AP. updated 8:02 a.m. PT, Fri., Feb. 13, 2009
BAGHDAD – A female suicide bomber attacked a tent filled with women and children resting from a pilgrimage to a Shiite holy city south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 40 people and injuring 60 others, said officials. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq this year and the third straight day of bombings against Shiite pilgrims.

The tent where the bomber detonated her explosives was located on a route to Karbala, where hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims will converge for an important religious ceremony on Monday, said a police official. He spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

I know the Middle East bloggers at FDL go on and on attacking Israel, and the United States at every opportunity on their policies and actions, but there is a deafening silence when it comes to actions of the other side or Arab/Muslim violence against their own people – over 1000 people were killed and thousands more wounded by suicide bombers in Iraq in 2008 – the vast majority killed were innocent civilians -Arabs/moslems targeting and intentionally murdering fellow Arabs/moslems. Where is the Arab world outrage at this, where are the marches throughout European capitals protesting this culture of death and suicide bombing, where is the discussion of it here?
Now is the chance to discuss, and not to somehow twist and turn it into another rant against Israel, or the US. I don’t know if that can be resisted here at FDL, but it would be interesting to discuss Arab violence against fellow Arabs – whether it is Hamas in Gaza rounding up or killing rival Fatah members or moslems in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan or elsewhere attacking fellow moslems .