This thread would be updated to report all terrorist attacks that are motivated by sectarian hatred and intolerance and extremism against Shia Muslims and also against Christians.

[size=14pt]Iraq mortar attacks kill Shia pilgrims[/size]

Six people killed and dozens wounded in attacks at Shia religious gahering in Baghdad.

Last Modified: 10 Jun 2012 21:21

Aljazeera

At least six people have been killed and 38 others wounded after two mortar rounds struck a square filled with Shia pilgrims in Iraq's capital.

The attack on Sunday took place in Quraish Square in Baghdad's northwestern Kadhimiya district, where pilgrims were gathering ahead of a religious festival to mark the death anniversary of the Shia Imam Moussa al-Kadhim.

Police sources said the death toll could rise.

An interior ministry source said security forces had been put on high alert and that a tight security belt was in place around Kadhimiya in a bid to prevent further attacks on pilgrims walking towards the Imam Kadhim shrine.

A vehicle ban, excluding emergency vehicles such as ambulances, would also be imposed in Kadhimiya from Monday and anyone entering the area would be searched, police sources said.

Although overall violence in Iraq has dropped, Sunni Islamist fighters with links to al-Qaeda are still capable of lethal attacks and often hit Shia targets to stir up the kind of sectarian pressure that almost led to civil war in 2006-2007.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/06/201261020290149729.html

What is this supposed to achieve? You are acting like a kid......

tbaba1234: What is this supposed to achieve? You are acting like a kid......

why are you trying to derail my thread?

the moderator and a few detractors complain that we are spamming the threads with attack on wahhabism.

i have decided to contain myself into just one thread.i would no longer attack wahhabism or offend anyone.all i intend to do is to report news on attrocities and terrorists attacks of wahhabism (also referred to as salafism outside of saudi arabia).

instead of condemning the crime committed against Shia Muslim pilgrims visiting the shrine of the seventh holy Imam,Imam Musa al-Kazem (as),you are trying to derail my thread.

please,you should avoid this thread if you are a wahhabi sympathizer and you do not want to sympathize with innocent victims of terror.thanks.

now everyone can mind his own business.to you your threads and to us ours.

The Aljazeera report does not mention Wa talkless WAHAB before we can even talk about Wahabism. I have received a complaint about this thread. However, if you want to report news please stick to what your sources state not your own divisive and controversial opinions. You cannot blackmail this moderator to have your way.

maclatunji: The Aljazeera report does not mention Wa talkless WAHAB before we can even talk about Wahabism. I have received a complaint about this thread. However, if you want to report news please stick to what your sources state not your own divisive and controversial opinions. You cannot blackmail this moderator to have your way.

this is what the last sentence of the aljazeera report stated:

[size=16pt]"Although overall violence in Iraq has dropped, Sunni Islamist fighters with links to al-Qaeda are still capable of lethal attacks and often hit Shia targets to stir up the kind of sectarian pressure that almost led to civil war in 2006-2007".[/size]

maclatunji: The Aljazeera report does not mention Wa talkless WAHAB before we can even talk about Wahabism. I have received a complaint about this thread. However, if you want to report news please stick to what your sources state not your own divisive and controversial opinions. You cannot blackmail this moderator to have your way.

and please never again edit the post of anyone without you indicating that.

my thread title was :

[size=14pt]"A Timeline of Wahhabi Sectarian Terrorism Against Civilian Targets[/size]

you changed it to :

"A Timeline of Sectarian Terrorsim Against Civilian Targets"

you are trying to insinuate that the source of the attacks is not known.even the aljazeera report you are trying to lean on disagrees with you.it says these sectarian motivated attacks are usually carried out by Sunni Islamist fighters with links to alqaeda (a wahhabi terrorist group).

now i have changed the title again to the present one which reads:

"A Timeline Of Sectarian Terrorism Against Shia Muslims"

i hope you do not doubt that those targeted are Shia.i also created this thread to take record of similar attacks against christians.you edited that part stating that.

^LOL, if you are going to quote a source please limit yourself to the report. There is no where that the report from Al Jazeera links the attackers to Wahabism. That is entirely your creation, that is part of the reasons you get banned. Stop being deceitful.

maclatunji: ^LOL, if you are going to quote a source please limit yourself to the report. There is no where that the report from Al Jazeera links the attackers to Wahabism. That is entirely your creation, that is the part of the reasons you get banned. Stop being deceitful.

is alqaeda jewish and no longer wahhabi (referred to as "salafist" outside saudi arabia)?

this is how you will keep derailing my thread instead of condemning the crime being committed.then we'd soon (God forbid) hear about more attacks on innocent civilians.not that more attacks are far-fetched.

maclatunji: ^LOL, if you are going to quote a source please limit yourself to the report. There is no where that the report from Al Jazeera links the attackers to Wahabism. That is entirely your creation, that is part of the reasons you get banned. Stop being deceitful.

