Blast in Karachi Mosque Kills at Least 13

maddezmom

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Mon May-31-04 11:02 AM
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Blast in Karachi Mosque Kills at Least 13

KARACHI (Reuters) - A bomb blast inside a Shi'ite mosque during evening prayers killed at least 13 people on Monday in the southern city of Karachi, where a senior cleric from Pakistan's majority Sunni sect was gunned down a day earlier.

Doctors at three city hospitals told Reuters reporters they had counted 13 dead so far, while an angry crowd milling around in the darkness outside the cordoned-off mosque talked of more dead bodies inside the shattered building.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20040531/ts_nm/pakistan_blast_dc

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skooooo

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Mon May-31-04 11:04 AM
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1. Umm...at least we didn't do it....

...hopefully.

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Mon May-31-04 11:10 AM
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2. And any "Islamic" group who takes credit

is not Muslim and does not represent Islam or any faith I know of.

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bemildred

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Mon May-31-04 11:19 AM
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3. Indeed they do not.

One suspects some form of government provocation
for that reason alone.

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varun

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Mon May-31-04 06:18 PM
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5. Isn't it a tenet of Islam

not to judge others?

How would you feel if someone judged you to be a bad muslim (or Christian)?

Whatever happened in Karachi is bad, but there is some reason behind this madness. Its pointless to say that some are better muslims than others.

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Jack Rabbit

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Mon May-31-04 04:27 PM
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4. BBC Link

From the BBC Online
Dated Monday May 31 18:39 GMT (1:39 pm PDT)

Blast rocks Karachi Shia mosque

A bomb explosion has killed at least 15 people and injured nearly 40 at a Shia mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.
President Pervez Musharraf responded by pledging to take firm action to deal with inter-Muslim sectarian violence.
The blast happened during evening prayers, causing extensive damage to the building.
On Sunday a top Sunni Muslim cleric, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, was shot dead as he drove to his religious school.

Read more. The link will update as events warrant.

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maddezmom

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Mon May-31-04 06:31 PM
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6. CNNI, just reported 18 killed

3 were killed after the blast during the rioting...

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