Sectarianism hits a new low
(Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 children and their headmaster on Sunday, police and medical sources said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/06/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE99504N...
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's plea for a "time to end the killing and concentrate instead on building a common agenda for peace and prosperity,” still remains a noble but overlooked sentiment
rippy is very lazy to go and check about the past on who actually started war and all...:P
I think all the recent genocides were post religious.. Pre or post it does not matter... still people are dying..
I think you should not ignore the recent happenings, just to make a comment about religion.
As per your international atheistic community, I think they are looking forward to provoke more communal violence than peace, under the "Freedom of Speech" context.
Anyway Back to the topic.. We don't need any more communal violence in the world.
yes there are small pockets in Europe but the major countries, UK, France, Germany, Benelux, Scandinavia and others are post religious. Goverment, law and the institutions of the state are no longer driven by religious considerations and very few people would consider themselves religious.
The wars between catholics and prostestants are long gone and not coming back although there are a few idiots who still think its 1720.
I do sometimes despair that you equate everything to religion.
Europe is not "post religious". As we've seen most recently in the Balkans and to some extent the IRA in Northern Ireland.
The key issue is that to a great extent, people have learned to accept each other and work together for the country / society as a whole. In addition, the people are less gullible and governments are stable and stronger and do not allow for outside interference ..
Agree on Tony Blair but no one takes him seriously.
The Europeans have worked out a way to stop killing each other, when will the Arabs, Pakistanis and Indians learn this as well?
Maybe because Europe is post Religious this was allowed to happen. As the Gulf modernises, old superstitions will naturally die out and reason will prevail.
Agree with you Pathmaker, West has a very good history of condemning such action which they themselves provoked, but how long will it be sucking the blood of innocent people?
Still my liver comes to my mouth when Tony Blair calls himself a middle east peace envoy (WTH), but why should one follow their steps?
No matter what, nothing qualifies to kill innocent kids.. neither in wars, nor in any situation.
Rippy....go and ask tht person who did it.. .religion does not teach that...whoever killed the innocent peoples....it is as if u have killed the whole man kind,
Really? Did this person do it because he just liked killing children? Whether right or wrong he did it for religious reasons, the same way the patriotic kill for their country. (Both are wrong and blinded)
No need to drag god into this discussion... religion got nothing to do with this
I can kinda comprehend if someone drives their truck into a military base and blows themselves up but I find it very hard to understand how they can do that in a school yard. Surely them being the wrong religion is not justification enough, after all it is not their fault they are brain washed from their parents at an early age.
Do this people think they will get to heaven through this?
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Agree with Rip!
Strange, people here say "What drives these morons to kill innocents"....??
Dont we know Why they do it?
It's heart-wrecking to imagine a toddler's life who lost his Father in a blast, or parents who lost their kids; just put ourselves there.
These killers too have heart but did anyone enquire what drives them to do such grisly acts?
I see no end to such violence when people (even in QL) still find “motivation” to defend such acts. (like, why Kenya attackers were ‘not so wrong’ doing what they did)
Classic QL, rather than acknowledge an issue, just avoid it and blame the west.
Rape epidemic in India, look away! Do you know it happens in other countries too?
Terrorists in Kenya. Don't think about it! The wests evil crusades in the 12th century killed many muslims.
Taliban killing nurses and shooting children in Pakistan. You racist! Look at the west and their evil godless empire.
Adey s too focused on shia- sunni problem....but do not want to agree about the garbage done by other country intervene into other land...dont expect any clean up....the rubbish will continue
happening in syria..u r arming those who kills someone and ate his heart..
One place we chase them till we bomb their stinky arses and on the other hand we support them with more arms and training..
This provoke, divide and rule policy is historic.
Palestine is something exceptional.. do you know many innocent kids are in jail in Isreal? How many strive to get a glass of water? In just few years Isreal took over 95% of water resource.. West even don't wanted to vote for a separate state..
Killing someone on spot is relatively better than killing them with a long torture.
Though both are not justifiable by any means but kill the source then no more problem.
you understand me going out and killing someone else's young children....children of people totally unrelated to the source of my pain.
What drone stikes in pakistan have to do with Shia kids being blown up by Sunni extremists in Northern Iraq I fail to see.
And I dont support the drone strikes.
Your excuse, that it's all the wests fault is just that, an excuse. Sunni/Shia sectarian violence has been going on for centuries. Hence the title of the post - 'Sectarian'
Innalilah wa inna ilahi rajihoon
Very much agree to brit
Yes you are right.. you will understand it if someone in your family dies or you kid gets killed.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/20884/is-america-like-adam-lanza-u-s-drone-strikes-have-killed-176-children-in-pakistan-alone
No one just do such insane acts without any terrible past.. I know they don't even allow us to call them animals as animals are friendly than today's human but instead of blaming a tap for smelly water we should clean the source.
How can anyone anywhere ever think it is okay to kill innocent defenseless children? Truly the perpetrators of such crimes are people with hearts of devils. The kids are now in a better place,In Sha Allah, but imagine the plight of their parents..what a truly sad loss!
Pathmaker ....rationalising and finding excuses for targeting and blowing up primary school children. Your parents, siblings, spouse and god must be so proud of you right now.
Those parents of the dead children should write you a letter of thanks for easing their pain in such a kind and considerate manner.
First they make sane people insane by false statements and then these insane people act as morons. Who knows, how many kids of his family died because of western agenda.
Why kill children??? Disgusting people!!!
This is not Arab spring. This is post dictator.. reminds me of Yugoslavia after Tito :O(
Arab spring is a big failure.
I read this and was speechless.. What drives these morons to kill innocents - especially children. Are they not parents themselves ?
I sometimes think that Iraq was better under a dictator. The simple thing is that the leaders of all the "sects" need to stop being manipulated by outside forces and focus on denouncing violence and rebuilding their country.