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Baghdad: Seven wounded as Sunni Muslims bomb Shi’ite mosque

Jun 25, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

In The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here now, I show that the Sunni/Shi’ite split goes back to the earliest days of Islam, and has often over the centuries erupted into violence. This is certain to keep on happening, since the death penalty for heretics remains part of Islamic law in both its Sunni and Shi’a versions.

So in bringing vast numbers of both Sunnis and Shi’ites into Western nations, we are importing the Sunni/Shi’ite jihad as well. Don’t believe me? Consider this: already in Britain, the non-Muslims are aware of Sunni-Shia hostility and fear its consequences. In 2014, an 84-year-old non-Muslim, Kenneth Peters, who lived in a Shi’ite area, said: “What half of us fear is a load of angry Sunnis from Slough coming here and having a rumble.”

“Angry Sunnis from Slough.” Do you think Kenneth Peters had any idea what a Sunni or a Shi’ite was, or that they would always be at each other’s throats, when he was 24, or 44, or even 74? Celebrate diversity! There will be much more of this.

“Friday blast at Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad wounds several – police sources,” SwissInfo, June 22, 2019:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A bomb blast at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in eastern Baghdad wounded at least seven people on Friday, security sources said, correcting earlier reports of seven killed.

Police sources said on Friday a suicide belt or improvised explosive device had been used in the attack in the Baladiyat neighbourhood, for which there was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The toll was initially put at seven dead and more than 20 wounded. But police and other security sources said on Saturday the attackers had leaked false news of casualties through witnesses that police relied on for their reports….

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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Jun 25, 2019 at 8:03 am

    The phenomenon of blowing up rival mosques goes right back to the very beginnings of Islam-and was started by Muhammad himself. The earliest example is found in the Qur’an itself in verses 9:108-110.

    009.108
    “Never stand thou forth therein. There is a mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of the standing forth (for prayer) therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and Allah loveth those who make themselves pure.”

    9.109
    ” Which then is best? – he that layeth his foundation on piety to Allah and His good pleasure? – or he that layeth his foundation on an undermined sand-cliff ready to crumble to pieces? and it doth crumble to pieces with him, into the fire of Hell. And Allah guideth not people that do wrong.”

    9.110
    ” The foundation of those who so build is never free from suspicion and shakiness in their hearts, until their hearts are cut to pieces. And Allah is All-Knowing, Wise.”

    These verses refer to the gutting of a rival mosque on the instruction of Muhammad, when he was returning after an expedition to Tabuk. On his way to Medina, Muhammad halted at Dhu Awan at Quba, where an opposition Muslim group had built a mosque. Previously, while Muhammad was making preparations for the march to Tabuk, this group of Muslims approached him and said, “O Messenger of God, we have built a mosque for the sick and needy and for rainy and cold nights, and we would like you to visit us and pray for us”(The History of al Tabari, vol.ix, p.61). Busy with his preparations for Tabuk expedition, Muhammad excused himself from visiting this newly-built mosque, but assured the group that he would call on their mosque while returning to Medina from Tabuk.

    On his return journey from Tabuk and halting at Dhu Awan, Muhammad accused builders of this mosque of being unjust. Without any warning, he sent some followers to burn and destroy the freshly constructed mosque, saying to them: “Go to this mosque whose owners are unjust people and destroy and burn it” (ibid, p.61). They entered the bustling mosque and set fire to it when it was filled with people assembled for the evening prayer. The worshippers dispersed in utter terror. Allah promptly sent down verse 9:107, 110, justifying the destruction of opposition mosques. To further validate his gutting of this mosque, Muhammad concocted the story that he suspected that the builders of the ‘Mosque of Dissent’ were planning to assassinate him.

    These verses of the Qur’an can only mean one thing: the call for the devastation of rival mosques. The most important question is: which mosques are genuinely Islamic and which mosques are not so Islamic? Since there is no central authority in Islam to decide on this, it becomes a moot-point. It is, therefore, a free-market in Islam when it comes to destruction and bloodshed.

    The consequences are obvious and inevitable: Sunnis are free to destroy Shia mosques; the Shias are permitted to destroy Sunni mosques; both these groups are free to destroy Ahmedi or Kurdish mosques, and so on. Within each group there are sub-groups and they are also entitled to commit such atrocities on other groups. This is exactly what is going on in almost all Islamic Paradises.

    In Iraq, Sunnis are destroying Shia mosques and murdering them. In Pakistan, Sunnis are killing the Shias and burning their mosques. Then the Shias are avenging this by destroying Sunni mosques. In Bangladesh, both the Sunnis and the Shias are occupying Ahmedi mosques and setting them on fire. This musical chairs of mosque-burning and killing is proceeding unabated, each group claiming they are the true Muslims. Each group is adamant they are absolutely following the Qur’an and Sunna .

