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Lebanese city of Tripoli rocked by deadly explosions

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on: August 23, 2013, 04:18:53 pm

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After the blast people ran through the streets trying to carry wounded people to safety.

At least 27 people have been killed and more than 350 injured by two blasts in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, officials say.

As Friday prayers ended, a blast hit the al-Taqwa mosque, usually attended by prominent Sunni cleric Sheikh Salem Rafii. He was unharmed.

A second blast five minutes later hit the al-Salam mosque.

War in neighbouring Syria has raised sectarian tensions between the city's Sunni Muslim and Alawite communities.

'Like an earthquake'
Sheikh Salem Rafii is one of the most prominent Sunni leaders in Lebanon, BBC Arabic reports from Beirut, and is believed to be a possible target of the attack.

He is opposed to Lebanon's militant Shia Hezbollah group and has previously urged the country's young men to join opposition fighters in Syria.

It is not clear whether he was at the mosque at the time of the attack, although some reports say he was giving a sermon.

The BBC's Yolande Knell in Beirut says the cleric is expected to issue a statement after meeting the Muslim Clerics' Council, the umbrella body for Lebanese Sunni leaders.

Ambulances rushed to the aftermath of the blasts and heavy black smoke covered the sky.


"It was as if there was an earthquake, the whole city seemed to be shaking," a local resident told Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper.

Television pictures showed damaged cars on fire, with their windows smashed, and people running through the streets trying to carry wounded people to safety.

Bodies could be seen on the ground and windows were broken on surrounding apartment blocks.

The Associated Press reported that the preacher at the al-Salam mosque - the site of the second explosion - is also an opponent of the Syrian government and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah.

No group has taken responsibility for the latest attacks.

Tripoli, a city of nearly 200,000 people and Lebanon's second largest, is one of the country's most volatile sectarian fault lines, with a small Alawite population living in the midst of a Sunni majority.

The Alawite community tend to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with Sunnis mostly backing the rebels fighting him.

The bombs come a week after a massive car bomb rocked a Shia district of Beirut, leaving dozens dead. The area hit contained Hezbollah strongholds.

Outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, condemned the latest deadly explosions, saying they aimed to "incite strife" and "drag Tripoli and it sons into reactionary moves".


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Reply #1 on: August 23, 2013, 08:36:53 pm
I'm confused, are the people bombing the mosques Muslims, if so shouldn't they be praying in them instead?

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Reply #2 on: August 23, 2013, 09:46:28 pm
I'm confused, are the people bombing the mosques Muslims, if so shouldn't they be praying in them instead?

Just like in Christianity, there are sects. Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims have been fighting each other for a long time, first in Iraq, now in Syria and in Lebanon. Hezbollah is a Shia militant group, whilst there are Sunni aka Islamist militant groups linked to Al Qaeda actively fighting in Syria and Lebanon.



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Reply #3 on: August 23, 2013, 10:20:58 pm
Just like in Christianity, there are sects. Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims have been fighting each other for a long time, first in Iraq, now in Syria and in Lebanon. Hezbollah is a Shia militant group, whilst there are Sunni aka Islamist militant groups linked to Al Qaeda actively fighting in Syria and Lebanon.
Yet they are all Islamic religion and all bomb eachother, I'm sure 'god' will be pleased with that.

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Reply #4 on: August 23, 2013, 10:35:23 pm
Yet they are all Islamic religion and all bomb eachother, I'm sure 'god' will be pleased with that.
We're both christians but still not the same, I'm Orthodox and you're Catholic (I guess) there's a big difference in that.

It's all like Dolfa said



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Reply #5 on: August 23, 2013, 10:45:53 pm
We're both christians but still not the same, I'm Orthodox and you're Catholic (I guess) there's a big difference in that.

It's all like Dolfa said
I'm Atheist, where did you get the idea I was catholic? Christmas is still good though, we will keep that.

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Reply #6 on: August 24, 2013, 01:11:04 am
where did you get the idea I was catholic?
You're from UK
you're Catholic (I guess)



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Reply #7 on: August 24, 2013, 10:22:58 am
You're from UK

In the 2011 Census, Christianity was the largest religious group in England and Wales with 33.2 million people identifying with the religion, a decrease of 4.1 million from 2001 (from 72% to 59% of the usual resident population). Muslims made up the second largest religious group with 2.7 million people, an increase of 1.2 million (from 3% to 5% of the population). The number of people who reported that they did not have a religion reached 14.1 million people, an increase of 6.4 million (from 15% to 25% of the population).

Not everyone is Christian



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Reply #8 on: August 24, 2013, 12:39:58 pm
God bless you Tripoli <3

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Reply #10 on: August 24, 2013, 06:47:02 pm
Muslims made up the second largest religious group with 2.7 million people, an increase of 1.2 million (from 3% to 5% of the population).
I once heard the Muslim ideology was to actually out-breed and over take the rest of the human race, wether that was true or not I don't know, but clearly theres something going on here, I mean how can our population go from barely 1,000 Muslims to a whole 5% of the population within 100 years? That's fucking insane man, no wonder there arnt any British taxi drivers left. =\
Typical of migrants to take the easiest job, sitting on their arse driving round all day, not breaking a swet or getting dirty.


OKAY!

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Reply #11 on: August 24, 2013, 07:52:13 pm
Typical of migrants to take the easiest job, sitting on their arse driving round all day, not breaking a swet or getting dirty.
OKAY!

You will always criticize whatever a guy does, as long as he's Muslim.


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Reply #12 on: August 24, 2013, 08:20:01 pm
You will always criticize whatever a guy does, as long as he's Muslim.
OKAY!

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Reply #13 on: August 26, 2013, 10:06:07 pm
At least 42 people have been killed and more than 400 wounded... May the dead rest in peace.



 


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