Iraq: Terrorists use quran to hide explosives

by Kal El on September 13, 2009 · Comments

There is a customary greeting I hear daily during Ramadan in the muslim world, “Ramadan Kareem” which means (loosely translated) “a beneficient Ramadan. These knuckleheads have helped me coin the phrase “Ramadan Kaboom” (self explanatory).

Bomb hidden in holy book

IRAQI militants hollowed out an ornate Shiite Muslim holy book, stuffed it with TNT and planted it inside a Baghdad shrine, but the bomb was defused before it exploded, police said.

Iraqi police discovered the rigged book yesterday in the Khadimiya shrine, a major Shiite holy site in Baghdad, after worshippers heard a suspicious ringing sound from the mobile phone detonator inside the book, a richly decorated edition of a sacred Shiite text called the “Keys to Paradise”.

After the bomb failed to go off, a scan of the book showed the bomb-filled cavity and experts came in to defuse it.

“It had about 500g of highly explosive material and contained hundreds of metal ball bearings in order to maximise casualties amongst pilgrims to the shrine,” Major-General Jihad al-Jabiri, head of an Interior Ministry unit that investigates explosions, told state-run Iraqiya TV.

The Khadimiya shrine, a revered site for Shi’ite Muslims, has been a favourite target for Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda, who see Shi’ites as heretics, and by loyalists to the former regime of Sunni Arab ruler Saddam Hussein, who object to the fact that Iraq has been run by majority Shiites since his ouster.

In April, suicide bombers killed 60 people by the shrine.

US and Iraqi officials say al-Qaeda is trying to reignite the sectarian conflict that nearly tore the country asunder in 2006-07, but they have so far failed to provoke revenge killings.

In July, Iraq’s first religious festival in Khadamiya since US troops pulled out of cities a month earlier was mostly peaceful, despite bloody attacks on the site in past years.

Police said the book was left in a corner of the shine reserved for women, suggesting the bomber was female.

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  • Tonto
    So, disrespect of their holy book is OK if it's done by a muz? Just think, they could really benifit from the use of the koran as toilet paper and they wouldn't have to use their bare left hands anymore! What a concept! I think we should pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan.....to a point. Just back off and let them kill hell out of each other and sort out who the boss is going to be. Then let them know, on no uncertain terms, their oil is welcome but the rest of their BS has to either stay home or earn them their very own version of hell on earth as delivered by all the B-52 bombers in the world, backed up by all the ordinance necessary to turn the whole place into a Wal-Mart parking lot. We should have just taken Iraq, kicked out all the natives into Iran, sucked out all the oil, and walked away in the first place. Simple and effective, and, at the same time INSTRUCTIVE to the rest of those muz clowns that need to get expired.
  • Mahmoud
    And I suppose your Torah is a book of peace and love?

    Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. (Deuteronomy 13:13-16)
  • SirWilhelm
    Yes, Mahmoud, funny how all those ancient gods were bloodthirsty, just like Allah. And Allah doesn't dispute that Jehovah existed, in fact, he claims he is greater than Jehovah, or any other "god". Doesn't that make you wonder who Allah really was, if he is a real entity? Or who any of the ancient "gods" were? That might lead you to asking what the real nature of religion is, since all of mankinds religions trace their roots to ancient times. But I doubt you could ask those questions, you're too conditioned to accept your "religion" on faith, but then, you're not alone.
  • Beejj
    I'll give you something far more enlightening to read: PRINCIPIA, by a chap called Isaac Newton.
  • hellosnackbar
    The Principia Mathematica Beej ??Now that's cruel and mocking.
    How can brain damaged morons hope to understand the work of the greatest geniuses of the last thousand years;when they refute the idea that Allah is an imaginary invention of an illiterate murdering desert bandit?
    Besides, they can't understand Latin.(not to mention Newton's recent invention of calculus)
    Here's a little anecdote:25yrs ago I was alone in my beautiful South African Spanish style home ;when Iwas visited by 3 Jehovah's witnesses.
    I was enjoying "The Ascent of Man"on my shaded terrace at the time;and the section on Newton in particular.
    Jacob Bronowski(a real scientist)was in genuine awe at Newton's demonstrable talent;and the article he wrote on the great man was an effusive eulogy.
    The JHWs told me that they had come to save my soul.
    I retorted that they were in serious error;and asked them if they could refute the following statement:
    Isaac Newton,Albert Einstein,and Leonardo da Vinci were far greater men than Jesus Christ,
    Mohammed, or any other prophets to the feeble minded!
    Now tell me I'm wrong with evidence to substantiate your view.
    They couldn't of course!(one admitted to having heard of Leonardo da Vinci.)
    I told them to bugger off ;and get an education.
    They never returned in the next 4 years.
    The possibility that Muslim simpletons are cut from a different cloth is remote in the extreme.
    A curious piece of trivia that someone told me was;that Isaac Newton was born on the same day that Galileo Galelei died???(the latter being also a very bright lad!)
    I'm serious about a trip to Oz(March/April next year;but don't know how to contact you?
    Perhaps IAC might help??
  • Beejj
    G'day, HSB, dear boy. We can get in touch with each other via John, who knows my email address. I see you have Krell 100 powerblocs. VERY impressive! Bit too rich for me.

    Newton was NOT born on the day Galileo died.

