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Subscribe to RSSMULTAN, Pakistan - An explosion on Sunday near a Shiite Muslim procession in the central Pakistani town of Khanpur killed 18 people and wounded at least 30, police and emergency services officials said.
The explosion went off as the mourners came out of a mosque, District Police Chief Sohail Chatta told The Associated Press. The bomb appeared to have been planted ahead of time in the path of the procession, he said.
Hundreds of Pakistani Shiites had gathered in the town of Khanpur in Punjab province for a traditional procession to mark the end of 40 days of mourning following the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, a revered seventh-century figure.
The processions of Shiite Muslims, who make up about 20 percent of Pakistan's population, are often attacked by militant Sunni Muslim groups who consider them apostates of Islam.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Nothing to discuss, just more of the same Islamic news. We kill them, they kill us. If we can't find some westerners to kill we'll kill some of our own citizens. That's the main tenet of Islam, kill somebody or no virgins for you and its best when you kill yourself at the same time. Don't you just love this kind of religious precept, given time and enough explosives Islam will eliminate itself as a major religion in the world. Maybe we should let Iran develop the BOMB, it might just hurry the process up. At best Iran could build five or six bombs, just enough to wipe out maybe 300 million Arabs. They'll have to invent a new description of virgins to accommodate all those martyrs.
Well stated NC. When will our world wake up to the real truths about islam? When will our world understand that when we let muslims immigrate into our countries they will only bring this hate and killing culture with them? The rules and tenents of islam demand subservience, killing and degradation , so one should be able to easily understand the mentality of people who ascribe to that hideous culture. Wake up world!
When will you realize that the killed were also Muslims and just ordinary people going about their business.
They don't have to bring hate here. Unfortunately, we already have it from people like you. And we are already awake - to you. The religion of hate is the same, all around the world, and you and they are brothers.
It's like a sporting event for them as Football, basketball and baseball is to us. A never ending game. Who the hell keeps score for them??????????
The problem with your solution, N.C. is that it might leave the oil too radioactive to use. After all, oil is the only thing of value in the moslem world.
Jack-1522032 and N.C. Thornton
You have a right to your opinion, its granted by our Constitution, which serves everyone and gives those freedoms openly no matter what race or what religion. What your own hate hides (as Byron Raum described) is that your form of perception which is blinded by hate, and prejudice, doesn't allow the fact that many of and most of the Islamics that immigrate do so to be free of the ham-fisted and oppressive rule of Fanatical Fundamentalist Islam, the extremists that use fear and violence and bloodshed to browbeat the chattel they seek to bend to their will.
What they don't need is ham-fisted and oppressive Americans spreading hate and prejudice against them here as they live peacefully and as Americans. There are always others that bring their fundamentalists beliefs and violent behavior here along with Islam's believers, but then you can find such idiots in America without Islam, or have we forgotten Timothy McVey?
Sure Islam believes it should be the only holy religion, but down deep in the beliefs of all major religions here in America, even though they live peacefully among one another, they believe their doctrines are the only correct perceptions of how to worship their God, the one and only god according to them. Look at how long Ireland and England were at internal war and terrorism, with the IRA. That was Catholic against Protestant even though political beliefs fueled the fire also.
Our own country was founded on relgious war and conflict. Quoteing an excerpt from :
THE HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN THE UNITED STATES:
REVOLUTION TO SEPTEMBER 11TH
" ...the United States is a nation founded on religious conflict. The colonies were settled by those escaping religious persecution in Europe. There is even some evidence that religion played a major role in the American Revolution and that revolutionaries believed it was willed by God for the Americans to wage war against the British.[1]
As the Church of England was striving to establish one, uniform religion across the kingdom, colonial America was divided, each of the colonies being dominated by their own brand of Christianity. Due to the distance from England and the room in the colonies, many religions were able to establish themselves in America, colony by colony. For example, Anglicans, who conformed to the Church of England, populated Virginia. Massachusetts was home to the Puritans. Pennsylvania was full of Quakers. Baptists ruled in Rhode Island. And Roman Catholics found a haven in Maryland, where they could establish themselves amid the other colonists’ protestant majority. Each of these colonies maintained a distinct religious character and favored one religious denomination’s power.
The American colonists saw the revolution not only as a war for political independence, but to protect the religious diversity of the thirteen colonies. Put in other terms, it was a war for religious independence and freedom. To sever ties with Mother England would be to ensure that the various Christian denominations could co-exist on the American continent. The conflict was, in part, a conflict that pitted the various American religious denominations against the Church of England, who wanted to impose a uniform, Anglican religion on the colonies."
So to those that wish to pit their anger against a religion in general, understand that the very core of Islam is at war within itself. These are the conflicts apparent in articles just like this. Islam in itself is not our wenemy, its fundamentalists extremest that are the threat to our national security.
Using your anger against those who peacefully believe the Islamic faith, is merely fueling a fire that doesn't even need to be lit. Look at other articles and the tension right now as Iran takes a foolish stand even against the other nations of Islam and threatens them concerning ANY participation in the scenario that is unfolding.
I am not Islamic, but then again I am not an ignorant enough fool to listen nor believe hate and diatribe that is useless and callous serving no purpose in attaining a peaceful solution for living together in our nation.
These animals in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq that kill their own people are the enemy, a vicious virus that infects all people wanting to live in peace, not just Americans. Sometimes though, we have more threats from enemies at home within our own borders, those who spread their incentive propaganda to inflame tender situations where diplomacy should rule as a path to peace. Their is a majority here, in America, that fled to our country seeking peace, whether they believe in their God, in their way and with their more peaceful views and doctrines.
Sheep! LOL!
