Posted on 09/23/2008 6:11:41 AM PDT by Victory111
Pakistan’s fledging democracy faced its first and greatest challenge last weekend.
A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with more than 1,000 pounds of explosives blew himself up early Saturday evening outside Islamabad’s luxury Marriott Hotel, killing 53 people and wounding several hundred. Most of the dead were Muslim guests who were breaking their day-long, Ramadan fast in the hotel restaurant when the bombing occurred.
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Few people want homicidal religious fanatics to rule them...
From Robert Spencer...
Evidently no one stands up in these mosques and says, "Wait a minute, fellows. You guys are twisting and hijacking my peaceful religion. As everyone knows, jihad is an interior spiritual struggle."
HOORAY Robert Spencer!
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Oxymoron alert. I never I thought I would luxury and Islamabad in the same sentance.
Oxymoron alert. I never I thought I would luxury and Islamabad in the same sentance.
(Islamabad’s luxury Marriott Hotel
Oxymoron alert. I never I thought I would luxury and Islamabad in the same sentance.)
I don’t care if the walls are painted with GOLD. I do not consider ANY Hotel in any Islamic nation a Luxury Hotel. Any place where you could be incinerated by a homicide bomber on a daily basis, fails the test of luxury........
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