Afghanistan: Sunni jihadis murder at least one Shi’ite with bomb of minivan in Kabul

The Sunni-Shi’ite jihad kills innumerable people worldwide. “Islamophobia” is a trumped-up propaganda term and kills no one. Yet which one gets far more international concern?

According to Islamic tradition, the dispute between the majority Sunnis and the Shiat Ali (Party of Ali) began upon the death of Muhammad in 632, although it had its roots in incidents from even before that. The Sunnis contended that the prophet of Islam had made no provision for a successor as political, military, and spiritual leader of the Muslim community, and that therefore the Muslims should choose the best man among them as their leader. The Party of Ali, on the contrary, claimed that Muhammad had designated his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor, and that the successor of Muhammad had to be a member of the prophet’s household.

What’s more, far from being a mere functionary, this successor would bear some of Muhammad’s prophetic spirit, as well as infallibility in deciding disputed questions. Ali was finally chosen as the fourth caliph in 656, but in 661 was assassinated. Hassan, his eldest son (and successor, as far as the Shi’ites are concerned), was murdered in 670 on the orders of the Sunni caliph Muawiya. Then the Sunni/Shi’ite split became definitive and permanent when Muawiya’s son Yazid killed Ali’s younger son, Husayn, at the Battle of Karbala in 680.

After the beheading of Husayn, the Shi’ites continued a succession of Imams, members of Muhammad’s household and his prophetic heirs. Each one in turn, over two centuries, was killed on orders of the Sunni caliph. According to the traditions of Twelver Shi’ism, the official religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the twelfth of these Imams, a boy of five years old, disappeared under mysterious and disputed circumstances in the year 874 — but remained alive. After his disappearance, he communicated to the world through four agents, the last of whom died in 941. At that point the Twelfth Imam went silent, entering the period of “Great Occultation.”

“Hearts,” warned Mohammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, in his last message, “will become inaccessible to compassion. The earth will be filled with tyranny and violence.” He was speaking of the time of his reappearance, explaining that he would only come back to the world when the evil that Muslims were suffering was at its absolute apex. In this he echoed a Shi’ite tradition of the words of the prophet of Islam himself, Muhammad, who prophesied that the Twelfth Imam would be “the Resurrector” and explained: “He will fill the world with peace and justice as today it is filled with violence and tyranny.”

That violence and tyranny is not incidental to the theology of the Twelfth Imam, which has revenge as its core and essence. The Shi’ites began to teach that the Twelfth Imam would return at a time when the Muslims were oppressed as never before, and suffering worse than ever. The Imam, in the company of Jesus (reimagined, as in Sunni Islam, as a Muslim prophet), would finally end the horrific persecution of the true believers, taking up arms against their enemies and conquering and Islamizing the world.

“Daesh claims responsibility for Kabul explosion that killed at least one,” Amu TV, August 12, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Daesh claimed responsibility on Monday for an explosion that struck a minivan in western Kabul, killing at least one person, according to a report by the Associated Press.

The blast occurred in the Dasht-e-Barchi area, a predominantly Shiite neighborhood, around 4 p.m. local time on Sunday.

In a statement cited by the Associated Press, Daesh, also known as ISIS, said it had detonated an explosive device targeting Shiite community members, resulting in about 13 casualties. The group’s statement claimed responsibility for killing and wounding members of the Shiite minority, which has been a frequent target of their attacks….

The Taliban, which now governs Afghanistan, provided a slightly different account, stating that one person was killed and 11 were wounded. Taliban police spokesman Khalid Zadran confirmed that a bomb had exploded in the western part of Kabul, killing one civilian and injuring 11 others….