Jessica Rogers
April 24, 2009
10:49 am
Two female suicide bombers have attacked Baghdad's main Shia shrine, killing at least 60 people and injuring 125 others. The bombers detonated their explosives within minutes of one another, near a large crowd of worshiping Iranian pilgrims. The shrine has been a target of insurgents in the past. This event came the day after another suicide bombing that had killed 84 Iranian pilgrims. And on the same day, a suicide bomber infiltrated a group of families in Baghdad, killing 28 people. "The incident yesterday was a very, very hateful example of those who harm religion in the name of religion." Since 2005, when violence became a major problem in Iraq, 87,000 Iraqis have been killed.
Murder is condemned in every religion, and yet people STILL think that it is okay to kill people in the name of their religion. In my eyes that is just sheer hypocrisy. Did our world not learn it's lesson after the Crusades? There are so many different kinds of people in the world and so many different religious beliefs, that, while it doesn't surprise me that there are those that think that their religion is the better, it doesn't take away the fact that people are dying everyday because of one of the most beautiful things about our world: diversity. Everyone at some point or another is going to think that their beliefs are better than those of someone who thinks differently than them. The difference lies in whether or not you can accept the difference.
2 comments:
This is unfortunate because murder is condemned in every religion like you pointed out but people still believe they are doing the right thing. I don't understand how someone can believe their God is telling them to murder others.
These suicide bombings in Iraq are getting ridiculous! What's even worse is that insurgents are now drafting women to commit these crimes. They agree to it because the insurgents tell them that their children will have a better life.
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