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Pakistan: Islamic State jihad suicide bomber murders 100 at Sufi mosque

Feb 16, 2017 5:30 pm By Robert Spencer

Paradise is guaranteed for those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (Qur’an 9:111), and that includes the wrong kind of Muslim.

“Blast rips through shrine in Pakistan, 100 dead,” PTI, February 16, 2017:

KARACHI: Nearly 100 people were killed and several injured tonight when an Islamic State suicide bomber blew himself up inside the crowded shrine of revered Sufi Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan town, some 200 KM northeast of Karachi, in a string of deadly blasts this week in Pakistan.

The bomber entered the shrine through its Golden gate and blew himself up near the site where the ritual of sufi dance ‘Dhamal’ was taking place. He first threw a grenade, which failed to explode, SSP Jamshoro Tariq Wilayat said.

“He first threw a grenade to cause panic and then blew himself up,” the SSP said.

Sehwan police station SHO Rasool Baksh told reporters that around 100 people, including women and children, have been killed in the suicide bomb attack.

Hundreds of devotees were present inside the premises of the vast mausoleum of the saint at the time of blast.

Faisal Edhi of the Edhi foundation confirmed they have shifted 60 bodies to hospitals in Hyderabad and Jamshoro.

The ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on their Aamaq news agency, saying a suicide bomber had targeted a “Shiite gathering” at the shrine in Sindh.

Commissioner Hyderabad Kazi Shahid said since the shrine was located in a remote area, some 130 kms from Hyderabad, ambulances and vehicles and medical teams were being sent from Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Moro, Dadu and Nawabshah to the blast site to take care of the injured and move the bodies.

“Emergency has been declared at hospitals in these places and rescue operations have started,” he said.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that the Pakistan army had been requested to provide night flying helicopters to shift the dead and injured.

“Yes it is a tragic incident and because the shrine is away from a major city there have been problems in providing rescue operations,” he said.

The army said a C130 aircraft will be used to lift the injured from Nawabshah.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the attack and urged Pakistan to “stand united”.

Devotees gather at the shrine of the revered Sufi saint every Thursday to participate in a dhamaal and prayers.

Television channels reported that dead bodies and injured were lying inside the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a Sufi philosopher-poet of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan….

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  1. Oliver says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 5:37 pm

    To kill shiites, why the hell don’t they do so to Hezbollah and the Iranians?

    Then, the world gains twice-less terrorism from the Shiites- who are dead, and a dead Sunni or two.

    In my view, the more dead Hezbollah and Iranians, as well as dead ISIS slime-in IRAQ, SYRIA AND LEBANON THE BETTER.

    • Tequila Sunrise says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 2:21 am

      Sufis are not Shiites. Although a part of “Islam”, in reality Sufism is not even monotheistic but pantheistic and contains underlying pacific aspects of Hindu religion.

      • Oliver says

        Feb 17, 2017 at 10:50 am

        In the statememt by ISIS it said
        Shietes.

        I therefore thought that they knew who they murdered

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 17, 2017 at 2:52 pm

        A news report said that those pilgrims were performing a “Mystical dance.” There are Whirling Dervishes in Turkey who spin around until they collapse from vertigo and think it is something sent from God, so I suppose the dancers thought the same. People do ridiculous things and call it “Religion.”

  2. Transmaster says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 5:45 pm

    What a tragedy the Sufis are a sect of Islam that are peaceful In India at Sufi Mosques Christian and Hindus are welcome and all worship in there own way and take part is the beautiful music and poetry of a Sufi worship service.

    • Agnishtoma says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 1:59 am

      @Transmaster:
      It is tragic that this bombing has happened and many innocents have been hurt or could die. But on the other hand, Sufis though through blending with bhakti hindu traditions are peaceful, earlier they were anything but peaceful. Read http://indiafacts.org/sufi-mission/ and http://indiafacts.org/sinister-side-sufism/ to see how much damage sufism has wreaked in India.

  3. Shan Lim says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 5:50 pm

    The sad thing is that the sufi muslims don’t understand that it is the devil their are worshiping that caused bloodshed and their own demise. It makes their allah so happy

    • overman says

      Feb 16, 2017 at 6:24 pm

      True Sufi’s are not muslims. Sufism goes way back to the beginnings of time, under different names, and are a mix of the best parts of different religions. The sufi sects [like many other religions] were forced to accept lslam and slowly became lslamized. There are some secret ones, l believe, that haven’t been polluted by mainstream lslam.
      l’m not sure about this sect, but their founder did go around spreading islam across lndia.

