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Bosonic Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-11 11:38 AM
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Pakistan Sufi shrine suicide attack 'kills 41'
Source: BBC

Suicide attackers have killed at least 41 people and wounded many more at a shrine in Pakistan, police say.

The explosions struck near the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in Punjab, as Sufi Muslim devotees gathered for an annual three-day festival.

Sufis, a minority Muslim group who follow mystical beliefs, are regarded as heretical by hardliners.

A Taliban fighter told reporters his group carried out the attack, the third on Sufi shrines in a year.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12951923
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-11 11:41 AM
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1. religion is so awesome
I hope I live to see the day that the last god dies.
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FLPanhandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-11 11:54 AM
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2. And they didn't even burn a Koran
Sometimes murdering fucks just like to murder.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-11 01:50 PM
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4. Yes.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-11 12:11 PM
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3. My brother is a Sufi.
It took a long time to get our father to understand that my brother is viewed as an apostate by several other sects of Islam.
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BOG PERSON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-11 01:55 PM
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5. is he a convert?
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-11 02:45 PM
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6. Yeah . . . from Judaism
You can imagine our father's head exploding.
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