They can’t get over cartoons...
ALERT - Pakistan: 8 dead in explosion outside the embassy of Denmark in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD - At least eight people were killed Monday in an explosion caused by a suspected suicide attack outside the embassy of Denmark in Islamabad, according to public television.
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.dawn.com/2008/06/02/welcome.htm
Eight dead, 12 injured in blast at Danish mission in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, June 2 (Agencies): At least three persons were killed and several injured in a blast outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad on Monday (a private television channel put the latest casualty toll at eight dead and 12 injured). “I have seen three bodies,” Reuters correspondent Kamran Haider said, adding that one body was just inside the gate and two were outside. The blast damaged a wall of the mission and a gate and left a crater on the road. “It appears to have been a car bomb,” he said. Security officials said there were several casualties as well. The force of the blast badly damaged two buildings in front of the embassy and left a huge crater, while the injured were being taken on stretchers, an AFP reporter at the scene said. The explosive wrecked dozens of cars, Dawn News TV’s Arjumand Azhar reported. According to Dawn News TV, interior ministry secretary Kamal Shah confirmed the blast outside the embassy but had no further details. Its footage showed dozens of cars damaged and a large crater as rescue workers removed at least one injured person. (First Posted @ 13:30 PST, Updated @ 14:05 PST)
It is NOT that fanatical of a religion that, say, people would engage in such random violence out of outrage of something like cartoon pictures being harmlessly published.
Thank goodness.
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I hope there are not secondary explosions.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
— Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).
What is concerning is that the embassies and diplomats in Islamabad are in a fairly secure diplomatic enclave not accessible to the general public. An insider was probably involved.
We got hit in Karachi last year but they only got as far as an outer parking lot. If they can do this in Islamabad to an embassy, we might soon be next.
Sounds like Denmark needs to do some more diplomacy.
Good grief...Get. Over. The. Cartoons.