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Yemen: Saudi-led warplanes hit Shi’ite funeral, killing 140

Oct 8, 2016 11:53 pm By Robert Spencer

The Sunni-Shi’ite jihad kills far more people every year than “Islamophobia” (which is a trumped-up concept that kills no one), but the latter gets far more attention than the former. The moneyed forces that have brought about this situation need to be exposed.

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“Attack on mourners in Yemen kills more than 140, say local health officials,” by Mohammed Ghobari, Reuters, October 8, 2016:

Saudi-led warplanes struck a funeral at a community hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the country’s Houthi-run administration said on Saturday, but the coalition denied any role in the attack. More than 140 mourners were killed, according to local health officials cited by the United Nations, in an attack that prompted a strong rebuke from Washington, a key Saudi ally.

Jamie McGoldrick, a UN official in charge of humanitarian efforts in the country, said more than 525 were injured.

The death toll was 82, according to Ghazi Ismail, the administration’s acting health minister. The reason for the discrepancy in numbers was not immediately clear.

Ismail said the air strike occurred in the southern part of the city, where a wake was taking place for the father of the administration’s interior minister, Jalal al-Roweishan, who had died of natural causes on Friday.

The death toll was one of the largest in any single incident since the Saudi-led alliance began military operations to try to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power following his ousting by the Iran-aligned Houthis in March 2015….

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  1. mortimer says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 12:11 am

    Obama, John Kerry and Hillary are responsible for such murders as these because they REFUSE TO KNOW THE ENEMY…SALAFITE ISLAM.

    Where does SALAFITE ISLAM COME FROM, STUDENTS?

    Did someone say “SAUDI ARABIA”? Good for you, Johnny, that’s the CORRECT answer!

    • August West says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 3:56 am

      The enemy does not need any adjectives.
      The enemy is Islam.
      In the words of future Caliph Erdogan, Islam is Islam and that is that.

    • Christianblood says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 4:45 am

      mortimer posted

      (..Obama, John Kerry and Hillary are responsible for such murders as these because they REFUSE TO KNOW THE ENEMY…SALAFITE ISLAM..)

      I agree, but it is not just Obama, it is the whole US administration, including the Bushes and others before them who where in bed with the head-chopping Saudis and American people are not outraged at this, even after the horrors of 9/11.

      • Angemon says

        Oct 9, 2016 at 7:46 am

        Says the guy who defends shiites and shiite islam, even though in Iran shiites persecute Christians. As usual, anti-Americanism trying to pass as anti-jihadism.

        • Christianblood says

          Oct 9, 2016 at 10:29 am

          Angemon

          Since 9/11, there are dozens of jihad attacks and jihad attack attempts in the US alone and every one of them was carried out by Sunni/Salafi/Wahhabi/Takfiri jihadists whose ideological roots lie in Saudi Arabia.

      • Bob says

        Oct 9, 2016 at 8:59 am

        Indeed, Christianblood, the entire boiling of western politicos!

    • Angemon says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 7:45 am

      mortimer posted:

      “Obama, John Kerry and Hillary are responsible for such murders as these because they REFUSE TO KNOW THE ENEMY…SALAFITE ISLAM. ”

      Muslims have been killing other muslims on the ground of their religion for 1400 years now. The problem is not this one branch of islam or that other branch of islam, the problem is islam itself – its core principples. Which sects of islam don’t teach that deviation from their own brand of islam is an heresy punishable by death, or that apostasy is punishable by death, or that non-muslims are to be treated as second-class milking cows?

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 9:25 am

      ”Obama, John Kerry and Hillary are responsible for such murders as these because they REFUSE TO KNOW THE ENEMY…SALAFITE ISLAM.”

      What rubbish.

      Heaven knows I despise Obama, Kerry and Clinton, but the only people responsible are mohammedans themselves. As Angemon notes.

      • Charli Main says

        Oct 9, 2016 at 12:17 pm

        @ M10

        If you fall into a pit full of rattlesnakes, it does not matter which rattlesnakes actually bite and kill you, while others slither around watching.

        A snake is a snake and a Muslim is a Muslim.

