Heavily armed militants opened fire on the United States Embassy in Sana, Yemen, on Wednesday and detonated a car bomb at its gates, in an attack that left at least 16 people dead including six of the attackers, Yemeni officials said.
Yemeni soldiers took up positions in front of the U.S. Embassy in Sana on Wednesday.
No Americans were killed or wounded in the blast or when guards began to return fire, said a Yemeni official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Yemeni security officials and witnesses said the death toll was at least 16, including four bystanders, one of them an Indian woman. The other dead were six attackers and six security guards, the Yemeni officials said, speaking in return for anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters
I was aware of the different sects of Islam. I’m not intimately familiar with any of them, but I am aware of their existence. I’m not sure of their origins other than the clearly racial qualities (Shi’ite vs Sunni, Arabs vs Persians). What I meant by Luther’s influence was more of a secularization of the church which followed. Luther’s notice “Hang on a minute!” Actually, he was German so, “Ein minuten bitte! Ich habe einen klienen problemo avec diese religioni.” (yes I stole the line)…was pointed towards the corruption in the church hierarchy itself. I’m unaware of this ever happening in Islam. There were breaks in the Christian church that had nothing to do with this particular event (Roman Catholic/Greek Orthodox).
Islam has become much more intolerant and “backwards” if you will in recent years. Fanaticism seems to be the order of the day. Again, it is a minority…but their minority seems vast compared to the Christian minority of abortionist killers.
Islam does not have to be fanatical at all, I agree with you. There are tolerant and good Muslims living all around the world. It is Muslims who’s culture have been controlled by the “church” for generations that are more and more intolerant and backwards.
I will disagree with you on intolerant forms of Christianity being on the rise. I think they’ve always been there…the fringe elements. I just think in today’s 24-hour news and internet culture they are just more visible.
It’s easy to just blog events. Why aren’t there any tech/poli stories about the future of “virtual embassies”??? Am I gonna have to start a media empire here, or what??
Hiya Calin:
Fair point. I see what you mean now. I wonder if part of the reason why Islam hasn’t had a ‘Martin Luther’ moment of questions is because the clerics have never quite held the same power as Catholic/Orthodox clergy do. Theoretically, according to Islam, anyone can speak directly to Allah whereas in medieval Christianity, the clergy were built up to be a necessary intermediary between God and his followers. I think the current power of the clergy is a fairly modern development in Islam, but I may be wrong about that….
Whats Islam got to do with this? Its war and in war there is no religion or nationalities, its just your interests versus mine. Im proud to be a Muslim and it is a religion of peace that non muslims dont understand. First study about religion then spit your nonsense here, most of you are damn atheists.
“No Americans were killed, that’s the good news.”
Isn’t this the definition of “moral relativism”…?
PB&Jam — You could be right about that. I think the intermediary in Christianity from that period derived from the necessity of the priest class to translate/interpret the word. I’m unsure if that sort of circumstance ever took place in the Muslim world.
#34– The U.S. is at war with Yemen? Since when?