Female bomber kills 12 in Kabul to 'avenge anti-Islam film'

2012-09-18

A female suicide car bomber killed 12 people Tuesday (September 18th) in Kabul when she drove her car into a minivan carrying foreign workers to the airport, AFP reported.

Eight South Africans and three Afghans were among those killed in the assault that the Taliban claimed was revenge for an anti-Islam film. Militant insurgent group Hezb-i-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack.

The South African foreign ministry said eight of its citizens working for a private company at the airport were among the dead. Local officials later confirmed that three Afghans, including the bus driver and an interpreter, and one Kyrgyz citizen were also killed. Eleven people were wounded.

A large number of Muslim leaders and religious scholars have called for restraint and condemned violent attacks in response to the film.

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بوب

2012-9-20

Revenge against whom? hahahahaah People died without a reason? Is that the reply? By God, Islam did not say so. Certainly, everyone knows who made the video. So, what do people have to do with it? “Eight people were killed in South Africa and three Afghans” Are those the ones who made the film? There is neither might nor power except from God.
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2012-9-19

Backwardness! The woman is not allowed to get a job but she could commit suicide in a horrible way and defame the image of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and our image in the world. What is the relationship between those foreigners and the offensive film? Is it required to annihilate the others so that we get rest as Muslims? Is this what the Prophet, peace be upon him, ordered us to do?
man

2012-9-19

The West knows that Arabs in particular and Muslims in general are associated with the terrorist attacks across the world. Therefore, when Muslims react to the offensive, shameful and silly film in this manner and with this violence, we can say that the makers of the film have succeeded in accomplishing what they set out for. Unfortunately, Muslims provided the biggest publicity to a film that we never saw. What did the Christians do when some extremists made a film against Christianity? They took no notice of it and the film went on without anyone knowing about it. The late Pope John Paul II responded to them with a famous statement (The most effective response is no response). However, the attacks of Muslims against the embassies and individuals offended Islam more than the film did.