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Saudi Arabia: Islamic State jihad suicide bomber murders one at Shi’ite mosque

Oct 26, 2015 6:35 pm By Robert Spencer

The Saudis have spent billions to spread their understanding of Islam around the world. Now they are paying the price, since the idea of the caliphate that they have so energetically propagated is now challenging the legitimacy of their own state, and bringing the Sunni-Shi’te jihad within its borders.

The site of a previous mosque bombing
The site of a previous mosque bombing

“Islamic State attack on Saudi mosque kills one: ministry,” Reuters, October 26, 2015:

Militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on Monday that killed a worshipper and wounded several others at a Shi’ite mosque in Najan [sic] in southern Saudi Arabia.

The attack targeted the “rejectionist Ismailis” said a statement carried by the group posted on Twitter, referring to the Ismaili Shi’ite sect who are a minority in Saudi Arabia.

The kingdom has been hit by a spate of deadly shooting and bomb attacks, many of them laid at the door of Islamic State. The militant group is bitterly opposed to Gulf Arab rulers and is seen as trying to stir up sectarian confrontation on the Arabian peninsula to bring about the overthrow of the ruling dynasties.

It has urged young Saudi Sunnis to attack targets including Shi’ites.

Police found a letter by the bomber addressed to his parents confirming his intention of carrying out the attack, an interior ministry statement said.

The attack on the al-Mashhad mosque occurred as people left after attending evening prayers, residents said.

“As the Magreb prayer ended and the worshippers came out of the main door, a man entered the mosque and blew himself up,” Mohammed al-Askar, a doctor from Najran told Reuters, adding that it was the first time a Shi’ite Ismaili mosque had been targeted.

Najran, close to the Yemeni border, is the historic center of the Ismailis, a Shi’ite sect which has long complained of victimization by the prevailing school of Sunni Islam followed by the Saudi state….

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Filed Under: Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Saudi Arabia, Sunni-Shi'ite Jihad Tagged With: Najran


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  1. Peggy says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    Wonder why he waited till most people got out.

    • ECAW says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 3:13 am

      He was a moderate.

      • Peggy says

        Oct 27, 2015 at 7:21 pm

        Ha ha. I like that.
        He was working his way up to be a radical but blowing hiself up got in the way.

  2. Angemon says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    The kingdom has been hit by a spate of deadly shooting and bomb attacks, many of them laid at the door of Islamic State. The militant group is bitterly opposed to Gulf Arab rulers and is seen as trying to stir up sectarian confrontation on the Arabian peninsula to bring about the overthrow of the ruling dynasties.

    America = The Great Satan
    Israel = The Little Satan

    What should we call Saudi Arabia?

    • Lia Wissing says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 5:56 am

      Seeing that Mecca means ‘mother’, what about Mother of satan?

  3. mortimer says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    ISIS is Saudi Arabia’s Frankenstein’s monster! KSA created ISIS and will be killed by its uncontrollable, evil ‘son’.

    The Saudis deserve to suffer. It reminds me of the saying ‘They have fallen into the pit they have dug.’

    It is poetic justice. The Saudis are the best placed to see the evil of Islam and the falseness of Islam. The more intelligent Saudis should kill Islam as the German underground tried to kill Hitler.

    • Evolution says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 12:44 am

      The saudis will receive an eternity of money from their oil and islam.
      Money that they use to have week long orgies and drug parties.
      Behind closed doors, they’re living differently to the way Germans were forced to live under Hitler.
      Why would they give that up ?

    • ECAW says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 3:23 am

      All true, Mortimer. It’s almost enough to make me a Buddhist.

      But – since the guardians of the source of Islam have created the monster which will destoy them, and possibly Islam itself along with them, I wonder why Robert Spencer takes it as a given that ISIS must be beaten.

      The worse it gets the better it gets…etc

  4. Judi says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 3:56 am

    Aw, only one!

  5. Baucent says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 4:43 am

    Actually from a strategic point of view, for ISIS, Saudi Arabia is a bigger prize than Iraq. In Saudi, if they can overthrow the corrupt royal ruler, they get to be guardians of the Holy places, huge oil wealth and no Iran to interfere with the spoils.

    • Lia Wissing says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 5:58 am

      Iran has said it will nuke Saudi Arabia – if they do, there will be no spoils.

      • Baucent says

        Oct 27, 2015 at 9:11 am

        Unlikely at present, Israel is higher up the hit list and if that occurs, everyone loses.

  6. Sam says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    Another Jewish plot to give a bad name to Wahhabis. What a Muslim to do but blow himself up and along with a lot of innocent people.

  7. mike says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    The Saudis are financing ISIS who are Sunnis killing Shi’ite’s, Jews and Christians. Nothing backfired on them, they just want to kill the shi’ites on their own soil to make it seem like they are not affiliated with ISIS. They are the true sponsor of worldwide terror and should be obliterated.

  8. duh_swami says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    The ‘Pen of Destiny’ is out of control and running wild. Allah firgot to tell the Saudi’s about karma…

  9. ahmed says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 5:13 pm

    http://jihad.info/guide-to-prevent-terrorism-on-your-soil.html

    this can stop radacalisation

  10. ballotcode says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    Here again, the myth of the “religion of peace”.

    Some of the justifications that are being bandied about for the violent protests is that WHEN all of mankind has submitted to Mohamedism, there will be peace. Yet what we find is that if there are no “pagans”, Jews, or Christians around to kill, they are happy to fight amongst themselves.

    I realize that this is obvious to most that read here, yet this must be said, over and over and over.
    Mostly because, some just don’t “get it” yet.

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