“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)
The death toll is now 60, with 200 wounded.
“IS claims Pakistan bombing that kills 56 at Shiite mosque,” Associated Press, March 5, 2022:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Islamic State says a lone Afghan suicide bomber struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers and wounding 194 people.
The Islamic State affiliate in the region known as Islamic State in Khorasan province and headquartered in Afghanistan claimed Friday’s devastating attack in a statement translated by the SITE Intelligence group.
The statement was posted on the group’s Amaq News Agency. The statement identified the attacker as Afghan, posted his picture and said “Islamic State fighters are constantly targeting Shi’ites living in Pakistan and Afghanistan despite the intense security measures adopted by the Taliban militia and the Pakistani police to secure Shi’a temples and centers.”…
Peshawar Police Chief Muhammed Ejaz Khan said the violence started when an armed attacker opened fire on police outside the mosque in Peshawar’s old city. One policeman was killed in the gunfight, and another police officer was wounded. The attacker then ran inside the mosque and detonated his suicide vest.
The suicide bomber had strapped a powerful explosive device to his body, packed with 5 kilograms (12 pounds) of explosives, said Moazzam Jah Ansari, the top police official for Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province where Peshawar is the capital.
…He fired at the police protecting the mosque before entering inside.
Within seconds, a powerful explosion occurred and the camera lens was obscured with dust and debris. Ansari said the crudely made device was packed with ball bearings, a deadly method of constructing a bomb to inflict the most carnage spraying a larger area with deadly projectiles. The ball bearings caused the high death toll, Ansari said.
Local police official Waheed Khan said the explosion occurred as worshippers had gathered in the Kucha Risaldar Mosque for Friday prayers. There are fears the death toll could still rise further, he added….
Retired army officer Sher Ali who had been inside the mosque at the time of the explosion was injured by flying shrapnel. He made a impassioned plea to the Pakistani government for better protection of the country’s minority Shiites.
“What is our sin? What have we done? Aren’t we citizens of this country?” he said from inside the emergency department, his white clothes splattered with blood.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attack, saying the perpetrators were intent on “sowing discord among Muslims.”…
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Sunni jihad suicide bomber murders 60 at Shi’ite mosque
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Just horrifying Muslim-on-Muslim savagery. Few in the West will even notice this.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“Just horrifying Muslim-on-Muslim savagery. Few in the West will even notice this.”
And most Jihad Watch readers will neither read nor comment on this article.
Very telling.
PMK says
Many of us will read it, but what reaction should we have? Personally, I am inured to stories of Muslim on Muslim violence. Let them have at it. What are we expected to do?
The reaction of the retired army officer was ironic in the extreme:
“What is our sin? What have we done? Aren’t we citizens of this country?”
How would he answer a Christian who asks the same questions after his church has been destroyed by a Sunni or Shi’ite suicide bomber? I doubt this man considers Christians to be worthy of the same consideration or protection he expects for himself.
mortimer says
Pakistan has stimulated jihadism for the last 40 years, so the result will be a civil war in Pakistan between Muslims of different sects.
They have brought it upon themselves.
Chess says
Maybe obama will.
somehistory says
As I commented on this horror story a day or two ago….I posted a link about it….this will soon be the *new normal* in CT if things don’t change for a different direction.
mozlums can’t get along with anybody. Not even other mozlums. Put them in large groups anywhere and there is trouble.
How many mozlum barracks have been set on fire here in the U.S. by a mozlum? Now that both sunni and shia attend the University in Ct and are already squabbling, how long before a gunman or a bomber does what has been done in pakistan and afghanistan over and over?
It was said that these two incidents in pakistan in the past week were because of the taliban taking charge in afghanistan and “militants” see their chance to do the same in pakistan.
What’s to keep them from taking over rulership in pakistan? What’s to keep them from taking over right here? Oh, yeah. biden. I forgot.
Infidel says
I just wish Iran would invade Pakistan in retaliation
PMK says
Why would Iran care? Those who died are now in Paradise..
D D Misra says
Well said!
Maemae77 says
More infighting. Doesn’t surprise me. Typical war cult mentality.
Maemae77 says
More infighting. Doesn’t surprise me. Typical war cult mentality.
OLD GUY says
I guess I am sad that these muslim’s were killed by other muslims of a different sect. Are Shi’ite followers of islam not following sharia and friends of Christians? If not then let them kill each other off, instead of bombing us. And how do we tell the difference between them?
Alfredo says
Pakistan: Sunni jihad suicide bomber murders 60 at Shi’ite mosque.
The devotees of the religion of Peace doing what they have been doing for millennia ever since the rightly guided Khalifahs were murdered one after another, including Ali, son in law of Allah’s Apostle, and original Shiah.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Infidel: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.
John Allan says
Let’s just settle for their BEING killed!