By Phyllis Chesler

Yesterday in Iraq, a female homicide bomber, masquerading as a Shiite religious pilgrim, murdered 20-30 pilgrims, half of them women, and injured at least 100 others. Once again, the homicide bomber stopped at a resting tent for pilgrims.

Please note: The target was not American or European “occupiers,” but Shiite Muslims. And, just as Muslims have historically attacked Jews on their most religious holy days (Yom Kippur, Passover), this possibly Sunni attack targeted Shiite religious pilgrims when they were at their weariest and most vulnerable: while they were resting along the pilgrimage route. Ironically, the Shiite’s pioneered the modern suicide/homicide bombing in the early 1980s in Lebanon with their truck bombings. The tactic has now returned to haunt them. … (Continue reading…)

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© 2008 Phyllis Chesler. This article was originally posted on Chesler Chronicles. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit this work, but you may not alter or transform it. You must attribute this work to the author.

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Related: Islam, Iraq, Terrorist Groups

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