Signs*** You caught him pants down

Al-Qaeda claims Iraq anti-Shiite attack that killed 25: SITE

Published on June 10, 2012 by DesiWireFeed ·

Qaeda claims Iraq anti-Shiite attack that killed 25: SITE

BAGHDAD, June 10, 2012 (AFP) — Al-Qaeda’s front group in Iraq has claimed a suicide car bombing against the Baghdad headquarters of an Iraqi Shiite foundation that killed 25 people, the SITE Monitoring Service said on Sunday.

“One of the passionate sons of the Sunnis came out in a quick attack against this evil lair that is called the Shiite endowment,” the Islamic State of Iraq said, according to a translation of a message the US-based SITE said was posted on jihadist forums.

The June 4 attack on the Shiite endowment, which manages Shiite religious sites and mosques across Iraq, left 25 people dead and at least 65 wounded.

psr-wd/bpz

AFP 20120610T153100Z
http://vancouverdesi.com/business/asia/qaeda-claims-iraq-anti-shiite-attack-that-killed-25-site/

Bomb Attacks Around Iraq Target Shiites, Killing Dozens


By TIM ARANGO

Published: June 13, 2012

BAGHDAD — In the deadliest day in Iraq since the withdrawal of the United States military in December, a series of explosions that mostly targeted Shiite Muslims amounted to an emphatic demonstration of the still-potent capabilities of the Sunni insurgency and a reminder of the instability left behind by American forces.


Shortly after midnight Wednesday, a homemade bomb exploded here in the capital, a harbinger of mayhem. Around 5 a.m., a truck bomb exploded in Kadhimiya, a Baghdad neighborhood where Shiite pilgrims had begun to gather to commemorate the life and death of a revered imam who was the Prophet Muhammad’s great-grandson. Then, reports of other attacks flooded in from around the country — Samarra, Kirkuk, Mosul, Falluja, Ramadi, Hilla — and by midday officials said more than 90 people were dead and at least 260 were wounded.

The attacks were a reality check for a country that has made substantial steps toward a sense of normalcy. A front-page newspaper article here on Wednesday heralded the return of women to local cinemas. Lately, new red double-decker buses have begun operating in Baghdad, and checkpoints and blast walls have been dismantled, providing some relief to the city’s notorious traffic delays. But after the first attacks struck Wednesday morning, security forces closed off roads, lending a sense of siege to the capital that will continue over the next several days leading up to the culmination of the Shiite religious festival on Saturday. In the afternoon, the government declared that Thursday would be a day off so that the army and the police could secure the city.

Helicopters buzzed over Baghdad, and in hospitals, familiar and bloody scenes of grief unfolded. Among the victims in Kadhimiya were people, some of them Sunnis, who had set up tents to serve water and food to the pilgrims.

“The explosion was large enough to tell us that the target is all Iraqis, not just Shiites, because I had two Sunni friends helping me,” said Ali al-Baydhani, 39, who had a food stand.

An official from the Ministry of Interior said five parked cars detonated across Baghdad, aimed at Shiite pilgrims celebrating the eighth-century martyrdom of the holy man, Imam Musa Kadhim. The pilgrimage reaches its peak on Saturday.

In Baghdad alone, at least 29 people were killed and about 80 were hurt.

In Hilla, a predominantly Shiite city south of Baghdad, two car bombs left at least 20 people dead and nearly 40 hurt. One attack struck a restaurant near the local police academy; many of those killed were recruits eating breakfast, a local official said. Also, Shiite mosques in the Hilla area were damaged by homemade bombs, although there were no casualties in those explosions. And in a village east of Karbala, a bomb struck a group of day laborers as they gathered for work.

Haider Ali, 32, a merchant in Hilla, was shopping nearby when the restaurant was attacked. He ran outside, he said, and “saw smoke and smelled burnt flesh.” He continued: “I saw an old man who used to bring breakfast to his family every morning. He had lost one of his legs and had serious wounds on the other. I think he died while being transferred to the hospital.”

The attacks came amid a political crisis that erupted in December and has continued unabated for months. It began when an arrest warrant was issued for the Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, on terrorism charges; the move worsened a sense of disenfranchisement among Iraq’s Sunni minority. Lately, Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers have been seeking to force the Shiite prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, from office through a vote of no confidence in the Parliament.

Most analysts and diplomats say Mr. Maliki’s opponents are too divided to be likely to succeed in the effort, but the crisis has paralyzed the government and raised fears that insurgents will continue to use the political situation as an impetus for more attacks.

At the same time, two recent polls show that Mr. Maliki has weathered the crisis well, with his popularity rising among his Shiite base and even among some Sunni tribes. The polls reflect a sense of disillusionment about Mr. Maliki’s rivals over the perception that they are divided and obstructionist, even as fears persist that the prime minister is becoming too powerful.

“Today is a disaster,” said Iskander Witwit, a member of Parliament’s security committee. “And it’s all because of the political problems between the parties that are reflected in the streets.”

On Wednesday, Mr. Maliki led a meeting of his top commanders and warned in a statement that the political crisis engulfing his government might encourage insurgents to unleash attacks.

