I’ve always said that the first and indeed the most numerous victims of Islamic violence are mostly Muslims themselves. Whether it be low level intra-familial or intra-communal violence aimed at oppressing women or free thinkers or Islamic reformers, or higher level inter-communal violence aimed at Muslims of a different persuasion by other Muslims, the first targets of Islamic extremists are normally other followers of Islam.

In the West we mostly concentrate our attention and our concern on attacks on non-Muslims but in much of the Islamic world, Muslims make up the majority of the victims of Islamic violence.

A good example of the sort of inter-communal violence that plagues the Islamic world comes from Afghanistan where a bomb attack on a Shia mosque has killed 33 people and wounded 73. At this point in time there’s no indication as to who the perpetrator is but knowing what the target is makes it likely that it was a Sunni extremist group.

Sky News said:

At least 33 people have been killed in an explosion at a mosque in southern Afghanistan, according to a health official.

The blast happened in the Kandahar region during Friday prayers at a Shia mosque, with 73 believed to be wounded, officials say.

The interior minister’s spokesman, Qari Saeed Khosti, said authorities were collecting details of the explosion, which occurred days after the Islamic State claimed a bombing at a Shia mosque in the northern city of Kunduz that killed several people.

This attack and those like it in Afghanistan should disabuse the naive of any ideas they might have had that handing Afghanistan over to the Taliban might bring about some form of peace. All that has happened is that age old inter-communal religious conflicts have erupted again and seventh century hatreds have started to claim lives again now that the Americans and the British have left.

Innocent people have yet again died because the so called ‘religion of peace’ has done everything but bring peace to Afghanistan.