The attack came during the Friday prayer, killed 21 people and injured more than 100.
ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 24 May 2015
JEDDAH: While millions of Saudis were sharing the usual Friday messages of prayers and religious verses, terrorists, particularly from Mesopotamia, were sending messages about bombing in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Even before Saudis circulated the news of the devastating suicide blast in a mosque at Al-Qadeeh in Qatif, tweeters claiming to be IS representatives were posting messages of the mosque attack, claiming responsibility for the criminal and cowardly act.
Photos of bodies strewn all around in the mosque were circulated by terrorists and their sympathizers, expressing pleasure and delight at the “victory.”
A tweet remarked “good news” that one of them carried out a suicide attack inside “a polytheistic worship house.”
Some of the tweets mocked at the condemnation of the attack by Saudis on social media.
Ahmad Al-Mokly, a researcher in terrorism affairs, has been quoted as saying by local media that such tweets are not strange. They are coming from Iraq and Syria, where the group has grabbed many areas, the latest being Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria, he said.
“Some misled Saudis who have joined IS have their hearts still attached to Saudi Arabia, not for the love of their country and people, but to spell the blood of innocents for the love of God, as they claim,” he said.
Al-Mokly said that some of the twitters may have been involved in Friday’s attack in some way or the other, either in planning or training the bomber. “It is possible that the man who carried out the suicide blast himself posted the tweets before the attack. These groups seldom assign a Saudi leader,” he added.
Al-Molky said the group (IS) seeks to wreak havoc in Saudi Arabia. “First, the group targeted individuals such as foreigners and security members. But such targets did not achieve their goals, so they are now targeting the regions with Shia populations, with the sole intention of dividing Shias and Sunnis,” he added.
DON'T LOOK NOW, GUY, BUT THERE'S BEEN DIVISION BETWEEN SUNNIS AND SHIAS SINCE BOTH CAME INTO BEING!
WHY PRETEND OTHERWISE?
YOU JUST ADMITTED SOME SAUDIS HAVE JOINED THE ISLAMIC STATE, SO ADMIT THE REST.
Family members of victims and well wishers are seen after a suicide bomb attack at the Imam Ali mosque in the village of al-Qadeeh in the eastern province of Gatif, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. (Reuters)
IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT, SINCE ISIS/ISIL HAS CLAIMED TO BE BEHIND THIS SUICIDE BOMBING, THAT SUNNI SAUDIS WHO ARE HARDLINERS AGAINST THE SHIITE SECT COULD REALLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS TO BOMB AS MANY MOSQUES AS THEY PLEASE AND BLAME IT FOREVER ON THE ISLAMIC STATE.
I WONDER IF THAT HAS CROSSED THE MINDS OF THE SHIA MOSQUE ATTENDEES?
I ALSO FIND IT ODD THAT THE FIRST ISLAMIC STATE ATTACK INSIDE SAUDI ARABIA WAS AGAINST ANYONE BUT THE SAUDI MONARCHY, WHICH ISIS/SL HAS VOWED TO ERASE FROM THE EARTH, KILL TO THE LAST MAN.
IT WAS THE SUNNI MONARCHS WHOM ISIS SAID WERE THE REPROBATES, THE HERETICS, THOSE WHO ABANDONED THE PURE WAHHABI SECT THAT ISIS CLAIMS IT UPHOLDS.
TRUE, THE SAUDI MONARCHY ALLOWS THE WORSHIP AT MECCA, THE ENCIRCLING OF THE BLACK STONE, BY ALL WHO CARE TO GO THERE.
Musaed Al-Zayani, a Saud journalist based in Dubai, said that he believes foreigners are involved in the attack, who are intent on driving a wedge between Sunnis and Shiites to create civil disturbances in the country. “The government should take every measure to bring this situation under control,” he said.
OH, GO AHEAD, NAME NAMES, TELL US IT'S THE GREAT STAN, AMERICA, OR SATAN 2, GREAT BRITAIN, OR MAYBE THOSE ISRAELIS?
ANYBODY BUT FELLOW MUSLIMS, RIGHT, GUY?
Naif Al-Rasheed, a Riyadh-based Saudi journalist, said the Kingdom should take stern action against those wanting to disrupt the lives of people in public places.
