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Dozens dead after mosque attack​

At least 59 people were killed in a suicide attack at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan. Around 150 worshippers were injured in the attack on Monday, a hospital spokesman said. Most of the victims were police officers, according to police reports. Many people were still believed to be under the rubble of the building. The explosion occurred during midday prayers in the major city of Peshawar in a high-security zone. The area is home to many police buildings, which also house offices of the intelligence and anti-terrorism task forces.

"I am on the spot here, and rescue work is continuing," said authority representative Shafiullah Khan of the regional administration. "More bodies are being brought out. Currently, our priority is to rescue people buried under rubble."
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Police: suicide vest exploded​

Authorities assume that the attack was a suicide bombing, but so far no one has claimed responsibility. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif spoke of "terrorism" and strongly condemned the alleged attack. In a statement, Sharif said that those behind the attack "have nothing to do with Islam. According to government and police sources, a suicide vest exploded in the second row as up to 350 worshippers were praying or on their way to prayers at the mosque. The roof and walls of the mosque had partially collapsed. Heavy machinery and firefighters were used to search for survivors in the rubble. Local media reported that police, army and bomb disposal squads were on the scene. In the capital, Islamabad, police issued the highest security alert and said security had been increased at all entrances and exits to the city, the BBC reported.
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UN Secretary-General: "Abhorrent".​

The United Nations has condemned the attack "in the strongest possible terms." "It is particularly abhorrent that such an attack took place in a place of worship," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres let it be known. Freedom of religion, belief and the ability to worship in peace are a fundamental human right, he said.
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IS attack a year ago​

Late last year, the Pakistani Taliban - which operates independently of the Islamist Taliban government in neighboring Afghanistan - called off a cease-fire with the government in Islamabad. Since then, they have claimed several attacks for themselves. In March last year, a suicide bomber from the jihadist militia Islamic State (IS) carried out an attack on a Shiite minority mosque in Peshawar, killing 64 people. It was the most devastating attack in Pakistan since 2018. In Pakistan, the vast majority of the population of more than 230 million men and women are Muslim. Around two million people live in the major city of Peshawar.​

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[byuu]

Not only isn't it in the western world its not even done by a different religious group like Buddhists. I for one am glad that after the US had funding extremists blow up in their face now Pakistan gets their turn for doing it.

Buddhists in places like Burma and Sri Lanka are quite violent.
Here is a story about Buddhist Monks vandalizing churches, beating up pastors, and forcibly transforming them into Buddhist temples:

Buddhist Monks Lead Attack on Church in Sri Lanka - Morningstar News

NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A mob of about 1,000 people in southern Sri Lanka, led by Buddhist monks, protested the presence of a church by overpowering police, vandalizing property and beating the pastor on Sunday (Dec. 9), Christian sources said. The Buddhist monks had given a day’s...

morningstarnews.org

They're not all Richard Gere.

 

[The handsome tard]

How could white people do this?!

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Authorities assume that the attack was a suicide bombing, but so far no one has claimed responsibility

I wonder if that's because he blew himself up?

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Man Allah must really hate his own people.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

... Is the mosque okay?

I asked it. The mosque just has a bruised ego. It'll be fine.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Lota of dead muzzies? Great news!

But if you want to kill much more you don't need to bomb a mosque to the ground. There is one trick: cause a stampede in a place with lots of muzzies. That will kill hundreds or thousands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Hajj_stampede (over 300 died)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Al-Aimmah_Bridge_disaster (over 900 died)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mina_stampede (over 2400 died)

 

[Shroom King]

Leftists: "Smash the system! Death to the pigs!"

*guy blows up mosque filled with Pakistani cops*

Leftists: "NOT LIKE THAT!11!!"

 

[Snekposter]

Leftists: "Smash the system! Death to the pigs!"

*guy blows up mosque filled with Pakistani cops*

Leftists: "NOT LIKE THAT!11!!"

Rather haram of you to associate these fine Muslims now in Paradise with swine.

That out of the way, just going to add my own 2c and say Pakistan is getting what it deserved. They funded and trained these guys to go across the border and blow up Americans in Afghanistan and without any Americans to blow up they're now bored and deciding to do something about the homefront. Have fun, you glow-in-the-dark ISI kebabs.

 

[byuu]

Rather haram of you to associate these fine Muslims now in Paradise with swine.

That out of the way, just going to add my own 2c and say Pakistan is getting what it deserved. They funded and trained these guys to go across the border and blow up Americans in Afghanistan and without any Americans to blow up they're now bored and deciding to do something about the homefront. Have fun, you glow-in-the-dark ISI kebabs.

But America funded and trained these guys.

 

[Snekposter]

But America funded and trained these guys.

No, we didn't. Pakistani intelligence has been a Muslim terror group for decades.