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[Mashadi86]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-16046079
http://www.khaama.co...afghanistan-777

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Ashura is a holy occasion for all Muslims around the world and is celebrated every year on 10th day of Muharram in Islamic calender to mark the climax of the remembrance of Muharram.
The day of Ashura is marked by Muslims as a whole, but for Shia Muslims it is a major religious festival which commemorates the martyrdom at Karbala of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad.
For Shia Muslims, Ashura is a solemn day mourning the martyrdom of Hussein in 680 AD at Karbala in modern-day Iraq.
Shia men and women dressed in black also parade through the streets slapping their chests and chanting.
Some Shia men seek to emulate the suffering of Hussein by flagellating themselves with chains or cutting their foreheads until blood streams from their bodies.
Some Shia leaders and groups discourage the bloodletting, saying it creates a backward and negative image of Shia Muslims. Such leaders encourage people to donate blood.
Ashura was celebrated in Afghanistan with security issues in different parts of the country. This occasion was rocked by suicide bombers in capital and northern province which resulted dozens of death and injuries to the worshipers and civilians.

The suffering Afghan shia has been unknown to the outside but has been fermenting over years/decades. This criminal act by nasabi wahabi saytan lovers is one such example. Shia's of Afghanistan have a long and proud history spanning since the days the descendants of the holy imams moved east to spread the true message of Islam. They brought light to the darkness. Socially, culturally and academically they have improved the lives of the people there.


http://islamicinsigh...ghan-shias.html
A brief albeit piece on the shia of afghanistan.

(Sorry if this in the wrong place, but I wasn't sure whether to add it here, general politics or southasia. But as it is regarding religious affairs I thought I would highlight this to all).

Edited by Mashadi86, 06 December 2011 - 07:03 AM.

[shoelace]

inna lillah wainna ilahi rajeun.....

laanat on enemies of ahlul bayt

[satyaban]

I heard about this shoetly after waking and before my morning puja. I realized immediately that I have not heard about Shia in Afgh. before. I included the Afghan Shia in my devotions.

[Gypsy]

Sad. So many people died and are critically wounded.

Outside a Kabul hospital, mourners cried near a pile of bloody clothes and shoes. A woman in a dark headscarf clutching a bloodstained sports shoe said her son, in his early 20s, had died. "They killed my son ... this is his shoe," she wailed.

http://www.reuters.c...E7B50C320111206

[shoelace]

Gypsy, on 06 December 2011 - 11:14 AM, said:

Sad. So many people died and are critically wounded.

Outside a Kabul hospital, mourners cried near a pile of bloody clothes and shoes. A woman in a dark headscarf clutching a bloodstained sports shoe said her son, in his early 20s, had died. "They killed my son ... this is his shoe," she wailed.

http://www.reuters.c...E7B50C320111206

Inshallah she will meet him in jannah

[Javid]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/suicide-bomber-hits-afghan-mosque/2011/12/06/gIQAMfAGZO_gallery.html

[satyaban]

It is a times such as this that we should pray for the grief to be  turned into healing and finding ways for this behavior to cease and not revenge and tit for tat killings which will only create more orphans and mothers who have lost their children. Surely their is very little sadder than a mother ot father who must bury one of their children.

Pray for the bereft and pray for peace.

[Auqab]

Did any else read about it or is it just me.....that the taliban actually condemed this attack.

[satyaban]

Auqab, on 06 December 2011 - 11:10 PM, said:

Did any else read about it or is it just me.....that the taliban actually condemed this attack.

I heard that as well on the BBC World Service.

[HellHound]

Auqab, on 06 December 2011 - 11:10 PM, said:

Did any else read about it or is it just me.....that the taliban actually condemed this attack.

lolwut? I find that really REALLY hard to believe...

[The Canuck]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-16046079

Afghanistan bombs kill 58 in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif




The BBC's Quentin Sommerville: "This kind of sectarian violence, certainly on this scale, is almost unprecedented"Continue reading the main story

Taliban Conflict

• Taliban tactical shift
  
• Why target Afghan Shias?
  
• US patience wears thin
  
• Haqqani militant network

Twin attacks apparently targeting Shia Muslims have killed at least 58 people in Afghanistan.
In the deadliest incident, a suicide bomb struck a shrine packed with worshippers in the capital, Kabul, killing at least 54 people.
Another blast struck near a Shia mosque the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif at about the same time, killing four.
The attacks appear to be of a sectarian nature unprecedented in recent Afghan history, correspondents say.
The US has condemned the attacks, saying it continues to "stand with the Afghan people".
The blasts coincided with the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura - the most important day in the Shia calendar and marked with a public holiday in Afghanistan.Continue reading the main story
Analysis

Waheed Massoud BBC Afghan Editor, Kabul
This is a charge Pakistan denies, but analysts maintain elements in Pakistan want to open yet another divide - a sectarian one pitting Sunnis in Afghanistan against the Shia who have traditionally shunned the Taliban.
Others believe the Taliban, who failed to target the recent loya jirga conference in Kabul or to make headlines ahead of the global Bonn conference, are behind this latest attack, in an attempt to further divide President Hamid Karzai's political support base.
Either way, a new and brutal precedent has been set and Afghans of all faiths are hoping that it does not open up yet another front in the country's bloody conflict.

