Our Muslim friends, those peace-loving members of Islam (as liberals continue to tell us) are at it again doing what they do best; blowing up innocent people! When will this violence end? I have no idea. Maybe if/when they become civilized. If/when they give up their tribal BS. If/when they relinquish the fanaticism that consumes them.
Maybe it will take another 1400 years for them to finally realize that their hatred toward their fellow man is illogical as Muhammad was just another guy and their God, like the Christian God and all the other gods man has invented throughout history are make-believe.
Until such time as one of the scenarios above takes place Muslims will continue to slaughter one another just as easily as they would slaughter a wild animal. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: The Washington Post
KABUL — At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks by militants in Afghanistan as Islamic scholars gather in Saudi Arabia to discuss the legitimacy of the Taliban’s war against the U.S.-backed government of President Ashraf Ghani.
One of the attacks, conducted by a suicide bomber, happened near a government security checkpoint on the outskirts of the eastern city of Jalalabad, where 12 people, including security forces and civilians, were killed, according to provincial officials.
The second strike targeted government civil servants in Ghazni province, which lies to the southwest of Kabul and is a bastion for the Taliban insurgents. Several people, including a district chief, lost their lives in that incident, officials said.
The Taliban said it was behind the raid in Ghazni.
The Islamic State on its website said its local affiliates carried out the Jalalabad attack, the latest of several strikes by the network in Kabul and Jalalabad in recent months.
It also asserted responsibility for a wave of deadly strikes in the city, including last week when 19 people, many of them from the minority Sikh and Hindu groups, were killed while heading in a convoy to meet with Ghani in a secure part of the city.
Officials said the Taliban unleashed a number of attacks elsewhere in the country in the past 24 hours ahead of a two-day meeting of Islamic scholars from around the world that began on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia.
The Afghan government expects the gathering to term the Taliban insurgency and use of suicide attacks in Afghanistan as unlawful, as similar meetings have recently in Kabul and in Jakarta.
The gathering comes amid shows of repeated optimism by Afghan government officials in recent days about holding direct talks with Taliban leadership following last month’s brief and unexpected truce during the Eid holiday ending the fasting month of Ramadan.
The Taliban refused to reciprocate an extension to Ghani’s unilateral cease-fire and has conducted bloody attacks against government forces, drawing harsh criticism against Ghani for his move from his political rivals.
The militants have repeatedly since said the group will not engage in talks with the “powerless” Kabul government until foreign troops leave the country.
Speaking during a conference with visiting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Ghani on Monday said the brief truce had opened an opportunity for peace in Afghanistan and that its 40 years of war cannot come to an end in one night or day.
Commenting on the Saudi gathering, the Taliban urged the kingdom and the clerics to back the group in its war against U.S.-led troops in the country, pledging to continue its insurgency until all foreign troops leave the country.
“The Afghan Mujahid nation does not expect authorities of Saudi Arabia and scholars to side with American invaders in this fight between Islam and disbelievers,” the Taliban said in a statement.
“Our nation, due to Islamic brotherhood hopes that Saudi government will help and support our weak nation in this arduous time,” the statement added. “The Afghan Mujahid nation is still thankful to the Saudi Arabia for their assistance in Jihad against the Soviet Union invasion.”
