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Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by turboG: 5:57am On Mar 28, 2016
Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter at Pakistan Children's Park

Blasphemy execution goes from good news to bad news for persecuted Pakistani believers.


A suicide bomber targeted Christians celebrating Easter at a children’s park in Pakistan’s second-largest city, killing at least 65 and wounding 300, reports the Associated Press.

The Lahore park, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, is “a popular site for members of Lahore's Christian community, many of whom had gone there to celebrate the Easter weekend holiday,” reports Reuters. The crowd was “unusually large” because of Easter, an official told Pakistani newspaper Dawn.

A Taliban splinter group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, took credit for the attack and said it deliberately “targeted the Christian festival of Easter,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

“It was deadliest attack in Pakistan since the December 2014 massacre at an army-run school that left 143 people dead, most of them children, and marked a devastating new turn in militant violence against Pakistani civilians,” reportsThe Los Angeles Times.

Christians were bracing for a bloody Easter Sunday after a blasphemy-related death sentence stoked Islamist anger last month.

Five years ago, Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer—one of the most prominent supporters of Asia Bibi and critics of the blasphemy laws which have the Christian mother facing a death sentence—was assassinated by his bodyguard. In October, the nation’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Taseer’s bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, and sentenced him to death. In February, Qadri was hung.

The execution was good news for Pakistani Christians—who are often the target of the country’s blasphemy laws—and their advocates. However, the execution led an estimated 10,000 of Qadri’s supporters to protest on Sunday, marching into the capital city …

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Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by hungryboy(m): 6:03am On Mar 28, 2016
this is tragic,
R.i.p to the dead,
Pakistan is a very dangerous place for you, if you are a Christian, Hindu or Shia muslim.
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Oche211(m): 6:03am On Mar 28, 2016
So sad
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by turboG: 6:06am On Mar 28, 2016
May God help d xtians. This is end time indeed.

hungryboy:
this is tragic,
R.i.p to the dead,
Pakistan is a very dangerous place for you, if you are a Christian, Hindu or Shia muslim.
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Chynx(m): 6:13am On Mar 28, 2016
What are we waiting for?

...to be completely annihilated by these bunch of religious lunatics?

They will soon get what they deserve!
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by TalkWithLizy: 6:25am On Mar 28, 2016
This is a Perilous Time as the bible has predicted.

May God delivered us o Amen.

Lets be careful going to parks and other recreational centers for xmas or Easter.

These Bad boys are unrepentant.
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by gozmok1(m): 6:30am On Mar 28, 2016
turboG:
Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter at Pakistan Children's Park

Blasphemy execution goes from good news to bad news for persecuted Pakistani believers.


A suicide bomber targeted Christians celebrating Easter at a children’s park in Pakistan’s second-largest city, killing at least 65 and wounding 300, reports the Associated Press.

The Lahore park, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, is “a popular site for members of Lahore's Christian community, many of whom had gone there to celebrate the Easter weekend holiday,” reports Reuters. The crowd was “unusually large” because of Easter, an official told Pakistani newspaper Dawn.

A Taliban splinter group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, took credit for the attack and said it deliberately “targeted the Christian festival of Easter,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

“It was deadliest attack in Pakistan since the December 2014 massacre at an army-run school that left 143 people dead, most of them children, and marked a devastating new turn in militant violence against Pakistani civilians,” reportsThe Los Angeles Times.

Christians were bracing for a bloody Easter Sunday after a blasphemy-related death sentence stoked Islamist anger last month.

Five years ago, Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer—one of the most prominent supporters of Asia Bibi and critics of the blasphemy laws which have the Christian mother facing a death sentence—was assassinated by his bodyguard. In October, the nation’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Taseer’s bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, and sentenced him to death. In February, Qadri was hung.

The execution was good news for Pakistani Christians—who are often the target of the country’s blasphemy laws—and their advocates. However, the execution led an estimated 10,000 of Qadri’s supporters to protest on Sunday, marching into the capital city …

Continue Reading ....
http://www.divdel.com/blogs/2016/03/suicide-bomber-kills-65-christians-celebrating-easter-at-pakistan-childrens-park/

FOR THE WORLD TO HAVE PEACE ISLAM MUST BE BANNED

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Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Nobody: 6:31am On Mar 28, 2016
Islam claims to be a religion of peace but they are the most intolerant religion in this world.if u doubt me burn one koran.if them no murder u and ur family call me a fool

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Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by ojnnaco(m): 6:36am On Mar 28, 2016
I can't figure what this world is turning into... Killing means nothing to people this days .
Kai
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Tallesty1(m): 6:46am On Mar 28, 2016
Is that why Facebook was asking if I was safe?
Mark's crew smokes for real.
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by ERODEDEAST(f): 6:52am On Mar 28, 2016
Religion of PISS.
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Bobbyjay001(m): 6:56am On Mar 28, 2016
Nemesis will soon catch up on you like it caught up with bokoharam.
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Nobody: 6:57am On Mar 28, 2016
Why do Christians hold large gatherings in places like Pakistan, Iraq, Syria or Arab countries? They killed themselves

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Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Hackportal(m): 7:03am On Mar 28, 2016
this very bad
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Segadem(m): 8:15am On Mar 28, 2016
lofty900:
Why do Christians hold large gatherings in places like Pakistan, Iraq, Syria or Arab countries? They killed themselves
mthceeeeew, but Muslim can hold large gatherings in Jerusalem, Israel or USA?
Re: Suicide Bomber Kills 65 Christians Celebrating Easter At Children's Park by Annunaki(m): 12:33pm On Mar 28, 2016
The religion of satan strikes again, one thing is certain, muhammed and his demon god allahh will roast eternally in hell for the evil they bestowed on this planet.

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