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Pakistan: Islamic jihadists throw grenades into crowded movie theatre, murdering eleven people

Feb 11, 2014 12:30 pm By Robert Spencer

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These Islamic jihadists think that it is sinful to see movies. And to drive that point home, they resort to murder. They do not think it is sinful to murder people who watch movies. It is only sinful to watch them. This is what is behind the Islamic critique of Western immorality: a culture of violence and intimidation that is only moral because people are too afraid not to be — not because they are interested in cultivating genuine virtue, or even have any clear understanding of what that is.

“Attackers throw grenades at moviegoers in Pakistan,” by Munir Ahmed for the Associated Press, February 11 (thanks to Kenneth):

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Assailants threw grenades into a crowded movie theater in northwestern Pakistan, killing 11 people, officials said, in an attack that shows the challenges as negotiators face off in talks between the Taliban and the government.

One of the grenades blew up the main door, and two more exploded inside the theater as about 80 people were watching a movie called “Yarana,” which means friendship in Pashto, officials said. The floor of the cinema was streaked with blood while some of the seats were torn from the force of the explosion.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred in Peshawar, a city near restive areas on the Afghan border that are home to Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaida-linked foreign Islamic militants. Many Sunni Muslim militant groups view movies and other forms of entertainment as obscene Western influences.

The manager of the cinema, Fayaz Khan, said he hadn’t received any threats from anyone and urged the government to provide protection for them in the future.

Police official Kamal Khan said the investigation was continuing, and it wasn’t clear how many attackers were involved. Another official Ijaz Khan gave the death toll and said some 20 people also were wounded.

The attack comes days after Pakistan began a peace process with Taliban militants fighting in the country’s northwest to end the violence that has killed more than 40,000 people in recent years. The Pakistani Taliban, formally called Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, is separate from the Taliban fighting NATO-forces in neighboring Afghanistan. Although the two groups share similar ideology, the Pakistani Taliban has focused its fight against the Pakistani government….

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  1. mariam rove says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    what a bunch of animals. M

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 12:40 pm

    The Taliban’s idea of Sharia law…human sacrifices will occur every day until morale improves!

  3. Salah says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 12:46 pm

    “Many Sunni Muslim militant groups view movies and other forms of entertainment as obscene Western influences.”

    According to Google Trends, many, many others don’t!!!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-muslims-watchce-que-les-musulmans.html

    • pedr davis says

      Feb 12, 2014 at 5:03 am

      Unfortunately it is generally accepted that it only takes 3% violent radical to control the ENTIRE population.

      Viz. Nazi Germany. By the time the fools woke up it was too late.

      We have a hundred TIMES the information they did/.

      What will OUR excuse be as we see our grandchildren rounded up wholesale and sold into slavery, if they find out we could have DONE something??

  4. KrazyKafir says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 12:51 pm

    For the mujahideen, the only acceptable movies are, beheading movies, otherwise known as, Islam-o-porn.

    • Wil23424 says

      Feb 11, 2014 at 6:51 pm

      The irony is that hardcore western porn is big in Islamic nations.

  5. Lookmann says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 1:31 pm

    This movie hall is known for showing soft-porn stuff, under Taliban threat for a long time.

    ‘ The moustachioed usher took the ticket, waved his torch and revealed a secret Pakistani world with a single, blunt question: “Sexy movie?”

    They were the only words of English in his stream of Pashtu, the language of the north-west, a place where the Pakistan Taliban attack CD shops, as well as women who work outside the home, barbers and anyone else they accuse of promoting decadent Western values’

    See more at

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10630969/Inside-Peshawars-last-porn-cinema.html

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Over here, holier-than-thou means maybe some sneers or even shunning. Over there, the recipe is explosive, as in explosions ripping off body parts as the less holy drown in their own blood. Praise Allah and the flea-bitten nag he rode in on.

  7. Champ says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 2:24 pm

    I see movies are a no-no, but cold-blooded murder is a-ok–got it! …wow what evil perps.

  8. Donkey says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    Taliban realize that their god is to weak to educate their people. So they have to behead, and kill more people so others will frighten and surrender to poor god.

    • Jay Boo says

      Feb 11, 2014 at 5:18 pm

      The Taliban give new meaning to the common expression “God help us”
      They are unselfishly ‘helping Allah’ while they simultaneously insist that Allah is Allah is all powerful.
      The Islamic expression that claims that every Muslim’s life is controlled by the will of Allah appears to be nothing but a sleazy Muhammad inspired loophole to avoid any accountability.

  9. pongidae rex says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    Subhuman. It is time to call out Islam for the line it has crossed. Subhuman.

  10. Jerry says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    They prefer righteous Islamic educational films, such as toddler female creche where Islamic clergymen are emulating with little girls what Mohammed PBUH (P… Be Upon Him) was doing with Ayisha – the toddler he “married” when she was six years old.

    Ravish a toddler and thus become as righteous as the Plunderer for Profit.

  11. Wil23424 says

    Feb 11, 2014 at 6:46 pm

    Good grief.

    These doers of moral evil would probably think my novelization of Song of Solomon was pornography!

    Never mind that it quotes the entire book of Song of Solomon as it went along. Oh, but it depicts a wedding and a happy couple afterwards: horrors!

  12. Cindy Mccoy says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 5:07 am

    These folks are the worst in the world. They are bullies and ugly to the core. They are the sons of satan. One day they will get to live with him for eternity. My heart breaks for the innocent people who are killed. I wonder do they think I have the right to kill them because they disagree with me??? I pray for all those who are persecuted for their faith in Christ. One day Jesus will avenge their blood. Oh, Jesus let it be today.

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