Seyed Hamid Moulana, a freelance journalist, said: “We strongly condemn those behind the tragedy in the eastern part of the Kingdom. We believe there is a foreign hand involved to create unrest in this peaceful country.
AGAIN WITH THE "FOREIGN HAND"?
METHINKS THEY DO PROTEST TOO MUCH!
MAYBE, DARE WE IMAGINE, THIS WAS DONE TO STIR UP THE SHIA SECT TO ARMOR UP AND GO OUT AGAINST ISIS AND BE THE FIRST SAUDIS TO DIE ON SAUDI SOIL WHILE PROTECTING THE MONARCHY?
We are certain that patriotic citizens and loyal expatriates will stand solidly behind the security forces to maintain peace and harmony in the country.”
"EXPATRIATES"? OHHH, YOU MEAN THOSE WHO HAVE JOINED ISIS?
He said people should not be “misled by some mischievous foreign media houses that are hell bent on creating unrest in the region.
"We are absolutely certain that neither Saudis nor expatriates are hoodwinked by these kinds of unfortunate incidents resulting in innocent deaths. We repeat that there is a foreign hand involved and the truth will be revealed by the security forces very soon.”
RIIIIGHT, OKAY, REVEAL AWAY!
TELL THE SHIITE MOSQUES TO LOOK OUT FOR....WHOM?
SAUDI SUNNIS?
SAUDI SUNNIS?
SAUDI GOVERNMENT 'STORM TROOPERS'?
OR ISIS?
REVEAL TO US HOW SAUDI WAHHABISM IS THE MOTHER OF ISIS?
OR, AS HUFFINGTON POST PUT IT,
"How Saudi Wahhabism Is the Fountainhead of Islamist Terrorism"
"No matter which organizational connections (if any) ultimately prove to be real, one thing is clear: the fountainhead of Islamic extremism that promotes and legitimizes such violence lies with the fanatical "Wahhabi" strain of Islam centered in Saudi Arabia. And if the world wants to tamp down and eliminate such violent extremism, it must confront this primary host and facilitator.
It would be troublesome but perhaps acceptable for the House of Saud to promote the intolerant and extremist Wahhabi creed just domestically. But, unfortunately, for decades the Saudis have also lavishly financed its propagation abroad. Exact numbers are not known, but it is thought that more than $100 billion have been spent on exporting fanatical Wahhabism to various much poorer Muslim nations worldwide over the past three decades. It might well be twice that number.
By comparison, the Soviets spent about $7 billion spreading communism worldwide in the 70 years from 1921 and 1991."
This appears to be a monumental campaign to bulldoze the more moderate strains of Islam, and replace them with the theo-fascist Saudi variety. Despite being well aware of the issue, Western powers continue to coddle the Saudis or, at most, protest meekly from time to time.
For instance, a Wikileaks cable clearly quotes then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying "donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide." She continues: "More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaeda, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups." And it's not just the Saudis: Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are also implicated in the memo. Other cables released by Wikileaks outline how Saudi front companies are also used to fund terrorism abroad. "
THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
Late last year, Vice President Biden caused a stir by undiplomatically speaking the truth at an event at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, saying:
"Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends... [and] the Saudis, the Emirates, etcetera. What were they doing?.... They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad -- except that the people who were being supplied, [they] were al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda, and the extremist elements of jihadis who were coming from other parts of the world."
More recently, the Saudi role in promoting extremism has come under renewed scrutiny. Calls for declassifying the redacted 28 pages of the 9/11 congressional commission have been getting stronger. And statements from the lead author of the report, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, suggest they are being hidden because they "point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as the principal financier" of the 9/11 hijackers. He has been unusually explicit, "Saudi Arabia has not stopped its interest in spreading extreme Wahhabism. ISIS...is a product of Saudi ideals, Saudi money and Saudi organizational support, although now they are making a pretense of being very anti-ISIS."
In fact, Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, made a similar observation about her husband's flogging: "the Saudi government is behaving like Daesh [a derogatory Arabic term for ISIS]." About 2,500 Saudis are thought to be in ISIS' ranks."
THAT'S REALLY SINISTER, YES?
I HOPE YOU FIND TIME TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE <HERE>, AS IT WAS WRITTEN BY DR. YOUSAF BUTT, A MAN WITH QUITE IMPRESSIVE CREDENTIALS AS ONE MAY SEE ON HIS LINKEDIN PAGE <HERE>.
