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Islamic State claims jihad suicide attacks in Beirut that murdered 43

Nov 12, 2015 6:41 pm By Robert Spencer

“The health ministry said 43 people had died and 239 had been wounded in the twin blasts on Thursday, which targeted the Shia-majority district of Burj al-Barajneh.” The Islamic State has struck Shi’ites in Yemen, and now also in Beirut, if their claim of responsibility is true.

Beirut bombing

“Isis claims responsibility as suicide bombers kill dozens in Beirut,” by Kareem Shaheen, Guardian, November 12, 2015:

Dozens of people have been killed in Lebanon’s worst terrorist attack this year after a double suicide bombing in south Beirut upended a fragile peace.

The health ministry said 43 people had died and 239 had been wounded in the twin blasts on Thursday, which targeted the Shia-majority district of Burj al-Barajneh. It was the first major suicide bombing to strike the country since a similar attack in January that targeted an Alawite area in the northern city of Tripoli. The number of casualties is likely to rise due to the severity of the attack.

The terrorist group Islamic State (Isis) claimed responsibility for the attack on social media, saying the first bomber had parked an explosives-laden motorcycle in the neighbourhood and a second bomber detonated his suicide vest in the gathering that arrived after the first attack.

In a statement, Isis said the aim of the attack was to kill Shia Muslims. Local media identified the three suicide bombers, saying two of them were Palestinians and one Syrian. Burj al-Barajneh is a heavily populated, poor and crowded neighbourhood that is often associated with Hezbollah. It was not possible to verify Isis’s claim of responsibility….

A witness from the area said the first bombing occurred near a bakery on the crowded street as people left a nearby mosque after sunset prayers, with the second attack taking places minutes later about 50 metres away.

“There were bodies on the ground, on cars, on motorcycles,” he told the Guardian. “On the floor there were bodies, flesh fragments, heads and feet.”…

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Filed Under: Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Lebanon, suicide bombing, Sunni-Shi'ite Jihad Tagged With: Beirut, Burj al-Barajneh


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  1. Angemon says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 7:02 pm

    In a statement, Isis said the aim of the attack was to kill Shia Muslims.

    Of course – what better way to solve theological differences?

    • Saleem Smith says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 1:31 am

      The Islamic and non-Islamic world will undoubtedly continue to experience violent jihad for “the sake of Allah.” The establishment of bloody Sharia law is the end goal of the Muslim Ummah and much more killing is required if the world is to submit to and obey the laws and rules contained within the Qur’an and Sunnah.

      We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Mohammedanism is a deadly fraud.

      Ex-Muslim Ali Sina’s ongoing challenge to Muslims can be found over at Faith Freedom.org:

      The Challenge>>

      I receive many emails from angry Muslims, who sometimes beg me, and sometimes order me to remove this site. I consider both, pleading and bullying, signs of psychopathology. Argumentum ad baculum and argumentum ad misericordiam are both logical fallacies.

      If you do not like this site and want me to remove it, instead of acting as a bully or as a victim, disprove my charges against Muhammad logically. Not only will I remove the site, I will publicly announce that Islam is a true religion. I will also pay

      $50,000 U.S. dollars

      to anyone who can disprove the following accusations that I have made against Muhammad. I accuse Muhammad of being:

      a narcissist
      a misogynist
      a rapist
      a pedophile
      a lecher
      a torturer
      a mass murderer
      a cult leader
      an assassin
      a terrorist
      a madman
      a looter

      …These charges are irrefutable. You simply can’t disprove them because they are reported in Islamic sources and as such they are as good as confession…

      http://www.faithfreedom.org/

      • tamimisledus says

        Nov 13, 2015 at 4:55 am

        What Ali Sina failed to mention is that mohammad is 99.99% an invention of the psychopathology of the muslims from the seventh and eighth century.
        Everything else Ali Sina said about this fictional creation of the muslim mind is more or less true.

      • Sh. N. says

        Nov 13, 2015 at 10:37 am

        I believe in what you say and I admire your bravery. We ex-Muslims know the real religion of hatred much better than other non-Muslims. There is not much difference between Shiites and Sunnies in their understandings of Islam and following their same prophet. They all are extremists who cannot tolerate any opposition. Sunnies and Shiites will kill each other as well as unbelievers to join their prophet in their promised heaven having all kinds of fun forbidden now on Earth. So be prepared to encounter all fractions of Islam and never take any of them as an ally against others. They are all the same when they will have the opportunity.
        Be cautious
        Do not trust any of them
        Do not rely on their pledges

    • mortimer says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 4:35 am

      By supporting and even creating Sunnite counterrevolutionary organizations such as Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Talibans, several American administrations have actually favored the birth of ISIS.

      The Benghazi Disaster covered up the doubledealing of America in Syria and preceded slightly the establishment of ISIS.

      America’s Syrian adventure against Assad is meant to take territory for a Saudi pipeline into Turkey and then into Europe. Turkey is all for it. Russia is against it. Large geopolitical dramas are being foisted onto all the little tribes in the region that are being flung into the meatgrinder.

