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Ramadan in Damascus: Islamic State murders at least 12 with bombs near Shia shrine

Jun 11, 2016 10:41 am By Robert Spencer

Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani recently called on Muslims to “get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers…” For the Islamic State, those “nonbelievers” would include Shi’ites, whom they deride as “Rafidites,” rejectors, i.e., those who reject the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman.

Sayyida Zeinab

“Syria: Bombings rock Damascus suburb Sayyida Zeinab,” BBC, June 12, 2016:

At least 12 people have been killed in suicide bomb attacks on a suburb of Damascus which is home to Syria’s holiest Shia shrine, state media say.

Islamic State group said three militants – two carrying explosives belts and one with a car bomb – carried out the attacks in Sayyida Zeinab, 10km (six miles) south of the centre.

At least 55 other people were wounded.

Sayyida Zeinab, a predominantly Shia area, has been a frequent target of attacks from jihadi groups.

The Sunni IS group says it was behind at least two other bombings in the district earlier this year that killed more than 150 people.

Syrian state media said Sayyida Zeinab was hit by two blasts on Saturday – a suicide attack at the entrance to the district and then a car bomb attack in al-Teen street, not far from the shrine.

There were a number of women and children among the casualties, and some of the injuries were serious, Sana news agency said.

The IS-affiliated Amaq news agency later said three IS militants carried out the attacks.

The golden-domed Sayyida Zeinab shrine contains the grave of one of the Prophet Muhammad’s grand-daughters, and continues to draw many Shia pilgrims despite the civil war.

The BBC, like the rest of the mainstream media, has decided that we are all Muslims now, and all accept Muhammad as a prophet. This is, however, not yet the case for many in the West, and for some of us it never will be the case.

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  1. John Thomas says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 10:49 am

    TROP?

  2. cs says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 11:18 am

    They have a picture of Nasrallah there, well deserved.

  3. Mike Ramirez says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 11:51 am

    Glenn Wilson posted: “It is the 5th day of Ramadan with only 47 attacks and 280 kills. I am really disappointed in these numbers. Come on boys you need to do better. Are the press reporting the actual numbers.”

    Perhaps jihadists are showing a little bit of restraint at the start. After all, Ramadan is supposed to be a time for Muslims to reflect, restrain from over excess, and be on their best behavior.

    As Sarwat Husain, president of the San Antonio, TX chapter of CAIR, wrote, ” You can feel it in the air. Muslims are happy and excited to receive and greet a very special guest: the month that gave us the Quran, the month of mercy, forgiveness, salvation, generosity. Every aspect of this month is full of blessings and bounty.”
    – San Antonio Express-News, June 5, 2016 – Religion Section, page K-3

    Hmmm…Since Islamic apologists continually claim that Islam prohibits violence, yet the Quran allows it, maybe the ending of Sarwat’s article should have read, ” Every aspect of his month is full of blessings and bombings.”

