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A POWERFUL SUICIDE bombing ripped through the Yemeni capital of Sanaa today, killing at least 47 people, including children.
Dozens more were wounded in the attack in Sanaa’s Al-Tahrir square, which targeted a gathering for supporters of Shiite insurgents who overran the capital last month.
The health ministry said that a further 75 people were wounded.
A separate suicide car bombing killed 20 soldiers in southeastern Yemen.
Al-Qaeda is believed to have been behind the attack, AFP reported.
Yemen has been wracked by political turmoil and sporadic violence since the 2011 uprising that toppled Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The bombing in Sanaa came a day after Yemen’s new prime minister designate, named as part of a UN-brokered peace deal, refused the post amid fierce rebel opposition.
The United States strongly condemned the incident, describing it as a “despicable attack against civilians”.
“The Yemeni people have lived with senseless violence for far too long and the recent increase in hostilities against innocent civilians only undermines the progress Yemen has made in achieving meaningful reform since 2011,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Iran also expressed condolences over “this blind and inhuman act of terrorism”.
Additional reporting: AFP
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Islam needs one hell of a reformation. Is there not one good cleric/politician who can drag these people into an age of enlightenment?
There’s no hope for these miserable ba-stards.
The Quranist movement and the Ahmadiyya sect are making a good start. There are also various Muslim leaders in the west and South East Asia, and community leaders in the Middle East who are pushing a lot of reform, but for the most part the religion is what gives the main religious leaders their power (same as the pope, cardinals, bishops etc with Catholicism), so they’re not likely to reform much of the religion other than the extreme parts because that would be very likely to reduce their power and influence in the long run
Who are you referring to?
Off the top of my head I can think of Dr Khalid Anis, Harris Zafar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, the Muslim Council of Britain in its current form, which has, despite previous connections to radicalism, made clear statements condemning the jihadis travelling to Syria, and the Trojan horse scandal, as well as supporting the Equality Act 2006. There’s also Muslim community leaders in Bradford who have made efforts to bring the Jewish and Muslim communities closer together, and also Maajid Nawaz and Dilowar Khan, as well as Dr Ali Al-Saleh (not to be mistaken for Ali Al-Selim of the Clonskeagh Mosque) to a certain extent.
Off the top of your head Danny ?? , come on tell us Danny what involvement do you really have with the Religion of Peace ?
I grew up in Handsworth, paid attention in religion classes and I bother to learn about the cultures and religions of the people around me. There’s really nothing more to know.
Maybe you could try debunking something, anything, that I’ve said
I believe you Danny !
My reply was meant for skin Flint….
Oh sorry, my bad
70 dead? What’s it all about? Muslim kill Muslim because one is not Shia or Sunni. Fcuking sick!
Here’s an interesting ‘layman’s guide’ to the current situation in the middle east and the origins of the sunni-shia split:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/09/muhammad-isis-iraqs-full-story.html
Similar things have been going on in the north of ireland for years
RIP to those who were murdered.
Ironically, Koranic palimpsests were found in 1972 in the loft of the Great Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, which are the oldest Koranic texts in existence. Words and verses were changed and re-written, which proves that the Koran actually evolved, and is not the ‘unchanging words of Allah’. – So they are all killing each other for nothing.
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