Note AP’s headline: “Suicide bombs kill at least 33 in Iraq’s Baghdad, Karbala” — as if the suicide bombs decided to go out and kill people. The lack of an agent is a hallmark of the mainstream media coverage of any and every jihad attack. In the body of the article this unwillingness to identify jihadists as what they are becomes particularly ludicrous, as the ones attacking the Shi’ite mosque are identified as “militants.” They’re linked to the Islamic State at the end of the piece, but before that the reader is just supposed to know what kind of “militants” would target a Shi’ite mosque. The Symbionese Liberation Army? PETA? Greenpeace? It’s a mystery!
“Suicide bombs kill at least 33 in Iraq’s Baghdad, Karbala,” AP, October 20, 2014:
BAGHDAD — Militants unleashed attacks on Iraq’s majority Shiite community on Monday, killing at least 33 people, the latest in relentless assaults that have challenged the Shiite-led government as it battles the Sunni-led insurgency by the ISIS group.
A suicide bomber hit a mosque in Baghdad as Shiite worshipers left after noon prayers, killing 17 people, while a triple car bombing in the holy city of Karbala killed 16….
In Baghdad, the bomber blew himself up among Shiite worshipers as they were leaving a mosque in a commercial area in the city center after midday prayers Monday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 28, a police officer said.
In Karbala, three separate car bombs went off simultaneously, killing at least 16 people and wounding 41, another police officer said. The city, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Baghdad, is home to the tombs of two most revered Shiite imams and the site of year-round pilgrimages. The explosives-laden cars were parked in commercial areas and parking lots near government offices, the officer added.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to media.
The attacks in Baghdad and Karbala came a day after a suicide bombing targeted another Shiite mosque in the Iraqi capital, in the western Harithiya neighborhood, killing 28 people.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attacks but they bore the hallmarks of the al-Qaida-breakaway ISIS group, which has recently claimed several other large bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere, particularly in Shiite areas.
Jaladhi says
Our media and “moderate Muslims” say this has nothing to do with Islam. Maybe Shia’s are worshiping Jesus or Buddha or somebody else so Sunnis are murdering them. Morons!!1
Its the religion stupid and nothing else!!
mariam rove says
Muslims on Muslims. Nothing new here. M
William says
Suicide bomber now is suicide bomb? How can a bomb be suicidal? A bomb committing suicide?
I guess we are into anthropomorphizing inanimate objects now. When someone shoots another person with a gun, it becomes a man killed by a gun. It was the gun that killed him. We all know the slogan: Guns kill. A suicide bomber blows up himself and murders people becomes A suicide bomb kills people.
The Left really knows how to manipulate words. It is an art form. They have been at it for a long time, and have been very successful. They beguile by manipulating words.
Oliver says
Now if the Shi’ites would do a good retaliation, and kill (as a factor–let us say 10 to start) Sunnis, that would be 33 to the tenth power. 33 squared 9 to the second power) would be 1,089.
To the tenth power, many times that .
To me, that would be a godo begining. Just leave others out of this.
My views
( But, of course, our lame stream media would figure out that it is (either or both) Israel’s fault, or Goerge Bush’s fault.
Mirren10 says
Woo hoo !!
Carry on up the Khyber.
I’ll be quite frank; I no longer give one tuppeny damn how many mohammedans of whatever sect, murder each other. The more the merrier, as far as I’m concerned.
They are all an abscess on the soul of humanity, and we need to, not poultice it, but cauterise it, and then **dig it out**.
Cindy says
See how evil these folks are they kill their own in a church. Well, their kind of church. We need to just bomb the heck out of all those areas. They only way to get rid of that kind of evil is to kill it out. Every last bit of it!!!!!!!!!!!! We can’t leave even a few they will grow and this will start all over again they think they have the right to Israel and they DO NOT!!!! That land was given to the Jews by God Himself!!!! And NONE can take it from them. And they can write all the books they want and it will not change the facts!!!! The one true God Jesus Christ wrote it in the only true Holy Book, the Holy Bible!!!!!! It gives the account of when the God Himself gave the land of Israel to the Jews!!!!!! And that book does not lie, because the author Jesus Christ cannot lie!!!! He is the Truth, the Way and the Light!!!!!
almeira says
Mohammad is just the only problem the earth has. Those arab countries were never at peace,arab means ” fighters”. When mow-harm-mad was born there
was no peace either.He introduced i-slam and called it peace,but his peace kept and still keeps slam-ming peace the world over.A sure success the devil achieved in this life was Abraham’s failure to consult GOD before agreeing with Sarah to sleeping with Hagar and the generation of violent people then began “his hand will be on people and people hands will be on him” and the statement comes alive ever since,what
a life truth the Bible is !!! Alqaeda,Jihadi,Is,Isil and Isis in the middle east,Al shabab,Boko haram and many others down in Africa and all in the name of helping mow-harm-mad allah god win souls to their hell he has told all muslims shall first go to hell before they can be forgiven,that is in his self and jinn made quran and also as he said his both parents and those of his companions were all already in hell when he was asked by some amongst his companions,check one of their haadiths .Mohammad definitely was the problem of this life,take it or leave it.