Posted on 10/26/2022 9:44:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Armed men have attacked a Shia Muslim shrine in the Iranian city of Shiraz, killing at least 15 people, the state news agency Irna said, as security forces clashed with protesters marking 40 days since the death of Mahsa Amini in custody.
Irna described the attackers as “takfiri terrorists”, a label used by officials in predominantly Shia Muslim Iran to refer to hardline, armed Sunni Islamist groups. The attack was later claimed by Islamic State in a statement posted on the terror group’s telegram channel.
The attackers were in a car and shot at pilgrims and staff at the entrance to the shrine of Shah Cheragh, the agency quoted witnesses as saying. Police arrested two of the three assailants and were looking for the third. Nour news, a media outlet affiliated to Iran’s top security body, said the gunmen were not Iranian nationals.
The semi-official Tasnim news agency said several children were among the dead.
Such attacks are rare in Iran, but last April, an assailant stabbed two clerics to death at the Imam Reza shrine, the country’s most revered Shia site, in the northeast city of Mashhad.
The attack took place on the same day Iranian security forces opened fire at mourners who had gathered in Amini’s hometown of Saqqez in Kurdistan province, according to a witness.
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RE: Iran: gunmen kill at least 15 people at Shia shrine in Shiraz
QUESTION: How Stringent are the Gun Laws in Iran? Are Citizens Even Allowed to Own Guns?
Thank god Muslims are too busy killing each other to focus all their energies on anyone else.
From what I have heard, they are pretty dang stringent. 🤪😆
This is a demonstration of the truism that when there are no non Muslims to fight Muslims fight each other over which practices the true religion. When there is no division between Muslims they then fight each other over what clique or tribe will rule all the Muslims. Why is there this dynamic of perpetual conflict seemingly built in to Islam which emphasizes unity of believers and brotherhood of the faithful? Serious question.
Well, these things happen...
Sunni or later....Shia-t happens.
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