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2005-06-01 Afghanistan/South Asia

At least 27 dead in Afghanistan mosque suicide blast

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Posted by ed 2005-06-01 03:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Again, where are the street protests over this desecration of the religion and a place of worship? Somebody needs to get pictures of Korans damaged (read desecrated) in these types of incidents to help all would be protesters put the world in context. Visuals would go a long way toward making it clear.

Posted by Tkat 2005-06-01 08:34|| 2005-06-01 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 The Afghans protest against things like this every day, by serving in the Afghan army, supporting Kharzai, voting in their elections, and rebuilding their country.

Indeed, this bomb attacked a memorial service for an Imam who killed by the Taliban last weekend. It WAS a protest, in a sense.

This foul desecration of a Mosque shows what Al Qaeeda is - the enemy of Islam. For the sake of Afghan muslims, its mosques and Korans, Al Qaeeda and the Taliban MUST be destroyed. Fortunately over 200 Taliban have been killed by Afghan and coalition forces, even as the Taliban target moderate muslim leaders.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-01 09:13|| 2005-06-01 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 that's not protesting, LH - that's living. Quit making excuses for the lack of anger directed inwards at Arab/Islamic culture. It's a pathetic misdirection

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-01 09:25|| 2005-06-01 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 I think Karzai has previously made the point that terrorist attacks and religious riots have desecrated Korans.

He did this after the initial post-Newsweek riots.

However, I agree that until Islam leaves violent Jihad completely and forever (something that the Ahmiyada and the Ismailis have almost done), Islam will remain a threat to civilization itself. Until that time Islam will also remain as the biggest oppressors of Moslems.

Posted by mhw 2005-06-01 09:44|| 2005-06-01 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Where is the BBC when they desecrate thier own religion as well as the Koran.

Posted by plainslow 2005-06-01 10:58|| 2005-06-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought I posted a comment here.What hapened?

Posted by raptor 2005-06-01 11:01|| 2005-06-01 11:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Well I think that just living can be a political act.

But joining the army is more than just living. Voting is more than just living. Attending the funeral of a man who was murdered by the Taliban is more than just living.

I dont need to make excuses for the Afghan people to folks who sit safely behind their keyboards while the Afghan people, like the Iraqi people, live with danger and death.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-01 11:05|| 2005-06-01 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Quit making excuses for the lack of anger directed inwards at Arab/Islamic culture

why should they be angry at Islamic culture, when they believe in Islamic culture, and reject the AQ interpretation of Islam?? As for anger at Arab culture, thats pretty irrelevant, since theyre not arabs - though from what I hear theyre not too fond of arabs.

Their anger is directed at the Taliban and AQ. And thats enough. They dont have to adopt all the pet peeves of people here to be antiterrorist. Thats what I suspect is behind all the "why dont they protest" angst. They protest against terrorists often enough, and more importantly, they struggle against the terrorists, often paying with their LIVES, dammit. But they dont attack Islam per se, so theyre not truely antiterrorist, to some.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-01 11:10|| 2005-06-01 11:10|| Front Page Top

#9 I find it strange that Muslims under terrorist attack don't take the most elementary security precautions. It's almost as if they were resigned to the inevitability of death. They really need to quit that Inshallah (God Willing) act, because anything they don't prepare for, God wills.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-06-01 12:03|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-06-01 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 mebbe theyn maker chanje if alla wils it zf.

Posted by muck4doo 2005-06-01 12:11|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-06-01 12:11|| Front Page Top

#11 "Human limbs are scattered all over the mosque compound."

Sadly, this is a statement that I'm becoming numb to. Part of me grieves for those who lost their lives, but a bigger part of me feels, at least it's not me here, and that they need to clean out their own vipers on the homefront. I would like to see MORE/FASTER action on REAL condemnations of these bombings and retaliation against those who perpetrated the act (not on the U.S. like the immediate torching of the KFC yesterday).

Posted by BA">BA 2005-06-01 13:53|| 2005-06-01 13:53|| Front Page Top

#12 I dont need to make excuses for the Afghan people to folks who sit safely behind their keyboards while the Afghan people, like the Iraqi people, live with danger and death.

Are you really stooping to the tired old "chickenhawk" attack, LH?

Posted by docob 2005-06-01 14:13|| 2005-06-01 14:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Afghanistan remains wracked by violence three and a half years after the fall of the ousted Islamic Taliban regime. More than 250 people, mostly militants, have died in recent months.

Note the requisite quagmire paragraph. Twits. Yes, this is a tradgedy, but my guess is that it will just piss off the local even more and lead to increased pressure on the Taliban. Roast the bastards, but quick.

Posted by remoteman 2005-06-01 15:07|| 2005-06-01 15:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Dollars to donuts sez the splodeydope is Soddy, after they put some of the bits back together.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-01 15:27|| 2005-06-01 15:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Are you really stooping to the tired old "chickenhawk" attack, LH?

thats not the chicken hawk attack. Chicken hawk attack, as purveyed by the nasties on the left, is an attack on someone for advocating a POLICY, with the implication that to participate in a policy debate you need to have been a soldier, or to participate on the hawkish side of a policy debate one needs to have been a soldier.

Im not saying that at all.

What im saying is that to impugn the courage and willingness to take needed actions of folks who are underfire, when expressed by folks who are NOT now underfire, takes a degree of chutzpah I dont have. Its like some american or euro leftie telling Israelis to "take risks for peace" when they dont have to worry that dropping roadblocks could lead to their being killed in a pizza parlor. In the same way that I find such hectoring of Israelis dispicable, I find the hectoring of Afghans despicable. God dammit, these folk just went to a funeral that was effectively a protest - and 27 of them were killed for their efforts. Killed. Dead. WTF more do we want from these people?

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-01 15:37|| 2005-06-01 15:37|| Front Page Top

#16 I find it strange that Muslims under terrorist attack don't take the most elementary security precautions.

Israeli experience shows that even an exceptionally refined security system has a difficult time with suicide bombers. Afghanistan is a 3rd world country, and its hardly surprising theyd be less prepared.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-01 15:39|| 2005-06-01 15:39|| Front Page Top

#17 I find it strange that Muslims under terrorist attack don't take the most elementary security precautions.

In addition to the logistical and organization and financial difficulties in securing mosques and public events against terrorism, you also have the denial factor. Even with all they've been through I think many moslems can not bring themselves to believe that they could be attacked in a mosque by another Moslem.

One reason for this disbelief is the preaching of their clergy. Another is the refusal of the country's leaders to take an firm position against terrorism and a firm position identifying the terrorists as moslems.

Posted by mhw 2005-06-01 15:59|| 2005-06-01 15:59|| Front Page Top

#18 whether I am under fire or not is irelevant - the point is that sometimes the PEOPLE have to say enough is enough, right? 12 or 13 centuries of blaming others is mental illness on a national, nee, cultural scale, and to call them sickness les than it is doesn't make you more sensitive, just an enabler. FWIW I applaude those that have stepped up to the plate and risked all. Those that protest a Koran desecration they'd never known about, in a land they'll never see, by killing each other, are animals - less than human

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-01 19:26|| 2005-06-01 19:26|| Front Page Top

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