This Week's Islamic Massacres > 32 dead, 300 families fled sectarian violence in Pakistan

 

Families fleeing after 32 killed in

new sectarian violence in Pakistan

Around 300 families have fled to Hangu and Peshawar

seeking safety since this morning

Gulf News

Published:  November 23, 2024 17:47

AFP

PESHAWAR: Around 300 families fled sectarian violence on Saturday in northwest Pakistan as fresh sectarian clashes killed another 32 people.

Sporadic fighting between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan has killed around 150 over the past months.

"Approximately 300 families have relocated to Hangu and Peshawar since this morning in search of safety," a senior official told AFP, adding that more families were preparing to leave the province's Kurram district.

Another senior administrative official told AFP on condition of anonymity that "fighting between Shiite and Sunni communities continues at multiple locations", with 32 people killed in clashes on Saturday, including 14 Sunnis and 18 Shiites.

The fresh violence came two days after gunmen opened fire on two separate convoys of Shiite Muslims travelling with police escort in Kurram, killing 43 people and with 11 wounded still in critical condition, according to officials.

Shiite Muslims also attacked several Sunni locations on Friday evening in Kurram, once a semi-autonomous region, where sectarian violence has resulted in hundreds of deaths over the years.

When a seriously devout Muslim country like Pakistan runs low on Christians and Hindus to pick on, they start killing each other.

'Terrifying sight'

Rehan Muhammad a 33-year-old journalist from the Sunni-majority area of Bagan in Kurram, had to flee his home as clashes worsened.

"Gunfire suddenly erupted on Friday after sunset... I realised it was an attack in retaliation for (Thursday's) incident and immediately grabbed my children, despite the bitter cold, and told my family to flee our home towards the mountains on foot," Muhammad told AFP.

"The sight of houses in our village set ablaze was terrifying, I could see the entire village engulfed in flames," he said.

"At dawn, someone shouted that the attackers had left. When I returned, nothing was left. All that remained of my house was a pile of charred debris."

A senior administrative official in Kurram told AFP that the attacks "resulted in the destruction of 317 shops and over 200 homes".

A senior Kurram police officer said that "around 7:00 pm (1400 GMT), a group of enraged Shiite individuals attacked the Sunni-dominated Bagan Bazaar".

"After firing, they set the entire market ablaze and entered nearby homes, pouring petrol and setting them on fire," he said.

Local Sunnis "also fired back at the attackers", he added.

Javedullah Mehsud, a senior official in Kurram, told AFP there were "efforts to restore peace... (through) the deployment of security forces" and with the help of "local elders".

However, another official said the district does "not have enough police and administrative staff" in the area, where the federal government and provincial authorities in Peshawar struggle to impose their law.

"We informed the provincial government that the situation was critical and that additional troops needed to be urgently deployed," the official said under anonymity.

'Alarming frequency of clashes'

Last month, at least 16 people, including three women and two children, were killed in a sectarian clash in Kurram.

Previous clashes in July and September killed dozens of people and ended only after a jirga, or tribal council, called a ceasefire. HRCP said 79 people died between July and October in sectarian clashes.

Several hundred people demonstrated against the violence on Friday in Pakistan's second city of Lahore and Karachi, the country's commercial hub.

In Parachinar, the main town of Kurram district, thousands participated in a sit-in, while hundreds attended the funerals of the victims of Thursday's attack, mainly Shiite civilians.

The latest violence drew condemnation from officials and human rights groups.

The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) urged authorities this month to pay "urgent attention" to the "alarming frequency of clashes" in the region, warning that the situation has escalated to "the proportions of a humanitarian crisis."

"The fact that local rival groups clearly have access to heavy weaponry indicates that the state has been unable to control the flow of arms into the region," the HRCP said in a statement.

Where are they coming from?

Islam - Asia > Muslim burns down whole Hindu village; 'Wild Donkey' Sunnis blow up Shiites in Kabul

 

Pakistan: Muslim landlord demolishes Hindu houses,

temples; burns down entire Hindu village  

NOV 10, 2023 1:00 PM BY ASHLYN DAVIS

The Hindu community in Pakistan has been facing the wrath of Islam since the creation of the country in 1947. It appears that every day, for the past 75 years, they have been paying a penalty to the people and the government of the country for being Hindu and deciding to stay in their ancestral land instead of fleeing to India during the partition.

