The escalating Sunni-Shi’ite jihad in Iraq continues to claim lives. But remember: the real problem is “Islamophobia,” and to examine the beliefs that give rise to this never-ending cycle of violence would be “Islamophobic.”
“Car-bomb blasts kill 34 as Iraqis await vote count,” by Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press, May 13, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):
BAGHDAD — Militants unleashed a wave of car bombings in Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people in a show of force meant to intimidate the majority Shiites as they celebrated what is meant to be a joyous holiday for their sect.
The attacks occurred nearly two weeks after Iraqis voted in their country’s first parliamentary election since the U.S. military withdrawal in late 2011. No results have been released, deepening a sense of uncertainty in a country strained by a resurgence of violence.
It was the deadliest day in Iraq since April 28, when militant strikes on targets including polling stations where security forces were voting killed 46 people. No group asserted responsibility for Tuesday’s attacks, most of which hit Baghdad during the morning rush hour, but the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is the most likely suspect.
The group, made up of Sunni extremists, has strengthened control over parts of western Iraq since late December. It seeks to undermine the Shiite-led government’s efforts to maintain security across the country. Coordinated car-bomb attacks against Shiites, whom the group considers heretics, are a favored tactic.
All of Tuesday’s blasts were caused by explosives-laden vehicles parked in public areas. They coincided with the Shiite celebration of the birthday of Imam Ali, the prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law and the sect’s most sacred martyr.
Two blasts killed six people and wounded 13 in Baghdad’s poor Shiite district of Sadr City, according to police.
A little later, a car bomb exploded in a commercial street in the capital’s eastern district of Jamila, killing three people and wounding 10. Police said a fourth car bomb went off near a traffic police office in eastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding seven.
Other blasts struck commercial areas in downtown Baghdad, in the eastern districts of Ur and Maamil, and in the southern Dora district. Those attacks killed 15 and wounded 45, police said.
Yet another parked-car bomb exploded in Balad, a largely Shiite town north of the capital. It killed six and wounded 17, police said….
Richie says
Do these Muslims know how to do anything other than kill people????
Laura says
They breed like bunnies
Shane says
Islam is a religion of war that has great appeal to violent people. this is why so many men convert to Islam while in prison.
EYESOPEN says
Absolute madness. Who knows? Maybe the religion of pieces will be cured by the power of God and just stop the killing. (I have little hope of that, because killing has become a habit for too many.) With – and by – mankind alone, this is impossible. However, for God ALL things are possible.
JIMJFOX says
Your God seems to be asleep at the wheel, as usual- do you never stop to think why the Omnipotent One NEVER, EVER intervenes??
Thought not.
Bezelel says
You have an opinion that doesn’t leave Jews and Christians any better deal than the muslims. Isn’t that special? You definitely have a touch of supremacist in your remarks.
Laura says
Of course this is all the Jews fault you know….as is almost everything including my recent struggles with menopause
I wish I could paste a graphic I found on some random Islamic facebook page I saw last night
Two muslims…one Sunni…one Shia….1 sinister looking Jew whispering in the Sunni’s ear…”Kill the Shia”
Another equally shifty looking Jew whispering in the Shia’s ear “Kill the Sunni”
dumbledoresarmy says
And here, for a return to the sane POV, is the *Jewish* “take” on the Sunni-Shiite civil war.
http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/the-war.html
THE WAR
THE WORLD WAR BETWEEN THE SHIAS AND THE SUNNIS IS NOT MOSLEMS KILLING MOSLEMS
ONLY ONE SIDE IS REALLY MOSLEM!
WHICH ONE?
THAT’S WHAT THE WAR IS ABOUT.
Laura says
funny people these Muslims…nothings ever their fault
JIMJFOX says
When “You are the BEST of peoples” how can anything be your fault?
Just another part of the muslim supremacist ego…
Champ says
The escalating Sunni-Shi’ite jihad in Iraq continues to claim lives. But remember: the real problem is “Islamophobia,” and to examine the beliefs that give rise to this never-ending cycle of violence would be “Islamophobic.”
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Precisely, Robert!
Prinz Eugen says
Odd, but “W” and Mullah Barak have ended or “wound down” the war in Iraq, but the casualty reports and bombings continue almost daily. Since WW II ended in 1945, seems the killings finally went away. Why is Iraq different?
IT WAS NOT DEFEATED!
duh_swami says
I thought Bush was going to solve all those problems with a follow up by Rasool Obama…These failures are more in Rasools camp than Bush, because Rasool was supposed to be doing mop up, but ran away instead. Now their is a big mess without Saddams heavy hand to control it.
duh_swami says
Mr P is way to wordy, chaotic, and bombastic. and is going to be short lived, but can always reincarnate a the letter O as in ‘out to lunch’…
Or Mr Obnoxious.
gravenimage says
Iraq: Sunni jihadists murder 34 with car bombs in Shi’ite areas
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A few days ago one of the regular Muslim apologists who posts here—I can’t recall which one at this point—lambasted Robert Spencer for not noting when Muslims themselves fell victim to Jihad violence.
This is, of course, completely false.
Jihad Watch covers these appalling stories all the time, where violent Muslims savagely fall on each other as well as on Infidels and the “insufficiently Islamic”. Plenty of blood-letting to go around with pious Muslims. *Ugh*.