Suicide Bombing In Kuwait Mosque: 25 Killed

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a mosque attack in Kuwait that has left 25 people dead and hundreds injured. A suicide bomber struck during Friday prayers in what is thought to be the first attack on a Shia mosque in the country. Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah has described the bombing as an attempt to undermine unity in the country, where Shia and Sunnis live side-by-side with little apparent friction. "This incident targets our internal front, our national unity," he said after visiting those wounded in the attack. "But this is too difficult for them and we are much stronger than that."

http://news.sky.com/story/1509002/suicide-bombing-in-kuwait-mosque-25-killed


So many victims today in 3 attacks.

It is clear that we should all be on guard, clearly the sons of allah are up to their monkey business in a grand way today. I wonder who pulled their chain?

Ok why did Muslims attack Muslims, today?

because they can??

Shia and Sunni Muslims...it's the civil war.

mentor wrote:because they can??

Yes but why? Why turn on each other?

well if our leaders keep making excuses for them it will continue

It would seem that they are so beyond all moral norms that they enjoy killing for the sake of killing, just like foxes....

Can't be that reason vic - they've killed their own and it doesn't make sense?

shi ite's and sunni's don't seem to get along do they have the same god and prophet I wonder what they makes of it...

Been that way for 1500 years.

Original Quill wrote:Been that way for 1500 years.

as long as they don't hold a grudge...

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:

Original Quill wrote:Been that way for 1500 years.

as long as they don't hold a grudge...

They can't seem to work things out, can they?

Original Quill wrote:

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:

as long as they don't hold a grudge...

They can't seem to work things out, can they?

it seems not to be honest I don't know what their real differences in beliefs are, perhaps someone could explain it...

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

They can't seem to work things out, can they?

it seems not to be honest I don't know what their real differences in beliefs are, perhaps someone could explain it...

The Islam religion was founded by Mohammed in the seventh century. In 622 he founded the first Islamic state, a theocracy in Medina, a city in western Saudi Arabia located north of Mecca. There are two branches of the religion he founded.

The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs--Mohammed's successors--rightfully took his place as the leaders of Muslims. They recognize the heirs of the four caliphs as legitimate religious leaders. These heirs ruled continuously in the Arab world until the break-up of the Ottoman Empire following the end of the First World War.

Shiites, in contrast, believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph, Ali, are the legitimate successors of Mohammed. In 931 the Twelfth Imam disappeared. This was a seminal event in the history of Shiite Muslims. According to R. Scott Appleby, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame,"Shiite Muslims, who are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, [believe they] had suffered the loss of divinely guided political leadership" at the time of the Imam's disappearance. Not"until the ascendancy of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1978" did they believe that they had once again begun to live under the authority of a legitimate religious figure.

Another difference between Sunnis and Shiites has to do with the Mahdi, “the rightly-guided one” whose role is to bring a just global caliphate into being. As historian Timothy Furnish has written,"The major difference is that for Shi`is he has already been here, and will return from hiding; for Sunnis he has yet to emerge into history: a comeback v. a coming out, if you will."

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/934#sthash.zQ4M8tTU.dpuf

For me, it seems a rather 'light-weight' argument for blowing up mosques and such. But it's up to them, I s'pose.

Original Quill wrote:

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:

it seems not to be honest I don't know what their real differences in beliefs are, perhaps someone could explain it...

The Islam religion was founded by Mohammed in the seventh century. In 622 he founded the first Islamic state, a theocracy in Medina, a city in western Saudi Arabia located north of Mecca. There are two branches of the religion he founded.

The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs--Mohammed's successors--rightfully took his place as the leaders of Muslims. They recognize the heirs of the four caliphs as legitimate religious leaders. These heirs ruled continuously in the Arab world until the break-up of the Ottoman Empire following the end of the First World War.

Shiites, in contrast, believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph, Ali, are the legitimate successors of Mohammed. In 931 the Twelfth Imam disappeared. This was a seminal event in the history of Shiite Muslims. According to R. Scott Appleby, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame,"Shiite Muslims, who are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, [believe they] had suffered the loss of divinely guided political leadership" at the time of the Imam's disappearance. Not"until the ascendancy of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1978" did they believe that they had once again begun to live under the authority of a legitimate religious figure.

Another difference between Sunnis and Shiites has to do with the Mahdi, “the rightly-guided one” whose role is to bring a just global caliphate into being. As historian Timothy Furnish has written,"The major difference is that for Shi`is he has already been here, and will return from hiding; for Sunnis he has yet to emerge into history: a comeback v. a coming out, if you will."

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/934#sthash.zQ4M8tTU.dpuf

For me, it seems a rather 'light-weight' argument for blowing up mosques and such.  But it's up to them, I s'pose.

thanks for that, so they have the same prophet, the same god and they kill each other, seems a strange way of going on, perhaps it becomes a habit after a while and people forget the reason but remember the hate..

They want revenge for Saddam ...

Raggamuffin wrote:They want revenge for Saddam ...

Nah, all the militant types hated him.

if the shiites and the sunnis have the same god and the same prophet and they both pray to said god for victory, who can win...

As I said, it seems a light-weight reason for all these hostilities.