SubscribeMuslims Blow Up More Muslim Shrines In Iraq
From an elated Associated Press:
Iraq bombers hit key Samarra mosque
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD - Saboteurs blew up the two minarets of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra early Wednesday, in a repeat of the 2006 attack that shattered its famous golden dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory sectarian violence that still bloodies Iraq. Sunni extremists of al-Qaida were quickly blamed.
The assault on the Askariya Shrine, one of the holiest in Shiite Islam, immediately stirred fears of a new round of intra-Muslim bloodshed, and prompted the 30-member bloc of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to suspend its membership in Iraq’s parliament, threatening a deeper political crisis.
To ward off a surge of violence, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki quickly imposed an indefinite curfew on vehicle traffic and large gatherings in Baghdad. Before the curfew took hold, arsonists set fire to a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad, police said.
A Shiite shrine was also blown up north of Baghdad, while two Sunni mosques were bombed south of the capital, police said. One was destroyed and the other lost its minaret.
Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called on “believers to exercise self-restraint and avoid any vengeful act that would target innocent people or the holy places of others.”
It wasn’t clear how the attackers evaded the shrine’s guards to mount the stunning operation, detonating the blasts around 9 a.m., and bringing down the two slender golden minarets that flanked the dome’s ruins at the century-old mosque. No casualties were reported.
Policemen at the shrine were subsequently detained and will be questioned as part of the investigation, al-Maliki said. Later, the Interior Ministry said members of “a terrorist group” had been arrested and were being interrogated…
This of course is how the current “civil war” in Iraq began, with the bombing of the Golden Mosque.
It looks like Iran and its puppet al-Sadr thought things needed to be re-kindled.
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June 13th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Funny how members of other religions don’t make a regular habit of blowing each other up, isn’t it? Ireland aside (and the violence has subsided), when was the last time a Catholic blew up a Lutheran Church? When was the last time an Orthodox Jewish synagogue was destroyed by a Reform Jew?
But the media - and, sadly, our President - continue to prattle on about how Islam is the misunderstood religion of peace.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
More senseless violence and mayhem, bestowed by the religion of peace upon their fellow brethren of the RofP.
Makes absolutely no sense to me but since when did the actions of mooselimb jihadis make sense to anyone. Well, anyone who isn’t a mooselimb.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
To digress EQ - the violence in Northern Ireland never had anything to do with religion per se. It was/is a “struggle” between Nationalists and Loyalists (or to be precise the IRA v UVF both of which would see their profits dramatically decreased if peace was fully restored….) What I am trying to say is that people werent killing each other purely because they were Catholic or Protestant. There are many Catholics who are loyalists and vice versa.
So the key point is, we really cant even point to (Northern) Ireland as an example of Christians blowing each other up.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
And what did that other article drivel on about London would be a better place? When are people going to wake up and smell the coffee? How much more violence in the name of Allah is it going to take?
Maybe we should pull out of Iraq, let them have their intra-Muslim war, then we go back in and take over from whoever is left.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Methinks Al Qaeda could use some PR lessons. Don’t oppress the people you want to oppress until you get them on your side. Let’s hope they keep pissing people off enough so they keep fighting back.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
In the 30’s, Hitler killed some of his own, just to have something to blame on the opposition. They want chaos so the people will rally ’round a ’strong leader’ like al-Sadr. Or so they think. Given a bit of democracy, or more correctly, capitalism, the chance to get ahead, the people may not rally quite as the radicals expect.
June 13th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Title is incorrect. Sunnis don’t believe Shites are Muslim, and Shites don’t believe Sunnis are Muslim.
Suggested title: “Muslims bomb heretic infidel apostate objects.” Or “Terrorist bomb heretic infidel apostate objects.” depending on your point of view.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
The libs and their media will try to hype this one up into a frenzy. As an Iraqi civil war.
Isn’t Shia Iran sending weapons and supplies aplenty to Sunni Taliban? What they won’t do together to get rid of Americans.
Islam respects nothing.
Again, it’s blame Bush.
June 13th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
ATol: Why have secular forces in Muslim societies failed to contain fundamentalism?
Bhutto: Most secular forces were kept out of government during the Cold War by military or authoritarian rulers lacking grass-root support and legitimacy. Since authoritarianism and dictatorship rested on force rather than on law, it gave birth to a culture of lawlessness and extremism. We need to have democracy in the Muslim world and we need to spend more on education and human development to contain the forces of extremism.
…Previously, the religious parties were used to help recruit militants. With the passage of two decades, the militant cells are becoming more independent of the religious parties. While they take their spiritual mentoring from the religious parties, their organizational structures are cellular and independent. But there is a real danger today. Disillusioned with military dictatorship and unable to express disillusionment through a fair electoral process, the danger is of the radicalization of the masses. This disillusionment provides a perfect breeding ground for extremist organizations. That was why in Pakistan, parties that are sympathetic to the Taliban and al-Qaeda claim that neither democracy nor military dictatorship works and that theocratic rule should be given a chance. Thus, when people are denied the democratic model of development, they can choose a system that is even worse than military dictatorship.
This is an older article from Asia Times Online, but by all means read it all: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/S.....3Df03.html
You may agree with few or none of the arguments, but they are put forth in a rational manner. And how can anyone explain the anomaly of Benazir Bhutto?