From The Religion Of Peace

Afghanistan: Taliban murder 170 people in 17 attacks on mosques and gurudwaras since last October

JUL 21, 2020 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER7 COMMENTS

Jihadi attacks on mosques are often invoked by mainstream counterterror analysts and Islamic apologists (if there is a difference there) as evidence that the jihadis are themselves un-Islamic. Actually, jihadis attack mosques because they consider the people in them to be insufficiently Islamic, or to be heretics or apostates in some way.

“Afghanistan- 442 killed, injured in 17 attacks on worship places,” MEMAFN, July 18, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

KABUL: The Independent Human Rights Commission says that 17 armed attacks were carried out against mosques, gurudwaras and other worship places as well as prayer leaders and other worshippers since last October.

It said that 170 people were killed in these attacks, while 272 more were wounded.

The commission said Saturday in a report that five prayer leaders and 14 children were among the dead and 22 more children were injured.

In an attack claimed by the Daesh terrorist group on a mosque in Nangarhar province, 64 civilians were killed and 34 including five children wounded in October 2019.

According to the report, another attack this time on a Sikh worship place (gurudwara) in old part of Kabul city, 25 worshippers including women and children were killed and 12 injured. The gurudwara attack was also carried out by Daesh.

A mullah was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kabul’s PD 6 in the holy month of Ramadan, the report says….