The Hindus are grappling with constant persecution most vehemently and continuously in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Their houses are razed, their temples are vandalized, and worst of all, their women and little girls are abducted by Muslim men, forcibly converted to Islam, and married off to elder Muslim men, who are often their abductors.

The latest episode of the brutalization of Hindus in Sindh was reported earlier last week, when the Hindu Kachhi community had to face the wrath of their Muslim landlord. The landlord, accompanied by his men, tore down their houses, demolished their temples, and still did not stop. He set the entire Hindu village, which had been home to the people of the Kacchi community for forty years, on fire. His accomplices also snatched away the poor villagers’ motorbikes, which were among the last resources these marginalized people had. This further added to the hardships of the villagers, as now they didn’t have a place to live or a vehicle with which to commute.

The deliberate setting on fire to the entire village couldn’t be just a hate crime; it is proof of the horrid intentions that even some of the regular and seemingly moderate people in Pakistan nurture.

A video documenting the plight of the villagers after the arson attack serves as a heartbreaking testament to the intense torment the Kachhi Hindus have endured as a community in Sindh. As the women, clad in traditional Hindu attire, go on to narrate the organized attacks on them and how these repeated attacks have left them robbed of their last means, it paints a grim picture of the rising violence experienced by religious and ethnic minorities in the Islamic nation. This also highlights the immediate call for protection and justice for these vulnerable, impoverished, and landless communities in Pakistan.

However, no Pakistani or foreign agency has shown any interest in rescuing these unfortunate people from the communal clutches of their Muslim persecutors in Pakistan. At the same time, the world is falling for loud Arab narratives of the fake victimization of Palestinians, and the less frequently represented predicament of the Hindus in Pakistan finds no place in international debates. They have been left at the mercy of the merciless. We fail to recall the last time the United Nations took a stand for the Hindus of Pakistan, who are the real victims of intense hate and extreme discrimination.

The global indifference towards the marginalized non-Muslims of Pakistan, including that of Pakistan’s Hindu-majority neighbor, India, is appalling and tragic. It is unfortunate that Pakistani Hindus, much like their counterparts in Bangladesh, have not found their voice yet. What’s worse? They also lack the art of propaganda that many Muslims have mastered, despite being the most catered-to community worldwide.

Afghanistan: Sunni jihadis blow up minibus full of Shi’ites, murdering seven people

NOV 13, 2023 8:30 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

No need to be concerned about this. It isn’t as if “Islamophobia” has broken out anywhere. And don’t examine the belief system that is the impetus for this endless violence, either. That would be “bigoted.”

Islamic State group claims responsibility for a minibus explosion

in Afghan capital that killed 7

Associated Press, November 8, 2023:

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a minibus explosion in the Afghan capital late on Tuesday that killed at least seven people. The Sunni militant group said its members detonated an explosive device on the bus carrying Shiite Muslims.

Twenty others were wounded in the attack in Kabul’s western Shiite neighborhood of Dashti Barchi, according to police spokesman Khalid Zadran….

 Genesis 16:12 - "He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Islam - Current Day > French Judge Protects Imam Against France; Judge Protects Jihadist Against France; Terror Suspects Arrested in Austria and Spain; 3 More Islamic Horror Stories

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French court suspends prominent imam’s deportation

Court says expulsion disproportionate attack; interior minister to appeal against decision

Shweta Desai   |

05.08.2022

Anadolou Agency

    

PARIS

A French court on Friday suspended the expulsion of an imam accused by the Interior Ministry of disseminating anti-Semitic and anti-gender equality messages.

In its decision, the administrative court of Paris said the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan national born in France, would constitute a “disproportionate attack” on his “private and family life,” his lawyer Lucie Simon shared on Twitter.

The 57-year-old imam was born in France and lives there with his family.

"The mere reason based on the existence of acts of explicit and deliberate incitement to discrimination against women (cannot) justify the expulsion measure without seriously and manifestly disproportionate interference with his right to carry out a normal private and family life,” the court said, according to a report by BFMTV news.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin who had ordered Iquioussen’s deportation to Morocco announced on Twitter that he would appeal against the court’s decision. He said he is “determined to fight against those who hold and disseminate anti-Semitic remarks that are contrary to equality between women and men.”

