The Sunni-Shi’ite jihad kills far more people than the trumped-up phenomenon on “Islamophobia,” yet the latter gets far more international attention. Now, why is that?
“Taliban say bomb kills 8 people in Shiite area of Kabul,” by Rahim Faiez, Associated Press, August 5, 2022:
ISLAMABAD — A bomb hidden in a cart went off on Friday near a mosque in a minority Shiite neighborhood of the Afghan capital, killing at least eight people and wounding 18, a Taliban official said.
Also Friday, hundreds of Afghans — apparently organized by the Taliban — rallied in several provinces, denouncing the U.S. drone strike last Sunday that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri on the balcony of a Kabul safe house.
According to Khalid Zadran, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief, the cart bombing happened in western Kabul, in the Sar-e Karez area. Initial reports said two people were killed but the casualty toll swiftly rose as the wounded were taken to local hospitals.
“Once again, the enemy carried out an attack on (holy days) and killed innocent civilians,” said Zadran. He added that the police has launched an investigation.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but blame is likely to fall on the Islamic State group, which has targeted Afghanistan’s minority Shiites in large-scale attacks in the past.
The regional affiliate of IS, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, has increased attacks on mosques and minorities across the country since the Taliban seized power last August….
mortimer says
The Talibans and their fanatical friends have no more foreign KAFIRS to shoot at, so they are targeting Afghan Shi’ites.
Islam is a Death Cult … it requires a steady stream of bodies demanded by Allah.
Retribution is COMPULSORY in Islam, so the Shi’ites are forced to retaliate by Islam’s own teachings. Then, the Sunnite Muslim will retaliate … and so on ad infinitum.
-K.11.173 “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”
-K.2.178 “O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.”
-K.5:33 “The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land.” Waging war against Allah is rejecting Him.”–Tafsir of Imam al-Bukhari
-Imam AbdulLatif ibn AbdurRahman rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed and act upon it, and yet not be hostile against the mushrikeen. So anyone who isn’t hostile against the mushrikeen, then it can’t be said that he acts upon Tawheed, nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
mortimer says
Because the Shi’ites worship at the graves of Shi’ite saints, the Sunnite Muslims accuse them of being idolaters and thus the Shi’ites are borderline KAFIRS. The Shi’ites are condemned as ‘MUSHRIKOON’.
Westman says
It’s easier to understand the motive of people who kill for gold than those who kill others for non-tangible reasons. The potential cost of killing is losing your own life, which makes no sense when acting out in jealousy or hatred.
The media happily hawks the stories of those who kill spouses and relatives for some kind of gain – new wife, insurance money, land, etc. Then there are the media documentaries of the sick serial killers who need no motive, just lust and hatred.
Why are there no stories of serial killers in Islam? Or, does Islam provide such a broad range of justifications for killing the unbeliever, or, the not-quite-orthodox believer, that serial killers are simply absorbed into the tales of jihadists? Does Islam create serial killing in its name?
Islam is certainly a demerit system that authorizes the use of corrective force, including killing, to enforce compliance. Muhammad himself said, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him’”. The ultimate coercion, it seems, is Islamic doctrine.
James Lincoln says
Westman says,
“Then there are the media documentaries of the sick serial killers who need no motive, just lust and hatred.”
That’s why those sick serial killers so hard to catch.
They have means and opportunity, but no readily apparent motive.