    • mortimer says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 8:52 am

      P.B. has made a perfect argument to validate his claim that inter-Muslim bigotry is normative Islam dating from Mohammed’s example, rather than an aberration or ‘distortion’.

      P.B. has proved that the violent teachings of Islam based on the whims and suspicious of Muslim leaders are considered valid excuses for jihad attacks on unarmed civilians.

  2. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Jun 25, 2019 at 8:18 am

    A bomb blast at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in eastern Baghdad wounded at least seven people…

    The world will always be a “house of war” for islam, even if muslims ruled the world. Intellectually speaking, there will always be one group of islamic primates who want to kill another group of islamic primates for their “blasphemy.” After 14 centuries they still can’t agree on whose superstitious idiocy is the best, and I’m quite sure they never will.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 8:54 am

      The ‘house of war’ includes the rival mosques of the various Muslim sects.

      • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

        Jun 25, 2019 at 8:56 am

        That’s right. Islam will always be dumb and dumber.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 25, 2019 at 10:28 pm

        True, Mortimer.

  3. christianblood says

    Jun 25, 2019 at 8:24 am

    Sunni majority which make about 92% of all muslims consider other muslim minorities
    such as the Shiites, the Ahmadis and the Ismaelies as infidels and wish to exterminate them. The problem now is that the US and the West are in bed with the Sunni muslim majority extremists who are the very people who perpetrated the attacks of 9/11 and every single islamic jihadist attack in the world since! US and Western powers are arming, training and funding these Sunni terrorists in their push to exterminate minorities such as Christians, Shiites, Yazidis and the Druze populations in the greater Middle East!

    Two places where this is actively happening as we speak are Syria and Yemen where Sunni/Wahhabi extremists like ISIS, Al-Qaeda and dozens of other Sunni jihadist groups are waging a genocidal war against Shiite minorities with the open support given to them by the US and Nato. A good example of this in in Yemen where the US is giving Billions worth of its tax-payer money in arms to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Al-Qaeda and ISIS so that they continue on their war of extermination against Zaidi Shiite minority in Yemen! More of this below:

    • Ronan naim says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 10:06 am

      Political violence is inherent in Islam, in both versions, Shi’a and Sunni. There lies the problem.
      Shi’a are no different in their perception of non Muslims than Sunnis. In Shi’a Islam, Sunnis, Christians, Jews, Druzes and other minorities are second class Dhimmis.
      The Shi’a of Iran did subjugate their own Non Shi’a minorities. They caused the same to the Sunnis, Christians and Druzes in Lebanon.They participated in annihilation of a large portion of the Sunni population in Syria. They continue to threaten the Jews in Israel.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 11:30 am

      yes, cb, the u.s., UKistan, frankistan, and germanistan are all run by uneducated/indoctrinated tools of the hard-core left, and they all support sunni groups … and shia as well (the iraqi government, for instance). if one doesn’t have a clue what is causing the problem, yet insists on trying to solve it, one is guaranteed to step in a cow pie (or in the case of the middle east, on a landmine). we are indeed arming and training those who will soon be actively trying to kill us, but not because we are grabbing for power; we actually want the bananas over there to stop fighting, since trade and commerce are a lot better than killing. it’s also better if they stop fighting over there rather than bring the fight to where *we* live. of course, it would help if our “leaders” (or the deep state) knew their a** from a hole in the ground about islam.

      it seems to me that russia is also choosing an islamic side, although for a more realistic reason: they want the power that access to the mediterranean sea through syria and its puppet state, lebanon, will gain them. furthermore, unlike the aforementioned free nations, russia is not constrained by concerns of killing innocents, since they don’t give a rat’s a** about anybody but themselves; to the russian government, the best “rag-head” is a dead one, and they can convince one to kill another one (or more), so that they don’t have to do so, all the better.

      in the end, russia is being far more realistic in the middle east, but in the same fashion stalin was when he murdered 1 in 7 soviet citizens, so that *everybody* knew somebody who had disappeared; it tended to keep the masses quiet and compliant, so that they could stay alive. nerve gas? dead babies? who cares about that, and why try to stop it?

      so don’t give us any crap about how evil the u.s. and western governments are; they’re *STUPID* and/or treasonous, but most are not actively malevolent like russia’s government.

      • Paul J says

        Jun 25, 2019 at 10:34 pm

        How naive you are. I wish I was so blissfully ignorant, I could sleep better at night then.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 26, 2019 at 1:15 pm

          “I wish I was so blissfully ignorant”

          Don’t be disheartened, you’re halfway there.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 1:06 pm

      christianblood posted:

      “Sunni majority which make about 92% of all muslims”

      Citation needed – all the numbers I’ve seen range between 80% and 90%.