• Why target Afghanistan's Shias?
  
• In pictures: Afghan bomb attacks

Ashura is the climax of Muharram, the month of mourning for the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.
Though tensions exist between Afghanistan's Sunni and minority Shia Muslims, most attacks in Afghanistan in recent years have targeted government officials or international forces, correspondents say.
Children hit
The near-simultaneous explosions happened at about midday (07:30 GMT).
In Kabul, the bomb went off near a gathering of hundreds of Shias singing at the Abu Fazal shrine.
Fifty-four people were killed in the blast, said health ministry spokesman Norughli Kargar, while 150 were injured.
"It was very loud. My ears went deaf and I was blown three metres [yards]," Mustafa, who uses only one name, told Associated Press news agency.



Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned the bomb attacks.
"There was smoke and red blood on the floor of the shrine. There were people lying everywhere."
Amid the chaos straight after the blast, a young girl, dressed in a green shalwar kameez (traditional dress) smeared in blood, stood shrieking, surrounded by the crumpled, piled-up bodies of children, AFP reported.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke of the unprecedented nature of the attack, saying it was "the first time that, on such an important religious day in Afghanistan, terrorism of that horrible nature is taking place".
No-one had claimed to have carried out the attacks, said Mohammad Zahir, head of Kabul's criminal investigation department.
A Taliban statement said the group had not been behind either incident.
Police said they foiled another attack elsewhere in the capital.

The bomb which exploded near the main mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif was apparently strapped to a bicycle, and went off shortly after the Kabul blast.
Balkh province Deputy Police Chief Abdul Raouf Taj said the device exploded as a convoy of Shias, shouting in celebration of Ashura, passed by, AP reported.
At least 17 people were injured.



Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Sadiq Saddiqi said the Taliban were responsible
Elsewhere, police said at least three people were wounded by a motorcycle bomb in the southern city of Kandahar, the Taliban's heartland - but it appears to have been unconnected to the other two attacks.
Rarity
Mohammad Bakir Shaikzada, the top Shiite cleric in Kabul, said he could not remember a similar attack on such a scale.
"This is a crime against Muslims during the holy day of Ashura," he told AP.Continue reading the main story
Recent Kabul attacks

• 29 Oct 2011: Suicide attack on bus kills 13 foreign personnel from International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
  
• 13 Sept 2011: 25 killed in attack by insurgents on the US embassy, Nato headquarters and police buildings
  
• 19 Aug 2011: Gunmen storm British Council in Kabul, killing 12
  
• 28 June 2011: 22 people die after militant attack on the Intercontinental Hotel

"We Muslims will never forget these attacks. It is the enemy of the Muslims who are carrying them out," he said, though he would not speculate on who might be responsible.
There are tensions between Sunni and minority Shia Muslims in Afghanistan, but violence of the type seen in Pakistan or Iraq is rare, the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says.
Over the past decade Shias in Afghanistan have celebrated their festivals more confidently, openly and on a bigger scale than ever before.
The attacks come a day after an international conference on Afghanistan's future was held, in the German city of Bonn.
Pakistan boycotted the conference, after a Nato attack killed 24 of its troops at a checkpoint near the Afghan border last month.
Afghan security officials held their breath during the conference, our correspondent says, fearing there might an attack in Kabul to divert attention.

[Mashadi86]

The funny thing is i went on islamic awakening and the scum bags seem to blame the americans, no muslim could do this...
They actively rejoice in their blood cult of murdering women and children.
Shame on them.

[doobybrother]

Auqab, on 06 December 2011 - 11:10 PM, said:

Did any else read about it or is it just me.....that the taliban actually condemed this attack.

They massacred Hazaras for being shias, shot shias at point blank and they condemn this attack...BS!
This attacks like all the previous attacks on Shias in Afghanistan was carried out by Taliban, and why is it so hard to believe? Infact Taliban condemning shia killing is something that I would never believe.

[zakiabbas]

may god bless them

[md. ammar ali]

ya Allah swt save the innocent people

[JimJam]

Have the Ismailis opened a mosque in Kabul? Who are all these guys with the Ismaili warlord Masur Naderi here? There seem to be plenty of them.

http://www.khaama.co...afghanistan-777