Fucking asswipe Taliban suicide bombing kills 41 at Sufi festival

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Pakistan Sufi shrine suicide attack 'kills 41'
Pakistani blast victims wait for help in an ambulance outside a hospital in Multan on April 3, 2011 Dozens of injured devotees were rushed to hospital after the attack

Suicide attackers have killed at least 41 people and wounded many more at a shrine in Pakistan, police say.

The explosions struck near the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in Punjab, as Sufi Muslim devotees gathered for an annual three-day festival.

Sufis, a minority Muslim group who follow mystical beliefs, are regarded as heretical by hardliners.

A Taliban fighter told reporters his group carried out the attack, the third on Sufi shrines in a year.

Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters news agency the attack was in revenge for a government offensive against militants in Pakistan's north-west.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12951923

[Codeine]

1. As long as no books were harmed it's not a big deal. nt

[regnaD kciN]

2. But...but...but...

...how come the Taliban is attacking other Muslins? Aren't they all the same? :sarcasm:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Suicide bombers on one side, drones on the other. Poor Pakistan.

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.” - Gandhi

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5. Perfect quote

Thank you

[cali]

6. oh, it can make a difference

not that either is good, but if I had been a Jew traveling to a death camp in cattle car, I'd rather have been killed by an allied bomb that was destroying the route of death for so many, than in a gas chamber.

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8. + 1

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4. will there be protest riots in the streets followed by murder of innocent people? nt

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7. Imagine no religion. n/t