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| Bangladesh |
| Massacre in Dhaka |
| 2016-07-08 |
| [DAWN] I CAME across no proclamations of ’Je suis Istanbul’ last week, nor any protestations of ’Je suis Dhaka’, let alone Baghdad, over the weekend, in the aftermath of three horrendous terrorist attacks as the Islamic holy month of fasting drew to an end. It is supposed to be a period not just of dawn-to-dusk fasting but of introspection and forbearance. Sadly, it has also been a month of carnage. Connections between the massacre in Orlando and the bad boy Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group (IS, or ISIS) remain dubious, notwithstanding the perpetrator’s claims to the contrary, but the outrages at Ataturk airport and the Holey Artisan café, not to mention Baghdad, clearly were instigated by IS, which deployed jihadists from the former Soviet Union in |
| Posted by:Fred |