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Indian Group Claims Responsibility for Bombings
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JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - An unknown Islamist group said on Thursday it set off coordinated blasts that tore through a packed shopping area in a popular Indian tourist city this week, but police say they were still verifying the claim.
Eight bombs, many strapped to bicycles, killed 61 people and injured 216 people in the western city of Jaipur on Tuesday. More.
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Suicide bomb kills 15 in Pakistan
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A suicide bomber, wearing a woman's burka, has
killed at least 15 people in an attack at a busy police checkpoint in
north-west Pakistan,
officials say.
Four policemen were among the dead, and at
least 20 people were injured in the blast in the garrison town of Bannu. More.
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Many Killed in Afgan Bombing
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Up to 80 people have been killed in a suicide bombing outside the Afghan city of Kandahar, in one of the country's deadliest attacks since 2001 More.
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The Rationality of the Islamic Radical Suicide attack phenomenon
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Suicide attacks are not a new phenomenon and they have exponentially increased over the past two decades. Many countries all over the world have been forced to contend with the phenomenon of suicide attacks. Radical Islamic activists chose this method for attacking civilian and military targets in various countries, such as Turkey, Chechnya, Iraq, Britain, USA, Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, India, etc’. In addition, many more plots in other countries were exposed and thwarted before the attackers were able to carry out their plans.
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Saudi religious scholars come out against Al-Qaeda’s use of religious edicts permitting suicide attacks against Muslims
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Dr. Asaf Maliach, ICT Researcher
The Islamic world is divided in its opinion over suicide attacks carried out by Islamic terrorist organizations, especially when the target is other Muslims. In all of the cases, the questions that arise are, first, are suicide attacks permitted in Islam? And the second question is over the alleged reward given to the person who committed suicide, as some Muslims scholars and clerics claim that those who perpetrate suicide attacks win a place in paradise as they are shuhadāa (martyrs). However, there are those clerics and scholars who suggest that suicide attacks are an offense against Allah and those who perpetrate them go to hell. More.
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