Baku, Azerbaijan, Hit by Terrorist Attack
One day after the group of reporters of which I was a part that visited Azerbaijan for a conference and information tour left its capital Baku, it has been attacked by terrorists.
As Andrew Breitbart wrote in his column for the Washington Times linked to below Azerbaijan supports the U.S. in the war on terror. Since it is a Moslem country extremists Moslems consider it to be more of an enemy than the West; Azerbaijanis are traitors to them.
The strange thing with the terrorist attack in Baku, however, is that it took place in a mosque considered to be a gathering place for extremists. Fundamentalists Moslems were gathered to perform there evening prayers when someone threw two handgranades in the mosque. This is strange because moderate, not extremists, Moslems are attacked normally.
Since I am no longer in Azerbaijan I cannot give more specifics right now, nor a response from the government. I have asked them for a response, however. It will be posted when it comes in.
Azerbaijan’s government is strictly secular, and considers extremists to be a major potential problem. They are actively trying to keep extremists from gaining any influence or power.
One wonders whether the terrorists were members of another extremist sect or not. As I understand it, the bombing took place in the Salafi mosque in Baku. It could very well be that Shiite extremists decided to take some of their archenemies out. Of course there are other options – radical secularists for instance.
H/t Michael Totten
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