Ramadan in Kabul: 80 dead, over 300 injured

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Kicking off Ramadan in tradition terrorist fashion, the "Ramadan Bombathon" is in full-swing as a massive blast rocked a "secure" diplomatic area Wednesday morning killing at least 80 and wounding 350.

The huge explosion is believed to have been from a suicide car bombing and was large enough to destroy over 30 vehicles at the site.

"We don't know at this moment what was the target of the attack, but most of the casualties are civilians," said Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry. 

It is suspected that the target of the blast was anyone not associated with the terrorists, which includes men, women and children, and hopefully as many diplomats as the bomb could kill.

Some German Embassy employees were seriously hurt in the blast and an Afghan security guard was killed. The Foreign Ministry dispatched a crisis team to help in the aftermath.

Windows were shattered from the blast as far as a half mile away.

No group has yet claimed responsibility but once ISIS learns of the blast, there's a good chance that they will.

The blast comes a day after another massive bomb killed 31 people in an Iraqi ice cream parlor in Central Baghdad.

The latest attack occurred in what used to be considered Kabul's safest neighborhood, with foreign embassies protected by 10-foot-high blast walls guarded by police and national security forces. The Afghan Foreign Ministry and Presidential Palace are also in this area. 

Fortunately, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has strongly condemned the attack--now all of Afghanistan can sleep at night.

Ghani said in a statement that "the terrorists, even in the holy month of Ramadan, the month of goodness, blessing and prayer, are not stopping the killing of our innocent people."

Last month, the unwashed Taliban announced the beginning of their spring offensive. They have promised to build their political base, as Islam directs, and they will do this by focusing assaults on the international coalition and Afghan security forces.

This is Islam--sadly, it's how they roll.



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NY Public Schools promote course justifying suicide bombing

Aftermath of Jerusalem bus bombing(Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

The New York State "Education Department" has developed and promoted a lesson plan called "Dying to be a Martyr." There is a video in the course that explains why it's Kosher to kill Jews, taking the perspective of an Islamic jihadi. 

The plan has been offered to teachers over the last ten years and it's financed through taxpayer-funded Public Broadcasting Service's "LearningMedia" website. The website offers a "media-on-demand service offering educators access to the best of public media and delivers research-based, classroom-ready digital learning experiences."

The lesson plan is aimed at high school students and contain no instructions for teachers to criticize these views nor videos featuring Israeli response to the bogus claims.

One teacher instruction is thus: 

(Mohanned feels he would rather die and be a martyr than live his life, sees his life as hollow--in contrast he sees Israelis as happy, going out, having fun, traveling.) Ask your students why Mohanned may feel that way (Answers may include: Palestinians have less land, fewer privileges, cannot come and go as they please.)

 When the story was investigated by The Blaze, the lesson plan was promoted by the New York State Education Department (NYSED), a request was made for comment by state officials at which time NYSED's website dumped the lesson plan.

But the lesson plan was listed on a different NYSED website and it also promoted a video titled "Story of Islam: A History of the World's Most Misunderstood Faith."

It's true: many people still believe that Islam is a religion of peace--it obviously is not.

Of all the 40 lesson plans on the website, only "Dying to be a Martyr" was listed in complete form.

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BREAKING: Death at Turkish peace rally

Ankara, Turkey--Turkey's Health Ministry reported that at least 86 are dead and over 180 injured when two closely-timed bombs targeting a peace rally were detonated within minutes of each other.

The bombs were placed near Ankara's main train station where people gathered for the rally which was organized by several civic and trade worker's groups. The rally was to call for an end of violence between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces.

Turkey's Dogan news agency was covering the event and TV footage showed a group of protesters chanting and dancing with their arms locked when a huge explosion went off behind them. The video showed bodies covered with rally banners and flags while others, more fortunate, were being taken to hospitals.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to Ankara, Turkey's capital, from a program he was attending in Istanbul.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called an emergency security meeting to discuss the attack. He is suspending his election campaign programs for three days--elections are slated for November 1st.

Nobody has yet taken responsibility for the slaughter and government officials are having the incident investigated.

Selahattin Demirtas, head of the pro-Kurdish party had his members attend the so-called peace rally. "There are dozens of dead and hundreds of injuries," he said. "Some of our friends are in serious condition."

This past July, a suicide bombing attributed to ISIS killed 33 in a Turkish border town with Syria. A leftist (not conservative) militant group has also been carrying out suicide bombings in Turkey.

It isn't known whether this latest peace rally spoiler was a suicide attack, but if it was, the suicide bomber who blew him- or herself up in the attack, was doing it for Islamic jihad and believed he or she was going to get rewarded with a trip to Paradise.

Islam is a religion of peace like Obama is a uniter of all people.

My opinion.

UPDATE: Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu is now saying there are strong signs that the bombings were the work of suicide bombers. There will be a three-day official mourning period for the 86 victims.


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If it Looks Like a Duck

Why are we so afraid of the truth when there is more danger avoiding it than confronting it? 

Fox News reports "A Frenchman arrested over killings at a Belgian Jewish museum had traveled to Syria and claimed responsibility for killing visitors of the museum, prosecutors said.

Fox refers to jihadists as "European radicals" but fails to mention how they really self-identify: Muslim jihadists.

Like the American pussy cat-loving suicide bomber, Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, these people see their mission as doing Allah's work. It's jihad, stupid. 

To call these orthodox Muslims extremists, is like calling orthodox Jews, or religious Christians extremists.

The Koran, the Islamic scripture that often serves as a war manual, describes the Jews as prophet killers (2:61, 2;87, 2:91, 3:21, 3:112, 3:181 and so on) and has nothing nice to say about Christians either.

It's time we started describing the situation for what it really is: hatred for the non-believers and a drive to make the world their caliphate.

 

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