      “consider other muslim minorities
      such as the Shiites, the Ahmadis and the Ismaelies as infidels and wish to exterminate them.
      ”

      The opposite is, of course, also true – non-sunnis consider sunnis heretics and infidels and want to exterminate them. All because their religious texts say so.

      Of course, that inter-sectary religious hatred goes out the window when it comes to murdering infidels. Shia Iran funded sunni al-qaeda and ISIS. Even the persecuted ahmadi will carry water for their persecutors, all for the sake of islam.

      “The problem now is that the US and the West are in bed with the Sunni muslim majority extremists who are the very people who perpetrated the attacks of 9/11”

      Citation needed. In any case, what do you have to say about nations in bed with shia “extemists”, like Russia’s support of Iran? I suspect that, at best, nothing and, at worst, you’ll defend said bedding. You’ve proven, many, many times, that yo don’t have a problem with islamic “extremists”, just as long as they belong to the “right” sect – what’s the difference between you and the “sunni extremists” you decry?

      “and every single islamic jihadist attack in the world since!”

      This is,of course, an easily disprovable lie – shiites are as bloodthirsty as their sunni counterpart. That you refuse to acknowledge that doesn’t make it any less truth nor does it place the responsibility of all islamic terrorist attacks on the US, like you’re trying to do. Go back to cheering the deaths of Israeli children by Hezbollah…

      “US and Western powers are arming, training and funding these Sunni terrorists in their push to exterminate minorities such as Christians, Shiites, Yazidis and the Druze populations in the greater Middle East!”

      Citation needed. This is just your average, grotesque slander – “the big bad US and the West want to murder Christians!!!!! Christians murdered in Iran? LIES!!!! THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!”

      “Two places where this is actively happening as we speak are Syria and Yemen where Sunni/Wahhabi extremists like ISIS, Al-Qaeda and dozens of other Sunni jihadist groups are waging a genocidal war against Shiite minorities”

      Maybe shia Iran is now regretting the funding they gave al-qaeda? Or perhaps not – Iranians famously used children to deactivate landmines (by making them walk over them) and seemingly have no qualms about nuking Israel, even knowing that Israel would nuke them back and kill millions of Iranians. That’s because Iran is a Twelver – they believe the twelfth mahdi is hidding in a well and will come out when muslims are facing persecution – whether the persecution is self-inflicted or not is of no significance.

      “ A good example of this in in Yemen where the US is giving Billions worth of its tax-payer money in arms to Saudi Arabia”

      Citation needed. This is another easily disprovable lie. A couple of years ago, Trump signed a deal with Saudi Arabia where the Saudis would pay 110 billion US dollars on the spot and another $350 billion over the course of 10 years. Is that what you call selling weapons? “Giving”? Is that what you call receiving billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia – billions that are not going to be used to fund terrorist groups – “giving billions of tax-payer money”? Tsk tsk – you’re a terrible liar.

      “UAE, Al-Qaeda and ISIS”

      Citation needed.

      “so that they continue on their war of extermination against Zaidi Shiite minority in Yemen! More of this below: ”

      Oh, great – more below. More of what, your half-truths and blatant lies? Gee, I can’t wait…

    • Paul J says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 10:22 pm

      Oh, well done Christianblood, how dare you criticize America for anything. The indignant windbags are inflating as I write this. Russia is the big bad cookie monster, not America. Get it right bro.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 25, 2019 at 10:34 pm

        The idea that christianblood is being prevented from spewing his animus against America here is just rot–that is all he does here.

        Paul J just doesn’t think that anyone should be able to call him on his claptrap. He himself was sneering at the idea that the Allies liberated Europe from the Nazis on another thread today. More apologia for totalitarianism.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 26, 2019 at 1:27 pm

        “Criticize”? Funny way to spell “lie about”… Or are you one of those people who has never, nor will they ever, seen a slanderous statement about America that they won’t consider as the purest of truths?…

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 26, 2019 at 11:38 pm

          +1

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 25, 2019 at 10:31 pm

      Muslims *always* want to murder other sect Muslims. This has been going on for 1400 years now, but christianblood pretends it is the fault of the ‘filthy Infidels’.

  4. Halal Bacon says

    Jun 25, 2019 at 10:07 am

    those dang islamophobes!

  5. gravenimage says

    Jun 25, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    Baghdad: Seven wounded as Sunni Muslims bomb Shi’ite mosque
    …………………..

    Disgusting–but no surprise. This is what Muslims do.

  6. Giacomo Latta says

    Jun 26, 2019 at 9:53 am

    Go Sunnis go! Go Shias go!

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