Numerous other smaller attacks were reported across the country Wednesday morning. In Kirkuk, four car bombs exploded, two near Kurdish political offices. In Balad, north of Baghdad, two car bombs detonated, killing 5 and wounding 30, according to a security official. In Diyala Province, gunfire and homemade bombs killed five.

Zaid Thaker, Duraid Adnan and Yasir Ghazi contributed reporting. Employees of The New York Times contributed reporting from Baghdad, Hilla, Mosul, Kirkuk, Samarra, Falluja and Ramadi.

A version of this article appeared in print on June 14, 2012, on page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: Bomb Attacks Around Iraq Target Shiites, Killing Dozens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/world/middleeast/attacks-in-iraq-target-shiite-muslims.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Car bomb damages major Shiite shrine in Syria

Updated 5h 43m ago

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – A suicide bomber detonated his van packed with explosives in a Damascus suburb on Thursday, wounding 14 people and damaging one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, according to Syria's state-run news agency and witnesses.

Tens of thousands of Shiite pilgrims from around the world converge on Sayyida Zainab suburb every year to visit the golden-domed complex with the same name, which is believed to house the remains of the granddaughter of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

It was not immediately clear whether the bomber intended to target the shrine or a police station that was only 15 yards away.

Car bombs and suicide bombings have become common in Syria as the 15-month uprising against President Bashar Assad becomes increasingly militarized. But most have targeted security buildings and police buses, symbols of Assad's regime.

As the violence grows more chaotic, it is difficult to assign blame for much of the bloodshed. Western officials say there is little doubt that Islamist extremists, some associated with al-Qaeda, have made inroads in Syria as instability has spread.

Witnesses said the bomber detonated an explosives-packed van that he drove into a parking lot about 50 yards from the shrine despite efforts by guards to stop him. The blast shattered the shrine's windows, knocked down chandeliers and electric ceiling fans and cracked some of its mosaic walls.

Parts from the car detonated by the suicide bomber were found inside the shrine's sprawling complex.

Sheikh Sayyed Mojtaba al-Husseini, the representative of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Syria, accused "terrorists" of the bombing, echoing the government's line that the rebels are foreign agents. Iran is one of Syria's remaining allies.

"They want to turn the people against the government. This is not a revolution, it is a fake reality imported by some Arab leaders who are agents of the West," al-Husseini said.

The site is popular with Iranian and other Shiite pilgrims and tourists.

SANA news agency said 14 people were wounded by the explosion. Six tourist buses and more than 30 cars and a small police bus also were damaged.

"I worked for 10 years before I was able to buy this car," said Amin Daoud, a 35-year-old laborer at the scene of the explosion. "I parked it here last night and now it's totally destroyed."

Walid Aeda, a worker who fled Syria's battered central Homs region and was staying in a hotel near the shrine, said the explosion shattered the glass in his room, wounding his wife who had to get 18 stitches in her head.

"We fled the violence in Homs to come to Damascus and now this," he said.

Troops continued to pound rebel-controlled areas in Homs Thursday, while rebels reportedly clashed with government forces in several other parts of the country.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three civilians were killed overnight in clashes at the entrances of the Jouret el-Shayyah neighborhood in Homs city. Another died in the rebel-held town of Rastan north of Homs, which has been under intense fire from regime forces for days.

The Observatory said troops were using helicopters and mortars to shell Rastan, adding that many rebels were wounded Thursday.

Activists say some 14,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011.

Syrian forces on Wednesday overran a mountain enclave near the Mediterranean coast, seizing the territory back from rebels after battles that raged for eight days.

State television said regime forces had "cleansed" Haffa of "armed terrorist groups" and the Foreign Ministry urged U.N. observers to immediately head there "to check what the terrorist groups have done."

U.N. observers did not go to Haffa on Wednesday and are assessing the situation to determine when they can successfully reach the town, U.N. peacekeeping spokesman Kieran Dwyer said. On Tuesday, an angry crowd hurled rocks and sticks at the U.N. mission's vehicles, forcing them to turn back. None of the observers was hurt.

Sausan Ghosheh, a spokeswoman for the observers, said they have been trying to reach Haffa since June 7.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-06-14/syria-shrine-bombing/55592110/1

Car bomb damages major Shiite shrine in Syria

AP By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM | Associated Press – 6 hrs ago.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his van packed with explosives in a Damascus suburb on Thursday, wounding 14 people and damaging one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, according to Syria's state-run news agency and witnesses.

Tens of thousands of Shiite pilgrims from around the world converge on Sayyida Zainab suburb every year to visit the golden-domed complex with the same name, which is believed to house the remains of the granddaughter of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

It was not immediately clear whether the bomber intended to target the shrine or a police station that was only 15 meters (yards) away.

Car bombs and suicide bombings have become common in Syria as the 15-month uprising against President Bashar Assad becomes increasingly militarized. But most have targeted security buildings and police buses, symbols of Assad's regime.

