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| This week on the record of the RELIGION of PIECES 2019.08.14 (Chad) A female suicide bomber slaughters a half-dozen bystanders. Sources told Reuters news agency that the attacker walked into the compound and detonated her bomb just as people were preparing to go to bed. 2019.08.13 (Australia) A convert to Islam slits the throat of a prostitute while yelling praises to Allah. A blood-soaked man screaming 'Allahu Akbar' has gone on a rampage with a butcher's knife through central Sydney - killing a 21-year-old woman inside a unit and stabbing another in the back at a nearby pub. 2019.08.12 (Philippines) A 2-year-old girl is among three killed by Abu Sayyaf gunmen. Islamist militants in the southern Philippines as the country marked the feast of Eid al-Adha. The soldiers were travelling on a motorcycle along a busy road in Talipao town in Sulu province, 1,000 kilometres south of Manila, on Monday when suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group opened fire at them. 2019.08.11 (Nigeria) Boko Haram murder two men and cut the ears off one women. Eight people, including three soldiers, were killed in jihadist attacks on an army base and village in northeast Nigeria ahead of Monday's Eid al-Adha festival. Three troops and three civilians died on Saturday when fighters from the IS-aligned Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group attacked a base in Gubio, a town 80km from the regional capital Maiduguri, two sources said on Sunday. 2019.08.10 (Mozambique) Three civilians are burned alive by Islamic extremists. According to Tuesday's issue of the independent newssheet "Carta de Mocambique", 15 of the dead were insurgents killed in a single clash with the Mozambican forces last Wednesday at Ntuleni village in Palma district. 2019.08.10 (Libya) Three UN staffers are felled by a car bomb blast outside a mall. A bomb-laden vehicle exploded Saturday outside a shopping mall in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least three U.N. staff members, a spokesman for the United Nations secretary-general said. The attack came even as the country's warring sides said they accepted a cease-fire proposed by the U.N. aimed at halting combat in the capital Tripoli during an upcoming Muslim holiday. |