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Murdering in the name of god. [View all]
NAIROBI, Kenya Gunmen from Somalias Islamist insurgent group, the Shabab, attacked a bus in northeastern Kenya on Saturday and killed 28 people after singling out those aboard the vehicle who were not Muslims, the Kenyan police said.
The Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack through the groups radio station in Somalia, saying it was in retaliation for recent raids by Kenyan forces on four mosques in Mombasa.
Nineteen men and nine women were killed after being removed from the bus, said the inspector general of the Kenyan police, David Kimaiyo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/world/africa/shabab-gunmen-attack-bus-in-kenya-and-kill-28.html?_r=0
(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have killed at least 25 members of a Sunni Muslim tribe in a village on the eastern edge of the provincial capital Ramadi, local officials said on Saturday, in apparent revenge for tribal opposition to the radical Islamists.
They said the bodies of the men from the Albu Fahd tribe were discovered by the Iraqi army when it launched a counter-offensive on Saturday against Islamic State near Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/22/us-mideast-crisis-ramadi-idUSKCN0J609O20141122?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Luckily these murders were conducted by people with sincerely held religious beliefs, not by delusional psychotic mass murderers. Anyone who claims otherwise is a big meenie.
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Feel you devalued those lost lives simply for a discussion point here. One you could make otherwise.
pinto
Nov 2014
#4
Yes that is exactly it. You feel insulted by the connection between mass murder
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2014
#7
Just think of all the Maoist, Marxist, RW Nationalist etc. guerrillas of the 20th Century until now
CJCRANE
Nov 2014
#12
Of course they murdered in the name of god what better reason could they have used
Leontius
Nov 2014
#15
no it would be stupid and quite insulting to the families of those who died.
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2014
#20