As the violence grows more chaotic, it is difficult to assign blame for much of the bloodshed. Western officials say there is little doubt that Islamist extremists, some associated with al-Qaida, have made inroads in Syria as instability has spread.

Witnesses said the bomber detonated an explosives-packed van that he drove into a parking lot about 50 meters (yards) from the shrine despite efforts by guards to stop him. The blast shattered the shrine's windows, knocked down chandeliers and electric ceiling fans and cracked some of its mosaic walls.

Parts from the car detonated by the suicide bomber were found inside the shrine's sprawling complex.

Sheikh Sayyed Mojtaba al-Husseini, the representative of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Syria, accused "terrorists" of the bombing, echoing the government's line that the rebels are foreign agents. Iran is one of Syria's remaining allies.

"They want to turn the people against the government. This is not a revolution, it is a fake reality imported by some Arab leaders who are agents of the West," al-Husseini said.

The site is popular with Iranian and other Shiite pilgrims and tourists.

SANA news agency said 14 people were wounded by the explosion. Six tourist buses and more than 30 cars and a small police bus also were damaged.

"I worked for 10 years before I was able to buy this car," said Amin Daoud, a 35-year-old laborer at the scene of the explosion. "I parked it here last night and now it's totally destroyed."

Walid Aeda, a worker who fled Syria's battered central Homs region and was staying in a hotel near the shrine, said the explosion shattered the glass in his room, wounding his wife who had to get 18 stitches in her head.

"We fled the violence in Homs to come to Damascus and now this," he said.

Troops continued to pound rebel-controlled areas in Homs Thursday, while rebels reportedly clashed with government forces in several other parts of the country.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three civilians were killed overnight in clashes at the entrances of the Jouret el-Shayyah neighborhood in Homs city. Another died in the rebel-held town of Rastan north of Homs, which has been under intense fire from regime forces for days.

The Observatory said troops were using helicopters and mortars to shell Rastan, adding that many rebels were wounded Thursday.

Activists say some 14,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011.

Syrian forces on Wednesday overran a mountain enclave near the Mediterranean coast, seizing the territory back from rebels after battles that raged for eight days.

State television said regime forces had "cleansed" Haffa of "armed terrorist groups" and the Foreign Ministry urged U.N. observers to immediately head there "to check what the terrorist groups have done."

U.N. observers did not go to Haffa on Wednesday and are assessing the situation to determine when they can successfully reach the town, U.N. peacekeeping spokesman Kieran Dwyer said. On Tuesday, an angry crowd hurled rocks and sticks at the U.N. mission's vehicles, forcing them to turn back. None of the observers was hurt.

Sausan Ghosheh, a spokeswoman for the observers, said they have been trying to reach Haffa since June 7.

http://news.yahoo.com/car-bomb-damages-major-shiite-shrine-syria-112539349.html

Pictures below (of the Prayer Area) In The Sayyida Zainab Shrine After the Terrorist Explosion By The Followers of Yazid (la).May Allah (jj) Destroy Them As He Destroyed Their Ancestor/Predecessor,Yazid (la).They Want To Behead Imam Hussain (a) Twice and Take Sayyida Zainab (Grand-daughter of Prophet Muhammad) Hostage Twice.That Will Never Happen.InshaAllah Syria will Never Fall Into the Hands of Terrorists.Even If Bashar al-Assad Falls,Syria Will Never Be Ruled By Another Muawiya (la).

Blast kills Shia pilgrims in Baghdad

Aljazeera

At least eight people killed and others injured in Iraqi capital as pilgrims gathered for religious event.
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2012 10:16

At least eight people have been killed as a car bomb exploded in an Iraqi district where thousands of Shia pilgrims had gathered for a religious event.

The blast in Baghdad on Saturday was the latest in a string of attacks targeting Shia pilgrims in recent weeks.

The bomb, which exploded on the highway near Shuala in the north of the capital, also wounded 15 people, an interior ministry official said.

A medical source said that Al-Hakim hospital in Shuala had received victims from the attack, but that a final toll was not yet available.

The annual pilgrimage mark the eighth-century death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim. The commemorations culminate on Saturday with hundreds of thousands converging on the Baghdad shrine where al-Kadhim is buried.

Shia pilgrims were targeted on Wednesday in a wave of attacks in Baghdad and across Iraq that killed 70 people in the worst single day of violence since US troops left the country in December.

The Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaeda affiliate, posted messages online saying it was behind Wednesday's bombings, describing the attacks as a "blessed Wednesday invasion". The group said they were a blow to the Iraqi government led by a Shia prime minister in coalition with Sunni and Kurdish parties.

Wednesday's bombs also hit Kurdish political offices and army patrols.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/06/201261695010638386.html

Another Shia Muslim Scholar Assasinated In Syria By Terrorists

Earlier last month,Sheikh Abbass al-Laham was assasinated.yesterday Sayyid Abdul-Quddus Jabarra was shot dead in the area of the Sayyida Zainab (as) Mosque by armed nasibi terrorists.

below attached is a picture of Sayyid Abdul-Quddus Jabarra.

