A sermon last Friday by a prominent Muslim cleric and Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament openly declared that "the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital," would soon be conquered by Islam.And this guy isn't just some "crazy come lately."
"Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our prophet Muhammad," he added.
Al-Astal last June preached how it was the duty of Palestinian women to martyr themselves by becoming homicide bombers.**********
"The most exalted form of jihad is fighting for the sake of Allah, which means sacrificing one's soul by fighting the enemies head-on, even if it leads to martyrdom."
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More than 50 people have been killed in car bomb explosions in two Iraqi cities, police say.The capricious, unknowable "Will of Allah."
At least 40 people were killed and another 70 were injured in a blast outside a restaurant opposite a court building in Baquba, north of Baghdad.
Shortly afterwards police said a bomb in the city of Ramadi, further west, had killed 13 people. That also targeted a restaurant. About 14 people were reported injured.
However, there have been several attacks already this week. At least 17 people were killed in two bomb attacks near Mosul on Monday, including one which killed 12 members of the Kurdish Peshmerga security force, now part of the Iraqi army, near the Syrian border.
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