I think I am starting to understand this Islam thing? ''a traditional procession to mark the end of 40 days of mourning following the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, a revered seventh-century figure.'' Instead of fireworks since Allah is sooooooo great they set off bombs to honor Allah and the saints{imam hussein} Yes that must be it as this seems to be a normal routine for the muslims.
hey i knew this sh^t was gonna happen.just like iraq.sunnis vs. shiites.....its been goin on for centuries...
Pretty soon the Islamics are gong to have to form a new sect, there won't be enough Sunni's or Shiites left to keep the BS going. I propose the new sect call it self the Sunshi, left of the Sunnis or to the right of the Shiites or the reverse, whichever suits your brand of idiocy. Only one proviso you must kill yourself in order to show your complete loyalty after ten prayer sessions. Their new motto would be we have nothing to fear, but life.
I don't understand why they are so infatuated with virgins. Killing themselves is not going to get them laid.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot are they thinking? They need to figure out that there are not any virgins in Hell.
World Wide Warning
02/29/2012 Add the numbers of the day, month and year together and you get 18=1+8=9 than add the day 29 together and you get 11. Put them together and you get 9/11 on leap day of leap year 2012.
Ah, mathematics, you can detemine anything if you search diligently enough or are a statician. I have figured out that 2012 added up equals five, lo and behold that's the number of fingers I have on my hand and also the number of toes on my foot. Don't you find this remarkable. If I add up the numbers on 2011, I come up with four and that's the number of arms and legs I have, who would have thought. If you total your age added to your weight plus you IQ divided by the number of your siblings you will have a number that doesn't make any sense but its still a number, you figure out its significance.
LOLZ! That made me laugh!
Maybe you can do a good deed and share some of your bong with them, Jeff. Calm them down- who knows- maybe those virgins will start looking good to them after a few hits! But then again, MAYBE NOT! Lolz!
J/K!
Yeah, these "virgins" are supposed to be in heaven and heaven is eternity and so any virgins there are going to stay virgins for eternity, and so these nuts are going to get there and have to whack off. That's what they're used to anyway, so no big deal. Cynical justice God has sometimes.
The classic interpretation of virgin during Biblical times was not a woman who had not had sex but was an unmarried woman. A prostitute was a virgin until she got married. We call them old maids today. That is why women are preoccupied with getting married even if they don't want a life long mate. The connotation of Mrs. even if it is an ex Mrs. removes the stigma of being labeled as a virgin. No woman who has been married can be labeled an old maid no matter how many men she has been with. Not to worry ladies, a male virgin suffers a worse fate than any woman ever could. He is a pariah among men, you cannot be caught talking to him by other men lest you be labeled, labeled with unspeakable inuendos. The virgins of Islam are virgins from the old school unmarried professional prostitutes, and not all women.
(Yawn)
the problem is the belief in imaginary things. religion is the problem. always has been and always will be. their prophet was illiterate. how could he have read and written the koran. religion and all religion is the belief in imaginary bs and its destroying the planet.
So pittsburgh , you deny Jesus was preaching peace and kindness and really didn't exist !
The problem is not religion but the people using their perverted definition of religion to gain power and no major religion is as perverted as Islam !
Brilliant..... Any fool willing to strap on a bomb for Jihad will suffer eternity in Hell..... Die you scum suckin' Islam trash......
A Pakistani Muslim dialogue. 'Oh, we don't like that flavor of Muslim. Blow them up!'
The history of Christianity is littered with similar violent disagreements over seemingly trivial aspects of belief. And now there are radical Amish who have been invading the homes of "heretics" and cutting off their beards and hair.
Belief in fairy tales does not go hand-in-hand with rational behavior. They're mutually exclusive.
EarlyOut,
"The history of Christianity is littered with similar violent disagreements over seemingly trivial aspects of belief."
Exactly! How easily we forget, overlook, or just remain ignorant of that fact. I was reading recently about a Roman Catholic monastery that was burnt down by a mob of Protestants in the 19th. century right here in the good old US of A. And we have a tradition of religious "tolerance" in this country that Muslim countries do not have. It's in our Constitution, and yet many such acts of violence and intolerance have occurred in our history, especially between Protestants and Catholics. Anyone who does not know that is simply ignorant of U.S. history.
Ah yes, you offend my God so I must kill you and all like you. This is a tradition among Jews, Christians and Muslims. This crap is not unique to Islam, history, the bible and Torah are full of examples of mayhem and murder in the name of God. If Christians and Jews are no worse that Muslims they have been no better either.
One good thing about these idiot Muslims is that they kill each other at a faster rate than we kill them.
That's a good thing.
Elect the Dalai Lama as supreme world leader!
Nothing more than proof that religion kills, no matter what country/religion it is. Humans are so easily brain washed.
I take it you are Human.
Indeed, just not brain washed.
Sweet !
These people still have not figured out that these processions are where the ter ror ists always plan their hits. Just don't fall in line and walk down the street like sheep, because you are going to be a ta rg et for ter ror ists over there. Mu slims against Mu slims just proves they are NOT a religion of peace.
I guess Hillary wants to go shopping there.
throughout history religion has killed more than anything else.
What the hell is wrong with those people? Also there is a difference between religion and faith. You can be religious about baking a pie on Sunday but having faith and living by it is totally different.
tom , I guess you are totally ignorant of the number of people slaughtered by Hitler, Stalin , Pol Pot , Ghengis Khan etc , all non believers and athethists !
Anti religion is not very pretty and the posts here are inaccurate at best or just plain lies !!
Hitler was a catholic.
@Starter
Big Whoop. Did he kill people because he was Catholic? No, infact, when he was down in Italy, he kept on threating to level the Vatican.
HEY Muslims did God aka Allah create all things? If he did are you not killing some of his creations? Does killing his creations please him? Think about that. BTW Mohammed was just a man.
And these people want nuclear weapons!!!