Posted on 10/15/2021 6:18:30 AM PDT by george76
A large explosion tore through a Shi'ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, killing at least 33 people and wounding 73, officials said, the second massive attack in a week targeting worshippers from the minority sect.
A local reporter in Kandahar told Reuters that eyewitnesses had described three suicide attackers, one of whom blew himself up at the entrance to the mosque with the two others detonating their devices inside the building.
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The blast took place just days after an attack claimed by Islamic State militants, which killed scores of Shi'ite worshippers at a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz.
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Sunni Muslim fighters of Islamic State have repeatedly targeted Shi'ites in the past. The Taliban are also strict Sunni Muslims
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The blast, coming so soon after the Kunduz attack, underlined the increasingly uncertain security in Afghanistan as the Taliban grapple with an escalating economic and humanitarian crisis that threatens millions with hunger.
The local affiliate of Islamic State, known as Islamic State Khorasan after an ancient name for the region covering Afghanistan, has stepped up attacks following the Taliban victory over the Western-backed government in Kabul in August.
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The fact that the Shi'ite minority has again been targeted may also inflame tensions among ethnic and sectarian groups in the largely Sunni country. Most Shi'ites in Afghanistan belong to the Hazara ethnic group of Persian speakers, who have complained of persecution under the mainly Pashtun-speaking Taliban in the past.
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You hit the nail on the head.
Good deal boys, keep it up.
I am currently pondering the situation in the Middle East. It appears that if US totally leaves an area, the people there start murdering each other because it is in their DNA to fight and never be happy and at peace.
Suicide Bombers should be called HOMICIDE BOMBERS. If they were suicide Bombers they would kill only themselves, not others!
Sunni and Shites at it again....just another day in Afghanistan.
They’re addicted to conflict......it’s a normal day to bomb each other and fight. If there’s no fighting there’s no paycheck at the end of the day.
No doubt that there are people grieving. Not my tribe this time though.
Dead rag heads make my day. More! More!
F Joe Biden
Let’s Go Brandon!
feel the love ….
Their Allah ( Satan) never had a son
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