143 dead in Iraq from "Religion of Peace" on "Religion of Peace" violence:

At least 143 people died in a wave of coordinated attacks on millions of Shi'ite worshippers in Baghdad and Kerbala Tuesday in the bloodiest day in Iraq since Saddam Hussein's fall.

The U.S. military said three suicide bombers killed 58 people in Baghdad around the Kadhimiya mosque, and a suicide bomber and mortars combined to kill at least 85 in Kerbala, a Shi'ite holy city 68 miles south of Baghdad.

The near-simultaneous attacks devastated an annual ritual -- banned under the Sunni Saddam -- during which Shi'ites beat their heads and chests and gash their heads with swords to honor a revered figure killed in battle 1,324 years ago.

In Kerbala, where two million worshippers had gathered, rescuers raced through the streets with bodies laden two or three high onto wooden vegetable carts, desperately searching for a doctor or an ambulance.

Shi'ites who earlier had gashed open their heads with swords queued up to give blood to the wounded.

Does anyone remember when we were derided for bombing during Ramadan?

There's plenty more here, here, and here. Tim Blair asks the question:

If fundamentalists can’t kill infidel westerners overseas, they kill Muslims in the Middle East. Anyone care to suggest a “root cause” that these Muslims should blame for their deaths? What have the Shi’ites done to make Islamic suicide killers hate them so?

And some nice pictures of the Shi'ite ritual here.