It’s 126 in Sanaa, Yemen. At two mosques, during prayers. Daesh says “we did that.”
Suicide bombers have attacked two mosques in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, killing at least 126 people and wounding many others, reports say.
Worshippers were attending noon prayers at the Badr and al-Hashoosh mosques when at least four attackers struck.
The mosques are used mainly by supporters of the Zaidi Shia-led Houthi rebel movement, which controls Sanaa.
Islamic State (IS), which set up a branch in Yemen in November, said it was behind the attacks.
Is it “Islamophobia” to point out that this is Muslims killing Muslims?
Witnesses said two suicide bombers attacked the Badr mosque, in the south of Sanaa.
One entered the building and detonated his explosive device among dozens of worshippers, the witnesses added. Survivors then sought to escape through the main gates, where the second bomber was waiting.
Al Jazeera reported that the prominent Houthi cleric al-Murtada bin Zayd al-Mahatwari, the imam of the Badr mosque, was among those killed.
Two more bombers attacked the al-Hashoosh mosque, in the north of the capital, with one detonating explosives near the entrance and the other running into the mosque itself.
Lots of death. A big harvest of death. Major success in the body parts department.
“The heads, legs and arms of the dead people were scattered on the floor of the mosque,” Mohammed al-Ansi told Associated Press news agency, adding that “blood is running like a river”.
Mr Ansi said that many of those who were not killed by the explosion were seriously injured by shattered glass that fell from the mosque’s windows.
More than 260 people are reported to have been injured.
These were people at prayers, don’t forget.
Welcome to the Ummah.
Sounds like the muslims are reinventing christian schisms and holy wars. Will they have to have 2000 more years of inter-sect slaughter like the christians did? Hint: it’s why christianity is on the wane; if they want to avoid that they may want to follow a different path.
Marcus,
perhaps you could just write a hot key, ctrl + C or something, that will post “Christians killed people too”. Perhaps you could parlay it into a a bumper sticker. That wouldn’t be tedious.
Why would you give Islam a crocodile tear laced hint on how to avoid going on the wane? I don’t think you want to live in a world of unified, powerful Islam. I certainly don’t.
Shia-Sunni, that I can keep up with. But the cross-pollination between Saudi Wahhabism, the Muslim Brotherhood, and general back-woods craziness is hard to decipher.
The mosque, I gather was frequented by Shia supporters of the Houthi, whereas the bomber(s?) were Sunni. Not positive, but I think that’s what I read on the Beeb this morning.
Why would you give Islam a crocodile tear laced hint on how to avoid going on the wane? I don’t think you want to live in a world of unified, powerful Islam. I certainly don’t.
I wasn’t trying to dismiss how horrible they are being.
My intent was to get people to remember that christianity had to thoroughly and utterly shit the bed in Europe before, finally, enough people got sick enough of it that there was a breakdown in the convenient relationship between political power and religion – religion finally got too bad for business for it to be useful, anymore. There was also, obviously, growing popular realization that religion had gotten overpowered and needed to be reined in – a movement called the “enlightenment.” The islamic world is following exactly the same path as the christian world did, including the political disunity, ineffectiveness, and social dysfunction. I wasn’t apologizing for political islam, in other words, I was saying how stupid they are.
When someone says “the christians did it too” it’s not saying a good thing. It’s saying “you’re also brutal ignorant deluded fuckwits being manipulated by canny political operators and greedy religious con-artists.”
Shall I put that on a control key and tie a macro to it?
Actually, the inverse would be true–it’s Islamophobic to ignore the fact that most of the victims of Islamism are other Muslims, deemed not ‘pure enough’ for the Islamists’ purposes. It would also be self-defeating for us, because it would prevent efforts to reach out to moderate groups (even ones we feel are misguided on various issues, but who eschew violence) of Muslims, and support them in resisting the extremists.
Another day of progress for the religion of peace and mercy.
The story that gripped me today (Fair Warning: this is mindlessly brutal and includes pictures and video) :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3002876/Mob-kills-burns-woman-heart-Afghan-capital.html
Is it “Islamophobia” to point out that this is Muslims killing Muslims?
nah, the islamophobia is mentioning it at all, unless you either immediately follow it up with how the west is really at fault for it or how the west did it worse years ago.