Guys and Gals. The cartoons were insensitive to billion+ Muslims. There is no doubt in it. Let’s see what the paper tried to accomplish with such horrible cartoons. I guess the answer is relatively simple. The paper or the cartoonist tried to prove that Muslims are prone to suicide attacks, and violence against women, etc. And the cartoons made this point by depicting that Muslims behave so due to the teachings of the Messenger saw (Nauz Billah).
On the other hand, Muslim point of view is that the paper attacked “Islam”. They have been rioting and burning since the day cartoons were published.
My heart is oh so saddened to see that it didn’t take more than few days for extremist Sunnis and they have proven the Danes right. What the heck these suicide bombers thinking? Are Shias occupying holy land? Are Shias attacking Makkah? Heck no! Then why to attack innocent Shias who are simply mourning the death of our Messenger’s grandson?
There have been petitions started due to 12 cartoons. I say now let’s start a petition to condemn Shia killings. If we don’t get the same or more signatures, it would prove that most of the Muslims rioting in the streets are hypocrites. They care more for what a Dane has to say, as opposed to the killing of 25+ Shia Muslims. Now I wonder if these bearded freaks even consider Shias as fellow Muslims. May be that is why Shias are not allowed to have large mosques in SA.
Damn the suicide bombers, the killers of minorities in Muslim dominated areas.
Damn the Mullahs of Iran, Saudi Arabia and other countries who incite such violence.
p.s. mods I am posting this in WA as it relates to multiple countries. Thanks.
Read the news:
Worshippers die in Afghanistan and Pakistan
At least 27 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack and in subsequent violence at a religious procession in north-west Pakistan.
The explosion tore through a crowd of Shia Muslims marking the Ashura festival in the town of Hangu, sparking rioting among pilgrims.
Pakistan has a history of tension between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
Five people also died in Sunni-Shia fighting in Herat, western Afghanistan, on Thursday, doctors said.
Gunfire
The explosion in Hangu, in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, struck a bazaar as hundreds of people walked in a procession from the main Shia mosque in the town.
The army has sent in troops and a curfew has been imposed. No-one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
“We thought the bomb was detonated by remote control, but now it appears to be a suicide attack,” local police chief Ayub Khan told the Associated Press news agency.
Dr Feroz Khan, district health officer for Hangu, told the BBC the number of injured was around 65.
Maulana Khurshid Anwar, a leader of the Shia procession, said the explosion had happened just as he was about to address the crowd.
District administrator Ghani ur-Rehman said the ensuing violence had destroyed 60% of the town’s bazaar.
There were several reports of gunfire, with officials saying that four of the dead were killed in a gun attack on a minibus.
Cleric’s appeal
A judicial inquiry into the attack has been ordered, officials say.
Mr ur-Rehman said the situation had been brought under control by early afternoon, with Sunni and Shia religious leaders helping to calm the situation.
Shia cleric Allama Mehdi Najfi told AP from his base in Quetta in the south-west: “This attack has spread anger among our people throughout the country, but I appeal them not to clash with any member of other sects.”
About 3,000 Shias protested on the streets of Karachi over the killings.
In Herat, Afghanistan, five people were killed and 27 hurt in clashes at a Shia procession for Ashura, doctors said.
Ashura marks the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein, an event that led to the split between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
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