Lightning strikes makeshift mosque in Bangladesh, kills 13

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From Farid Ahmed, for CNN
August 11, 2012 — Updated 0254 GMT (1054 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • A lightning strike occurred as people gathered for evening prayers, police said
  • Lightning struck a tin roof shed that was doubling as a mosque, police said
  • The strike occurred in Saraswati, some 200 kilometers from the capital of Dhaka.

Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) — At least 13 people were killed and 20 wounded when lightning struck a makeshift mosque in a remote village in northeast Bangladesh on Friday, police said.

The lightning strike occurred as people gathered for a special evening prayer known as taraweeh that is conducted during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

“Multiple lightning strikes occurred during a storm when nearly 35 people gathered at a house in the village of Saraswati where they turned a tin roof shed into a makeshift mosque for the month of Ramadan as a regular mosque was far away,” Dharmapasha police chief Bayes Alam told CNN.

The village Saraswati is some 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the capital of Dhaka.

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9 Replies to “Lightning strikes makeshift mosque in Bangladesh, kills 13”

  1. Can it be God is finally had enough of Muslims persecuting Christians? Lets hope this is just the beginning of Gods payback to Islam.

  2. Nope, it’s not God paying back Muslims for persecuting Christians. Any good brainwashed Mohammedan will tell you that God is punishing them for not being Muslim enough.
    Only when God uses natural disasters in infidel lands is he punishing non-believers for not following greaseball Islam!

  3. Certainly that is the right interpretation Softly Bob. You will see a new zeal for Allah in Bangladesh now.

  4. After the tsunami which did most of its damage in the most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, leading imams are on record for saying that allah did this to them because they are not sufficiently committed to jihad.

    So Softly is already correct.

    All I can say is, what a horrible tragedy. Pass the beer.

  5. The paranoia, susceptibility to conspiracy theories, and general suspicious nature of Muslims can be used to our benefit, if we had the heart and minds to do something. Muslim superstition and fear of Allah is one of their weaknesses that would be well worth exploiting. I’m sure that anyone who posts here regularly could think of a few things. I know that I could easily compile a list!

  6. Softly Bob, someone could tell them that Jewish jinns are outfitting the vaginas of female Oslo residents (or, for that matter, infidel women in the West) with THIS.

    Such a threat to the only thing that makes them feel superior for being mahoundians could make them quite scared…

  7. I guarantee that for every time that device is actually used on a rapist, it will be used 400 X on a man lured for that purpose, an ex lover, a cheating spouse, a man being blackmailed or used on a man for whatever reason a woman may feel this is the best weapon. To embarrassing to report and specific in the damage it does.

    The answer is clear for women. Carry a gun. If the left do not like it, they can rename it a gyn if they insist. But it is a clear and time tested remedy. Women are not likely to use a gun on a man for trivial purposes no matter how they feel about him. But they will in self defense. Women should spend a few hours training with hand guns then carry them. Frankly we all should. It boggles the mind that somehow we managed to allow governments to massage us into taking away our most basic of rights. I suppose we can watch our American neighbors now undergoing the same process and at a time they need personal weapons the most since the civil war.

  8. Eeyore you are right about the gun, they make a small woman equal to a big man, and it is unlikely they will be used without provocation, my recommendation is nothing small then a .38 special with the top end being one she is comfortable carrying.

    All studies I have read show that women that resist a rapist with a gun are the least likely to be injured during the incident.

    Make mine a scotch and then drink it for me, my heart meds and pain meds make drinking Russian roulette with half the chambers loaded.