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Pakistan: Sunni Muslim jihadists murder 23 Shia Muslim pilgrims in Baluchistan

Jun 9, 2014 5:02 pm By Robert Spencer

pakistan-jihad-670Note the headline on the PTI story: “Pakistan: Militants kill 23 Shia Muslim pilgrims in Baluchistan.” The victims’ religion is identified, but the attackers are identified only as “militants.” The mainstream media determinedly portrays Muslims only as victims, never as perpetrators of any misdeed. My headline above is the one that PTI should have dared to run: it simply tells what happened. But to tell the truth these days is “Islamophobic.”

“Pakistan: Militants kill 23 Shia Muslim pilgrims in Baluchistan,” PTI, June 9, 2014:

Quetta: Militants have killed 23 Shia Muslim pilgrims in the Taftan area of the troubled Baluchistan province, officials said.

Four of the attackers had also been killed by the levies forces after heavy exchange of fire, Home Minister, Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, told reporters.

The attack took place on Sunday when ten buses carrying Shia pilgrims came from Iran and stopped at a hotel in Taftan.

“As soon as the pilgrims came out of the buses to go to the hotel first a group of militants first opened indiscriminate firing on them and also threw hand grenades before rushing into the hotel and taking refuge there,” Bugti said.

He said 23 pilgrims were killed as a result of the firing and when some attackers also blew up the buses.

The home secretary of the province, Akbar Durrani confirmed to PTI that security forces were able to overpower the attackers after a few hours of heavy exchange of gunfire as the masked militants had come heavily armed and prepared for a siege.

“The bodies of the pilgrims are being shifted to hospitals and the injured are also getting treatment,” Durrani said.

“There were explosions after the buses were parked outside the hotels where the pilgrims were going to stay over night before they commenced their journey back the following day,” Durrani said.

Attacks on Shia pilgrims have increased in recent years in the Baluchistan province where in the past also such attacks have killed dozens and injured scores of pilgrims. In January this year a bomb blast on a bus carrying pilgrims coming from Iran killed some 22 people in Mastung area of the province. Leading Shia organizations have announced they would hold countrywide protests and sit-ins against the attack.

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  1. devonoagon says

    Jun 9, 2014 at 5:27 pm

    “Leading Shia organizations have announced they would hold countrywide protests and sit-ins against the attack.”

    Talk about making yourself an easy target…

  2. JamesonRocks says

    Jun 9, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    Very sad to hear about the property damage…

  3. citycat says

    Jun 9, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    I cannot speak the truth, for i have of being accused of blasphemy or of having a phobia. Fear is infesting one’s intelligence and communication, which are both threats to Islam’s propensity to world domination. A tsunami of intelligence and communication is a threat to Islam.
    The force of truth must grow strong. The seeds of truth need daily watering.
    The world must assist and cooperate, complacency goods before a fall.
    If i did not have children i might be tempted to fine a non-islamic niche in which to dwell till death, but even so, i know reincarnation is a fact, so there is no escape, it has to be deal with.
    I thought it was the politicians’ job to sort this stuff, but they seem to not be able to deal with it, so it really is all hands on deck to sort the problem of the encroachment of Islam upon all infidels.

  4. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 12, 2014 at 3:28 am

    Come on, Mad Magazine.

    You dipped your toe in the water with that satirical spoof movie ad inspired by the Bergdahl prisoner exchange.

    Now…how about you jump right in?

    Instead of your old strip “Spy Vs Spy” let’s have either “Sunni vs Shiite” or – if you’re *really* brave, cut to the chase and run “Muslim Vs. Muslim”.

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