02-28-2008, 01:18 AM
Death toll from Iraq pilgrim bombing rises to 63
It's been a while since we've had a spectacular mass murder in Iraq. Despite the efforts and sacrifices of coalition forces to stem the ideologically inspired slaughter of innnocent iraqi's, these suicide bombers/mass murderers do find a way to glorious martyrdom
Quote:HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - The death toll from Sunday's suicide bomb attack on Iraqi pilgrims heading to a Shi'ite festival south of Baghdad has risen to 63, a health official said on Monday.
The bomber exploded a suicide vest packed with metal ball bearings in a refreshment tent full of pilgrims heading to the annual Arbain festival, one
of Shi'ie Islam's holiest events, in the southern city of
Kerbala.
It's quite apparent that Iraq's minority sunni population (and the larger sunni population in the Middle East), isn't quite yet ready to forgive the Shi'a minority which, under Saddam Hussein's auspices, subjected them to privation, fear, and death. Right now in Iraq, it's the Sunni Salafists who are wreaking havoc. Of course, they had the upper hand while Uncle Sociopath Hussein was in power.
With the copious amount of chaos, destruction, and killing perpetrated by the ultraviolent Salafi Muslims in Iraq these days, I'm almost tempted to look upon the Shi'a as the not-quite-so-immoderate moslems. But then I think of Muqtada "Chubby Jihad" al-Sadr, Iran, Pakistan, and the fact that Sunnis and Shi'a share the same Qur'an.
We see this dynamic of internecine hatreds over and over, but it bears repeating for anyone who may not accept a simple reality: The Sunni and Shi'a loathe each other, even though both groups are moslem. One has to be pessimistic as to how or when, if at all, they will learn to coexist and run a free nation together. The idea of democracy is not only foreign and unreal to these people, it's also anathema.