[News] Not a good start to the year.

[dancefloorlandmine]

Benazir Bhutto killed by suicide bomber.

Please find your own handbasket, this one's mine.

Link via arkady.

Comments

[morlith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that earlier today. :-/

Should be interesting to see how this all plays out, to put it mildly. I'm wondering how long some Muslims will approve of suicide bombings when other Muslims are the targets.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

On this side of the pond, there are actually a lot who don't approve of them, no matter who's the target.

Those who do approve of the use of suicide bombings against "the enemies of Islam" will probably be able to explain why any targets are in fact the enemies of their flavour of Islam.

[morlith.livejournal.com]

On this side of the pond, there are actually a lot who don't approve of them, no matter who's the target.

I imagine there are a number of them here too, but they never speak up. It's rather odd.

[yaruar.livejournal.com]

theres quite a lot who speak out and condemn it over here, including leaders, Imams and Islamic Academics who are more than happy to point out that the killings of innocents are against the teachings. However that doesn't make particually good press so they dont get the publicity of the vocal radical minority.

[morlith.livejournal.com]

However that doesn't make particually good press so they dont get the publicity of the vocal radical minority.

This may very well be a large part of the problem.

[djm4]

I'm wondering how long some Muslims will approve of suicide bombings when other Muslims are the targets.

Muslims have been the target of suicide bombings for quite some time now - in Iraq, to take an obvious example. What difference are you seeing in this case?

[morlith.livejournal.com]

Muslims have been the target of suicide bombings for quite some time now - in Iraq, to take an obvious example.

You are correct. Notice that I wrote "some Muslims" in my original statement, which designates that there is a portion of the Muslim population that is already enraged and does not approve.

What difference are you seeing in this case?

Mainly that it's an assassination of a high profile politician. It's pretty blunt to say that these sort of situations garner more attention, but it's the truth.