Bloody Ashura
Those infidel Wahhabis, those Osama bin Laden followers, they did this because they hate Shiites. They are afraid of us. They are not Muslims. They are infidels.
-- Sari Abdullah, a worshipper at Baghdad's al-Khadimain mosque, wounded in one of five explosives that targeted Ashura worshippers.
It's a paradoxical idea when they claim that they are fighting the infidels and at the same time, they kill Muslims during Friday prayers
-- Iraqi national security advisor Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie
They kill unarmed men, women and children who want to glorify the ceremonies of Ashoura. These terrorist actions will not intimidate us nor make us change the way that we choose freedom from tyranny and oppression. We chose the path of brotherhood, cooperation and unity between Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, Shabak, Turkomen and Christians and all other sects.
-- Dawa party official Walid al-Hilly, speaking on Al Jazeera.
(Tod Pitman, AP news)
Five suicide bombings, over 40 people killed and wounded--on the holiest day of the Shia religious calendar. Imagine Islamic terrorists doing the same in the U.S. on Christmas, and what our reaction would be. With that image in mind, the restraint of Iraq's Shia population in the face of this carnage is all the more remarkable. It helps, of course, that the Sunni terrorists are, in effect, protected by American troops from Shia-Kurdish retaliation. And yet while America loses its soldiers in an attempt to defend all Iraqi's from terrorism, Osama bin Laden and his ilk are killing more Muslims that they have infidels. What in God's name is the point of this war?
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