By Andrew L. Jaffee

They cheered and waved Iraqi flags, sharing, perhaps, the first such moment of national pride in recent years…

Which is precisely why the Islamo-fascists struck. They are not interested in liberty, national reconciliation, integrity, or evolution. The Islamists want absolute power based solely on terrorizing, subjugating, converting, or killing those they consider “infidels:”

Two bomb attacks have killed at least 50 people and injured 135 in Baghdad as crowds celebrated a famous victory by the national football team. …

…the football team’s win was a genuine moment of national pride and pleasure which had crossed the sectarian divisions between Iraq’s different communities.

Just as the Iraqi team has Sunni and Shia Muslims and Kurds playing alongside each other, the celebrations brought members of all those communities out onto the streets…