      • Agnishtoma says

        Feb 17, 2017 at 2:01 am

        Read http://indiafacts.org/sufi-mission/ and http://indiafacts.org/sinister-side-sufism/ to see how much damage sufism has wreaked in India. Under the guise of being peaceful, a form of Taqiya. they played the role of rubbing balms on the battered and conquered people

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      If Allah wanted this done, couldn’t he have done it himself? On an even larger scale while they were dancing their “Mystical dance.” Never send a boy to do a God’s work.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    Oh, look! Sufis are not Islamic enough!

    This is like what Mohammed himself did. He burned down a mosque and killed the people for not being supportive enough to him (Mohammed) personally.

  5. mortimer says

    Feb 16, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    Imagine what ISIS could do if they sneaked bombs into crowded churches or synagogues!

    That’s why extreme vetting is now necessary. Sufis will also be protected by extreme vetting.

    • Agnishtoma says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 2:05 am

      I don’t think all Sufis are peaceful though the majority might be. But there is one Naqshbandi order of Sufis from Iraq who are as deadly and lethal, you could say the sufi equivalent of ISIS or Al-Queada In India they also are equal to if not greater than the Mughal tyrants and the Bahmani sultans when it came to rape of infidel women for temple destruction

  6. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 5:13 am

    Greeted with this (although the body count there was 70) on one page and at least 52 dead in a car bombing in Baghdad on the other page in the local Arabic paper this morning; both claimed by IS.

    A busy Thursday.

  7. Will says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 7:39 am

    The largest # of victims of ‘islamophobia’ is perpetuated by Muslims against other sects of Islam….. This type of Islamophobic violence is a vicious violence, sectarian bloodletting , internecine slaughter , where mosques/shrines/madrassas of the ‘others’ are targets of choice …. Yet it is westerners, non-Muslims, who need to be shackled with anti-Islamophobic laws………… Blasphemy laws to curtail western ‘islamophobia’ ….. Here we see sharia drop it’s velvet glove and expose its bloody fist ……

  8. Face_The_Truth says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    The Role Of Sufis In The Establishment Of Islamic Rules In Indian Subcontinent During Middle Ages:

    The “saints” of Islam who became martyrs or settled down were of several types which can be noted by a survey of their ziãrats and mazãrs that we find in abundance in all lands conquered by the marauding armies of Islam.

    But in the second half of the twelfth century A.D., we find a new type of Muslim “saints” appearing on the scene and dominating it in subsequent centuries.

    That was the sufi joined to a silsila.

    This is not the place to discuss the character of some outstanding sufis like Mansûr al-Hallãj, Bãyazîd Bistãmî, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rûmî, and Farīd ud-Dīn Attãr.

    Suffice it to say that some of their ancestral non-Islamic spiritual heritage had survived in their consciousness even though their Islamic environment had tended to poison it a good deal.

    The common name which is used for these early sufis as well as for the teeming breed belonging to the latter-day silsilas, has caused no end of confusion.

    So far as Indian subcontinent is concerned, it is difficult to find a sufi whose consciousness harbored even a trace of any spirituality!

    By and large, the sufis that functioned in Indian subcontinent were the most fanatic and fundamentalist activists of Islamic imperialism, the same as the latter-day Christian missionaries in the context of Spanish and Portuguese imperialism.

    Small wonder that we find them flocking everywhere ahead or with or in the wake of marauding Islamic armies.

    Sufis of the Chishtîyya silsila in particular excelled in going ahead of these armies and acting as eyes and ears of the Islamic establishment.

    The “Hindus” in places where these sufis settled, particularly in the South, failed to understand the true character of these Islamic “saints” till it was too late!

    The invasions of South India by the armies of Alãu’d-Dîn Khaljî and Muhammad bin Tughlaq can be placed in their proper perspective only when we survey the sufi network in the South.

    Many sufis were sent in all directions by Nizãmu’d-Dîn Awliyã, the Chistîyya luminary of Delhi; all of them actively participated in jihãds against the local population.

    Nizãmu’d-Dîn’s leading disciple, Nasîru’d-Dîn Chirãg-i-Dihlî, exhorted the sufis to serve the Islamic state.

    “The essence of sufism,” Nasîru’d-Dîn Chirãg-i-Dihlî versified, “is not an external garment. Gird up your loins to serve the Sultãn and be a sufi.”

    Nasîru’d-Dîn’s leading disciple, Syed Muhammad Husainî Banda Nawãz Gesûdarãz (1321-1422 A.D.), went to Gulbarga for helping the contemporary Bahmani sultan in consolidating Islamic power in the Deccan.

    Shykh Nizãmu’d-Dîn Awliyã’s dargãh in Delhi continued to be and remains till today the most important centre of Islamic fundamentalism in Indian subcontinent.

