“Many fighters from ISIL and other radical Sunni Islamist groups in Syria deem Shi’ites as infidels and consider their shrines idolatrous, and therefore legitimate targets,” Reuters reports blandly, without noting that to consider someone an infidel and his shrine idolatrous does not necessarily require one to think that that person and shrine are “legitimate targets” — unless, of course, one’s religion requires violence against infidels and their shrines, a fact that Reuters, like the rest of the mainstream media, does its best to obscure.
“Islamists bomb Shi’ite shrine in eastern Syria: activists,” from Reuters, March 26:
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamist fighters from an al Qaeda splinter group bombed a large Shi’ite Muslim shrine in the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa on Wednesday, activists said.
The mosque of Ammar bin Yassir and Oweis al-Qarni was once a destination for Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims from Iran, Lebanon and Iraq before it was taken over a year ago by Sunni rebels battling to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
One photo posted on Twitter on Wednesday under the heading “the pagan Iranian shrine” showed extensive damage to the exterior walls and roof of the site, a turquoise and white complex of domes and minarets centred around a tiled courtyard.
Another picture showed concrete and twisted metal strewn on the street outside the mosque – built under Assad’s rule with support from Shi’ite Iran – while another showed an interior wall that had collapsed inward.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the al Qaeda splinter group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had set off two powerful explosions at the mosque early on Wednesday.
Many fighters from ISIL and other radical Sunni Islamist groups in Syria deem Shi’ites as infidels and consider their shrines idolatrous, and therefore legitimate targets….
Alec Bursop says
Well what do you expect?
When Arabs and Moslems, or both cannot find someone else to destroy, then they will attempt to destroy each other.
Such is the nature of the beast.
Let them get on with it I say, as while they are blowing each other up then maybe they will leave the rest of the innocent world alone, or is that too much to expect?
Maybe moderate Moslems everywhere should join together and start putting their own global house in order, rather than the rest of the civilized world having to do it for them?
Michael Copeland says
Alas, there is no mileage in the moderate moslem hope. See:
Time to Brush the Wool Away, Boris
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6350-time-to-brush-the-wool-away-boris
revg says
Keep them focused on each other, there will be less of them for us to deal with when the time comes.
mortimer says
CANNIBALISM. Mohammed demand that ‘hypocrites’ and ‘wrong-worshipers’ be targeted. He destroyed mosques built by Muslims who did not have his authorization. They did not submit enough to Mohammed so he punished them. It’s all about political power and entitlement through worshiping ‘correctly’. Of course, the other side think THEY worship incorrectly too.
BTW, Alec, ‘moderate Moslems’ are non-practicing. They do not participate in jihad. Mohammed wanted to burn their homes.
Jay Boo says
Become a Muslim and tap-dance on the ledge of sanity
DVult says
Just don’t fall in the sink.
Defcon 4 says
Have they run out of Christians to kill and churches to burn down and blow up in Syria already?
gravenimage says
Syria: Sunni Islamic jihadists bomb Shi’ite shrine
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More Islamic internecine savagery. Damn barbarians.