“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)
“Two Americans killed in suspected ISIS bombing in Turkey, U.S. official says,” by Hugh Naylor and Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, March 19, 2016:
BEIRUT — A suicide bombing at a popular shopping area in Istanbul that killed at least five people, including two Americans, and wounded dozens more Saturday may be tied to the Islamic State, according to media reports.
The blast targeted Istiklal Street, a major thoroughfare lined with international shopping outlets and restaurants that bustles with foreign tourists on weekends. Five people had been confirmed dead and at least 36 wounded, including 12 foreign nationals, the Hurriyet Daily News reported, citing comments from Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu.
“The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s terrorist attack in Istanbul,” Ned Price, a National Security Council spokesman, said in a statement released by the White House. “Two American citizens were among those killed in this heinous attack. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of those killed, and we wish a speedy recovery to those injured.”
Price said that the United States remains steadfast in its support of Turkey and that the Obama administration is working with Turkish authorities. “These repeated acts of terrorism in Turkey must come to an end,” he said.
The two Americans killed were dual nationals and also held Israeli citizenship. Emmanuel Nahshon, a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said one of the victims was a 60-year-old woman. The two were part of a group of 14 Israeli tourists on a culinary tour and had just finished eating breakfast. Eleven other Israelis were injured in the attack, some of them critically, Nahshon said.
The Dogan news agency, a private Turkish media outlet, reported that the wounded also included citizens of Germany, Iran and Ireland.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but Israeli media reported that the bomber had been identified as a Turkish national, Sabash Yildiz, 33, who was believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State.
Turkish armed forces have been waging cross-border strikes in Syria against the Islamic State, which has carried out bombings in Turkey in recent months.
One of the Islamic State attacks killed more than 100 people at a Kurdish peace rally in the capital, Ankara, in October. And the Islamic State was blamed for a suicide bombing in January that killed 10 people, including German tourists, in Istanbul….
jr says
and turkey is still backing the islamic state
Angemon says
Well, they are fighting the Kurds. And selling them cheap oil.
Dan says
Sick lil followers of the pedophile…
More Ham Ed says
“The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s terrorist attack in…”
“Israeli media reported that the bomber had been identified as a Turkish national, Sabash Yildiz, 33, who was believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State.”
B. HUSSEIN O. will get right on that ISIS (ISIL?) problem right after another 18 holes of golf, speaking engagements, luxurious meals, more vacations, and raising the exiting president’s take-home pay (pension) by 18%.
sham says
Suicide prohibited: reward of suicide is hell
4: 29. O you who believe! Eat not up your property among yourselves unjustly except it be a trade amongst you, by mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves (nor kill one another). Surely, Allah is Most Merciful to you.
4: 30. And whoever commits that through aggression and injustice, We shall cast him into the Fire, and that is easy for Allah.
39: 53. Say: “O ‘Ibâdî (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allâh, verily Allâh forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Bukhari :: Book 8 :: Volume 73 :: Hadith 73,126
Narrated Thabit bin Ad-Dahhak:
(who was one of the companions who gave the pledge of allegiance to the Prophet underneath the tree (Al-Hudaibiya)) Allah’s Apostle said, “Whoever swears by a religion other than Islam (i.e. if somebody swears by saying that he is a non-Muslim e.g., a Jew or a Christian, etc.) in case he is telling a lie, he is really so if his oath is false, and a person is not bound to fulfill a vow about a thing which he does not possess. And if somebody commits suicide with anything in this world, he will be tortured with that very thing on the Day of Resurrection; And if somebody curses a believer, then his sin will be as if he murdered him; And whoever accuses a believer of Kufr (disbelief), then it is as if he killed him.”
Bukhari :: Book 8 :: Volume 76 :: Hadith 500
Bukhari :: Book 8 :: Volume 77 :: Hadith 603 , 604
Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 56 :: Hadith 669
Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 297
Bukhari :: Book 2 :: Volume 23 :: Hadith 445 ,446
Bukhari :: Book 5 :: Volume 59 :: Hadith 514,515,518
Bukhari :: Book 8 :: Volume 78 :: Hadith 647
Muslim :: Book 1 : Hadith 198[allha hereafter not talk with him], 199, 201, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207
It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) observed: He who killed himself with steel (weapon) would be the eternal denizen of the Fire of Hell and he would have that weapon in his hand and would be thrusting that in his stomach for ever and ever, he who drank poison and killed himself would sip that in the Fire of Hell where he is doomed for ever and ever;
and he who killed himself by falling from (the top of) a mountain would constantly fall in the Fire of Hell and would live there for ever and ever.
gravenimage says
The meretricious spammer sham is back:
Suicide prohibited: reward of suicide is hell…
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As Stephanie ably notes, Muslims do not consider suicide attacks to be suicide, but to be “Martyrdom”, which far from condemning they esteem for highly than anything else. It is, in fact, considered the only sure way for Mohammedans to reach heaven.
In other words, as long as they die murdering Infidels, “heretics”, or the “insufficiently Islamic”, it is not considered suicide in the sense that we use the term.
This condemnation is only for those who are despondent, and harm no one else. If they die slaughtering innocent victims, it’s considered a perk in Islam.
More:
39: 53. Say: “O ‘Ibâdî (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allâh, verily Allâh forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
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Why would sham want to quote Qur’anic Sura Az-Zumar–“The Troops”? Doesn’t this hamfisted fool realize that it has Ayats *praising “Martyrdom”? Alas, I doubt he does:
Az-Zumar 69:
“And the earth will shine with the light of its Lord, and the record [of deeds] will be placed, and the prophets and the martyrs will be brought, and it will be judged between them in truth, and they will not be wronged.”