    An estimate of what the sufis did wherever and whenever they could, can be formed from the account of a pilgrimage which a pious Muslim Nawwãb undertook in 1823 A.D. to the holy places of Islam in the Chingleput, South Acort, Thanjavur, Tiruchirapalli, and North Arcot districts of Tamil Nadu.

    This region had experienced renewed Islamic invasion after the breakdown of the Vijayanagar Empire in 1565 A.D.

    Many sufis had flocked in for destroying “Hindu” temples and converting the native “Hindu” population, particularly the Qãdirîyyas who had been fanning out all over South India after establishing their stronghold at Bidar in the fifteenth century.

    Sufis did not, however, achieve any notable success in terms of conversions, but the havoc they wrought with “Hindu” temples can be inferred from a large number of ruins, loose sculptures scattered all over the area, inscriptions mentioning many temples which cannot be traced, and the proliferation of mosques, dargãhs, mazãrs, and maqbaras.

    The most widely known sufi in Indian subcontinent: Shykh Mu’în al-Dîn Chistî of Ajmer, Rajasthan (d. A.D. 1236):

    “The other miracle is that before Shykh Mu’în al-Dîn Chistî’s arrival the whole of Hindûstãn was submerged by unbelief and idol-worship.

    “Every haughty man in Hind pronounced himself to be Almighty God and considered himself as the partner of God.

    “All the people of India used to prostrate themselves before stones, idols, trees, animals, cows, and cow-dung.

    “Because of the darkness of unbelief over this land their hearts were locked and hardened.

    “All India was ignorant of orders of religion and law.

    All were ignorant of Allãh and His Prophet Muhammad.

    None had seen the Ka’ba.

    None had heard of the Greatness of Allãh and His Prophet Muhammad.”

    “Because of his coming, the Sun of real believers, the helper of religion, Shykh Mu’în al-Dîn Chishtî, the darkness of unbelief in this land was illumined by the light of Islãm.

    “Because of Shykh Mu’în al-Dîn Chishtî’s sword, instead of idols and temples in the land of unbelief now there are mosques, mihrãb, and mimbar.

    “In the land where there were the sayings of the idol-worshippers, there is the sound of ‘Allãhu Akbar’ now.

    “The descendants of those who were converted to Islam in this land will live until the Day of Judgement; so too will those who bring others into the fold of Islam by the sword of Islam.

    “Until the Day of Judgement these converts will be in the debt of Shaykh al-Islãm Mu’în al-dîn Hasan Sijzã and these people will be drawing closer to Almighty Allãh because of the auspicious devotion of Shykh Mu’în al-Dîn Chistî.”

    Shykh Khwãja Mu’în al-Dîn Chishtî of Ajmer, Rajasthan (d. A.D. 1236):

    “Although at that time there were very many temples of idols around the lake, when the Khwãja saw them, he said: ‘If Allãh and His Prophet so will, it will not be long before I raze to the ground these idol temples.”

    “It is said that among those temples there was one temple to reverence which the Rãjã and all the infidels used to come, and lands had been assigned to provide for its expenditure.

    “When the Khwãja settled there, every day Shykh Mu’în al-Dîn Chishtî’s servants bought a cow, brought it there, and slaughtered it and ate it.

    “Shykh Mu’în al-Dîn Chishtî had a second wife for the following reason:

    One night Khwãja Mu’în al-Dîn Chishtî saw the Holy Prophet Muhammad in the flesh!

    The Holy Prophet Muhammad said: ‘You are not truly of my religion if you depart in any way from my Sunnat.’

    It happened that the ruler of the Patli Fort, Malik Khitãb, attacked the unbelievers (i.e., “Hindus”) that night and captured the daughter of the “Hindu” Rãjã of that land.

    “Malik Khitãb presented the captured daughter of the “Hindu” Rãjã to Shykh Mu’în al-Dîn Chishtî who accepted her as the second wife and named her Bîbî Umiya.”

    LINK

    http://voiceofdharma.org/books/htemples1/

    LINK

    http://voiceofdharma.org/books/htemples2/

    • More Ham Ed says

      Feb 18, 2017 at 1:28 am

      Websites are cheap nowadays.

      GO GET ONE.

  9. Carolyne says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 3:03 pm

    Is the above some kind of joke? Too long to read it all but what I read was nonsensical.

    • Face_The_Truth says

      Feb 17, 2017 at 3:12 pm

      Please ask Mr. Robert Spencer to explain — what I copied and pasted above from Indian historian Sita Ram Goel’s books — to you.

      Or, you can read the entire books if you have time — free of cost — online by clicking the posted LINKs.

      • More Ham Ed says

        Feb 18, 2017 at 1:32 am

        “Face_The_Truth”

        More like Farce_The_Truth.

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