Bombs targeting Shi'ites kill 13, wound 100 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD | Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:25am EDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 13 people were killed and more than 100 wounded on Friday when two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in a crowded Baghdad market, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the latest attack targeting Shi'ite Muslims this month.

A wave of bombings in June against mainly Shi'ite pilgrims and shrines has killed more than 130 people and fuelled fears that Iraq could slip back into sectarian bloodletting of the kind that has receded since its peak in 2006-07.

Tensions have run high after U.S. troops left in December as Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish political factions vie for power.

The first explosion struck Husseiniya, a market in a mainly Shi'ite area on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, where people were shopping for groceries and other goods, sources said.

The second blast followed soon afterwards as security forces and civilians gathered to tend to the casualties from the first.

"Fruit and vegetables have been scattered everywhere. Some children were wounded," said Mudhaffar Khalaf, a policeman at the scene. "We have started to evacuate the injured people."

In the northern city of Samarra, home to a key Shi'ite shrine, a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near the entrance of the city, killing one person and wounding 10 others, including seven Iranian pilgrims and three members of the security forces, a source in Samarra operations command said.

The explosion was followed by three mortar rounds fired into the same area, the source said, as well as a roadside bomb which targeted a nearby hospital and wounded three civilians.

POLITICAL CRISIS

Iraq's main political factions have been locked in a crisis since December, with opponents to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki accusing the Shi'ite leader of trying to consolidate power at their expense.

The attacks come as Maliki tries to fend off attempts by Sunni, Kurd and some Shi'ite rivals to organize a vote of no-confidence against him.

"Today's attacks have targeted predominantly Shi'ite areas once again ... This would indicate that a radical Sunni group was responsible, potentially one affiliated with al Qaeda, and the use of a suicide bomber in at least one of the attacks would also back this up," said John Drake, a London-based senior risk consultant with security firm AKE.

Iraq's al Qaeda wing, the Islamic State of Iraq, has claimed recent attacks on Shi'ite targets, as it tries to fuel sectarian tensions and undermine Maliki's government.

Despite being weakened after years of war with Iraqi and U.S. troops, the group and other Sunni insurgents remain capable of carrying out lethal attacks. At least one major incident has occurred each month in the six months since U.S. forces left.

On Monday, a suicide bomber killed at least 15 mourners at a Shi'ite funeral in the northern city of Baquba. Twin car bombs killed at least 26 Shi'ite pilgrims on Saturday.

Earlier on Friday, gunmen in a speeding car using silenced weapons fired on a police checkpoint in Baghdad's southwestern Bayaa district, killing three policemen, local police and hospital sources said.

Three civilians were also wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near an army checkpoint in Mosul, a local police source said.

(Additional reporting by Serena Chaudhry in Baghdad and Jamal al-Badrani in Mosul; Writing by Serena Chaudhry; Editing by Jon Hemming)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/22/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE85L0AG20120622

Massacre of Chalas,Eastern Afghanistan

A video showing the brutal massacre of 50 Shia Muslims in Chalas by ferocious Wahhabi terrorists was made public.In this video (posted below from youtube), dozens of terrorists are seen laughing and jubilating while they fired upon innocent Shias and torture them to death. The terrorists also shouted derogatory slogans such as "Shia Kafir" (infidel) and joked with each other while killing innocent Shia Muslims.

The massacre occurred on April 3,2012 when the terrorists stopped six buses transporting Shia Muslim passengers.they set Shia passengers in them ablaze while seated in the buses, and also lined them up some passengers and opened gunfire on them. They also stoned some of them to death on the spot. They pushed some into the nearby river.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsmeCLLSU2U&feature=player_embedded

15 Shia pilgrims killed in attack in southwestern Pakistan

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Pakistani Shia Muslims protest against the killing of Shias in Quetta, Pakistan’s Balouchistan Province, July 31, 2011.

At least 15 Shia pilgrims have been killed and dozens injured in a rocket attack on a bus in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan Province, Press TV reports.


The bus, carrying 40 Shia pilgrims, was travelling from Iran to the city of Quetta in Balochistan when unknown militants fired rockets at it in Hazar Gungi area in the outskirts of Quetta on Thursday

The explosion killed at least 15 Shia pilgrims and injured 25 others, all of whom were immediately transferred to a local hospital.


The death toll may rise further as many of the injured are said to be in critical condition.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Militants have killed a large group of Shia Muslims in different parts of Pakistan over the past three years. Local sources say more than 2,000 Shia Muslims have been killed in the Kurram Agency since 2007.

Hundreds of Shia Muslims have also been killed in various parts of the violence-hit country over the past few months.

Meanwhile, Pakistani Shia leaders have called on the government to form a judicial commission to investigate the crime.

The recent surge in attacks against Pakistani Shia civilians has caused international outrage, with many rights groups and regional countries, including Iran, condemning the attacks and expressing deep concern over attempts to target unarmed Shia civilians.

