Suicide Attack at Church in Pakistan Kills Dozens
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/world/asia/pakistan-church-bombing.html
Deadly Attack at Pakistan Church: A suicide attack on a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan killed dozens on Sunday.
By ISMAIL KHAN and SALMAN MASOOD
Published: September 22, 2013
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attack on a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 78 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian minority in Pakistan in years.
The attack occurred as worshipers left All Saints Church in the old quarter of the regional capital, Peshawar, after a service on Sunday morning. Up to 600 people had attended the service and were leaving to receive free food being distributed on the lawn outside when two explosions ripped through the crowd.
“As soon as the service finished and the food was being distributed, all of a sudden we heard one explosion, followed by another,” said Azim Ghori, a witness.
Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, who arrived in Peshawar on Sunday evening, said that 78 people had been killed, including 34 women and 7 children. “Such an attack on women and children is against humanity,” Mr. Khan said.
Akhtar Ali Shah, the home secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, said that more than 100 people had been wounded. Mr. Khan said that 37 of those were children.
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They should also feel safe in shopping malls, schools and theaters.
Violence is just sad anywhere it happens.
A girl sits between injured victims waiting for treatment at a hospital in Peshawar on Sunday.
The Pakistan Ulema Council, the largest clerical body, also condemned the blast, saying that the council was “standing with our Christian brothers in this tragedy.”
Wait . . . .
Nyah, nyah.
prescribed for you is legal retribution for those murdered - the free for the free, the slave for the slave, and the female for the female." 2:178
"And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers." 2:191
"Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah . But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors." 2:193
"Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not." 2:216
"They ask you about the sacred month - about fighting therein. Say, "Fighting therein is great [sin], but averting [people] from the way of Allah and disbelief in Him and [preventing access to] al-Masjid al-Haram and the expulsion of its people therefrom are greater [evil] in the sight of Allah . And fitnah is greater than killing." And they will continue to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able. And whoever of you reverts from his religion [to disbelief] and dies while he is a disbeliever - for those, their deeds have become worthless in this world and the Hereafter, and those are the companions of the Fire, they will abide therein eternally." 2:217
"They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah . But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper." 4:89
"And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." 9:5
"O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them. And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination." 9
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"O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness. And know that Allah is with the righteous." 9:123
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There's a nice sampling. Not to mention, the hundreds of verses describing the painful eternal torture Allah will rain down on every nonbeliever, and quite a few instances of Allah killing nonbelievers in all sorts of ways because, well, they didn't believe. I'll quote them if you want, but this is getting long. Hmm, wonder if this has any sort of dehumanizing effect on the perception of "nonbelievers"? And no TRUE Muslim would take these verses as advocating the killing of nonbelievers. I mean, WHERE would they get THAT idea?
Then there are the hadiths. Let's just say quite a few of them seem to take these verses quite literally. Hence, the punishment for apostasy being death. And that's just scratching the surface.
That's a lot of innocent people being killed by Allah himself, not to mention the eternal torture of innocents, in the Koran. And lots of verses telling Muslims to kill unbelievers because, well, of their nonbelief.
