Suicide bomber kills many women and children at playground in Lahore, Pakistan. Sixty Five dead, 300

[applegrove]

injured. Indian Prime Minister calls PM of Pakistan with condolences.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/lahore-park-bomb-1.3508742

[bdwker]

1. And ?

Do we know who did it?

Could have been anyone.

Could have been any religion.

[romanic]

2. I hope your being sarcastic.

It clearly states the intention of the bomber for doing it.

[Yo_Mama]

3. Try reading the article - Paki Taliban already proudly claimed the deed

A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed 65 people.

But they only got 65! Everyone in the jihadi-Paki community is taking the challenge, trying to rack up more heaven points with kid bodies than the Peshawar school massacre's stunning and motivational 132.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_massacre

You're not an apologist, you're a delusionalist.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Yeah, It might have been atheist gamergaters from twitter, or angry miley cyrus fans.

Derp

[kdmorris]

12. LOL...

It feels wrong to laugh in a thread about something so heinous, but I wanted to let you know that I did.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Will usa lower its flags and devote hours to coverage?

Or is that level of attn reserved for european countries?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. It'll get a mention.

But, not the same as a western European country.

Probably more coverage than a country in Africa, though.

[GummyBearz]

15. It had round the clock coverage so far. Do you turn on CNN?

Or go to their website. Its on the front page.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. ABC evening news gave it nothing.

But they talked about Brussels.

[malaise]

9. Reserved for Europe

but the West had a major hand in Pakistan's instability.

[Kurska]

16. So did Pakistan

They played footsies with the Taliban for decades and then the chickens started coming home to roost.

[oberliner]

10. There has been extensive news coverage

Have you turned on the news today?

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Fuck.

Fucking assholes.

[Ilsa]

26. Best response yet. Thanks.

[malaise]

8. Very sad

Pakistan is a dominant cricket playing nation that no longer plays international games at home because of the unstable security mess.

[libtodeath]

11. All religion is evil.

[Nye Bevan]

13. Yes, that's the traditional oh-so-politically-correct DU response in these threads.

But we know that the perpetrator wasn't a militant Episcopalian or Jehovah's Witness, don't we?

[ck4829]

17. We know the perpetrator wasn't a Shia or Sufi either

[clarice]

20. Yup.nt

[oberliner]

14. That is definitely not true

The statement is both ridiculous and insulting.

[Kurska]

18. Oh yeah totally

The children blown up on the playground are the moral equivalent of the people who strapped bombs to their chests and blew themselves up amongst them.

I'm sick of empty PC platitudes about "all religions".

[clarice]

21. ME TOO! nt

[FrodosPet]

23. I have some major issues with religion myself

I think it is horrible to celebrate the end of the Earth and the death and damnation of billions of people.

That said, MOST believers, whether Muslims, Christians, whatever, are good people who believe their religion is a positive force.

MOST people act, with various degrees of success, towards the greater good. They may have some opinions that need to evolve, but they are not trying to spread death and destruction.

The problem is with small, but highly destructive, fringe individuals and groups who focus on violent and exclusionary elements of their respective religions.

But Dr. King was not evil. President Obama is not evil. Elizabeth Warren is not evil. Asad Shah is not evil.

I am sorry, but just throwing out "All religion is evil" is a lazy cop out.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

19. Religion of peace, my ass

Any religion whose male followers believe they are going to paradise....well.... Fuck that. Alert on me. I don't damn care.

Yes, I know Islam teaches that suicide is wrong, but there's obviously a sect within Islam that thinks this is ok and that group is not a religion of peace.

[clarice]

22. With Ya. nt

[KamaAina]

25. Oh, come on. You know that isn't news unless it happens here or in Europe!