MS/ASH/HJL/IS

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/06/28/248440/15-shia-pilgrims-killed-in-pakistan-attack/

[size=14pt]Hundreds protest in Norway against Shia genocide in Pakistan
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Protesters marched on roads of Norwegian capital Oslo against the genocide of Hazara in Pakistan.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - They were holding banners and placards against the systematic martyring of an ethnic minority for their Shia faith, and urged the international community to help stop the martyring of Hazaras in Quetta city of Pakistan.

They were holding banners calling the UN to take notice of a genocide-in-making in Quetta, Pakistan.

A child was holding a placard that read: “Massacre of Hazaras in 21st Century is a Shame for Humanity”.

Speakers condemned the security establishment–Army and Intelligence agencies–of Pakistan for negligence of the situation in Quetta where victims accuse complicity of Government elements supporting the terrorists of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, who have killed more than 700 Hazaras in the last ten years, without one prosecution.

The speakers said it was a humanitarian crisis. An ethnic minority of over 600,000 people are besieged in a small multi-ethnic city of few million population.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is a militant sectarian organization that kill Shias. In a letter thrown in streets of Quetta, Hazaras have been warned by LeJ to leave Pakistan by 2012, or Quetta will be turned into their graveyard. Only in the last few weeks, over 40 Hazaras have been martyred.

Protesters urged the international community to pressurize Pakistan to stop the merciless killings of Hazaras.

/SMH

http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=326137

10 Martyred, 54 Wounded in Karbala Explosions


At least ten Iraqi Shia Muslim worshippers have been martyred and 54 others injured in twin car bomb attacks near the holy city of Karbala in central Iraq.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - At least ten Iraqi Shia Muslim worshippers have been martyred and 54 others injured in twin car bomb attacks near the holy city of Karbala in central Iraq.

The explosions took place in vegetable market, 5 km east of the city.

Karbala is having strict security plans to defend the Iraqi and foreign pilgrims visiting the holy city these days to commemorate the birthday of Shiite Imam Mehdi.

It is expected that millions will come to Karbala for this occasion.

Karbala, center of the province, lies 108 km south west of the capital, Baghdad.

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http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=326467

Iraq explosions kill at least 33 people

The Associated Press

Posted: Jul 3, 2012 5:36 AM ET

Market blasts and other bombings across Iraq killed at least 33 people and wounded nearly 100 on Tuesday, spooking an already rattled public and spurring security officials to clamp down on traffic as Shia Muslims brace for more tragedy during pilgrimages this week.

The wave of morning bombings struck four Iraqi cities, the worst hit being Diwaniyah, 130 kilometres south of Baghdad, where an explosives-laden vegetable truck detonated in a crowded market, killing 25 people and leaving 40 injured.

Vegetable seller Salah Abbas, 41, described a scene of chaos after the explosion ripped through the crowd.

"There were many charred bodies on the ground," said Abbas, who rushed to help wounded fellow merchants before ambulances arrived. He managed to push one to safety in a cart, but two other colleagues died at the market.

"People screaming and crying — some were coming in to get their relatives while others were running out. Then rumours spread of more car bombs, and people ran run out of the market in panic," he added.

Sunni insurgents known to target Shia pilgrimages

Tuesday's attacks come as hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims head to the holy city of Karbala this week for religious ceremonies that are expected to peak on Friday. Shia pilgrimages are a favourite target of Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda, and attacks timed to strike during a similar march in Baghdad last month left 100 dead.

Diwaniyah is located about 40 kilometres from Karbala, which also was hit by two bombs in cars parked outside a market in early morning strikes that killed five people and wounded 30.

Jubair al-Jabouri, chairman of the Qadisiyah provincial council, confirmed the death toll in Diwaniyah, a Shiite city and the provincial capital. He blamed al-Qaeda for the attacks.

"Terrorism has no religion," al-Jabouri said. "The terrorists targeted the innocents today in Karbala and Diwaniyah."

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings, which come on the heels of a particularly bloody June when attacks focused almost exclusively on Shia pilgrims, government officials and security forces. Al-Qaeda frequently launches bombings and deadly shootings against these groups.

Last month, no more than three days passed without a major attack, signalling the insurgency's ability to regroup quickly as opposed to earlier patterns where militants took several weeks to co-ordinate and gather material for an occasional, if spectacular, wave of bombings.

Despite taking extra measures, security forces appear powerless to stop the violence. That has damaged the government's already shaky credibility with the Iraqi people and fanned fears the country may be spiraling out of control without recourse to American troops, the last of which withdrew last December after nearly nine years of war.

Iraqi officials and experts say the Sunni insurgents have been emboldened by a months-long political crisis that has all but paralyzed the government, and now seek to exploit tensions between the country's ethnic and sectarian factions.

Within hours of the two Karbala bombings, authorities banned vehicles from entering the holy city to protect the pilgrims though Friday. Karbala, located 80 kilometres south of Baghdad, is the destination for annual Shia rituals on the anniversary of the birth of the ninth-century Shia leader known as the Hidden Imam.

