of Muhammad is, if one of them knew that he would find two good hunted game in the masjid, he would surely come to witness the two."
http://www.iisna.com/articles/congregational-prayer.htm
What a nice prophet!
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at August 14, 2007 9:25 PM
Sad as it is, these killings have no impact on American security. We have to stop wasting our efforts trying to attain social cohesion in Iraq. It will never happen, no matter how much PA spokeswoman Condoleeza Rice lectures them.
Posted by: jewdog at August 14, 2007 9:39 PM
No.
Not in Kurdistan, America's second-most-natural ally in the middle east.
Not in Kurdistan, which has already seen more Muslim violence over the last dozen centuries than any other small nation.
Not in Kurdistan, which is only a part of "Iraq" due to a fluke of history.
Not in Kurdistan, the holy mountain overlooking the wasteland.
You Islamic bastards, you will pay for this.
I need a cigarette...
Posted by: Torquemada22 at August 14, 2007 9:54 PM
And this is the kind of mindset we are bringing in to the West.
While at the same time "caffel latte" socialists tell us that it's all in "our" minds.
Posted by: Joe Bananas in Pajamas at August 14, 2007 10:05 PM
My resident moonbat tells me 'its all caused by the fundamentalist Christians who invade other peoples countries...'
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at August 14, 2007 10:09 PM
From the article:
the Sunni villagers' refusal to participate in the stoning shows that those insurgents have failed and they are unpopular
This is the kind of idiotic baseless assumptions that our media and our political leaders make constantly.
Maybe this particular Sunni village had some previous positive relationship with the neighboring Yazidi/Kurdish village. Maybe these villagers knew these particular hostages. Maybe these villagers didn't want to start a blood feud with the Yazidi/Kurds. Maybe these villagers are anti-Western and anti-Yazidi, but don't happen to belong to the same sect as the Al Qaeda supporters and refuse to follow their instructions. Who knows?
But to assume that therefore these villagers are anti-Al Qaeda, anti-jihad, pro-Western, pro-democracy, etc. is just plain idiotic. This is the sort of naive faulty thinking that has gotten us mired in the millenia-old intra-Islamic sectarian infighting in Iraq in the first place.
Posted by: special_guest at August 14, 2007 10:27 PM
Bloody barbarians! Betcha CAIR doesn't care. And you are right Purplemarbles CNN, CBC et al won't report this because they are left leaning liberals...
Posted by: The Resistance at August 14, 2007 10:28 PM
special_guest,
Right on!
the Sunni villagers' refusal to participate in the stoning shows that those insurgents have failed and they are unpopular
Haven't we been told that one reason for the continued violence is that almost every family in Iraq owns firearms? If these insurgents are that unpopular why wouldn't the Sunni villagers not only refuse to participate in the stoning but then turn around and kill the insurgents? It would seem that the insurgents' willingness to harm other Muslims would remove from them any protection accorded by Islamic law.
The insurgents might have superior weaponry but the villagers would have strength in numbers.
This also raises the question of whose Islam will rule Iraq? Will Sunnis accept Shia rule and will they tolerate "idol worship" that is part of the Shia interpretation? Being a Muslim isn't sufficient protection. You need to be the right kind of Muslim or else remain under threat.
Posted by: PMK at August 14, 2007 10:50 PM
I remember watching the stoning in bits and pieces from some videos taken on a cell phone. It was horrific to see what these people did to that poor teenaged girl. It was something like 1000 to 1, i.e., 1000 big strong men to one little girl. The howling that went on while they diligently put this poor kid to death was beyond disturbing. Someone of these brave men had pulled this kid's pants off and she was down to her panties and a long sleeved shirt or sweater. The men kept lobbing the stones at her and she rolled around to try and get away but then would go incoherent as the life was ebbing out of her. The most enduring and, I think, ludicrous image I remember is that as they were destroying this poor, pathetic looking human being, someone went and covered up her bottom with a pillowcase or something. I don't remember what it was but I do remember that I thought it was ironic that the main thing this guy was concerned about was that they hadn't thought it through when they pulled her pants off, thought better of it and realized it was not appropriate to have her bare legs showing. But it sure wasn't inappropriate for her family to lie to her to get her to come back to the village and then let 1000 men kill her.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at August 14, 2007 11:28 PM
Sad, very sad...but we shouldn't be too surprised either.
Islamists targeting innocent people? No way! Just another day in the life of murderous jihadists.
Posted by: Richard R at August 14, 2007 11:43 PM
If there are any good websites about the psersecution of Yazidis in Iaq, please post links to them on Jihad Watch.
Posted by: Christian at August 15, 2007 12:50 AM
Sheik,
Ask your resident moonbat just what was the motivation for muslims fucking up the lives of non-muslims in Mesopotamia,India,Africa,Iberian pennisula,prior to this Christian "invasion?"
Could the individual in question be referring to that "invasion" of resources to third world nations,the least of which being human compassion, which have been flowing in vain for some decades now and may tap out soon to the detriment of some and the delight of others?
at August 15, 2007 1:19 AM
We need G.C. Scott said
Ask your resident moonbat just what was the motivation for muslims fucking up the lives of non-muslims in Mesopotamia,India,Africa,Iberian pennisula,prior to this Christian "invasion?"
Exactly. We're so self-centered, and so full of self-blame, that we think 9/11 was the first time jihadists ever killed an infidel. We're so unaware of history, we don't know of Islam's record of violence in India, the Balkans, East Asia, northern Africa, long before the U.S. ever existed. But we're learning.
