This story highlights the fact that Muslims themselves have an interest in curbing jihad violence, rather than stigmatizing and demonizing those who call attention to it. Yet there is no large-scale Muslim movement to stop jihad activity, and self-proclaimed Islamic reformers are often insincere opportunists, profiteering off nervous conservatives anxious to prove they’re not “anti-Muslim.”
“Blasts collapse roof at Afghan mosque, killing at least 62 at Friday prayers,” by Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Ahmad Sultan, Reuters, October 18, 2019:
KABUL (Reuters) – Multiple explosions at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan collapsed the roof on worshippers during Friday prayers, killing at least 62 and wounding more than 100, officials said.
Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for Nangarhar province’s governor, said bombs had been placed inside the mosque in the Jawdara area of Haska Mena district.
“People using an excavator are still working to bring out the bodies and injured from under the roof,” said Sohrab Qaderi, a member of the provincial council in Nangarhar, adding that the death toll was likely to rise.
Malik Mohammadi Gul Shinwari, a tribal elder from the area, said that the mosque had been destroyed.
“It was a heartbreaking scene I witnessed,” Shinwari said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility but the government accused Taliban insurgents, who are fighting to reimpose strict Islamic law after their 2001 ouster by U.S.-led forces.
Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the presidential palace, condemned what he said was a suicide bomb attack.
“The Taliban and their partners’ heinous crimes continue to target civilians at the time of worship,” Sediqqi added.
Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban, denied responsibility.
“All witnesses say it was a mortar attack by Kabul Adm.(Administration) forces,” he said in a tweet….
somehistory says
satan’s house is divided against itself.
US infidel says
Now maybe mudslimes will retaliate against each other . my mohameds turban is dirtier than yours. make sure the mosque is full of terroist worshipers before you attack it
mortimer says
More Muslim than thou. There are good reasons why there are FEW MODERATE MUSLIMS:
Mohammed commands the killing of ‘hypocrites’, lax Muslims and apostates, and promises eternal rewards for doing so:
“When I relate to you the words of Mohammed, by Allah, I would rather die than bear false witness to his teachings. However, if I should say something unrelated to the prophet, then it might very well be a lie so that I might deceive my enemy. Without question, I heard Mohammed say, “In the final days before Redemption there will emerge groups of foolish youths who will say all the right things but their faith will go no further than their mouths and will flee from their religion like an arrow. So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64
-Sharia law/Reliance of the Traveller/P64.2/5- “The thing I fear most for my Community is the eloquent hypocrite.”
-Muhammad Abdul Wahab said in his famous treatise The Ten Contradictions: “whosoever does not regard a kafir as a kafir or a polytheist as a kafir or did not try to correct them is himself a kafir.”
Jaladhi says
The peaceful followers of the religion of peace strike again to attain peace in the region!! Disgusting barbarians!!
Savvy Kafir says
By my arithmetic, that’s 62 fewer enemies of freedom, reason, & the infidel West. If Muslims would war among themselves until there are no Muslims left, they would be doing the civilized world a huge favor.
David says
The evident truth is that muslims hate everybody, even themselves.Hatred runs through islam, like a stick of rock. Why don’t the relatives of the dead and injured turn away from their wretched religion?
Terry Gain says
This has been going on since shortly after the inventor of this ideology died 1387 years ago. And yet, some people still maintain that the evil ideology which inspires this insanity is a religion.
Infidel says
Terry, while I do think that Islam is more a geopolitical cult than a religion, it does fit the dictionary definition of a religion. You’re assuming that a religion is necessarily good: Islam is proof that a religion can be evil as well.
When I think of Islam, I think more of a cross b/w Communism and Branch Davidian, rather than a religion like Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism
Terry Gain says
Infidel
Dictionary definitions change with time and evidence. There is no more reason to accept that Islam is a religion than it it is a religion of peace. It is neither. Islam debases religion.
Islam is a supremacist, totalitarian, political conquest ideology posing as a religion.
abad says
Put all Moslems in one country like Syria, let them all kill each other off. No big loss to the world.
AleX says
Islamophobic musselmans strike again.
allah must be foaming at the mouth.
Terry Gain says
If Allah existed he would take delight that those who have strayed from the correct path have been eliminated.
Angemon says
Proving Bill Maher right, islam is a religion of peace – there’s a piece of you here, a piece of you over there…
Giacomo Latta says
This is what happens when all the people you are supposed to hate are killed off in order. No Jews left. No Christians left. Next to be offed are those muslims you suspect are not real muslims. Can this process be sped up somehow? I’m getting bored with it.
David says
Lets just do it to the muslims. The real muslims are the worst.
Canon Felix says
poor muslims, when will you know the truth? When will you leave your fake god?
Spiro says
Well well one tribe attacks another
Tribe even when their both Moslem
Here’s an example why we need to stay out Syria and Iraqi
Of course Obama and Bush
have already done enough damage
Has it ever occurred to anyone that there may not have been a flood of Moslems going to Europe etc if these
presidents would have stayed out
jca reid says
They cannot live peaceably amongst themselves & our so-called “Leaders & Governmental Departments are openly inviting them to enter their respective countries, legally & illegally to prey on their own citizenry! After all, they are only following the instructions as laid down by Koranic & other Islamic diktats. You could not make this kind of dystopian “New Think” up!! It WILL be coming to your cities, towns & neighbourhoods fairly soon.