    more http://www.Starman3000.com

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 1:19 pm

    Be the brutal and murderous jihad attacks be during Ramadan or any of the time of the year. Such jihad attacks are heinous and deadly. Likewise by the Islamic terror attacks in committed by operative of ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah ,Hamas or by members of some other like minded jihad entity such Islamic terror attacks are hideous and deadly. Many times those jihad -minded Muslim to engage in those attach are people who are the outcome of Islamic mind programming centers which are known as mosques and madrasas.. In those brainwashing center youth are indoctrinated not even to question if the Koran is really the actual word of God or not . They are just mind controlled to accept in blind unquestioning faith that the Koran is the genuine word of God. This brings lead to the very idea of tow ancient works of literature. Which are Plato’s APOLOGY and REPUBLIC . First, in the APOLOGY is reported to had declared “An unexamined life in not worth living.” Likewise, the same to thing applies for religion with is “An unexamined religion is not worth believing in.” Second, in the book the REPUBLIC is explained in the following way. The Greek philosopher Plato is one of the contributors to Western Civilization. He may shed some light into the subject of those people who are shackled in the chains and darkness of Islamic thought. In Plato’s REPUBLIC he gave an allegory of a cave where “the condition of men living in a sort of cavernous chamber…Here they have been from childhood, chained by leg and also by the neck, so that they cannot move and see only what is in front of them.” This can fit into what the Imams do in the mosques and how they brainwash the young people in the madrassa’s by always programming Islamic doctrine into their victims and not exposing them to other worldviews. Furthermore, even in Islamic tradition when Muslims have their newborn child the father whispers words of the Quran into the infants ear so that that Quran verses are the first thing the newborn person hears. This programming process takes place all their lives. These are some of the chains that keep them bound in a mosque [cave]. The chains do not let them reach out for dialectic reasoning and let them examine the evidence both for as well as against, or even question whether Muhammad was a true prophet of God or not, and if the Quran is a hoax or not. As the chains and darkness of the cave blinds and holds the prisoners back from reality, so Islamic propaganda holds back the cognition to reason with the question if Islam is true or not. They are forbidden from even thinking to question Islam. Furthermore, if a Muslim by some miracle wakes up to the truth about Islam, it would be like the man in Plato’s cave allegory who was released from his chains and taken outside to the real world. At first direct light would be painful and disorienting, it would take some time for him to understand what the truth is all about, he even might cling to the shadows and still for a time believe some of the illusions to be real. But he would finally come to know “what he had formerly seen was meaningless illusion.” And that was “what passed for wisdom in his former dewelling-place.”And that the other cave prisoners also needed to see the light [the truth] for he “was sorry for them.” and he would re-enter the cave just to rescue them. Nevertheless, the cave prisoners wouldn’t understand and “if they could lay hand on the man who was trying to set them free.” And if they could “they would kill him.” Likewise, when someone escapes from the shackles of Islam, those still in the darkness of this religion would not understand and if possible kill him for leaving Islam, and even more so if he were to try to enlighten them about the truth about Islam. For these people in Islam are chained to an empty imitation of truth and godliness. Furthermore as one former Muslim who is now a Christian wrote “Diving into the depth of the world of reason thinking and research in Islamic societies has always been costly. Some Muslim who have done this have even been sentenced to death.” [1]

    [1] ISLAM AND THE SON OF GOD by Daniel Shayesteh page 70

    • billybob says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 4:50 pm

      One wonders how a Muslim could think rationally and logically on topics totally unconnected with Islam.
      We have only two things to guide us – our feelings, and our logic. If a Muslim’s mind and sentiments have been sufficiently warped so as to accept a religion that goes against the heart as well as the mind, that process would permanently damage sound decision making on any topic. Flawed logic could be the only outcome of reflection, and the heart would be desensitized to the pain and suffering of others. A devout Muslim must be a severely damaged person.

  5. Champ says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 1:46 pm

    Indeed, Glenn, their god of murder & mayhem, allah aka satan, must be *very* disappointed in these low numbers. There’s an entire world to terrorize and subjugate under islam and time’s a-waistin’ …

  6. Nigel GFF says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 2:59 pm

    “The golden-domed Sayyida Zeinab shrine contains the grave of one of the Prophet Muhammad’s grand-daughters, …” BBC

    “The BBC, like the rest of the mainstream media, has decided that we are all Muslims now, and all accept Muhammad as a prophet. This is, however, not yet the case for many in the West, and for some of us it never will be the case.” RS

    The prophetic line finished with John the Baptist, for me anyway, and I suspect that is the case for most Christians. Thanks for the ‘alert’. These acceptances of the ‘new order’ sneak through and are correctly spotlit for what they are – distractions from ‘The Word Made Flesh’.

  7. mortimer says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Hatred of Shi’ites is taught in Saudi schools as an official part of their curricula.

  8. Jay Boo says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 4:03 pm

    Who’s the ‘daddy’?

    in reference to:
    The golden-domed Sayyida Zeinab shrine contains the grave of one of the Prophet Muhammad’s grand-daughters

    We can rightly suspect that Muhammad’s grand daughter Zeinab who is reported to have been born about six years before Muhammad died may have rightly called her grandfather, ‘daddy’.

    Muhammad is known to have had sex with at least one daughter in law and any man who would have sex with a six year old girl is certainly not above ‘boinking’ his own daughter Fatima.

    Historical facts.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 5:51 pm

      Jay Boo posted:

      “Who’s the ‘daddy’?”

      Caliph Al-Bag-daddy? 🙂

  9. SBJ says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    Most countries celebrate their special holidays with fireworks, parades, family get togethers and good food.
    Not muslims… they celebrate by bombing, killing and no food.

