Another tragedy of moderate Muslims targeted by Muslim extremists:

'Two people were killed and seven injured last night when two suicide bombers attacked a restaurant in Istanbul during a meeting of a masonic lodge. One of the bombers was killed and the other injured in the attack, the first in the city since a spate of bombings killed more than 60 people in November...CNN-Turk television said a man chanting "Allah, Allah" entered the building and detonated an explosive. The masons, a highly secretive society which traces its roots back to medieval craft associations, are active in this predominantly Muslim but secular country.'

Tell me again (cf Jenny Tonge MP et al) that the phenomenon of human bombs is caused by 'Israeli oppression', or the 'poverty and despair' of Palestinian refugee camps.

Posted by melanie at March 10, 2004