Omar and examples of Islamic worship

Submitted by Infidel (Canada), Jun 25, 2007 at 12:12

Omar mentions that eating is worship, sleeping, doing anything not forbidden in Islam is worship. Unfortunately, Omar forgot to mention some other Muslim behavioral worship patterns. Here are highlights of some more of Islamic worship events:

Palestinian terror attacks and suicide bombings in Israel have not been included because of their sheer number.

1. FEB 26 1993: Six people killed by a 500kg bomb beneath the World Trade Center in New York.

2 DEC 11 1994: Explosion on a Philippine Airlines jet bound for Tokyo killed one and injured ten.

3. JUN 25 1996: Nineteen US servicemen killed in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, when their housing complex was blown up by a suicide bomber.

4. AUG 7 1998: American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania attacked in suicide truck bombings. Around 230 people died.

5. SEP 11 2001: 2,986 people killed as hijacked planes are flown into New York's Twin Towers and the US Pentagon, and in a fourth hijacked airliner.

6. DEC 23 2001: Shoe bomber Richard Reid foiled trying to blow up flight from Paris to Miami.

7. MAR 17 2002: Five people killed when terrorists hurled grenades into a church in Pakistan.

8. APR 11 2002: Twenty one people, including 18 German tourists, killed when an ancient synagogue was bombed in Tunis.

9. OCT 6 2002: French oil tanker, the Limburg, attacked by a suicide speed boat off the coast of Yemen. One crew member died.

10. OCT 12 2002: A bomb in a Bali nightclub killed 202 people, mostly Australians.

11. NOV 28 2002: Sixteen dead, including three bombers, at the Israeli Paradise Hotel in Mombassa, Kenya. Two missiles missed an Israeli plane carrying 200 people.

12. MAY 12 2003: Suicide bombers hit three compounds for foreign workers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 34 dead included nine attackers.

13. MAY 16 2003: Fourteen suicide bombers attacked four targets in the Moroccan capital Casablanca. Forty one people were killed.

14. AUG 5 2003: Twelve killed by car bomb outside Marriott Hotel in Indonesian capital Jakarta.

15. NOV 8 2003: Housing complex in Riyadh attacked by suicide car bomb. Seventeen dead, 100 hurt.

16. NOV 15 2003: Two synagogues in Istanbul attacked, killing 23 and wounding at least 300.

17. NOV 20 2003: Attacks on British Consulate and HSBC bank in Istanbul killed 27 and injured more than 450. Among the dead was Consul-General Roger Scott.

18. MAR 11 2004: In Madrid, TEN bombs remotely detonated on four trains in the rush hour killed 191 commuters and wounded 2,000.

19. MAY 29 2004: Gunmen stormed residential buildings for foreign workers in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Twenty two workers killed.

20. JUN 6 2004: Gunmen attacked a BBC crew in Suweidi, Saudi Arabia. Irish cameraman Simon Cumber was killed and BBC correspondent Frank Gardener injured.

21. JUN 18 2004: American engineer Paul Johnson executed by his kidnappers in Riyadh.

22. OCT 7 2004: At least 40 people killed when three suicide bombings hit resorts on Egypt's Red Sea coast. At the Taba Hilton, a huge car bomb killed at least 30 people.

23. DEC 6 2004: Five staff and four gunmen killed in a raid on US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

24. And of course we should mention over six hundred thousand Muslims killed in Iraq. And no, they were not killed by the Americans, it's the result of sectarian warfare between the Shiites and Sunnis.

May Allah continue to bless Muslims with the Peace of Islam.

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