'A suicide car bomber has blown himself up in front of a Baghdad police academy, killing 15 people and wounding 21 others in the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in weeks, security officials said.
At least seven other people were killed in attacks elsewhere in Iraq.
The suicide bomber "blew himself up at the entrance of the police academy on Palestine Street" an interior ministry official said, putting the toll at 15 dead and 21 wounded.
A police colonel confirmed the toll.
The ministry official said the assailant was at the wheel of a car rigged with explosives and that most of the victims were students applying to join the police force.'
It boggles the mind to think that there are Muslims who would volunteer to wage such war against a Shiite-led government in Baghdad, almost a decade after Iraqi Shia were empowered by elections, by Iraqi voters. Do these suicide bombers really believe they are going to heaven?
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Certainly. They are told that Shiites are infidels, and killing infidels gets you into Heaven.
Shiites feel the same way about Jews.
DC
Shiites feel the same way about Jews?? Where did you hear that?
I hear that from Hezbollah, from the Iranians, and from most Iraqis if you ask them. Hatred of Jews seems to be universal among Muslims.
In Pakistan, hatred of Hindus perhaps dominates.
How many Shiites have blown themselves up among Jews?
Many Shiite soldiers loyal to Assad have killed Sunni Syrians, I'm sure. But the allegation by DC is that Shiites hate Jews as much as Wahhabis hate Shiites. He said "killing infidels gets you into Heaven" and then wrote "Shiites feel the same way about Jews."
"How many Shiites have blown themselves up among Jews?"
They don't do that. They prefer rockets.
And terror attacks like the one in Argentina (1994) which used a car bomb.
"Did those Palestinians and Shiites launch rockets into Israel because they wanted to kill Jews, because they believe Jews are infidels and killing them would be rewarded by Allah?"
Yes, I think so.
What other reason is there for the intense hostility of Muslims to Jews?
Here is a Shiite who wanted to "annihlate Israel". That means killing every person in the country.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010175602
I have never seen a Jew say he wants to annilate Lebanon or Gaza. The most extreme say they want to be allowed to live anywhere in the West Bank as well as in the current area of Israel. They don't say they want to kill Muslims.
The word is "annihilate".
DC
I understand why Israelis would be very sensitive to a group of people's intention to annihilate the nation of Israel.
The same Iranian American woman estimated that 80% of Iranians are not religious, echoing a statement made by an Iranian American co-worker of mine. It seems the ruling Mullahs have given Islam a bad name.
It seems that many westerners do not understand what Israel did to the Palestinians. Many westerners seem to think the Palestinians have lived only in Ghaza and the West Bank; they don't understand the deep-rooted hatred Palestinians possess for the state of Israel, the state that forced them to move out of their homes.
I found this quote in a document buried on my hard drive:
"Min wein jaybeenha hay? ‘where did they get this one from?’ is all the man behind me had to say about that lady we were waiting for in line so I would remember that it was not about the screaming child next to me or the woman with 6 children ahead of me or even the 3 hours I spent waiting in another line so I could wait in that line that morning.
It was not about the 16 year old kids with rifles bossing us around or about the girl soldier that was too busy flirting to let us through or about the flesh burning heat- it was about that lady that I was waiting in line for.
She was beautiful, her dark complexion and tight braids complimented her piercing eyes and sharp features.
Lady Africa looked stunning but I could not help but feel hurt and betrayed by a reality that I would rather close my eyes and heart to; she was an immigrant to my land with more privilege than me. She looks down on me, questions me, throws my passport back in my face and then over the weekend soaks her feet in a sea that I can only dream off.
What does she have that makes her more special than me? She gets to live a life that kids in Ghaza, Jenin and Hebron can not imagine possible. She gets to walk down streets that my grandparents held hands in, that my mother played in and my dad skipped down with a kite in his hands.. And I get to shut my dreams out because the truth is that maybe if I were African, Asian or European I could skip down those streets too- but as long as I am Palestinian there is not skipping for me."
2/7/09
Nablus
Shireen
Thank you Mojo for your thoughtful comments about Israel and Palestine and a special thank you for posting Shireen from Nablus' eloquesnt comment of what the degrading humiliation of getting through an Israel checkpoint means for an ordinary Palestinian. Also the difference between an Israeli can look forward to in their lesire time and that of a Palestinian. I am afraid here in America the point of view of the ordinary Palestinians on what the Israeli occupation of the West Bank means for them has not been presented that much. It has been presented some, but not enough that most Americans are aware of it.
Most Americans see things from the Israeli point of view. And from that perspective, the checkpoints on the West Bank, along with the barrier wall is an unfortunate necessarity to keeping suicide bombers from committing mass murder in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
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