    • Mary says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 7:09 am

      Does Lebanon ever get a break?

      There is always war in the Holy lands.

  2. Wellington says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 7:09 pm

    There have been many ideological sicknesses that have plagued mankind over the centuries and millennia. Right at the very top I would place Islam.

    I defy anyone to demonstrate to me with razor logic why I am mistaken here. I aver it can’t be done. Prove me wrong I say.

    Islam is an ideological perversion of what religion should be. It is the longest-lived and best disguised form of malevolent thought ever devised by man. Show me where I’m wrong here. Anyone.

    • dajjal says

      Nov 12, 2015 at 10:11 pm

      Isdamn is a crime syndicate cast as a religion for purpose of camouflage, recruitment and retention of members.

      It prays, it sways; it must be a religion and religions are anodyne and beneficent, lower yer guard.

      If you go to to Jihad, you go to Jannah. If you hold back, you go to Jahannam. Yer obligated to Allah, and if you drop out, yer dead.

      Do my wet work for me and I’lll see to it you spend eternity popping cherries and drinking wine. What a great system!!!

      • mortimer says

        Nov 13, 2015 at 4:28 am

        Please inform yourself about the Arabic word ‘din’ or ‘deen’. It is generally translated into English as ‘religion’, however, it is more related to the words ‘judgment’, ‘legal system’ or ‘governance’. For the Muslim, grounded in the Koranic language of ‘din’, Islam is a ‘complete system’ of governance and religion. Muslims understand ‘religion’ as a series of inexplicable Divine commands that contradict common sense and usual, natural morality. Islamic ‘din’ is primarily based on the practices of Bedouins and then referred back in time and attributed to Mohammed so they may have religious authority. Islam appears to be absurd because it is based on backward tribal practices that a rational person would not allow in a civilized society.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 4:57 am

      Wellington chose the word ‘perversion’ to describe Islam. Basically Islam began as Arab folk religion that gradually added elements the invading Arabs found in the Byzantine provinces and in Persia.

      Some of the modern ‘revisionist’ school of Islam see the ‘perversion’ to have taken place at an early stage when an heretical version of Christianity was moulded into Islam by the early caliphs who grafted elements of Judaism, heretical Christianity and Zoroastrianism onto Arabian astral folk religion. Since the Arabs had no religious text of their own, the Caliph abd al Malik promoted the sermons and channellings of an unknown desert prophet as divine inspiration and then created a biography for this invented character. It gradually became Mohammed over the 350 years after Mohammed’s death.

      Islam was created by the caliphs to lend divine legitimacy to their dynasties. Because Islam is based on opportunism, it’s ethically amoral and inconsistent. There is essentially no consistency in any Islamic doctrine.

      • Margaret L says

        Nov 13, 2015 at 1:16 pm

        Mortimer is doing everyone a huge favor with this insight into Islam.

  3. ? says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    They always claim responsibility, and yet no one sees the problem with an Islamic caliphate?

  4. Sam says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    This has nothing to do with Islam as Islamic State is not Islamic, you know.

    • Mary says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 7:11 am

      Are you being sarcastic ? I hope so.

  5. James Foard says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    I’ve got all kinds of sub-folders in my Jihad bookmarks folder; Christian Persecution, Western Idiots Traitors, American Foreign Policy, Obama Muslim Traitor, Academy Islamic Traitors, Western Jihadis, Taqiyya etc. Where to bookmark this story?
    So I made a new folder: Islamic Bombathon. Just perfect.

    • Sam says

      Nov 12, 2015 at 8:48 pm

      Thanks. I laughed.

      It is sad that these Muslims are killing left and right and I feel guilty laughing at the craziness of the “Muslim Affairs””

      • Oliver says

        Nov 13, 2015 at 9:03 pm

        Sam, In my view, it is ONLY sad when Muslims kill NON MUSLIMS. (Like,as I type this, the death toll- Fri. ( 9 PM eastern time) in Paris is over 100.

        If the injured Muslims- in a Hezbollah loyal area die along with those dead as this particle was posted– big freaking deal. My view

    • Mary says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 7:28 am

      Hah!
      I have a jihad bookmark folder too.
      But not as logically sorted as you have done.

      Cool cakes. ?

  6. Sam says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    Time for Shi’ites to take real revenge on ISIS. I say go Iran and show ISIS your Allah is better their Allah. Do it now.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 5:59 am

      You’re hankering for a return of the good old days of the 1980s, aren’t ya? But don’t be so optimistic, Reagan just sat back, whistled a tune, twiddled his thumbs and let nature take its course. And it was great. But we’ve got Prez Barack Hussein for another year, and then it’ll be Prez Hillary after that. They both have strong pro-Moslem credentials, the best. Those two would never allow a sect war to take millions of innocent Moslem lives. What they’d do is send the Army and Marines to present a common enemy to unite the Moslems. But Hillary is a big VA booster, and that fine organization can always use new business.

