The Islamic State may have done this. The Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92), but if the other Muslims are heretics or apostates, then they carry a death penalty. The Islamic State might consider these Muslims renegades for not accepting its authority.
“Taliban: Bomb hits mosque in Afghanistan, wounds at least 15,” Associated Press, November 12, 2021:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban provincial spokesman says a bomb exploded in a mosque during Friday prayers, wounding at least 15 people in eastern Afghanistan, where Islamic State group militants have been waging a campaign of violence.
Qari Hanif, the government spokesman for Nangarhar Province, said the bomb appeared to have been planted inside the mosque in the town of Traili, located in the mountainous Spin Ghar area outside the provincial capital Jalalabad.
Photos taken by a resident and circulating in social media showed three dead bodies, and the mosque’s interior strewn with rubble and broken glass. Hanif did not immediately confirm any deaths.
It was the third major mosque bombing in five weeks in Afghanistan. The earlier attacks came on successive Fridays last month, when IS suicide bombers and gunmen blasted worshippers from Afghanistan’s Shiite Muslim minority, first in a mosque in the city of Kunduz, then one in the southern city of Kandahar.
This Friday’s bombing targeted Sunni Muslims in a province that has been a front line in the battle between the Islamic State group and the Taliban. IS militants have been carrying out nearly daily shootings and bombings against Taliban fighters in Nangarhar Province.
Since coming to power in Afghanistan three months ago, the Taliban have been waging a counterinsurgency campaign, vowing to put down the threat from IS.
IS is an enemy of the Taliban. The two groups share a hardline interpretation of Islam and over the years engaged in some of the same violent tactics, such as suicide bombings. However, the Taliban have focused on seizing control of Afghanistan, while IS adheres to global jihad….
Ray Jarman says
I am surprised that the press and DHS has not blamed this on American Conservatives and followers of President Trump. After all, if it is considered domestic terrorism to fight against our children being indoctrinated by CRT crap, how can a bombing in Afghanistan not be a conservative action?
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Two death cults going head to head.
How ironic.
This can only benefit civilization.
Keith O says
No BVC, not so much ironic as karma at it’s finest.
gravenimage says
Mainstream Islam.
mortimer says
Yes, GI. ISIS is as Islamic as it gets.
Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghadi had a PhD in Islamic studies and scrupulously applied ALL Sharia laws, including the requirements of attacking the NEAR ENEMY.
Any Muslim who is not submitted to ISIS is a ‘NEAR ENEMY’ that should be attacked until they submit.
That was the principle of the first CALIPH ABU BAKR, the companion of Mohammed who learned Islam from Mohammed. ISIS is VERY Islamic.
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Mortimer. And the Taliban thinks the same way.
OLD GUY says
Almost the perfect storm. I’d rather see them killing off each other then our sending one of our young men and women to fight either one of these terrorist regimes.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Muslims explode bomb in rival mosque, injuring at least 15 people
The Islamic State may have done this. The Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92), but if the other Muslims are heretics or apostates, then they carry a death penalty. The Islamic State might consider these Muslims renegades for not accepting its authority.
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Yep. This seems to be “Alien vs Predator”–jockeying for power between the most vicious of Jihadists.
PMK says
As long as what happens in Afghanistan stays in Afghanistan, it’s their problem, not ours.
Alfredo says
“The religion of peace” is showing it’s true colors again for all those who still believe in that monstrous lie.
But now too many people have descended into a state of denial that reduces them to a mindless stupor.
Those people probably thought that peace would reign in Afghanistan after the Taliban’s take over.
The mind boggling naïveté of those people is truly astonishing.
Their delusional thinking is being exposed once again. The sad reality is that THERE WILL BE NO PEACE in any country unfortunate enough to be one where the so called religion of peace is the prevalent ideology.