This may be an indication that the Islamic State is unable to take Baghdad at this point; if it could, why bother with these harassing attacks? On the other hand, this attack could have been mounted by a freelance jihadist whose quest for the virgins was unrelated to the Islamic State’s aspirations.
“Suicide bomber kills 15 in attack on Iraq forces,” Trend, July 5, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a security forces position north of Baghdad on Friday, killing 15 people, police and a doctor said, Alarabiya reported.
The attack south of the sensitive shrine city of Samarra in Salaheddin province, where militants have overrun the state capital and a swathe of other territory, also wounded 25 people.
Samarra, 15 kilometres (nine miles) north of where the attack took place, is home to the revered Shiite Al-Askari shrine, which was bombed in February 2006, sparking a bloody Sunni-Shiite sectarian war.
The position was occupied by a mix of Iraqi soldiers and civilians who have volunteered to fight a major jihadist-led militant offensive that has overrun chunks of five provinces.
Security forces folded under the weight of the initial onslaught, in some cases shedding uniforms and abandoning vehicles to flee, prompting the government to announce it would arm and equip people who volunteered.
While government forces have since performed better, they are still struggling to carry out effective offensive operations against the militants.
Jan Fourowls says
“… [one sect of Muslims against another] would arm and equip people who volunteered…”
The “people” in question are males, while females remain sharia-cloistered at home and subject to the routine traumatic effects of wife-beating and child-raping as orphaned polygamous brides without redress by edict of the Quran.
Everywhere Muslims take their horrific world view, horrors happen.
But I found a happy note tonight from the global news: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28034240; http://dailypost.ng/2014/06/29/obed-minchakpu-snakes-insurgency-sambisa-forest/; http://nypost.com/2014/06/27/boko-haram-insurgents-arrested-after-fleeing-bees-and-snakes/
About that happy news (and especially the middle link’s commentary about the Bible and prayer), seriously if you’re concerned about Muslims and their demonic “religion,” please don’t disregard the true God of the bible, because many of us have been praying to Him for just the type of result as the happy news reports.
In the dynamic of the Bible as Moses repeatedly kept asking to “let my people go,” the biblical God of the Jewish covenant people sent frogs and locusts among the 10 plagues of Egypt as warning against those oppressing God’s people. (Exodus 8 – 10.) As a Christian, and while asking forgiveness at the mercy feet of Jesus if I’m wrong to pray this way, I’ve been praying that God would go “old testament” on the Muslims persecuting, torturing, terrorizing and murdering the innocent everywhere. I cannot be the only Bible-reading person to whom this type of prayer is occurring as not physical but spiritual warfare.
Welcome to the true God of the Bible, you evildoers of Islam! And may you learn the biblical meaning of “vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.” Romans 12:19; Deuteronomy 32:35.
Elijah says
May his soul rest in Heaven . Allah Hu Akbar ! Islamic State ! Hail the Caliph ! Hail Allah !!!
Jan Fourowls says
Islam’s favored invocations do sound so heil-Hitler-ish, don’t they, Elijah?
Guess that’s why most regular readers of this blog might call the purported religion of the purported deity “Allah” fabricated by the purported prophet Muhammad by a label reflecting how it operates in the world wherever brave people don’t proclaim against it and it gains prominence: Islamofascism.
Walter Sieruk says
The militant jihadists who commit the heinous and murderous act are so deluded that they don’t think of what they are doing as a suicide/homicide bombings. They actually thing of what they are doing as “martyrdom operations.” This is the deluded and warped mindset. The irrational and delusional way of thinking is the result of the extreme brainwashing that is done by the imams and mullahs in the mosques and madrassas . In those places of Islam mind programming people are thoroughly indoctrinated into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Quran, 44:54. 55.56. 78:31., of a kind of lust filled paradise with many virgins in it for the Muslim who dies for the cause of Islam in the jihad. Such false teaches as these imams and mullah who indoctrinate type of teaching as of a lust filled place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others are explained about in the Bible. Which informs the reader “They speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of the flesh…” Second Peter 2:18. Furthermore, many a times a jihadist on his death recording talks about his” wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false teachings. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures ,nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30.
In contrast to the Islamic pipedream of the jihadist in the Quranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have if reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
Just on the subject of one kind of Islamic mind programming center. The Madrasas. Two things very much need to be stated . First these poor victims of those places are so damaged and brainwashed they literally ‘dangerous to self and others’ This mindset is a clear sign to any mental hearth care worker a warped and dangerous person that is in need of help. Second, the reader might very well notice that these imams and mullahs who do the brainwashing are never the ones who go out and commit the suicide/homicide. All the Islamic clerics do is mind condition other people to actually want to go out and commit that heinous and murderous act. All the same time theses suicide/homicide bombing are going on these same Muslim clerics, who did the brainwashing, sit home safe. This says a lot about the real character of these imams and mullahs.
Jan Fourowls says
Yes, Walter, exactly, and appreciate your reliance on the Bible which explains so much about these treacherous Islamic times!
When the invention of the printing press allowed sincere Western Christians actually to read the Bible and see what it said for themselves — after some overly passionate violent skirmishes of those pre-democracy times — Christianity became more loving and more peaceful based on the plain meaning and literal words of the Bible’s gospel (new testament). Also based on the Bible and what it says, Christians became more and more open to allowing individuals their freedom on earth, in the knowledge that God was drawing through Jesus for relationship all those to Him who were His, and it wasn’t our human place (but God’s alone) to separate the wheat from the chaff for all eternity based on human decisions to accept Jesus as Savior (or not).
When literacy increases where Muslims live as the majority, e.g., see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world, they as a result actually read the Quran and become more hateful and more violent against Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims because that is what the Quran teaches by its plain meaning and literal words.