Mosques Under Attack - Heard About It?

No, not the one in Kfar Yassuf (here and here)

These, thanks to CNS:

On December 3, militants stormed a mosque crowded with 150 men, women and children in Rawalpindi, Pakistan’s garrison city near Islamabad. After throwing grenades and firing indiscriminately, two suicide bombers detonated their charges. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least 36 people and wounded 75. The OIC Web site shows no reaction from Ihsanoglu.

Shi’ite mosques in Iraq have been a particularly popular target for terrorists in recent years, with many of the attacks occurring around the busiest times, such as Friday prayers. They include the following:

2009

-- On October 16, at least 11 people were killed and 70 others were injured in a suicide bombing of a Shia mosque near Mosul during Friday prayers. Ihsanoglu did not issue a statement.

-- On Friday, July 31, a string of bombing targeting Shiite worshippers at mosques across Baghdad killed 29 people and wounded more than 136. Ihsanoglu issued a statement on that occasion, expressing “indignation and repulsion,” and stressing that “Islamic principles … sanctify human life.”

-- On June 20, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive-laden truck as crowds of worshippers were leaving the Shiite al-Rasul mosque in Taza, near Kirkuk. At least 73 people were killed and more than 250 wounded. Ihsanoglu did not issue a statement about the attack (although a week later he did issue a general one about “the upsurge of violence” in Iraq, but with no reference to the mosque being targeted or desecrated.)

2007

-- On June 19, a car bomb exploded in front of the Shiite Khilani mosque in central Baghdad, killing around 80 people, and wounding 200. Ihsanoglu did not issue a statement.

-- On April 28, one of the holiest shrines in Shia Islam, the Imam Abbas mosque in Karbala, was bombed as people headed to evening prayers. At least 58 people were killed and more than 160 injured. The OIC released no statement.

-- A fortnight earlier, on April 14, a car bombing at the Imam Hussein shrine, also in Karbala, killed 47 people and wounded more than 160 others. Ihsanoglu again did not issue a statement.

2006

-- On April 7, the Buratha mosque in the north of the city was targeted by three suicide bombers, at least two of them dressed as women, after Friday prayers. The attack left 85 people dead and 160 injured. Ihsanoglu issued no statement.

-- On February 22, the golden dome of one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, the al-Askari mosque in Samarra, was destroyed in a bomb attack. The OIC did not comment publicly. (On June 13, 2007, the same building was targeted a second time. Although no deaths were reported, the mosque’s two ten-story tall minarets – which had survived the first attack – were destroyed. This time Ihsanoglu did issue a statement, urging Muslims “to shun all causes of discord among Islamic doctrines.”)