I BELIEVE HE IS OF PAKISTANI LINEAGE AND IS CONSIDERED A "MODERATE MUSLIM".
"No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, the first to target Shi'ite Muslims in Saudi Arabia since November when gunmen killed at least eight people in an attack on a Shi'ite religious anniversary celebration, also in the east.
[WONDER WHY ISIS DIDN'T CLAIM THAT ONE?
[WONDER WHY ISIS DIDN'T CLAIM THAT ONE?
TOO OBVIOUS WHERE IT CAME FROM?]
The attack could further harm relations between Sunnis and Shi'ites in the Gulf region, where tensions have risen during weeks of military operations in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition against Shi'ite Houthi fighters seen as proxies of regional Shi'ite power Iran.
State news agency SPA quoted a security spokesman confirming an explosion at a mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, where most of the country's minority Shi'ites live.
A spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry could not immediately be reached for comment."
"Islamic State said in a statement that one of its suicide bombers, identified as Abu 'Ammar al-Najdi, carried out the attack using an explosives-laden belt that killed or wounded 250 people, U.S.-based monitoring group SITE said on its Twitter account.
It said it would not rest until Shi'ites, which the group views as heretics, were driven from the Arabian peninsula.
Saudi officials have said the group is trying hard to attack the kingdom, which as the world's top oil exporter, birthplace of Islam and champion of conservative Sunni doctrine, represents an important ally for Western countries battling Islamic State and a symbolic target for the militant group itself.
In November the Islamic State's Sunni group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called for attacks against the Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia, which has declared Islamic State a terrorist organisation, joined international air strikes against it, and mobilised top clergy to denounce it.
Last week Baghdadi issued another speech laden with derogatory comments about the Saudi leadership and the country's Shi'ite minority.
In Beirut, Lebanon's Hezbollah, an ally of Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran, condemned the attack but said authorities in the kingdom itself bore responsibility.
"Hezbollah holds the Saudi authorities fully responsible for this ugly crime, for its embrace and sponsorship for these criminal murderers ... to carry out similar crimes in other Arab and Muslim countries," the Shi'ite group said in a statement.
The statement appeared to echo Iranian accusations that Saudi Arabia sponsors ultra-orthodox Sunni militant groups in the region, an allegation usually taken to refer to groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda.
Riyadh denies the allegations."
I DEEPLY REGRET SENSELESS LOSS OF LIFE IN SECTARIAN VIOLENCE ACROSS THE GLOBE.
IT IS VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHY FELLOW MUSLIMS ARE AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER, BUT MAYBE IT'S LIKE THE PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS BATTLING EACH OTHER FOR SO LONG, AND EVEN STILL, IN A FEW PLACES ON EARTH.
I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT, EITHER.
THERE REALLY IS NO ORGANIZED "RELIGION OF PEACE" IS THERE?...NOWHERE CAN PEACE BE FOUND .
OVER 13 CENTURIES OF NONSTOP WAR!
I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE THAT.
SUNNIS MAKE UP BETWEEN 85%-90% OF ISLAM, AND SHIA BETWEEN 10%-15%.
MAYBE BEING SO OUTNUMBERED MAKES SHIA PEOPLE INCESSANTLY NERVOUS AND SUNNIS OVERLY AGGRESSIVE?
I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY IRAQ AND IRAN WERE SUCH ENEMIES AS BOTH NATIONS ARE PREDOMINANTLY SHI'ITE.
THE LONG WAR BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS IS ANOTHER PUZZLE.
ABRAHAM MADE HIS CHOICE OF HEIRS, AND NEITHER SON, ISHMAEL NOR ISAAC HAD ANYTHING TO WITH ABRAHAM'S CHOICE, NEITHER WAS TO BLAME.
ISIS SAYS IT HAS REACHED IN AND TOUCHED SAUDI ARABIA... WITH DEATH.
HOW LONG BEFORE THE HOUSE OF SAUD MEETS DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE?
MAYBE THE MONARCHS CAN BUY THEIR WAY OUT OF THE VOW THE LEADERS OF ISIS MADE TO KILL THEM ALL?
WHAT ABOUT THE CITIZENS OF SAUDI ARABIA?
TIME WILL TELL.
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