Blast Outside Danish Embassy in Islamabad
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The police estimate the bomb to weigh 15-20 kg, which results in a powerful blast when concealed in a metal. Generally all blasts that are inside car makes them more deadly since the whole car becomes the sharpnell and causes wide spread destruction. That is why we have witnessed so many causalities. Emergency and first aid people have reached the site and injured people have been shifted into the nearby hospitals.
It can easily inferred from the situation that the blast was directed against the embassy because Denmark involvement in the publishing of the blasphemous cartoons. The Dutch MP Geert Wilders should now accept responsibility for his acts which are resulting in the death and destruction around the world.
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A suicide blast took place outside Danish Embassy in Islamabad killing eight people and wounded several others. The blast was so powerful that it was heard in most parts of the city. As per the initial reports, the bomb was present inside a car while blasted near the boundary wall of the embassy, which also adjoins the UNDP office in F-6/2 area of the capital city.
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Fool! Geert Wilders is not a Danish MP. He is Dutch. And the only people to blame for this atrocity are imbeciles who have allowed their religion to destroy their brains!
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I guess the article clearly mentions Geert Wilders as the Dutch MP and not Danish.
And lets not talk about whose religion has destroyed whose brains.. Its wrong to justify this act of barbarianism, but this is what they call revenge. Messing with religions yields what we see today.
Peace!
I am all in favour of peace, but religion – ALL religion – militates against peace. If we truly want to see peace on this planet, people should recognise religion for what it really is – dangerous, irrational nonsense – and dispense with it completely. There are far more important things to do than submit to lunacy of priests and the imams and “holy books”.
“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to pray for fish and he will die of starvation.”
Barry, read your posts in this log again please. What are you doing?
It’s not that hard to mix up Danish and Dutch if you’re not living in the European continent like we are. Here’s an excellent opportunity to calmly explain how things really are and how you view current events, but instead you’re bashing the writer. Is that helpful?
If people ouside of Europe have a hard time figuring out who is doing for what reason, then that’s our fault. Calling the writer a fool and telling readers what you think of religion serves little purpose. I’m sure Junaid will read up on the differences of Danish (Denmark) and Dutch (Netherlands, Holland).
This is not some random bombing by a religious fanatic. The motives of the people organising the attack have little to do with religion itself. - Yes, we all know that religion influences the behaviour of man. (In my strong opinion mostly for the good and in a positive way.) - Yes, we all know that the decent people of Denmark became a prime target because of the cartoons. But the bombing itself as a strategic move has little to do with that.
This has to do with our presence in Afhanistan. Al-Qaeda and Taliban want NATO out and get back in control. The only way to do that is get the countries joined in NATO to reconsider the amount of troops stationed. As governments of Western countries have to explain and answer for decisions taken by their leaders it is a good strategy to get the people of Western countries like Denmark scared and confused if the role their armies play in Afghanistan is all that correct.
Does that have anything to do with religion? No, it’s politics.
Even more important for the bombers is that this act appeals to people that feel disrepect by the Danish cartoons. The cartoons got a lot of media attention, therefore this attack will draw a lot of attention. It allows some sort of goodwill to people all over the world endorsing the war Al-Qaeda is fighting.
Does that have anything to do with religion? No, it’s about getting control.
While you are spreading ‘The voice of atheism’ in you posts (somewhat religious it seems) you miss the fact that the real hurt of all this is with the Pakistani people. Bombing after bombing they have to endure attacks in their countries for their leaders have chosen to work with Western NATO countries. While cartoonists and weird MP’s in Europe practise their free speech, Pakistan suffers from terrifying suicide attacks killing local employees.
Don’t get me wrong, I consider myself an atheist too. I do understand how you feel and for a long time too I felt that dogma were causing today’s problems in the world. But that’s not true. This is about warfare and strategic control In Pakistan and Afhanistan.
Eric, The Netherlands
Eric my Friend! Nice to see you here after a long break. So it seems i have to write an article about Nordic region to bring you back to the blog?
Just kidding.
Barry over reacted and that is why i refrained from answering him as i felt the emotions will go further high and i didn’t want that to happen. Since Eric you explained the things in a more localize way, i am sure Barry will have understood the point.
As far as the politics and suicide bombing is concerned, the local Pakistani people and all of us are sick of them. I wonder how Barry or others would have reacted if all these suicide bombings and terrorism acts took place in their cities. Since we have to bear the brunt of the so called War on Terror so i think we know how it feels far better then people of NY where just 3000 people died while we just lost more then 3000 soldiers in our imported War on Terror.
