Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Another Mosque Attacked--In The Muslim World

There have been mosque burnings in the Muslim world--but there are mosque bombings too, such as this suicide bombing at an Iranian mosque:
A suicide attack has killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 60 others near a mosque in the southeastern Iranian city of Chabahar as Shias marked the climax of Ashoura.

The ritual commemorates the seventh century death of Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Hussein.


...The area where the attack took place is home to an armed Sunni group, Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, which has waged sporadic attacks to fight alleged discrimination against the area's Sunni minority in overwhelmingly Shia Iran.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the use of multiple suicide attackers to target Shia worshippers is a tactic the group has employed in the past.
You can add this to the list of recent mosque attacks by Muslims:
Are religion and politics so tightly intertwined in Islam that these are seen merely as political acts?
And what does it say about how other religions--and their structures--are viewed?

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