"Al-Qaeda groups are trying to stop Shia people from practicing their rituals of the pilgrimage," said Karbala Gov. Amal-Din al-Hir. "But we are confident that the Shia pilgrims will be undaunted by these explosions."

Bombs struck two other cities in central Iraq shortly before the Diwaniyah attack.

In the Sunni city of Taji, two bombs killed three people and wounded 15. A policeman was among the dead, said security and health officials who confirmed the casualties. Taji is home to a military base and is 20 kilometres north of Baghdad.

In the capital itself, a roadside bomb exploded next to a police patrol in the Sunni-dominated Ghazaliya neighbourhood, injuring three policemen and two civilians, a police officer and a health official said.

Officials in Baghdad and Taji spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/03/iraq-bombing-attack.html

Suicide bomber kills 7 of his own family in Iraq

By SAMEER N. YACOUB | Associated Press – 6 hrs ago.

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged belt at a gathering of his own family in western Iraq, killing his pro-government cousin and six other relatives, officials said Saturday.

The blast targeting a leader in the Sahwa militias in the city of Ramadi is a reminder of how extremism still divides Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority, with some working with al-Qaida-linked insurgents against others who support the Shiite-led government.

The killing is part of a surge in violence six months after the last American troops withdrew.

The bomber entered the home of his cousin, the local Sahwa leader, on Friday night as the extended family was gathered for a meal, said a police official in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad.

He approached the militiaman and detonated his explosives, killing his target as well as his wife, three of their teenage children, his brother and another relative, said the official. He could provide no other details including the number of wounded.

A hospital worker in Ramadi confirmed the deaths. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

Anbar is the province where Sunni tribes first revolted against al-Qaida in late 2006 and 2007, joining U.S. troops to fight the insurgency.

The movement was called Sahwa, or Awakening, and helped turned the tide of the war, although deadly attacks remain a grim fact of life for Iraqis. The Sahwa militia members are a favorite target of the Sunni insurgency, which sees them as traitors.

The last American troops left Iraq on Dec. 18, nearly nine years after leading an invasion to oust dictator Saddam Hussein. Immediately after the withdrawal, al-Qaida unleashed a bloody wave of bombings and targeted killings.

Attacks had slightly decreased since January, but starting in early June, major bombings have come at a rate of every few days instead of every few weeks, killing at least 300 people.

The sustained level of attacks suggests the insurgents are emboldened by Iraq's protracted political crisis, which pits Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki against Sunni, Kurd and rival Shiite politicians who say they are being sidelined.

Experts say the crisis in neighboring Syria may also be fanning the Iraqi insurgency, as some weapons intended for rebels fighting forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad could be falling into the hands of Iraqi militants as they cross the country.

http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-bomber-kills-7-own-family-iraq-085955546.html

Wow! Wow! Wow!
This is getting really interesting and answers so many of my questions. Quite an eye opener

[size=14pt]Indonesia: Shia Cleric Convicted of Blasphemy[/size]

Amend Blasphemy Law, Abolish Islamist Legal Board
July 12, 2012

(New York) – The Indonesian government should immediately drop all charges and release Tajul Muluk, a Shia cleric on Madura Island who was sentenced on July 12, 2012, to two years in prison for blasphemy, Human Rights Watch said today.

Human Rights Watch called on the government to amend or repeal its blasphemy law and abolish the Islamist board known as Bakor Pakem, which formally sits in the Attorney General’s Office during investigations of alleged religious offenses.

“The Indonesian government should immediately drop the case against Tajul Muluk, which highlights the threat Indonesia’s blasphemy law poses to religious freedom,” said Elaine Pearson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government needs to reverse the growing trend of violence and legal action against religious minorities in the country.”

The Sampang district court on July 12 found Shia cleric Tajul Muluk guilty of blasphemy for his religious teachings. Under Indonesian law, blasphemy carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

For years, the Shia community in Nangkernang village, Omben district, Sampang regency, has faced problems from government and religious authorities. In February 2006, 40 Sunni clerics and four police officers signed a public statement, declaring that Shia Islam was heretical. The statement mentioned two meetings with Shia clerics, in which the Shia were told to return to “real Islam” but refused to do so. The statement also asked law enforcement agencies to enforce the blasphemy law against Tajul Muluk.

The statement was the first step in an ongoing hate campaign against Shia in Sampang. In 2009, Tajul Muluk had a disagreement with his younger brother Roisul Hukama which led Roisul to join the anti-Shia campaign in Madura. In July 2011, police and Sampang officials persuaded Tajul Muluk to flee his village and provided him financial assistance to leave Nangkernang. Police and local officials have claimed the campaign against Muluk reflected the “family dispute” with his brother rather than his religious beliefs.