    Mother Nature never intended this many retards to populate the earth. Thanks modern medicine :-/

  10. Edward says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    Hmmm, this Sunni Islam god who mandates his adherents that go along with his program(s); to annihilate the adherents (of those of the other lesser Islam sects) that don’t abide by his program(s) is a left wing like dictator god.

    This god revered by Muslims is not the God of the Book of Genesis. The merciful true God of the Genesis account never HATES any of His creations that are created in His same image in-part liked attributes are not certainly created by this imaginary Sunni god that mirrors men innate attributes.

    A true God does not kill man, but man will.

    Inferring, man has concocted ISLAM’S god for man’s purposes and not really to revere a true God.

    A pseudo titular god!

    Islam adherent’s destiny is man manipulated and is not willed by a True God!

  11. mccode says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    For the latest tally on the Ramadan Bombathon check

    https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

    Great site.

  12. sahani says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    1400 yrs and daily killing using islamic doctrine and our world has no plans to stop this

  13. gravenimage says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    Ramadan in Damascus: Islamic State murders at least 12 with bombs near Shia shrine
    …………………….

    This bloodshed is how pious Muslims “celebrate” Ramadan…

  14. garegin says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 1:30 am

    While it’s contrary to Scripture that heretics should be killed, it wasn’t the death penalty afcording to canon law. Heresy was a civil crime and it was the state that punished them.
    I think in that sense we have inquisitions even today. Church bodies have hearings to investigate issues of church discipline. Completely good and wholesome. If a marriage, for example, was done under false pretenses don’t you think there should be an investiagion into it?

  15. Manuele says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 6:49 am

    THIS STATEMENT IS A FABRICATED LIE.. so some Christian accepted Islam but rest of them started putting blames on Muhammad ( a.s) [[not in his life but many years after his death when they saw Islam spreading rapidly and priests fear their power and influence decreasing on people. The; TRUTH: CHRISTIANS WERE FORCE TO ACCEPT ISLAM OR BE MURDERED , some greedy Muslims also tried to twisted Islam for their own selfish needs and set very bad examples. The TRUTH. THERE ARE TWISTED, SELFISH, MURDERERS, RAPIST, PEDOPHILIAS. AND AS FOR BAD EXAMPLES, MUHAMMAD & ISLAM’S INSANITY IS NOT COMPATIBLE TO THIS DAY AND AGE.

    ]] like Jews put nasty blames on Jesus (a.s) AND AS FOR USING THE JEWS TO MAKE COMPARISON TO TRY AND JUSTIFY ISLAM’S FALSE TEACHING IS ANOTHER EXCUSE TO DEFLECT WORLD VIEWS OF ISLAM/ MUSLIMS INSANITY.

    Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is best and leader ( imam) of all messengers.. HOW MANY MESSENGERS/PROPHETS THERE ARE BESIDES MUHAMMAD FOR ISLAM? THE TRUTH IS, NONE. SO AS FOR A BEST LEADER, HE IS THE ONLY NUTCASE THAT START THE TEACHING AND CREATED ISLAM BASED ON HIS OWN MUDEROUS, PEDOPHILIAC, BLOOD THIRSTY DUE TO HIS HATE OF THE TRUE GOD OF CHRISTIANS.

    Please Accept Islam to save yourself from eternal hell after death… JESUS TEACHING WILL SAVE AND HAVE SAVED PEOPLE WHO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD THE FATHER… The TRUTH IS.. ANYBODY THAT ACCEPT ISLAM WILL BE IN THE DEVIL/SATAN’S HELL HOLE AND THAT’S WHERE THOSE WHO ACCEPT ISLAM ARE HEADING TO, ” “THE ETERNAL HELL AFTER DEATH”

  16. DFD says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Glenn Wilson says: “It is the 5th day of Ramadan with only 47 attacks and 280 kills. I am really disappointed in these numbers. Come on boys you need to do better….”

    I agree. It is disgraceful and disappointing, to say the least. Have they no pride? The shame, oh the shame…

  17. DFD says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 10:19 am

    You missed the wardens in our loony bins. Total failure. They haven’t even managed to recapture you and to put you back into that nice, long sleeved jacket.

    What are we westerners coming too if we can’t do even that….?

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