Pakistan mosque suicide bomb kills 'at least 66'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

A suicide bomber demolished a mosque in north-west Pakistan today as Friday prayers were ending, killing at least 66 people after a relative lull in militant violence, provincial government officials said.
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The bombings were the latest in a series of attacks on mosques and Sufi shrines in Pakistan, and underscored the relentless security challenge to a nation where Islamist militants have thrived despite US-supported army offensives against them.

The explosion, Pakistan's biggest since September, happened in Darra Adam Khel, an area near Pakistan's tribal regions where Taliban-led militants have been active. Hundreds of worshippers had gathered at the Sunni mosque for the most popular prayer session of the week.

The mosque's roof caved in, trapping people in debris. People in private vehicles rushed the wounded to hospitals in Peshawar, the main city in the north-west, TV footage showed. A woman was beating her head, while two elderly men in blood-soaked clothes lay in a hospital corridor.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/05/pakistan-suicide-bomb-kills-several

[slackmaster]

1. Another act of barbarism, no doubt committed in the name of religion

:nuke:

[alanquatermass]

3. Well said!

Religion sickens me. Have you noticed how many goddamn (pun very much intended!!!) acts of barbarism have been committed in the name of God in just the last 10 years?

Fucking. Religion.

We need to do away with it. ALL of it.

Just sign me...

A Proud Agnostic

[Throd]

2. I sure hope no Korans were desecrated in the blast.

[hollowdweller]

4. Shiites and Sufis

Seems like the US should make nice with them.

If you pay attention it seems like about 90% of the terrorist attacks in the middle east are directed at them.

Natural allies with us I think. However I guess we have to have angry rhetoric agains them to please Israel who is the one really seems to have the beef with them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. This was a Sunni mosque

Shi'a Muslims also include the Iranian theocrats and Hezbollah.

The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility. Although they are themselves Sunni.

You can't just divide the Muslim world into Sunni, Shi'a and Sufi, and say we should be nice to one group but not another. A few of them are violent nutters, some are normal people, and the divide doesn't depend on which sect they are.