BOMB EXPLODES IN INDIAN MOSQUE

Sky News ^ | 11/21/03

[areafiftyone]

A bomb blast has injured at least five people at a mosque in western India, police say.

The bomb exploded during Friday prayers in the town of Parbhani east of the financial capital, Bombay, a police spokesman said.

More follows...

[JohnHuang2]

Update:

Seven wounded in bomb blast in Indian mosque

BOMBAY, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Men riding a motorcycle threw a bomb into a mosque in western India on Friday, wounding at least seven people, police said.

The attack took place in Parbhani town, nearly 500 km (310 miles) east of India's financial hub of Bombay, and came during prayers on the last Friday before the feast of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

"The explosion took place when some people riding a motorcycle threw the bomb into the mosque," Parbhani police officer A.D. Kurundar told Reuters by phone.

He said seven men were injured in the attack, contradicting a spokesman in the state government in Bombay who said some 20 people had been injured.

The bomb attack came nearly three months after Bombay was rocked by twin car bombings which killed 52 people and wounded over 150.

Police had blamed those attacks on an outlawed radical Indian Muslim students' group, working alongside a Pakistan-based Kashmiri rebel group.

11/21/03 05:47 ET

[JohnHuang2]

Update:

Bomb Injures 7 at Mosque in Western India

.c The Associated Press

BOMBAY, India (AP) - A bomb exploded in a mosque in the western Indian state of Maharashtra during Friday prayers, injuring at least seven people, local police said.

The explosion occurred inside a mosque in Parbhani, a small town 345 miles east of Bombay, India's financial center and capital of Maharashtra state.

``The explosion occurred immediately after three men on motorcycles threw what looked like a packet into the mosque,'' said Alok Joshi, a police inspector in Parbhani. ``It was a small explosion.''

11/21/03 05:44 EST

[PGalt]

Nice blog. Bumping for later perusing. Off to work.

[JohnHuang2]

Hope not though.

Seconded.

[JohnHuang2]

Nice blog.

Hear, hear! Very well done.

[dennisw]

Bombadon isn't just for Islamics to celebrate.

[JohnHuang2]

Indian police say 21 hurt in mosque bombing

BOMBAY, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A bomb attack on a mosque in western India injured 21 people on Friday, triggering sporadic violence as angry crowds set fire to shops and vehicles, police said.

Police in the town of Parbhani, nearly 500 km (310 miles) east of India's financial capital Bombay, had earlier said seven people had been injured. They said a curfew had been imposed to try to curb the violence.

"The situation is tense and mobs are setting fire to shops and vehicles and throwing stones in the main market area," Parbhani police official S.S. Khandare told Reuters by telephone.

11/21/03 06:36 ET

[BlessedBeGod]

Prayers for everyone involved.

On another note, gee, let's outsource to India even more! It's such a great place!

[ConservativeMan55]

This was probably Islamics...silly goose.

[AM2000]

It's more likely to be someone with a vested political interest in religious tension. Not Islamics, IOW. The dynamic in western India is such that when Hindus are afraid of marauding Muslims, they vote BJP. They haven't been afraid in a while, and elections are near.

[PokeyJoe]

In my best imitation of the Pali's who dance after the WTC bombins . . .

"Praise to Allah for this blessing"

[dennisw]

No way would I bet on it but I would say this bombing was done by Hindu extremists. Hindus are the only people on the planet to dish it back to the Islamics the way it should be. Via riots, arson, religious incitement. They even demolished a big ol' mosque in Ayodhya and traded riots with Islamics. Of course this mosque was built on a ruined Hindu temple.

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:Y74J2kb2yDAJ:www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/28/india.train/+hindus+riot+mosque+rebuilt&hl=en&ie=UTF-8



"All relevant British government records followed by the District Gazetteer Faizabad compiled and published by the Congress Government in 1960 declare with one voice that the so-called Babari mosque at Ayodhya is standing on the debris of a Ramajanmasthan temple demolished by the order of Babar in 1528. Syed Shahabuddin, JNU historians, and selfstyled 'secular' scholars and leaders are hotly contesting that the existence and demolition of such a temple is a myth floated by the British in pursuance of their policy of 'divide and rule'. Syed Shahabuddin and many Muslim divines go a step further and assert that neither Babar nor any other Muslim for that matter would take into his head to erect a mosque by displacing a temple, for, they argue, such a mosque would not be a mosque in the eyes of the Shari'ah and would be liable to demolition by the Muslims themselves."

[Freebird Forever]

Hindus are the only people on the planet to dish it back to the Islamics the way it should be

Does anyone know how to say "Let's Roll" in Hindi?

[sphinx]

Syed Shahabuddin and many Muslim divines go a step further and assert that neither Babar nor any other Muslim for that matter would take into his head to erect a mosque by displacing a temple, for, they argue, such a mosque would not be a mosque in the eyes of the Shari'ah and would be liable to demolition by the Muslims themselves."

This is helpful to know. It means the Moslems, not the Jews, should be the ones to blow up the Dome of the Rock ....

[little jeremiah]

Having read a bit about the history of Muslim occupation of India, a marge proportion of the mosques, temples and mausoleums supposedly built by Muslims were in fact Hindu temples, palaces or forts either razed, desecrated or just taken over and turned into Muslim use, and then the Muslims claimed that they had built them.

Interestingly, there is much evidence that Shah Jahan did not build the Taj Mahal, that it was a Hundu temple complex that he "took". Muslims used to enslave Hindu builders, artisans and such and take them to other countries to build for them, since their own skill and knowledge of building was less advanced.

[little jeremiah]

Correction - LARGE proportion, not "marge" - [and I proofread it too!]

[adam_az]

It was very possibly a different sect of Islam.

The Hindus who tore down the Ayodha mosque did it with HAND TOOLS not explosives.

I don't know of other cases of Hindu's bombing mosques, though Muslims bomb other mosques all the time in that part of the world, if they aren't sufficiently meeting the muslim standards of the bomber.

[Indie]

Yep. Un-PC history lesson.
BTW, notice how when Islam mosque blown up,
they riot in streets and start stealing/killing etc?
Yet if we did that to Moslems here, we would be EEEvilll!!
Well how about what is good for the goose is good for the gander. HINDUS DESPISE MUSLIM FASCISTS AS WELL (They are pretty open about comparing Christian viloence to Islam's as well when there is no comparison in recent history.)
There is a video on here of allegedly Mr Pearl being allegedly killed by alleged Islamofascists. Allegedly do not watch unless you have allegedly eaten already. It is a disgusting example of these callous sadistic islamic devils.