Muslims worldwide come to grips with a bloody Ramadan

One ISIS-linked attack in Medina at the burial place of Prophet Muhammad killed four security officers and injured five, another bomb targeted a Shiite mosque, and a third hit near a US consulate.

Most of the victims overseas were Muslim.

The Saudi attacks were immediately seized upon by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who used it to call President Barack Obama and his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton as weak on terror.

On July 3, a suicide truck bombing in a bustling Baghdad shopping district killed at least 175 people in one of the deadliest attacks in 13 years of war and insurgency. The explosion killed four security guards and injured four others.

“This is one of the holiest sites in Islam, and for such an attack to take place there, during Ramadan, can be considered a direct attack on Muslims all across the world”, he said. The attack caused outrage in Sunny and Shiite communities.

The first attack occurred near the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah; the attacker killed only himself after detonating an explosive. In Dhaka on July 1, gunmen took hostages at an upscale restaurant popular with foreigners. Hoping to overthrow the Assad regime, many of these states provided weapons and funding to rebel groups in Syria throughout the early years of the civil war, at least some of which inadvertently ended up in the hands of ISIS and other extremist groups.

Here is a list of the major attacks carried out during Ramadan. She further noted that the three attacks seem to be an “organized effort by the perpetrators to coordinate their work”.

“Daesh (an acronym that stands for the Arabic name for the Islamic State, or ISIS) is the cancer that eats at the heart of Islam”, Imam M.A. Azeez told a crowd of several thousand Muslims gathered at McClellan Park Wednesday for the holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

Every time there is a terror attack carried by the Islamic State, a cliched argument that Muslims have is “ISIS is not Islam and they have nothing to do with Islam”. Last Tuesday in Istanbul, three attackers stormed the Ataturk airport and killed 44 civilians after blowing themselves up near travelers.

But the attack in Medina outside the sprawling mosque grounds where the Prophet Muhammad is buried sparked particular disgust.

This could be why there has been no claim of responsibility.

The online Saudi news website akhbaar24 reported on June 26 that this is the fifth killing killing incident of family members by suspected militants in Saudi Arabia since July previous year. The Obama administration continues to claim the uptick in worldwide attacks are a sign ISIS is on the defensive. Islamic State claimed to be behind the attack.

Adnani was referring to the period from 2006 to 2012 when the group’s predecessor, al-Qaeda in Iraq, was almost decimated by USA forces and survived in a almost dormant existence until a new opportunity arose from the political turmoil in Iraq and Syria, McCants said.

The Kuwaiti Cabinet has condemned the recent string of terror attacks that targeted Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Bangladesh.

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And while Muslim religious scholars and leaders always widely condemn the group and its attacks, this one struck a sharper than usual emotional chord.