Posted on 06/24/2017 9:24:53 AM PDT by ColdOne
Saudi security forces foiled a terror plot targeting the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca after a suspect blew himself up after a gunfight.
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said security forces exchanged gunfire with one of the suspects who blew himself up inside a home he was hiding in yesterday.
Five people, including a woman, were arrested in security operations in Mecca, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news website said, citing the security spokesman of the Saudi Interior Ministry, Mansour al-Turki.Full Title...............................Attack on Grand Mosque in Mecca is foiled as suspect blows himself up after a gunfight with Saudi security forces......................
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they stopped them from blowing up the mosque. Hey, ummm. that’s great?
Was this a fellow from the opposite wing of Islam?
Too bad, better luck next time.
All wings of islam are opposite.
Muslim-on-Muslim terrorism.
Probably. The Shia, Sunnis, Wahhabis, and others don’t like each other. They may be united on the need for jihad against the West, but they will fight each other over control of the caliphate and what is the “right” interpretation of Islam.
Blowing himself up just may hide the evidence.
And thank God that that discord militates against their ultimate power.
If they get TOO rampant, they’ll start going at one another’s throats. It’s the Western world with its Christian ideas that is buffering this situation.
Did he blow himself up? or was it done remotely?
Is this the good news or the bad news?
Gunfight at the OK mosque.
Possible motivations:
* Shia, who resent the Sunni controlling Mecca and retrograde Saudi Wahabism being aggressively proselytized to their detriment
* Shia who want to get back at Sunni shrines for the destruction of a major Shia shrine in Iraq destroyed a few years ago
* Sunni fundamentalists, including ISIS, who see the Saudi development around the Kaaba the equivalent of Disney commercializing the Sistine Chapel and have advocated destruction of the Saudi royal family
Intrigue and more intrigue.
I am actually heartened at the news of this discord. As the fever pitch of jihadism heats up, it’s not going to be just the Western world that feels it. In fact, maybe not even chiefly. A magnet will stick to another magnet tighter than it will to a neutral iron surface.
Retaliation for the recent suicide attack in Iran?
And the love of hate may get so strong that some of the dearest icons of Islam will be destroyed... leaving the Muslim community at large to wonder how sacred they really could have been.
He say a goat
There are 5 people I am glad I am not.
See, see, not all muslims are bad — some even kill their own.
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