In other words, “Martyrs” like these will be *rewarded*. The rest of the Sura makes clear that such Mohammedans go to Paradise.
And “evil deeds and sins” in Islam include such matters as *refusing* to butcher Infidels. How can he think that we don’t know that?
Muslims regularly laud such bombers. Muslims never condemn suicide bombers except to Infidels, as a form Taqiyya.
I much prefer the term “homicide bomber”, which was popular a couple of years ago. A bit reductive, perhaps, but it gives a much better sense of how Muslims themselves regard such ‘operations’.
Angemon says
gravenimage posted:
“The meretricious spammer sham is back”
At least his username is honest and accurately describes his posts.
“I much prefer the term “homicide bomber”, which was popular a couple of years ago. A bit reductive, perhaps, but it gives a much better sense of how Muslims themselves regard such ‘operations’.”
Indeed. IIRC, sometimes they sent children. To some they’d say that the bomb would explode outwardly and not harm them, others were simply detonated via remote control.
Charles says
Do not the muslims know that Bombs are made with a substance that comes from a pig , Gelitine , So there are no 72 virgens for any of them and they go straight to HELL.
billybob says
The title of the video clip says it is CCTV footage – Closed-circuit television is the implication, though that can also stand for Central China Television (Broadcasting Company), CCTV America (Television Network), or even CCTV News (Cable channel). Since it is from RT, I will assume that it indeed means Closed-circuit television. Then can someone explain to my why the shot pans around the scene exactly as if it is a hand-held camera or even just a smart phone? Also, the scene just after the blast doesn’t resemble the scene just before the blast. It appear to be completely manufactured footage. RT wouldn’t manufacture footage just to appear to have a scoop? Because I can’t see any other reason for it.
gravenimage says
Good grief. Of course Closed-circuit TV just films from a single position–but one editing it can zoom in or pan across any of the footage filmed.
The idea that this suicide bombing was falsely “staged” is absurd.
I’m no particular fan of Russian state-run RT, but this story was also reported by Reuters, BBC News, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.
Moreover, it took place on Istiklal Street, which is Istanbul’s most popular shopping district. The idea that such an attack could be faked by RT without repercussions or comments is simply not credible.
And why would it be necessary to gin up such stories, in any case? These Islamic State bombings have killed over 80 people in Turkey. That should be enough “excitement” for any news outlet.
Here’a another shot of the scene from another CCTV camera–this is unedited footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_e2zizcjc4
Are you claiming this is “manufactured footage”, as well?
cs says
Follow up on this, a media woman for the AKP party tweeted that she hopes the israelis injured in this incident die. The tweet was removed and the AKP is trying to fire her, or not. That is just typical, I saw it at Pam’s.
gravenimage says
That disgusting detail does not surprise me, cs.
Walter Sieruk says
This jihad suicide /homicide bombings in Turkey by a jihadist of ISIS is a hideous evil. The question is as to why are the jihadist bombers ,as those of ISIS, are , so very, delusional that they actually want to become human bombs ? Some of the reasons are that such violent and deadly people are the outcome of the extreme brainwashing that is done in Islamic mind programming centers which are more widely known as mosques and madrasas, by the Muslim clerics, such as the imams and in some countries as Afghanistan and Iran also the mullahs. In those Islamic mind programming centers youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Koran. as found in 44;54. 5:56. 78:31.., of a sexual/lust filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. First and foremost, those who come out of those places of extreme brainwash are so very warped, sick and deluded that they actually view such murderous bombing attacks as “martyrdom operations” Likewise, they are so very damaged that they have literally become dangerous to self and others. In addition, the Bible does warn about false teachers who ingrain a belief in a doctrine of a story of a /lustful/lust-filled place with much sex in it. For the Bible warns about false teachers, the Muslim clerics do fit this description, in Second Peter 2:18. Which reads “For they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh…” Furthermore, many a times a jihad –minded Muslim in his death recording talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false doctrine and false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Mathew 22:29, 30. In contrast to the delusional Islamic pipedream of the jihadist in the Koranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the 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.]
Champ says
Before president Zero (or other leaders) distorts the truth and defends the indefensible: islam …lets remember that IS *is* islam, ok? Are we clear on this? Good.
Carolyne says
Yes, we are quite clear on that.
gravenimage says
Nothing is more Islamic than the Islamic State.
Sam says
Unfortunately, the Turkish populace, like most Muslim countries have always been in the dark as media is controlled by government. So I bet if you are in a coffee shop in Turkey today most Turks will still blame US and the Jews for any political problem there. Islam of course would never be mentioned as part of the terror problem. If you mention anything about Islam (negative) you could be beat up.
How do I know? I am from there and I was there last summer visiting family. This is a country which teaches its youth a false, made up history of glorious Ottoman empire and never mentioning any negative aspect of the past Muslim atrocities like the genocide of Armenians, Greeks and other Christians and other nationalities including Kurds. It is so sad that millions of people go through life in a sick culture mostly formed by a cult called Islam and blatant dictatorial lies for centuries.
gravenimage says
Sam, here is Erdogan vowing to “eradicate all forms of terrorism”–never mind that he is the one funding and doing so much to enable the Islamic State in the first place:
“Turkey’s PM vows to stamp out terrorism after Istanbul suicide bombing attack”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-20/turkey-pm-vows-to-stamp-out-terrorism-after-istanbul-attack/7261476
Biff H says
Headline should read: Muslim Suicide Bomber Targets Israeli Tourists