Pakistan: Death toll in bombing at Shiite mosque rises to 49

[Bosonic]

Source: AP

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani official says that the death toll from a deadly blast at a mosque in southern Pakistan has risen to 49.

Hadi Bakhsh Zardari, the deputy commissioner of Shikarpur district where the blast hit, gave the death toll and said 31 wounded are still in area hospitals.

The blast targeted a mosque belonging to members of Pakistan's minority Shiite community. It exploded during Friday prayers when the mosque was packed with worshippers.

The Sunni militant group Jundullah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9aba14dffeb4453ab1bb10fbf2d43083/pakistan-bomb-blast-kills-6-shiite-muslim-mosque

[Fred Sanders]

1. Radical religion claiming cults and sects killing other innocent people in sects of the same religion puts the lie to the

Christian versus Muslim war mongers.

The world does not have a religious problem so much as an "insane leaders of insane cults problem", they all distort religion, pick your religion, for personal gain simply by exploiting common individual vulnerabilities.

Like the "Christians", cults distorting Christianity in America, killing their own children because some local pastor/priest/medicine man combo told them so, maybe other religious con men told them vaccines are the Devil's work? Same influence. Same distortion. Same deaths. Pat
Robertson is not rich because he tells the truth about the teachings of Jesus, is he?

ISIS, Taliban, Syrian Free Army, etc. etc. etc. has killed and captured a thousand times more fellow Muslims than Christians, but that teeny detail would run counter to the demonization of the "all Muslims are one people, all must be suspected of evil" narrative blaring from the American media endlessly, so you are free to not think about it, as the media insists they do the thinking for you, you can just adopt their war mongering, fear inducing thinking.

Better to keep it simple when stereotyping is the goal.

Notice how 2 poor Japanese hostages are in the news in America constantly, but there is a Jordanian fighter pilot captured, and not to mention hundreds of others...all Muslim, awaiting their fate...hear much about that in the polluted and enslaved American cartoon media?

The political agenda driven American media simply can not be trusted on anything more than weather and entertainment news, the billions of dollars showered upon the American media by narrow political interests has polluted the entire pool.

[nilesobek]

5. This was NOT a Christian vs Muslim attack.

I agree with most of your rant, however this is a Muslim vs Muslim bombing.

Indeed the Japanese prisoners are hogging the media attention because FOX news and others are salivating at the idea of getting the Japanese riled up and used as a military ally in the Middle East.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Jundullah is a Taliban splinter group that has vowed allegiance to Islamic State

Jundullah, a splinter group of Pakistan's Taliban which last year pledged support for the Islamic State group based in Syria and Iraq, claimed responsibility.

"Our target was the Shia mosque ... They are our enemies," said Fahad Marwat, a Jundullah spokesman. He did not elaborate.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/30/uk-pakistan-explosion-idUKKBN0L310520150130

[oberliner]

3. Updated AP article has "at least 56" killed

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A bomb blast ripped through a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan as worshippers gathered for Friday prayers, killing at least 56 people and wounding dozens more, in the deadliest act of anti-Shiite violence in two years.

http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Pakistan-bomb-blast-kills-6-at-Shiite-Muslim-6050730.php

[geek tragedy]

4. Cue the "religion has nothing to do with it"

and "speech is a weapon we must not offends their religion" folks who were so vocal ex post Charlie Hebdo.