There's something about this attack that makes me so fucking angry...

[Gravitycollapse]

I think I've reached some sort of mental breaking point.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/12/world/meast/iraq-suicide-bomber/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Suicide bomber kills 33 as Iraqis play Ramadan game in Kirkuk cafe

(CNN) -- At least 33 people were killed and 26 others hurt on Friday night when a suicide bomber with an explosive vest blew himself up inside an coffee shop where patrons were playing a popular Ramadan game in Kirkuk, Iraq, police said.
The explosion occurred in a cafe called Classic, which is in the Wahed Hozyran neighborhood in central Kirkuk about 240 kilometers, or 149 miles, north of Baghdad, according to authorities in Kirkuk and Baghdad.
Patrons were playing a game common among Iraqis during Ramadan in which participants must guess whose fist is hiding a small ring. The game, Mahaibes, is played in the evenings when Muslims take a break from their monthlong daylight fasting.
The bombing occurred about 10 p.m. Friday local time.

These motherfuckers who think they're carrying out God's will by blowing up a bunch of innocent people...I don't even know how to describe them. They're fucking scum. That they could walk into this cafe, look around at all of those people playing games and enjoying a break from Ramadan, probably looking directly into their faces, and then blow it all to hell is unspeakably inhuman.

I don't get it. I don't understand how people can do such things.

[Chiennoir54]

1. I feel exactly the same.

Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Catholics, etc. etc. since time immemorial butchering others in the name of what they call god. Or what god wants. I stand with Christopher Hitchens, Religion Poisons Everything. No matter the era, country, or name of the deity. Though I think of the South Park episode set well into the future where no one believed in gods, but there were all these subgroups of atheists going to war over what name to go by. So I think it's just the curse of humanity.

[Honeycombe8]

2. Ditto. nt

[bvar22]

3. In other news:

On March 17, 2011, four Hellfire missiles, fired from a U.S. drone, slammed into a bus depot in the town of Datta Khel in Pakistan's Waziristan border region. An estimated 42 peoplewere killed. It was just another day in America's so-called war on terror. To most Americans the strike was likely only a one-line blip on the evening news, if they even heard about it at all.

But what really happened that day? Who were those 42 people who were killed, and what were they doing? And what effect did the strike have? Did it make us safer? These are the questions raised, and answered, in a must-watch new video just released by Robert Greenwald's Brave New Foundation.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/signature-strikes-and-obamas-empty-rhetoric-drones

Gee. I wonder if there is a connection?
They are BOTH incidents of depraved, senseless killings and terror.
I am angry and distressed about ALL the senseless killings going on in this World,
theirs....AND OURS.

[RedCappedBandit]

4. It's sickening.

It really is astonishing that we're the same species as some of these despicable mother fuckers. And I'm not just talking about religious fundies.

That other thread about the teenagers who followed a man who abducted a little girl kind of got to me. The fact that people *actually* go around abducting children is deeply disturbing. It's painful to to envision these events as something more than what's happening on your TV or monitor.

[Fumesucker]

5. Fascinating that God's will so often coincides with that of utter crackpots

A deity could get a seriously bad reputation like that.

[Cerridwen]

6. Study The Inquisition. It'll start to make more sense. n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. What don't you get? The parasites made them just like they've been making them for millennia.

Religion is one of the keys to making stupid people do whatever you want them to do.

Our ruling parasites made Saddam to make Iraq safe for the energy parasites. Our military parasites made terrorists to keep their gravy train going. Years later, the energy parasites and the military parasites got into a turf war which made Saddam (another parasite) believe that he had a window to advance to the next level of parasitism, which triggered the initial response from the union of parasites (41's Iraq war).

The union of parasite's punishment continued for a decade until an particularly stupid parasite was installed in the White House and, as is typical for especially dim-witted parasites, believed he was not as stupid as all of the other parasites told him he was and determined to "finish the job". He fucked up exactly as he fucked up everything he ever touched in his entire life, leaving the old religious parasite's as the only power to fill the need of stupid people for someone to tell them what to do.

So, the very lowest of the parasite hierarchy, the religious parasites, have almost total control over the most vital and volatile region on earth.

Religion has been controlling how people think and act for over 6,000 years, they're pretty good at it.

Voltaire said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." a long time ago, and he knew what he was talking about.