    Something intrigues me. How many times did God, or one of his henchmen, appear to Moses and to Jesus (according to legend)? And how many times was old Mo visited? Rather more, I fancy. Now, if God is all he's cracked up to be, why was it necessary for Mo to receive so many visits. You and I know the answer, of course, but let's pretend we are Muslims. Then there's the silly business about Mo's journey to somewhere or other on an amazing horse which had a human face (and a funny tail?). An amazing horse, this. Shergar and Arkle would have no hope in a race against this thing. (I believe its name can be written as BARACK, which strikes me as MOST interesting.) In a single bound, this steed could cover miles and miles, so the journey was accomplished in short order. Again: if God is all he's cracked up to be, why was it necessary to invent a physics and biology defying horse to accomplish the trick, when he could have simply waved his magic wand, or whatever Gods do at such moments, and whisked old Mo away to wherever-the-hell it was? Said horse achieved an even greater trick, according to Mo (as usual, no witnesses, of course), by carrying our boy up to Heaven to meet God.

    "Hello, God."
    "G'day, mate."
    "Everything OK, here? Virgins behaving themselves?"
    "Nah. Got to keep a sharp eye on those bitches. Randy sods, the lot of 'em."
    "Whose in charge of them?"
    "Your old mate Gabriel. Had to castrate the bastard, first."
    "Yeah. Know what you mean. He had the hots for Aisha, too. Little slut, she is."
    "Maybe next time you should marry a 4-year-old."
    "Good thinking, God!"
    "Recruiting lots of followers, are you?"
    "So-so. Could be better. Got any ideas?"
    "Just tell 'em they can have lots of wives - age doesn't matter - and any number of slaves to use as they wish. Make divorce easy while you are about it. The guys will love that."
    "Good God, God, that's so goddamned clever! Thanks."
    "OK. Now where's that fucking horse got to?"

    That's Islam for you (with slight embellishment).
  • hellosnackbar
    Keep writing the script Beej! it might become a comic classic??
    I'm just imagining it performed by Pete and Dud!!
  • Kal_El
    Beejj,

    Pure comic genius! =)
  • Beejj
    Thank you, Kal. Islam is wide open to such stuff. Quite honestly, the best way to attack Islam is to laugh at it.
  • Odyssia
    Bronowski was wonderful. Typical educated Jew. "Physics is the tool that cuts through the grain of Nature." His ad-libbing at Auschwitz made me cry.
  • JEWHAWK
    The unholy Qu'ran's content itself is already explosive.It teaches HATRED and
    begs for MURDER.

    It's a bomb disguised as a book.The terrorists knew what they were doing with
    their copy of the BOOK OF DEATH,also known as the Qu'ran.
  • Kal_El
    And just today I saw a report about some jihadis in Iraq using the book as a
    bomb. It was diffused though, before anyone could be "martyred".
  • JEWHAWK
    Kal_El,so the 72 virgins are still WAITING for being deflowered?How
    many times they whitstand so many men?Are they made out of RUBBER??

    HAHAHAHA...

    Tell me,how about a "religion" who promises an ORGY as a reward?
    The old geezer Mohammad INVENTED it all,while shoving his...inside
    poor Aisha's orifices.
    He must've thought:

    "How about to promise intermitent sex in heaven to my fallen warriors? I
    guess it will work just fine".

    To be "martyred" brings lots of ANAL,ORAL and VAGINAL pleasure
    to muslims who commit suicide-bombings!!

    I wonder what the female suicide-bomber's reward could be?
    72 men with ONE FOOT-LONG dicks?
    HAHAHAHA!!!!

    Is the Qu'ran some kind of KAMA-SUTRA for
    retarded folks?HEHEHE!

    I DESPISE ISLAM.
    It's lower than anything I could imagine.
  • Beejj
    The 72 virgins business intrigues me. Are they those who had previously lived, but died intact? Nuns, perhaps? Mother Teresa? Or are they specially manufactured up there in Paradise? I wonder how old they are. Might any of them be old and wrinkled, or are they pre-pubescent little girls? There's also the number problem to consider: a 72 - 1 ratio is pretty large. Given the fact that down here on Earth girls will be girls, it seems arithmetically challenging to have such numbers of heavenly virgin girls awaiting the arrival of Islamic heroes. This suggests a heavenly factory "Virgins R Us", or some such thing. What then happens to the ruined ones? Are they put in a special home? Evidently, given the immense value placed upon the virginal state, each virgin is used but once. Hell of a waste. Does Abdul the late hero feel a bit miffed when his 72 days, or whatever, are up? No more virgins! Eternity is a bit longer than 72 days, isn't it? What is it about Islam that places so much value upon the state of a hymen? Is it merely the macho idea that "I am the FIRST!"? Does the Muslim male feel that once he has deflowered his wife that she is no longer special? That she is somehow a lesser being? Is a woman's greatest and most cherished possession a tiny piece of skin? A bit evanescent, I would have thought. What about her brain? Muslims clearly see it in a different light. The reward for sacrificing one's life in the name of Allah is 72 pieces of fragile skin! Forgive me if I laugh at Muslim idiocy yet again, but I cannot help but wonder if there might be higher and nobler things to aspire to. Then there's the physics of it all. We are made of stuff, aren't we? Stuff has mass and structure, and this gives rise to application of forces and friction and all the rest of it. From what I can gather, the ex-people of Paradise are not made of stuff - they are composed of invisible something or other. They have no mass, thus they are not subject to our laws of physics. Now I do not wish to delve too deeply into the physics of sexual intercourse lest I offend someone, but I fail to see the thrill or pleasure that can result from the congress of two massless entities. Do you catch my drift?
  • hellosnackbar
    They just haven't thought this through have they Beej?
    It's the gravity of the situation that they need to address!
    Another for an imaginary Pete and Dud conversation.
    Bloody Greta Garbo!
  • Odyssia
    LMAO, Beejj. The physics of f***ing! Ex-people of Paradise! Hope a Muslim writes back. Better still if a Muslima writes back.
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