Last week, the ministry announced to remove Iquioussen from the mainland territory, and cancel his residence permit, for making anti-Semitic and "anti-women" remarks during sermons or conferences, which Iquioussen says are "baseless accusations."

Last week, the Council of Mosques of the Rhone (CMR) and Theological Council of Imams of the Rhone (CTIR) issued a joint statement and criticized the interior minister's move.

"We have always known him to be faithful to his commitment against hatred, racism, anti-Semitism, extremism, obscurantism, terrorism and an advocate of gender equality. Throughout his ministry, he has tirelessly promoted dialogue, respect, peace and peaceful co-existence," Kamel Kabtane said for the CMR and Mohamed Minta and Azzedine Gaci for the CTIR.

That's quite a list of Muslim qualities!

“Court of Perpignan: ‘I will kill innocent 2-year-old children

before they are taken by the devil,'” 

Translated from “Tribunal de Perpignan : ‘Je vais tuer des enfants innocents

de 2 ans avant qu’ils ne soient pris par le diable,'” 

L’Indépendant, 

August 7, 2022

Tribunal de Perpignan

The remarks, disturbing if any, made by the defendant on his arrival in prison, brought him immediately before the court.

“I am here to train myself in hatred and terrorism. When I get out I will kill a lot of people because they are not good. I know how to recognize them. And children of one and a half, two years old, because they are innocent, before they are taken by Satan.”

Placed in pre-trial detention for yet another detention of narcotics and carrying a knife, Samir is heard by an officer on his arrival at the remand center. It goes without saying that the chief, announces without waiting the terrible threats which have just been uttered. And the parquet floor returns it in front of the judges for apology of terrorism and reiterated death threats.

Listening to the president recount his words, Samir displays a broad smile. “Well, I didn’t really say all that, I was angry. I’m not dangerous, my mother would tell you that.”

He is as incoherent as he is surprising, but the expert psychiatrist does not detect any pathology in him.

The magistrate tries to understand: “Perhaps you smoke cannabis, sir?”

“No, hash.”

The prosecutor is pragmatic: “Extremely worrying, precise and detailed remarks. We imagine what he can do with his knife under the influence of drugs!” He demands 2 years firm.

“Yes, disturbing remarks,” confirms in defense Me Chassonnaud. “But which were not made in public and are not addressed to someone to make him commit a terrorist act. As for the threats … he does not aim no one in particular, does not designate anyone. The offenses are therefore not constituted. He must be acquitted.”

I thought he specifically aimed at 1.5 to 2-year-olds.

The court can only admit: “there was no publicity and the threats are not aimed at anyone in particular.”

The defendant is acquitted.

Beyond stupid! The blood of the children he will kill when he gets out will be on the hands of this court. Another judge protecting Islamic terrorists against France.

Terror suspect (36) arrested in Upper Austria:
Moroccans came via the Balkan route

translated from “Terrorverdächtiger (36) in OÖ festgenommen:

Marokkaner kam über die Balkanroute” 

Exxpress, 

August 6, 2022 

A 36-year-old Moroccan terror suspect has been arrested in Upper Austria. A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior confirmed corresponding media reports on Saturday. The arrest took place when the Syrian returnee wanted to leave the federal territory by train towards Germany, it said. An EU-wide arrest warrant from Spain had been issued for the suspected “foreign terrorist fighter.”

Second suspect arrested in Barcelona

The Moroccan arrested in July 2022 resides in Spain and traveled to Syria in 2014 to join a group close to al-Qaeda, the interior ministry said on Saturday. A 29-year-old Moroccan was traveling with him, for whom there was no arrest warrant at the time. The second suspect has now been arrested near Barcelona, ​​it said. He is said to have traveled to Syria from Morocco in 2015. Both men are being investigated on suspicion of involvement in and support for terrorism.

Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) is pleased with the success.

“Fight against terror must not rest”

“Close cooperation with our partners is essential in the fight against international terrorist networks. As the once again successful operation and the two arrests show, the State Security and Intelligence Service Directorate is in the best possible position and will continue to take decisive action against these criminals. Because the fight against terror must not rest for a second – the police will continue to fight it with all consistency and severity in the future,” said Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP).

Just don't send them to France for trial, they will be back on the streets the next day.

