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Ramadan in Baghdad: Islamic State detonates bomb outside ice cream parlor, murdering 31

May 30, 2017 10:04 am By Robert Spencer

A Taliban spokesman recently explained: “Our fight is Jihad and an obligatory worship. And every obligatory act of worship has 70 times more reward in Ramadan.”

The Islamic State no doubt believes that as well.

“BAGHDAD BLAST: ISIS militants detonate bomb outside popular ice cream shop; 31 dead,” Fox News, May 30, 2017:

The death toll of a deadly nighttime bombing outside a popular ice cream shop in central Baghdad has risen to 31 as ISIS militants claimed responsibility.

Iraqi officials said families with children were enjoying a late-night snack after breaking their fast for Ramadan when the explosions went off.

A closed-circuit camera video of the explosion shows a busy downtown avenue, with cars driving down the street when a massive blast strikes.

Then, a huge fireball engulfs a building, forcing the cars to scramble to get away. Videos of the attack posted on social media show wounded and bloodied people crying for help on the sidewalk outside the ice cream parlor.

The attacks come as ISIS militants are steadily losing more territory to U.S.-backed Iraqi forces in the battle for Mosul, the country’s second-largest city. The Sunni extremists are increasingly turning to insurgency-style terror attacks to detract from their losses.

Al Jazeera reported that a number of those hurt were on the ground and propped themselves on colorful benches outside the shop. It is unclear how many of the dead were children, but the report pointed out that one girl, wearing a ribbon and bow in her hair, wandered around in an apparent daze after the blast.

In the second attack, an explosives-laden car went off during rush hour near the state-run Public Pension Office in Baghdad’s busy Shawaka area, killing 14, a police officer said. At least 37 people were wounded in that attack, he added.

Police and security officials say the explosion in the Iraqi capital’s bustling Karrada neighborhood early on Tuesday also wounded 27 people. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility, saying a suicide bomber carried out the attack. Officials told Al Jazeera that the explosives were placed in a parked car.

“[ISIS] wants Iraqis to fear going out and this is to show they are still present and able to strike the heart of the Iraqi capital, even as they are being defeated on the battlefield,” Hayder al-Khoei, a London-based Middle East expert, told Al Jazeera….

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  1. Dave says

    May 30, 2017 at 10:16 am

    Its just a sunni – shia jihadi game between 2 muslims.

  2. David Ramseur says

    May 30, 2017 at 10:55 am

    This is what you get in Islamic civilization. Were the Muslims who were eating ice cream in violation of Sharia? Did they break their Ramadan fasts in the daytime? By all accounts no. Even though the Quran says that Muslims lives are protected, this isn’t true. Because Islam also teaches lying. Nobody in Islamic society can trust each other. Muslims are given immunity to openly sin, with whatever wild justification they come up with. Sin is also supposed to be concealed. It is a religion that evil criminals don’t really need to adhere to if they don’t want. But it is also a religion that encourages evil and dehumanizes everyone, especially non-Muslims and women. These bombings were probably just test runs for upcoming attacks in Europe. As if the people are viewed as anything more than cannon fodder in Bagdad. Keep this out of the West.

    • Mockingjay says

      May 30, 2017 at 1:16 pm

      “Keep this out of the West”

      Good post, David.

      – It is like going out of the house in many islamic countries is like playing russian roulette – you never know if you are going to return from getting some groceries or, in this case, ice cream.

      Yes – we need to keep this out of the West.

      – Unfortunately, so many of our leaders – and the many, many citizens of the West who still continue to blindly follow them – think otherwise, and we will HAVE exactly THIS in the West if we do not act and act soon.

      – But in reality – it’s too late already, of course – “it” already has arrived in the West.

    • gravenimage says

      May 30, 2017 at 7:52 pm

      This was at night, David, so the victims were not running afoul of Ramadan.

      Since the perpetrators were the Sunni Islamic State, my guess is that the main targets were Shia–but they might just have been murdered because they weren’t living under Islamic State rule.

  3. isntlam says

    May 30, 2017 at 11:37 am

    You don’t want them to see you eating during Ramadan. These people had a death wish.

  4. Westman says

    May 30, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    The NYT and WaPo are ignoring this bombing and running pro-Islam and anti-Trump articles while other news sites have it front and center. They seem to be acting as the empire’s warships. Eisenhower forgot to warn us about the liberal-corporate-media complex.

  5. brane pilot says

    May 30, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    If this carnage directed at families with children were being done in the name of Christianity, there would not be a Christian on the planet who would not abandon the faith in disgust. Same for Buddhists, Jews, any other faith.

    There really is something profoundly different about Islam.

    • WPM says

      May 30, 2017 at 6:11 pm

      It is a death cult like Nazis, it feeds on the blood of Christians ,Jews , Buddhist, Hindus, if those are not around it feeds on itself Sunni, Shite. It needs war, rape , murder, oppression to keep going. Like the shark in the sea if he stops swimming he can not breath he will drown. If a Moslem stops and thinks about his actions in logical terms he leaves Islam.

    • Demsci says

      May 30, 2017 at 7:36 pm

      Quite so, but instead Muslims react with denial, saying that “these terrorists are not real Muslims”.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    May 30, 2017 at 4:52 pm

    That heinous jihad suicide/homicide bombing in Baghdad was both murderous and demonic. It now should be made known that this jihad murderous bombing is the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam. All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.” Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth. This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people . For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]

    • Sickofallthecrap says

      May 31, 2017 at 3:41 am

      That’s funny “bogus Christianity”. As if the whole sodding thing wasn’t bogus. Islam is insane and pure mysoginistic evil but Christianity is not therefore true. They are both man made bullshit. Christians fetishize love and Moslems fetishize hate, two sides of the same inane coin.

      • WPM says

        May 31, 2017 at 8:27 am

        No there are the same coin not even in the same bank. Christians ,Jews , Hindus , and non believers are not putting the world in a death spiral over there faiths. Christians ,Jews and Hindus believe in the goldern rule in there beliefs and books ,not all follow it but it is there. Christians Jews and Hindus are not whip up into a killing frenzy by there religious leaders to go out and kill unbelievers.

  7. abad says

    May 30, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    Barbarians.

    Better that they stay in the Middle East than enter the western world.

  8. gravenimage says

    May 30, 2017 at 7:47 pm

    Ramadan in Baghdad: Islamic State detonates bomb outside ice cream parlor, murdering 31
    ……………………

    Jihad against children eating ice cream.

    God, I hate Islam.

  9. James says

    May 30, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    So, killing 31 gets the same reward as killing 2,170 ? What happened to “Thou shalt do no murder” ?

    Our Lord says that satan is “a murderer from the beginning” (St John 8). They claim to respect Our Lord, and even to be more Christian than us. If so, they are not going to enjoy the “reward” for murder very much. They must think God is blind.

  10. eur says

    May 31, 2017 at 4:37 am

    Today at least 90 killed in kabul. Happy Ramadangdingdongdang!!!

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