A Look at Attacks on
Houses of Worship over the last decade By Associated
Press, 3/15/19.
Houses of worship around the world, a place of reflection and
peace, have been targeted for attack by extremists. Here are some of the deadly
assaults over the last decade:
Oct. 31, 2010: Al-Qaida
in Iraq militants attack Our Lady of Salvation Catholic Church in Baghdad
during Sunday night mass, killing 58 people in the deadliest assault targeting
Christians since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion there. Al-Qaida in Iraq later
became the Islamic State group.
Dec. 15, 2010: Two
suicide bombers from the Sunni extremist group Jundallah blow themselves up
near a mosque in southeastern Iran, including six Revolutionary Guard
commanders.
July 16, 2010: Jundallah
group kills 27 and injures 270 after it carries out a double suicide bombing
against another Shiite mosque in southeastern Iran.
Aug. 5, 2012: Six
members of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, in Oak Creek, are fatally shot by a
white supremacist, Wade Michael Page. Page was shot by a responding officer and
later killed himself.
Nov. 18, 2014: Two
Palestinians using axes, knives and a gun kill four Jewish worshippers and an
Israeli police officer in an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue.
Jan. 30, 2015: Suicide
bombing at a Shiite mosque in the Pakistani town of Shikarpur kills 71.
Jundullah claims responsibility.
March 20, 2015: Islamic
State suicide bombers attack a pair of mosques in Yemen's capital, unleashing
monstrous blasts that ripped through worshippers and killed 137 people.
June 17, 2015: Nine black worshippers including a pastor are
killed by Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white
supremacist, after he prayed with them in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof was
convicted of federal hate-crime and obstruction-of-religion charges and
sentenced to death.
Sept. 24, 2015: A suicide
bomber strikes a mosque in Yemen's rebel-held capital, killing 25 worshippers
during prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Nov. 12, 2016: Suicide
bomber from Islamic State group kills over 50 at the shrine of Shah Noorani, in
Pakistan's Baluchistan province.
Dec. 11, 2016: Suicide bomber
strikes inside a Cairo chapel adjacent to St. Mark's Cathedral, seat of Egypt's
ancient Coptic Orthodox Church. The Islamic State group claimed the attack,
which killed at least 25 people.
Feb. 16, 2017: Suicide
bomber detonates his explosives vest among the devotees at the shrine of Lal
Shahbaz Qalandar in Pakistan's Sindh province, killing 98.
April 9, 2017: Twin
suicide bombings rock churches in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria and
Tanta, killing at least 45 people. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State
group.
June 15, 2017: A suicide
bomber kills four people at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's capital city of
Kabul. Among the dead is a leader of Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras, who are
mostly Shiite Muslims.
Aug. 1, 2017: A suicide
bomber storms into the largest Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's western Herat
province, opening fire on worshippers before blowing himself up, killing at
least 90 people. Hundreds more were wounded in the attack, which happened
during evening prayers.
Aug. 3, 2018: Suicide
bombers disguised in burqa robes attack a Shiite mosque in eastern Afghanistan,
killing 27 people.
Aug. 25, 2017: Militants
storm a packed Shiite mosque in Kabul during Friday prayers. The attack ends
with at least 28 worshippers killed and 50 wounded, many of them children. Two
of the assailants blow themselves up and another two are shot dead by Afghan
security forces.
Sept. 29, 2017: A suicide
bomber blows himself up outside a Shiite mosque in Kabul, killing five. The
attack took place as worshippers were leaving the mosque after Friday prayers.
Oct. 20, 2017: The
Islamic State group claims a suicide bomber attack, killing 31 and wounding 29
people, at a Shiite mosque in Kabul.
Nov. 5, 2017: Dressed in
black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault weapon, 26-year-old Devin
Kelley opened fire at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs,
Texas, killing 26 people and wounding about 20
others.
Nov. 24, 2017: Militants
kill 311 worshippers in a mosque attack in north Sinai, the deadliest such
terrorist attack in Egypt's modern history.
Dec. 17, 2017: Islamic
State attack on a church in Pakistani city of Quetta kills 16 people.
Oct. 27, 2018: A gunman
believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media
entered Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in
Pittsburgh and opened fire, killing 11 and
wounding six, including four police officers.
Jan. 27, 2019: Two
suicide attackers detonate two bombs during a Mass in a Roman Catholic
cathedral on the largely Muslim island of Jolo in the southern Philippines,
killing 23 and wounding about 100 others. Three days later, an attacker hurls a
grenade in a mosque in nearby Zamboanga city, killing two religious teachers.
March 15, 2019: At least 40 people are killed in an attack
at mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.
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April 15, 2019: The
Notre Dame Cathedral fire is currently officially being blamed on an electrical
short circuit, but a French stonemason suspects his Muslim co-workers.
April 21, 2019 Islamic
Terrorists are blamed for the Easter Sunday church bombings in Sri Lanka
killing 290 Christians.
There were 26 attacks
and 14 were on mosques in the Shia vs Sunni battle. Christian churches got 7
attacks. Jewish synagogs got 3 attacks. A Black Christian church in South
Carolina got 1 attack and a a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin got 1 attack.
The Sunni/Shia rivalry
within Muslim countries accounted for 24 of the 26 attacks. But the war between
Muslims and Christians is far from over. Muslims have been on a quest to
visably ruin their reputations since the 1970s.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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