Funeral jihad. Nothing, indeed, is sacred — except, apparently, jihad. This was another in a string of attacks on Shi’ites. From CNN, :
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A suicide bomber on a bicycle has blown himself up inside a funeral tent at a Baghdad mosque, killing at least three people and wounding 38 others, Iraqi police said.
The Saturday morning attack happened the al-Baya’a district of southwestern Baghdad, police said.
Across the capital, three mortar rounds landed on a procession of Shiite worshippers marching toward a mosque in northern Baghdad, wounding 17 civilians and two Iraqi soldiers, Iraqi police said.
The worshippers were on their way to the al-Kadthimiya mosque in the al-Adthamiya district of Baghdad in a commemoration of Ashura when the mortar attack happened, police said.
Ashura is the commemoration of the death of Prophet Mohammad’s grandson, Hussein, who was killed and entombed more than 1,300 years ago in Karbala.