Posted on 03/30/2021 8:24:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at an Indonesian cathedral on Palm Sunday were newlyweds who belonged to a pro-Islamic State extremist group, police said Monday, as they raided the couple’s home.
About 20 people were wounded in the powerful explosion outside the church in Makassar city on Sulawesi island while worshippers celebrated the start of Holy Week.
Both suspects were killed instantly when they rode a motorbike into the compound of the church, setting off an improvised explosive device known as a pressure-cooker bomb, police said.
On Monday, Indonesian authorities said the pair had been married for about six months and that the man was in his mid-twenties.
Sunday’s explosion at the main Catholic cathedral in Makassar happened just after congregants finished celebrating Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week, which commemorates Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem.
It comes a week before Easter.
JAD was also implicated in a 2019 cathedral suicide bombing in the Philippines committed by a married Indonesian couple.
That attack killed worshippers and security forces.
Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim majority nation, has long struggled with attacks by Islamist extremists, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed more than 200, mostly foreign tourists.
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Is the new wife going to be happy with her husband obtaining 72 virgins?
Well, that’s Islam, gotta take one for the team.
In India, there will probably be retribution for this. The Indians understand that Muslims only understand brute force.
Busman’s honeymoon.
.. annnnnd, it’s newlyweds.
They had an explosive relationship.
India doesn’t care about Christians getting blown up. If anything, they’re quietly pleased with the muslims, in spite of themselves.
So who gets the 72 virgins? Him or her?
Covid related😯
“ So who gets the 72 virgins? Him or her?”
The 15 year old computer and dungeons and dragons nerds? Not sure
Reminds me of that California couple that went on a killing spree a few years ago.
Umm... it’s Indonesia.
The prophet of Islam cannot be slandered. Mohammad was a false prophet, a murderer, a thief, a robber.
Mohammad is in his grave awaiting being thrown into the Lake of Fire.
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