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Anti Islam ! --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, item abu <itemabu@...> wrote: > > Indahnya Islam itu, penuh dgn hiasan darah, hehehe.... > > http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gxI3AViNe9FXGhKjIfmzefuaa4AQ?docId=CNG.c692205eea1c79e50108f8ba6e772037.711 > > > 59 dead in Afghan shrine blasts on Shiite holy day > > > By Sardar Ahmad (AFP) > â" 12 hours ago > > KABUL â" Twin blasts at Afghan shrines on the Shiite holy day of > Ashura left at least 59 people dead Tuesday, with most killed in a > massive suicide attack in Kabul which ripped through a crowd of > worshippers. > > The attack in the capital, which killed 55 and > wounded 134, plus a second in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, came > the day after an international meeting in Germany on the future of > Afghanistan following 10 years of war. > > The Kabul blast was the > deadliest strike on the capital in three years and President Hamid > Karzai said it was the first time insurgents had struck on such an > important religious day. > > It erupted at the entrance to a riverside shrine in the city centre, where > hundreds of singing Shiite Muslims had gathered to mark Ashura along with men > whipping their bare backs as > part of the traditional mourning ritual. > > "I was there watching > people mourning when there was suddenly a huge explosion," eyewitness > Ahmad Fawad said. "Some people around me fell down injured. I wasn't > hurt, so I got up and started running. It was horrible." > > Men and > women at the scene sobbed as they surveyed the aftermath and screamed > slogans denouncing Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, an AFP photographer at the > scene said. > > One young girl, dressed in a green shalwar kameez > smeared in blood, stood shrieking, surrounded by the crumpled bodies of > slain children. > > The Taliban denied responsibility for the > "inhumane" attacks in Kabul and Mazar, blaming "the invading enemy" -- > an apparent reference to the 140,000-strong foreign force in > Afghanistan. > > The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force > declined to address that claim directly but its commander, US General > John Allen, condemned the blasts as "an attack against Islam itself". > > Afghan interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi, meanwhile, directly blamed > Taliban-led insurgents while confirming the death toll. > > In an > almost simultaneous blast to the one in Kabul, four people were killed > in Mazar-i-Sharif near the northern city's landmark Blue Mosque. > > The dead people were all Shiites, killed as they walked towards the mosque > to carry out mourning rituals, said provincial governor's spokesman > Munir Ahmad Farhad. > > When the Sunni Taliban ruled in the 1990s > before being ousted by a US-led invasion in 2001, minority Shiites > suffered brutal persecution, but in recent years sectarian violence has > been rare. > > During the 10-day Ashura ceremonies, which peaked on > Tuesday, Shiites beat themselves with knives and chains in religious > fervour as they mark the seventh-century killing of a grandson of the > Prophet Mohammed. > > Shiites were effectively banned from marking Ashura in public under the > Taliban. > > Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who was due to arrive in London late Tuesday > for talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron, cancelled his UK > visit to return home after the deadly attacks. > > A statement from > Karzai's office in Kabul said that on his return, he is slated to "meet > the families of victims ... to express his grief and share his > sympathies". > > An Afghan security official speaking on condition of > anonymity said Kabul was now on high alert, with extra security forces > deployed in case of any follow-up attacks. > > The unprecedented > strike has prompted fears of an Iraq-style increase in sectarian attacks in > Afghanistan, possibly in a bid to further destabilise an already > fragile Afghan state. > > "The attacks looked designed to > intentionally spark ethnic and sectarian violence but they could also > galvanise resistance against what is seen as outside efforts to further > disrupt Afghanistan's already besieged relations," wrote Kate Clark of > Kabul think-tank the Afghanistan Analysts Network in a blog posting. > > Kabul has been hit by an increasing number of spectacular attacks in 2011, > including the September assassination of former president Burhanuddin > Rabbani at his home, which badly stalled any hopes for Taliban > reconciliation. > > The blasts came the day after delegates at the > Bonn conference agreed to extend international support for Afghanistan > to 2024 following the scheduled withdrawal of all foreign combat troops > by the end of 2014. > > Pakistan and the Taliban -- both seen as > pivotal to ending the war -- boycotted the talks, undermining already > limited hopes for progress to peace. > > The attacks brought swift international condemnation. > > The French foreign ministry described the blasts as "cowardly and odious". > > British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was "shocked" by the attacks > but the international community stood unshaken in its commitment to the > war-ravaged country. > > "Yesterday, I attended a conference in Bonn > at which the international community pledged its long-term commitment to > Afghanistan," he said. > > "That commitment will not be undermined by such acts of terrorism." > > A White House spokesman said the US condemns the "heinous" attacks and > "continues to stand with the Afghan people against terrorism". > > Ashura marks the slaughter of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet > Mohammed, near Karbala by armies of the caliph Yazid in 680 AD. > > Tradition holds that the revered imam was decapitated and his body mutilated. > His death was a formative event in Shiite Islam. > > On Monday, at least 28 people were killed and 78 wounded in a wave of bomb > attacks in central Iraq against Shiite pilgrims making their way to > Karbala. > Copyright © 2011 AFP. All rights reserved. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
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