From the very beginning, while Muhammad was still alive and raping 9 year old girls, Islam has slaughtered non-Muslims. This has nothing to do with fundamentalist Christian "invasions", and everything to do with the Qur'an.
Posted by: special_guest at August 15, 2007 2:28 AM
Another noteworthy factor...
this towns alarming proximity to the syrian border.
(another big clue)
at August 15, 2007 2:54 AM
Isabellathecrusader, I remember watching that horrific video on CNN, too. I believe they had actually even pulled her panties down... Unspeakably perverted...
I remember thinking to myself: "A culture like that has no right to exist."
Still, you really have to be Muslim to consider (an they've had several months to consider it in) mass murder of innocent people is an appropriate response... Plus, some of those Satan worshippers already used the stoning as justification when they pulled 20-odd innocent people out of a bus and killed them...
Posted by: Vagn Henning at August 15, 2007 4:02 AM
....In Islam, you are not permitted to love whom you choose, you are not permitted to be happy, you are not permitted to become an individualistic free thinker, you are not permitted to choose your own religion, you are not permitted to point the fallacies of those in charge, you are not permitted to become the least bit capitalistic and run a business for profit, you are not free to enjoy vacations, you are not free to travel safely to other towns, and in fact, you are not free....however, you are free to be a slave of the death cult known as Islam.....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at August 15, 2007 6:31 AM
I have a positive attitude towards the Yazidis. I would very much like to see their culture de-islamized, rid of all the venal behaviours that are a by-product of too primitive a tribal worldview (which is reinforced as they imbibe the surrounding Islamic culture), and for them to be welcomed to become citizens in the West, as I believe Robert has suggested ought to happen for the Assyrian Christians and the Mandaeans. The question of whether the West can import and accommodate Iraqi Yazidis will go a long way to helping us determine the extent to which Islamic perspectives and imperatives have been assimilated by non-Islamic peoples from the Muslim world. I understand that there is hope to raise consciousness among Berbers, and secular Kurds; but what about the Yazidis, who may yet be adversaries of the West although their religion apparently has only superficialities in common with Islam (they worship Malak Ta’us, the Peacock Angel, and regard him as God’s partner, which in Islamic terms makes them rank mushrikun, though they are monotheists)? Are they too wedded to Islamic norms, Islamic mindsets, Islamic “attitudes and atmospherics”? It’s an open question.
at August 15, 2007 10:11 AM
Let's see: we can confiscate the guns, then the stones, then the knives, then what, each other?
Posted by: HOV Dummy at August 15, 2007 10:19 AM
Also, one thing I appreciate about this site is its ecumenism. I’m strongly in favour of building a broad coalition of ALL those threatened by jihad, encompassing not just Christians, Jews and freethinkers but also Dharmic peoples (Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs) and members of small faiths that have been brought to their knees by Islamic cruelty, but who we seldom read about in the West: African and Asian tribals, Taoists and Confucians, John the Baptist-revering Mandaeans, the noble Baha’is (a wonderful group of post-Islamic monotheists who prophesy world unity), and the much-beleaguered Zoroastrians. It is DISGUSTING that the mainstream media never cares to report on these incidents. These people deserve our protection and support, and their spokespeople in the West ought to know they have it. The more we document the injustices they have suffered, the better we can make a claim to the anti-jihad struggle as a universal movement based in human dignity. More active participation by non-Abrahamic peoples in the anti-jihad struggle will be a good thing, especially if they do not espouse supremacist ideologies of their own (e.g. Hindutva or Sikh extremism.) Meanwhile, the Left is so quick to valorize Muslims as “exotic” and “oppressed” people of colour that it doesn’t care to recognize the REAL oppressed minorities, by no means all of them Christian or Jewish, suffering under the Islamic yoke.
Posted by: Funky Child at August 15, 2007 10:29 AM
"It is DISGUSTING that the mainstream media never cares to report on these incidents."
....the MSM is quick to report one child being killed while the coalition forces were attacking the Islamic thugs that infested the childs neighborhood, THe MSM is quick to report US soldiers made Muslims thugs wear panties on their heads, The MSM gleefully reports the deaths of Marines killed trying to rout the Muslim thugs from the neighborhoods of Non FIghting Muslims, The MSM gleefully reports the cheering crowds surrounding Nasrallah or Ahmadinejad, or Al_Zawahiri,The MSM gleefully reports all lawsuits successfully won by Muslims, The MSM rarely reports just what these Islamic thugs are doing to the NonMUslims they find, The MSM rarely reports the incriminating evidence that CAIR and CAIR type organizations are really undercover terrorist organizations, The MSM rarely reports on the writings of the QUr'an, the Hadiths, or the Siras. The MSM has caused the deaths of many soldiers by providing the terrorists with the optimism that the terrorists are winning...The MSM personnell are a treacherous lot....and probably know little of the subject of Islamic Jihad ideology or of Islams grand plans to dominate the world and to eliminate all NOnMUslims....THe MSM never reports on why there are virtually no Christians or Jews in Muslims lands..The MSM never reports on the history of Muslim atrocities from the past..The MSM is anti-freedom..
at August 15, 2007 12:05 PM
The minorities in Iraq need to be fast-tracked for immigration to Western countries if they so wish. We have a moral duty (if not a strategic one) to help them survive. Their numbers preclude them being militarily useful and Washington cynic will always bring up the excuse that it is not in our interest. But their presence among a newly radicalized Islamic society is a cause of instability.
The United States cannot afford instability in the Middle East. It is the source of its energy supply. The oil supply needs to be secured and instability quelled.
at August 15, 2007 9:53 PM
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