Anyways, its nice to see you back here Eric
@ Juniad: Yes, I freely admit having over-reacted. We all wake up in a foul mood some days, and the bad mood I was in when I posted my original remark was compounded by the fact that I had just learned of the death a 7-year-old blind boy at the hands of his religious teacher in a Pakistan madrassa (see http://www.freethinker.co.uk/2008/06/03/islam-claims-yet-another-innocent-victim/
This sort of cruelty enrages me, and when I saw what I thought was your defense of the those who bombed the Danish embassy, and the blame you laid for this latest atrocity on the Danish cartoonists, I went ballistic.
I can well understand that the majority of Pakistanis are sick of these bombings, carried out by delusional fools who care not one jot that the people who are killed and maimed are innocent local people people. The people of Pakistan are right to be outraged, and should do everything in their power to remove these maniacs from their midst.
You said you wonder how I or others would have reacted if suicide bombings took place in our cities. Well, they have. I knew people who were caught up in the both the London and the Madrid bombings (one of whom was killed) and we reacted with outrage too.
And today a simple-minded young Englishman with learning diffuculties – a convert to Islam who had his mind twisted by British jihadis - goes on trial in the UK for attempting to bomb a restaurant in the city of Exeter. Also today, the trial continues of a group of jihadis who plotted to blow planes out of the sky.
It seems as if nowhere on earth is safe from Islamist maniacs, who seem unable to see how much damage they are doing to the image of Muslims. But perhaps they DO know, and that these bombings are intended to precipitate a world-wide clash between Muslims and the Infidel.
Now to the bigger picture: I am at one with Eric in his condemnation of the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan by (mainly) US and British forces. But let us not forget that the situation was brought about by two RELIGIOUS idiots, the delusional Bush (who speaks to god) and the equally deluded Blair, now a Catholic, who throughout his premiership of Britain showed himself to be nothing better than Bush’s poodle. Had the White House and Downing Street been occupied by level-headed atheists, I doubt that the situation would ever have arisen.
Together these two idiots embarked on an illegal crusade which few other countries in Europe supported. Yet, Spain, which spoke out most strongly against the invasion of Iraq, and has one of the best-integrated Muslim populations in Europe, was rewarded by Al Qaeda with the Madrid train bombings. This was, to my mind, was irrational, as indeed was the earlier Bali bombing, which also claimed hundreds of innocent lives.
Leaving aside the appalling situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, I would say that the European response to the atrocities committed by crazy Islamists has been remarkably muted, taking the form of nothing more lethal than a handful of cartoons.
To respond to these cartoons with bombs is childishly irrational. Muslims the world over need to get a sensible perspective on the world in which they live, and learn not take a lead from the hot-headed, strife-seeking, lunatic mullahs on whose every word they seem to hang. In short, they need to grow up and learn to think for themselves. Yes, and learn to laugh a little too – let’s face it, some of those cartoons were quite funny.
Eric, when you said “Al-Qaeda and Taliban want NATO out and get back in control” were you actually saying you were in favour of them being in control? I certainly hope not. What future can Afghanstan have under the control of forces wanting to drag the country back to the 7th century. My recollection of Taliban rule was its war on women, any any form of modernism.
Finally, Eric, to your remark that “Yes, we all know that religion influences the behaviour of man. (In my strong opinion mostly for the good and in a positive way)” . This I vehemently reject. I have been on the planet long enough to have seen the worst atrocities carried out by those proclaiming a deep faith in god – the latest of course being the imbecile Bush. But let us also never forget that Hitler was a card-carrying Catholic who had the full support of the Vatican, and that the hideous doctrine of apartheid in South Africa had been constructed entirely by deeply-religious White Christians who took from the gospels the message that people of colour were inferior beings, fit only for slavery. It is for this reason that I encourage atheism with a passion. Call that passion “religious” if you like.
I leave you with one of my favourite quotes (I forgot who said it): “Without religion, we’d have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
Barry & Junaid, thanks for your replies. I reacted quite strongly too, sorry for that.
> Eric, when you said “Al-Qaeda and Taliban want NATO out and get back in control”
> were you actually saying you were in favour of them being in control?
Never. Allowing the Taliban to establish their regime again is unthinkable, the world will not let them. While Taliban ideology in fact is a noble strive to release people from brutality and ban corrupt governmental systems, it is clear to anyone following events in Afghanistan that the Taliban went mad. In power Muhammad Omar and followers formed a new brutal regime.
> To respond to these cartoons with bombs is childishly irrational
Yes, irrational, that’s a fair description. That’s how we look at it in Europe. We feel like “they just don’t get it”. In our countries no one controls what a cartoonist draws or a newspaper publishes, and we repeat ourselves explaining that …thinking that the people that plan attacks are fools and don’t get it. But I’m pretty sure that Al-Qaeda leaders are fully aware how our societies work.
Irrational and horrible.