When they don't have Americans or Europeans to kill, Muslims will turn on each other.

Taliban say bomb kills 8 people in Shiite area of Kabul

by Rahim Faiez, 

Associated Press,

August 5, 2022:

ISLAMABAD — A bomb hidden in a cart went off on Friday near a mosque in a minority Shiite neighborhood of the Afghan capital, killing at least eight people and wounding 18, a Taliban official said.

Also Friday, hundreds of Afghans — apparently organized by the Taliban — rallied in several provinces, denouncing the U.S. drone strike last Sunday that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri on the balcony of a Kabul safe house.

According to Khalid Zadran, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief, the cart bombing happened in western Kabul, in the Sar-e Karez area. Initial reports said two people were killed but the casualty toll swiftly rose as the wounded were taken to local hospitals.

“Once again, the enemy carried out an attack on (holy days) and killed innocent civilians,” said Zadran. He added that the police has launched an investigation.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but blame is likely to fall on the Islamic State group, which has targeted Afghanistan’s minority Shiites in large-scale attacks in the past.

The regional affiliate of IS, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, has increased attacks on mosques and minorities across the country since the Taliban seized power last August.

IS, which has been operating in Afghanistan since 2014, s seen as the greatest security challenge facing the country’s Taliban rulers. Following their takeover of Afghanistan, the Taliban have launched a sweeping crackdown against the IS headquarters in the country's east.

On Wednesday, in a gunbattle between the Taliban and IS gunmen killed five, including two Taliban fighters. The fighting erupted near the Sakhi shrine in the Karti Sakhi neighborhood as people were busy preparing for Ashoura, which commemorates the 7th century death in battle of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

In the anti-U.S. rallies following Friday prayers, religious scholars and protesters condemned the strike that killed al-Zawahri, calling the attack a violation of international principles and in particular, the agreement that the U.S. administration signed with the Taliban on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

The protesters carried banners with “Death to America” slogans on them and chanted against President Joe Biden.

Egyptian man on trial for 'honor killing' of his two daughters,

17 and 18, in Texas 

Says he DIDN'T murder the teens. Claims both were alive when he left them

in his cab on side of highway

Yaser Said, 65, is on trial for the murders of his teenage daughters in 2008 in what prosecutors call an 'honor killing'

Said took the stand in his own defense Monday where he denied the killings.

He also claimed he left the girls alive in his taxi and fled because he feared someone was following him and that his life was in danger.

So, he left his girls to what he believed was a killer????

Said, who was once on the FBI's Most Wanted List, is accused of shooting to death 17-year-old Sarah and 18-year-old Amina on New Years Day in 2008.

Prosecutors claim Said conducted the 'honor killings' because the girls had allegedly shamed him for being 'too American' and dating Americans.

Said spent six years on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List before he was arrested in Justin, Texas, in August 2020 where he had been hiding with the help of family.

If convicted of capital murder, Said would automatically be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

By ANDREA CAVALLIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 19:50 EDT, 8 August 2022 | UPDATED: 20:00 EDT, 8 August 2022

Please go to the Daily Mail for the full story.

And if they don't have daughters or other Muslims to kill, they will turn on themselves

Devout Shiite Muslims are left covered in blood as they flagellate themselves

and gash their heads with swords on holy day of Ashura in Iraq and India

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Shiite Muslims cut and whipped themselves as part of Ashura bloodletting

Blood drenched their white robes and soaked the streets as part of the important religious festival

The holy day commemorates the seventh century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS and JACK NEWMAN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 04:21 EDT, 9 August 2022 | UPDATED: 06:45 EDT, 9 August 2022

Devout Shiite Muslims in the Middle East have flagellated themselves with chains and swords, leaving the streets soaked in blood as part of the holy day of Ashura.

In major cities across the region, believers commemorated the seventh century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein by drawing blood from their own bodies.

The ritual bloodletting carried out by men and boys is said to wash away sins and act as a symbol of mourning for Hussein who was killed along with his children at the battle of Karbala, south of Baghdad, in 680AD.

