On May 2, 2010, the “Westboro Baptist Church,” listed as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, praised the deadly attacks on Christians in Iraq as part of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) blog “GodSmack.”
The “hate group” Westboro Baptist Church praised the attack on Iraqi Christians that led to the death of one Christian shop keeper and injured at least 80 Iraqi Christian students who were traveling on buses when their buses were attacked by multiple bombs. The next day, between 2,500 and 3,000 Iraqi Christians protested the bus bomb attack on Christian students.
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) “hate group” praised this attack on Christians, however, stating “THANK GOD FOR ATTACKS ON ‘CHRISTIAN’ COLLEGE STUDENTS IN IRAQ!”
The WBC “hate group” blog declared “20 busloads of students from ‘Christian’ towns and villages in the Nineveh Plain were heading back to the University of Mosul with Iraqi-soldier-escorts, when car and roadside bombs hit five of the buses, killing an Iraqi and seriously wounding 70 students. ‘I still do not know what they want from Christians.’ GodSmack! The enmity of the citizens of the world against the faithless-false religion fraudulently claiming the name ‘Christianity’ comes from God!”
The WBC “hate group” blog questions the Christianity of Iraqi Christian students who were attacked, putting quotation marks around the word Christian when praising attacks on them.
On April 21, 201, the Dove World Outreach Christian organization expressed their solidarity with the Westboro Baptist Church “hate group.”
Westboro Baptist Church "Hate Group" Praises Attacks on Iraqi Christians
A Wounded Iraqi Christian Woman Gets Medical Care (Photo: AFP)
Fragments of a Blood-Stained Notebook After Targeted Bus Bomb Attack on Christians (Photo: AP)
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our unqualified, universal human rights, including our freedom of religion and the necessary pluralism that such freedoms entail. We urge all those whose hearts are burdened by hate and who promote or praise violence, to unburden their hearts from hate and violence.
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See also reports:
— Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group Praises Shooting of Detroit Police Officer
— Hate Group “Westboro Baptist Church” Cheers on Shooting of NYC Police Officer
— Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group Praises Floods and Tragic Deaths
— Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group Praises Mosque Bombing
— Kansas: “Westboro Baptist Church” Promotes Anti-Semitic Hate Videos – Promotes Holocaust Denial
— NYC: “Westboro Baptist Church” Hate Group Spreads Anti-Semitic Hate
— NYC: “Westboro Baptist” Hate Group to Protest New York Area Synagogues
— Father Of Dead Marine Ordered To Pay Legal Fees Of Westboro Baptist Church “Hate Group” Protesters
— Supreme Court to rule on protests at military funerals by “Westboro Baptist Church” “hate group”
— Dallas, Texas: “Westboro Baptist Church hate group at area Dallas schools”
— Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group Finds Ally in Dove World Outreach