From Reuters: KARACHI – A Pakistani court sentenced an Islamic militant to death on Saturday for masterminding two suicide attacks on minority Shi’ite Muslims that killed at least 45 people, lawyers said. The convict, Gul Hasan, belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an underground banned militant group that has ties with the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan and […]
Chicken jihad
Sunni Muslims destroy a Shi’ite mosque with a suicide bomb. In retaliation, Shi’ite Muslims burn down a Kentucky Fried Chicken, killing six people. This one is just as crystalline an example of linear reasoning as the killing of 17 Afghanis because a Gitmo interrogator may have flushed a Qur’an. “Six KFC workers die in Karachi […]
Shiites want to limit Islamic references in Iraqi constitution
No public debate over Sharia Law in Iraq. It could provoke rioting and bloodshed. From the Duluth News Tribune, with thanks to Skeet Street. BAGHDAD, Iraq – Shiite legislators have decided not to push for a greater role for Islam in the new Iraqi constitution out of concern that the contentious issue will inflame religious […]
Novak: Jihad in Yemen
The indefatigable Jane Novak of Armies of Liberation kindly brings us this update on the jihad in Yemen: The Jihad in Yemen takes the form of the state attacking its Shia minority. There have been indications that aspects of the Yemeni government, in collusion with some leadership in the opposition Islamic Islah party, are close […]
Shi’a vs Sunni in Ramadi
A very interesting story on the rise of militias in Iraq from the Washington Post, “To the Dismay of Local Sunnis, Shiites Arrive to Police Ramadi” RAMADI, Iraq – At a checkpoint on a bridge into this volatile Sunni Muslim city, an Iraqi platoon frisked a row of men and rummaged through their cars and […]
Bomb at Shiite Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan kills 24
While Pakistan flexes its nuclear muscles, jihad violence there continues. From the Canadian Press, with thanks to Twostellas: QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – A bomb exploded Saturday as Shiite Muslims congregated at a shrine in a remote town in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 24 people and wounding 16, police said. Thousands of worshippers were at […]
Sunni/Shiite Jihad: Two Blasts Kill at Least 39 in Pakistan
From AP, , who notes that Ahmad Ludhianvi says below: “This is the worst kind of terrorism.” Asks Mr. Imm: “When Muslims are killed; apparently other types of terrorism not as bad?” Apparently not; we have seen this in the past, most notably with the Saudi bombings, as well. MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Two bombs […]
Iraqi Sunnis threaten to start “great jihad”
Yes, I too thought they had already started it. Also, apparently they haven’t heard the common American Muslim refrain (based on a hadith that radical theorists such as Hassan Al-Banna and Abdullah Azzam reject as inauthentic) that the greater jihad is a spiritual struggle, not armed warfare. From Itar-Tass: DUBAI, October 4 (Itar-Tass) – The […]
Sunni vs. Shi’ite
From CNN, : KARACHI, Pakistan — At least 15 people have been killed and 90 injured by a suspected suicide bomber at a Shiite mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said. Hundreds rioted across the city after the bombing, throwing stones and torching buildings. According to an officer at the scene, the […]
Sunni insurgents have A-16 surface-to-air missile
Heads up, Comrades! One reason the U.S. relationship with Russia is so important is that when old Soviet weapons go missing they often wind up in the hands of jihadis. BAGHDAD [