Muslims Killing Muslims?
Extremists Bombing Mosques?
Who Say "STOP" to All This?
| These actions confuse Muslims and non-Muslims alike, "How is this possible?" ask residents in Afghanistan. "Why is this.." ask non-Muslims. Hardly anyone on the planet accepts the idea of a so-called "Islamic extremist group" being an "anti-Islam organization". "I don't understand this at all..", says one Muslim advocate in Washington, D.C. "Who will believe the Taliban could destroy a masjid (mosque in Arabic) , kill innocent Muslims, all in the name of Islam?" Islam Newsroom reporter, Abu Kathir, is investigating these reports and circumstances at this time... Here is a CNN report - read it for yourself: The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for Friday's bombing of a mosque in Rawapindi and vowed to carry out more attacks, according to an e-mail message from the group. The assault targeted a mosque frequented by Pakistani military personnel, and killed 36 and wounded 75, the military said. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan took responsibility for the action on Friday but reiterated its claim in an e-mail to CNN on Saturday because media outlets quoted analysts and some officials who doubted the group's participation. And read this report - "We reconfirmed it, that the TTP has done it, and will do more which are already planned," the group said. "We once again mention that we are not against the innocent people and the state of Pakistan but we against those officers and ministers who are American by hearts and minds and Pakistani just by faces," the e-mail message said. Four militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the mosque in Rawalpindi, and most of the victims were children. The attack was the latest to shake the garrison city since this year's launch of strong military offensives against Taliban insurgents in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan. Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the Pakistani army. |