    • john spielman says

      Oct 10, 2016 at 11:56 am

      true but both salafi islam and shiite islam are the enemy of all freedom loving peoples because BOTH are fascist islam at its best ( or worst) and both worship Satan, the father of lies, who was a murder thief and liar from the beginning – just like allah is

  2. Jorge abuauad says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 12:32 am

    Thank Robert also it must be said that usa always protect is weapon market saudi árabia even while doing genocide against Yemen starving the population under a ilegal naval blockade wich usa and his anti terrorist coalition us happy to help the double standar in the U.N. Os piece of shit usa your sales are pay wit blood yemení children

    • bc says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 3:22 am

      Attention to punctuation, grammar and spelling will make your post more readable

  3. Jorge abuauad says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 12:37 am

    I forget Iran has jews synagogue and churches how many jews live in saudi árabia and the ideology of Isis is from saudi árabia

  4. Rich says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 1:39 am

    Mark my words. Saudi will regret this action. Warplanes on a funeral? Really? Wow. Iran has been just *begging* for a reason to nuke Saudi. One day they will do just that in response to something like this. Can’t say I would shed a single tear.

  5. linnte says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 2:25 am

    Mr. Spencer. When will you write a book on Saudi Arabia!? These jerks need to be exposed along with Iran.

    • SBJ says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 2:17 pm

      There a huge difference between Saudi [22mil]and Iran[100 mil] and I’m not talking about their differing religious views. Saudi is truly regressing to a deeper, darker pit of human hell, while Iran with their vast young demographics could easily lead the way in progress. Iran has been scapegoated by the MSM, so please clear your mind and read up on Iran.I’m not an apologist for Islam, but if just one country in the ME, is allowed to reach the 21st century unhindered by foreign bombs, maybe then Peace will have a chance.

      • Mazo says

        Oct 10, 2016 at 10:05 pm

        Dumbarse.

        Saudi Arabia also has a youth bulge in its demographics.

        Iran has a below replacement fertility rate and it is going to eventually grey out. Arab Shias in Iraq have a much higher fertility rate than Persian Shia in Iran.

        Iran’s urban middle class does not represent their religious rural population.

  6. Morton Doodslag says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 2:48 am

    140 Shiites dead? Shiites must kill Sunnis in a roughly 10:1 ratio, otherwise it won’t work out right.

  7. August West says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 3:59 am

    “…an attack that prompted a strong rebuke from Washington, a key Saudi ally.”

    It would appear that Washington is running out of allies in the Sunni Shi’ite conflict.
    Perhaps its time to not take sides and be more like Switzerland on this topic?
    Just a thought.

  8. BLC says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 5:54 am

    By the time they get finished killing off the Kafirs and the Muslims of other sects that they don’t like, there’s only going to be one sect of Islam left standing, and maybe not even that if they have many honour killings to take care of. What a culture of death!

  9. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 8:09 am

    According to the local Arabic ragsheet here in Bahrain, the Saudis are denying any “coalition” planes were anywhere near that area, and have a laundry list of other possible causes/perps for the attack.

    Always interesting to read media not intended for infidel consumption.

    • Charli Main says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 12:24 pm

      Well if form is anything to go by, won’t be long before these Muslim lunatics start claiming that it was done by Jewooooish pilots pretending to be Saudis.

    • Mazo says

      Oct 10, 2016 at 10:07 pm

      Saudi Arabia also denied it in its English media.

      What, do you think they are stupid and are going to say “We did it” in English? Why would they only deny it in Arabic?

  10. Mirren10 says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 9:28 am

    ”The death toll was 82, according to Ghazi Ismail, the administration’s acting health minister.”

    They’re not trying hard enough. Oh, well, that’s 82 less.

  11. Cy Halothrin says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 9:49 am

    I’m sure the Political Correctees over at HuffingtonPost will going into overdrive now to explain how this is all the fault of Israel and Donald Trump.

    • Oliver says

      Oct 9, 2016 at 10:43 am

      And they will quote the Swedish Foreign Minister for that. She feels all is Irael”s fault

  12. Peter says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    GU is clearly now an Islamist front organization actively supporting the Brotherhood’s Civilizational or Grand Jihad. Rename it Treason Perversity I (and just rank the other “academic” institutions with II on up or instead use “Indian” numerals 2….).

  13. Matthieu Baudin says

    Oct 10, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    Expect a long line of asylum seekers for passage to the U.S. and Europe as this war escalates.

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