The ugly face of Islamic fanaticism reveals itself, to drive a wedge in coalition and make it a war of civilization armed assailants on motorcycles attacked worshippers at a church at Bahawalpur on Sunday, killing at least 13 people, police said. Around nine this morning, six people on two motorcycles stormed into the church and sprayed bullets indiscriminately on people inside the church, This disturbance of the Sunday mass is unheard off and really plunges a huge dagger indiscriminately in the heart of our communities. WE have every small town churches and missionaries schools and most of us are trained in these schools this is an attack to bring this as a war between Christianity and Islam, very condemnable act on part of anyone who committed this heinous act today morning on Sunday in Bahawalpur, you all should join me in praying for the souls of the departed, the attack on mosques between warring Shia and Sunnis in very common and have taken 14000 lives so far in last 10 years, this is representative of the Saudi- Iran funded proxy war on poor territory of ours but this today is quite cowardly and act of creating a huge division within our communities living side by side for centuries not only that we feel alienated because these very schools and colleges are our very reason of some semblance of order in our society these schools like St. Patrick has produced people like Musharraf whereas Mullah Omar was produced by one in Akora Khattak Islamic seminary the difference can bee seen.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack or evidence that it was linked to 'growing militancy among Islamic radicals' over US attacks on neighboring Afghanistan.
Sister Anna Bakhshi, the principal of the Bahawalpur convent school, told AFP that the church was owned by the local Roman Catholic community but was being shared by a protestant group. |
