Posted on 04/12/2008 12:03:51 PM PDT by maquiladora
TEHRAN --A bomb blast in a mosque in southern Iran on Saturday killed at least eight Iranians in southern Fars province and injured more than 50 people, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"The death toll is expected to rise above eight because some of the injured people are in a critical condition," Fars said, without giving a source.
"During the speech of a cleric in the Shohada mosque in Shiraz city, a bomb blast killed several people," Fars quoted an unnamed source as saying.
Earlier, state television said the blast happened in central Iran, without giving details.
Reuters © 2008
So did the Bahaiians do this? Doubtful, but they’ll probably get framed for it, and cracked down on, too.
When are these terrorist going to learn? Leave the bombs at the door.
Its because of the occupation of Iraq. /s
It is said that the main difference between fires in a Mosque and in a Christian Church are the secondary explosions in the Mosque.
Probably get framed is right, but they aarent the kind of ideology that would do such a thing. I tHink of them as buddhists with a god.
Very interesting. Thanks for the ping. So far, no one is claiming responsibility. It would be interesting to know who did it and what was their motivation.
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Perhaps someone tossed a lit cigar into a pile of rockets stored behind the cleric’s podium.
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Not likely. The Baha’is I know are totally committed to pacifism, like the Quakers.
I beg your pardon?
It's a reference to this:
That seems to be the most believable account(s).
Interesting article...thanks
Sad to say, because I know and in the past knew some very decent Bahais, the Bahai religion is a totally artificial one created by the British to divide the clergy in Iran back in the 19th Century, who had begun to join together against the British.
No longer classified documents from the British Foreign Office include letters from their equivalent of our State Dept. to the British Ambassador in Iran with instructions to find someone to (simplistically) claim to be the 12th Imam and as such split the Mullahs and “divide and rule”.
The instructions also suggested that “followers” should be rewarded with cash amounts and this has become an embedded part of joining the Bahai faith.
(I witnessed others and was offered this inducement myself but turned it down since I had no intention to become a Bahai)
There are lots of other somewhat unsual aspects as to how close a family member you can marry and various efforts to “modernize” Islam (the greatest reason for being considered as apostates by traditional Moslems) but I am not here to criticize the Bahai faith. Only to underline that it was not a religion of “faith” but created for political reasons by the British.
The Bahai followers have their religious and “legal” councils to whom they turn to resolve matrimonial, family and social matters and are generally tightly knit into their communities.
IMHO If it works for them to become better human beings, then why criticize it? We cannot all reach the perfection
of Jesus and even there, how often have you noticed people insist “my Jesus is better than your Jesus”?
I get it all the time.
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