Medina bombing is an assault on Islam itself
Medina is a city eclipsed only by Mecca in the Muslim's sacred imagination.
Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on Medina's Great Mosque, usually before or after the hajj pilgrimage, or during the last ten nights of Ramadan, keen to visit the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed, to pray in his mosque, to sit where he once sat, in this holiest time of year.
That very same mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber in these last nights of Ramadan.
Though there is yet no claim of responsibility, it seems hard to imagine that anyone but ISIS was behind the attack.… Seguir leyendo »