  7. tilda says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    OT — breaking news — Jihadi John ‘eviscerated’ in Raqqa.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/619134/US-Syria-Air-Strike-Jihadi-John-ISIS-Islamic-State-Terrorist

  8. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 5:50 am

    The CIA World Factbook has Lebanon at 55% Moslem and 40% Christian. I am skeptical of these numbers, I’d think that that it’d be at least 75% Moslem by now, coming out of the turn and into the final stretch of going all Moslem. Factbook numbers on religious affiliation have been met with laughter and derision before, particularly those for India, which has Moslems at only 14%.

    The once great nation of Lebanon had long been held up as the paragon of how Islam can peacefully coexist with civilization, but the place has gone all hell-hole over the last few decades. I imagine that any Christian there is frantically working to get the hell out before it’s too late, much like a Jew in Berlin during the mid-1930s, when about half got out and the rest were gassed and toasted to break the corpses down for more efficient disposal.

    • Mary says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 7:25 am

      Wrong about those statistics. You are right to be skeptical.

      To inform you of the REAL statistics. My Maronite church informed the WHOLE Lebanese community all over Australia that the rate of Christians in Lebanon used to be around about 40% it has now dropped in the last ten years to the number 17%. Muslim’s have the overruling advantage.

      With this ,they told us to register our name over there to increase the Christian population. It jumped up to 19%-20%.

      It has now dropped back to 17%
      People are fleeing. What I’ve heard from people over there in Lebanon, relatives, that the Lebanese army is holding off Isis recruiters at some border (if I can remember correctly possibly Jordon?)

      There’s a problem.
      In Lebanon they segregate the Muslim’s and Christians by they having their own cities and villages. Muslim’s have now entered as my relative told me into the Christian areas. This has not happened in over 10 years. Usually the Muslim’s keep to themselves and vice versa to the Christians. Christians haven’t moved into the Muslim side but they are to them.

      They are over populating the Lebanese country. On that note also to mention that the minister said that there are 10000 refugee jihadis in his camp. This is the Lebanese education minister speaking.

      There is hardly any government there. I don’t know how and why no one is helping.

      There is too much going on in this damned world and nothing done about it.

      • SpiritOf1683 says

        Nov 13, 2015 at 5:21 pm

        Back in 1960, Lebanon was 60% Christian, and as recently as 1975, it was over 50% Christian. Just looking back over the last 55 years, and moreso the last 40 years tells its own tale. Five years ago, Lebanon was less than 30% Christian.

        Look at Lebanon or Nigeria, and you’re seeing Europe’s future. And as I type, there have been terrorist atrocities in Paris, with as many as 30 dead.

  9. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 6:03 am

    The problem with these Moslem buffets is you go up to the table to get a nice warm meal, maybe some liver and blood sausage made from the proceeds, and all the screaming wailing ululating women wearing black robes kills your appetite.

    Btw: tastes like chicken.

  10. duh_swami says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 6:53 am

    At least 1/3 of my posts don’t make it the comments…What’s up with that?

    ISIS is like a mad dog striking out in every direction…Now they threaten Russia, as I suspected they would…
    How long before Shia revenge? There are a lot of Sunni mosques in the US that are soft targets…
    ‘If Allah wills all this conflict, he can’t be good, and if he is powerless to stop it, he can’t b Gd’…

    • Mary says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 7:26 am

      What do you mean?

      Are you comments never posted ?

  11. Mary says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 7:15 am

    I just hope Lebanon gets a break from these wars. They always some how get involved. God help us.

    Where are the good people to flee? Is there no safe place for Christians and coexisting persons to exist without a tyrant always wanting to over rule and over throw ???

    There is a huge war coming to each and every country and in each and every continent all around the world.

    Be ready guys. We’re going to see Isis take to the streets in our home towns.

    We think they’re coming. But here’s the recent news. They’re here. And there’s no one and nothing to stop them.

    No one but God.

  12. Mary says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 7:33 am

    I get what your saying. However , I really do not think it’s funny speaking like this.

    Imagine this happens to you you know. Isis particularly blows up lersons they have chosen in an area or place you are at the time connecting to scheme these men are to do.

    And that’s your body parts laying everywhere. This isn’t funny.

    This is sick. I don’t know how these policemen are seeing it and coping because it isn’t right nor pertinent to be seeing such things.

    This is getting out of hand.

    Instead of us persons siting here behind a screen discussing our disgust. Why aren’t we doing anything about it ?!!!

  13. Baucent says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 7:56 am

    There is an interesting parallel with this ISIS attack in Lebanon with the ISIS attack on Kurds in Turkey. Bombers blowing up a soft target away from the conflict zone in Syria. Revenge no doubt, but one that will likely add new recruits in the Shiite war against their Sunni foes. Long may these factions remain divided. A united Islam is a danger for the world, not to mention Israel.

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