IRAQ: Shiite Muslims take part in the 'Tatbir' bloodletting ritual as an act of mourning marking Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein

INDIA: A man's back is torn to shreds as he repeatedly whips himself as part of the annual religious celebration for Shiite Muslims

LEBANON: Shiite Muslims bleed after gashing their foreheads during a religious procession to mark Ashura in Nabatieh

PAKISTAN: Shiite Muslims flagellate themselves during Ashura Day procession in Peshawar during the holy month of Muharram

Devout Shiite Muslims in the Middle East have flagellated themselves with chains and swords,

leaving the streets soaked in blood as part of the holy day of Ashura

Today, revellers paraded and beat their chests on one of the most important dates on the religious calendar, as symbols of Shiite piety and penitence blanketed cities.

Across India, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan and other countries with Shiite populations, devotees saw their pristine white robes turn red as blood poured from their heads after cutting themselves with ceremonial knives.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people converge on Karbala, some 50 miles south of Baghdad, to observe the solemn holy day.

Shiites see Hussein and his descendants as the rightful heirs to the prophet. 

His killing at the hands of a rival Muslim faction embodies the rift between the Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam and continues to shape the identity of the minority branch of Islam today.

The public rituals of Ashura often fuel sectarian tensions in places like Iraq, Lebanon and Pakistan where Islam's two main sects both reside.

Security forces were on high alert for any violence, as Sunni extremist groups that consider the Shiites heretics have seized on the occasion to mount attacks in years past.

In Iraq, the powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has used the emotional religious occasion to stir up support for his movement, deepening the country's inter-Shiite divisions. 

Unable to form a government, Iraq descended further into political chaos last week when thousands of al-Sadr's supporters stormed and occupied the parliament building. 

There are many more photos and more to this bloody madness at the Daily Mail.

Why is it madness? Jesus already shed His blood for all of us to have our sins forgiven. These fools are trying to be their own Jesus.

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Hindu Priest Hacked to Death in Islamic War on Minorities

Hindu temple worker hacked to death in Bangladesh

AFP 


New Delhi (AFP) - A Hindu temple worker was hacked to death in western Bangladesh on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks on religious minorities by suspected Islamists.

Three men on a motorcycle attacked Shyamananda Das as he walked along a road near the temple early in the morning, police said.

"They hacked him on his neck three times and there was one stabbing mark in his head," deputy district police chief Gopinath Kanjilal told AFP.

"He died after he was brought to hospital."

Police said the 50-year-old, also known as Babaji, was a volunteer who helped conduct prayers at temples.

"He was an itinerant temple volunteer who travels from one temple to another to serve the Hindu devotees. He came to this temple only yesterday," said local police chief inspector Hasan Hafizur Rahman. "He was attacked as he walked outside the temple to collect flowers for prayer services," he told AFP.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police said it bore the hallmarks of recent murders of religious minorities by suspected homegrown Islamist militants.

Last month a Hindu priest, 70-year-old Ananda Gopal Ganguly, was hacked to death in the same district.

Days later, a Hindu monastery worker was murdered in the same way in a northwestern district.

Deputy police chief Kanjilal said an activist with the student wing of the country's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, had been arrested over the attack.

Hours before the murder, two Jamaat student activists were shot dead in a gunfight with police just a few miles (kilometres) from the Hindu temple, two police officials told AFP.

"They are local leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir and were suspects in last month's murder of the Hindu priest," Rahman told AFP.

- Targeted killings -

Bangladesh is reeling from a wave of murders of secular and liberal activists and religious minorities that have left some 50 people dead in the last three years.

Victims of the attacks by suspected Islamists have included secular bloggers, gay rights activists and followers of minority religions including Hindus, Christians and Muslim Sufis and Shiites.

Since April, more than a dozen people have been hacked to death amid a sharp spike in the targeted killings.

Most of the recent attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State organisation or the South Asian branch of Al-Qaeda.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government, however, has blamed homegrown Islamists for the attacks. Experts say a government crackdown on opponents, including a ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami following a protracted political crisis, has pushed many towards extremism.

Last month police arrested more than 11,000 people, including nearly 200 suspected militants, in an anti-Islamist drive criticised by the opposition and some rights groups, which said it was used as an excuse to clamp down on dissent.

At least nine suspected Islamists were shot dead in what police said were gunfights. Some rights activists contradict that account and say they were extrajudicial killings.

Jamaat-e-Islami is a long-standing ally of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Although Bangladesh is officially secular, around 90 percent of its 160 million-strong population is Muslim. About one in 10 are Hindu.