Shall we hold our breath for the world condemnation of a car bombing of an Internet cafe that also killed handicapped children?
A car bomb destroyed an Internet cafe and tore through a bus carrying handicapped children in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding at least 30, police said.
~~~The car bomb devastated a street in the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday afternoon as it was busy with shoppers and traffic.
Television images showed several vehicles burning fiercely, and a stricken white-and-green bus that had been dropping handicapped children at their homes around the city.
The eight students still on board were injured, one seriously, medics and police said. Four other children and seven adults were killed, and dozens more were injured, they said.Safwat Ghayur, a senior police official, said one of a string of shops wrecked by the blast was an Internet cafe – a favorite target for violent Islamist extremists in Pakistan who consider the Web a source of moral corruption.
Ghayur said the cafe had received several threats and even been attacked recently by gunmen. He said police were holding suspects in the shooting, but refused to elaborate.
While no jihad movement is anxious to step forward to claim this debacle as their own, Pakistan officials are probing links to Baitullah Mehsud’s Taliban as retaliation for killings in SWAT.
In contrast, a US missile strike was reported to hit a Taliban training camp, killing 25, and Pakistan troops killed dozens of Taliban in another battlefront.
The Religion of Peace strikes again. I reckon there were no Americans available to slaughter in that neck of the woods that day. I wonder is the Police will use the Army FM to question the perps?
No Bloody Likely!
The best way for me to explain why there is no outrage is to quote the manual from Civilization II:
FUNDAMENTALISM
Fundamentalism is a form of government based on the literal, forceful, and uncompromising
interpretation of religious dogma. Fundamentalist societies maintain that their own beliefs
are the only true path to salvation, and tend to be rigidly intolerant of any dissenting view—
a fact which tends to choke off intellectual development. On the other hand, the people in
such societies are often fanatically devoted to their beliefs, and may be willing to die, use
force, or commit great atrocities to preserve them. This unthinking devotion, often
obnoxious to neighboring societies, can be harnessed by a clever and cynical leader.
Attitude: Under Fundamentalism, no citizen is ever unhappy! Improvements that normally
convert unhappy citizens to content citizens produce “tithes” (gold) equivalent to
the number of people they would normally convert, and require no maintenance.
Corruption & Waste: Fundamentalism has very low rates of corruption and waste.
Resource Support: Because of your people’s zeal, each city can support ten military
units at no cost to you. Settlers eat two food per turn. Only fundamentalists can
build Fanatic units, which never require support.
Special Conditions: Under Fundamentalism, tax/luxury/science rates cannot be set
higher than 80 percent. In addition, the rigidity of mindset and emphasis on doctrine
means that all scientific research is HALVED. The diplomatic penalties for “terrorist
acts” (such as bombing city improvements, poisoning wells, and so forth) committed
by Diplomats and Spies is reduced, since the world comes to expect no better.
The last sentence says it best. I know it’s written towards spies/diplomats but the same concept applies here.