Throughout 2011, Islamist militants stepped up the campaign of harassment and intimidation against Shia in the Nangkernang hamlet. For instance, on December 6, 2011, when celebrating Ashura, a day of spiritual significance for Shia, Sunni militants prevented some 60 Shia residents from leaving their hamlet by blocking the road. Shia leader Iklil al Milal says he asked the police to take action to end the threats, but the police did not act.

On December 29, 2011, Sunni militants attacked the Nangkernang hamlet, burning houses and the madrasa (Islamic school), and causing around 500 Shia residents to flee. Police arrested and charged only one of the militants for the arson attack. Instead, the attack prompted the police to pressure Shia clerics, including Tajul Muluk and Iklil al Milal, to leave Nangkernang. The Ministry of Religious Affairs in Sampang also declared they will “supervise” hundreds of Shia to learn Sunni Islam.

On January 4, 2012, the Sampang chief prosecutor, Danang Purwoko Adji Susesno, as a member of Bakor Pakem , called on the Attorney General’s Office to ban “Tajul Muluk teachings” and stated in a letter that his Sampang office will press blasphemy charges against Muluk. Prosecutors made various claims about Tajul Muluk’s teachings and why they were contrary to Islam. The authorities questioned Tajul Muluk in February 2012, and charged him with blasphemy and “unpleasant misconduct” on April 24, 2012.

The Coordinating Board for Monitoring Mystical Beliefs in Society (Badan Koordinasi Pengawas Aliran Kepercayaan Masyarakat or Bakor Pakem) is a coordinating body under Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office with branches in every province and regency under local prosecutors’ offices. According to the 2004 Public Prosecution Service Law, Bakor Pakem has the responsibility to provide “oversight in respect of religious beliefs that could endanger society and the state.” Bakor Pakem normally sits under the intelligence division of the public prosecution office, and works closely with the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the police, the military, local governments, and religious establishments.

Bakor Pakem has been extremely influential when pressing the government to ban religious groups, Human Rights Watch said. Bakor Pakem recommended the banning of the Ahmadiyah faith in April 2008, and two months later it was banned. In Dharmasraya, West Sumatra, Bakor Pakem led the prosecution of Alexander An, an administrator of the “Minang Atheist” Facebook group. He was eventually acquitted of blasphemy but in June 2012 the Sijunjung court sentenced him to two-and-a-half years in prison and a fine of IDR100 million (around US$11,000), for inciting public unrest via his Facebook account.

Bakor Pakem also played a role in initiating the prosecution of Andreas Guntur, the leader of the spiritual group Amanat Keagungan Ilahi, who was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in March 2012 by the Klaten court, Central Java, for blasphemy for alleged unconventional Islamic teachings.

Indonesia is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which provides in article 18 that “[e]veryone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching. … No one shall be subject to coercion which would impair his freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.”

“The Indonesian government has permitted Bakor Pakem to actively pursue the prosecution of religious figures for blasphemy,” Pearson said. “The government should end the practice of a body espousing discriminatory religious beliefs having a say in the criminal justice system.”

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/12/indonesia-shia-cleric-convicted-blasphemy

I really don't know what the purpose of this thread is.
No offence dhul fiqar.

fellis: I really don't know what the purpose of this thread is.
No offence dhul fiqar.

to highlight and take record of systemic killings of Shia Muslims and their persecution for holding on to their Islamic beliefs (which has been the norm over the centuries) and protecting the religion of Islam in their hearts.it is aimed at promoting justice and opposing tyranny,injustice,oppression and terrorism.

this thread is similar to this:

https://www.nairaland.com/978010/pray-muslims-being-massacred-burma

i hope you also know the purpose of that thread.

to highlight and take record of systemic killings of Shia Muslims and their persecution for holding on to their Islamic beliefs (which has been the norm over the centuries) and protecting the religion of Islam in their hearts.it is aimed at promoting justice and opposing tyranny,injustice,oppression and terrorism.

Muslims all over the world are being killed and persecuted but you made an entire thread for only the Shia.
Do you not care for the other Muslims as well?
No offense really, I wish you peace.

fellis:

Muslims all over the world are being killed and persecuted but you made an entire thread for only the Shia.
Do you not care for the other Muslims as well?
No offense really, I wish you peace.

tell us where Muslims are being killed for being Muslims and we (Shia Muslims) will support them,regardless whether they are Sunni or Shia.LagosShia opened the thread on Burma,and those Muslims in Burma are not Shia.

the sectarian killings and persecution of Shia Muslims has been going on for centuries since the day Prophet Muhammad (sa) passed away,and the oppression of the Ahlul-Bayt (a) and their Shia started.it has been systemic and targeted.in recent times,they have manifested in form of terrorist attacks.it is very obvious that the sectarian attacks are not arbitrary or a reaction as the killings of Muslims in Burma.the sectarian killings has being perpetrated by one known and identifiable group against another group.it is a topic on its own.it is also not part of political dispute or fighting for power as we see palestinians massacred by jews but persecution based on belief and identity as Shia Muslims,inspite of the Shia victims being civilians and non-combatants,who should not be targeted or harmed based on Islam.