[FOXNEWS] Pak Taliban jacket wallahs went kaboom!themselves near two churches in the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday as worshippers were gathered inside, killing 14 people, officials said, in the latest attack against religious minorities in the increasingly fractured country.
"...and I hate the men of Shia," said Mahbub Ali.
In the tense aftermath, angry mobs lashed out at people they suspected of involvement in the attacks -- including one person who was burned to death -- and Christian crowds set fire to cars in a show of defiance in the country's second largest city and the prime minister's seat of power.
There doesn't seem to be much that doesn't raise angry mobs in Pakistain, but if there's anything that's a valid excuse it's kabooming a church. It's nice to see the Christians standing up for themselves against the bully boyz. Of course it'll be them that are rounded up, tossed into jug, and hung.
Life in Pakistain is increasingly fraught with danger for religious minorities, especially Christians.
All the Jews have been used up.
They have been targeted by turban Sunni Moslem turbans who object to their faith.
...or any faith that's not their faith and their interpretation of it.
They are also discriminated against in the wider society where they can often only get menial jobs like garbage collection, and are frequently targets of blasphemy accusations.
They're trying to describe an area (it's not a country, despite having a government) that worships a book as an idol.
The kabooms occurred in quick succession in the Christian neighborhood of Youhana Abad at two churches while parishioners were celebrating Sunday morning services inside. The churches are about 600 meters (650 yards) apart.
The "Taliban" that claimed the glory for this act would be to consolidated Taliban that consists of the original and its branches, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Islam, Jamaatul-Arar, and probably the Purple Gang and the Tatagias. We only occasionally see the term "al-Qaeda in Pakistain." The target is so "Lashkar-e-Jhangvi," as Jen Psaki would say should the words ever cross her lips, that they might as well have left calling cards and glossy 8x10 photos.
At least 70 people were maimed, said Zahid Pervez, the provincial director general of health, who gave the corpse count.
Why just boom a church? You can wait until Sunday, when it's a crowded church.
One unidentified witness told Pakistain's Geo television that the main gate to one of the churches targeted was closed so people were using a smaller gate.
Which was conveniently left unlocked.
"One bomber went
kaboom!himself near that gate, that created chaos and during the course there was another blast," he said.
Had the church doors locked for safety, did they? And I'll bet that there were government guards on duty because as the Pak government so piously stated last time, security for Christians has been "heightened" and by now may be "fool-proof."
In the aftermath of the blasts the mood quickly turned violent.
Grandma murdered by an exploding guy in a turban? That'd cheese anybody off. The Pope would be pissed.
Much of the country is on edge after years of krazed killer violence including an attack on a Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
school in December that killed 150 people -- mostly students.
Kiddies are near on as easy to kill as grandmas.
Local television footage showed an angry crowd beating a person they thought was connected to the attack, while others attacked buses in the city. The crowds burned to death one person they believed was involved in the attack and tried to lynch another, said Haider Ashraf, deputy inspector general for Lahore.
[Yawn!]
Two police who were protecting the churches were also killed in the kabooms, which he confirmed were caused by suicide bombers.
Two of them? How fool-proof can you get?
A front man for the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
province government condemned the attacks but also said it was unfortunate that the mob had attacked suspects.
If there's no government justice you get vigilante justice.
He said
[Uncontrollable laughter]
Militants appear to be targeting minorities more intensively recently, including attacks on a string of mosques belonging to members of the Shiite Moslem minority sect. In 2013, twin blasts at a church in Peshawar killed 85 people.
They're all hanging separately. Neither the Shiites nor the Ahmadis nor the Barelvis came out to string guys with turbans up from lamp posts.
"There will be more of such attacks," warned Ahsanullah Ahsan, a front man for the Taliban faction that grabbed credit for the assault, in a statement emailed to news hounds.
We coulda written this entire article from memory, with the exception of the Christians lynching a few of their tormentors.