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Muslims would be unlikely to attack like this during Ramadan. ISIS is also a CIA affiliate. This is looking like a US orchestrated operation.

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IDK-I think this article is speculative too, at this point since it's just plain too soon to tell anything certainly with this much certainty.

Flip side : IS did not pose any demand or reason for the attack and I sure can't figure out one.

The Chechen War and Russo-Afgahn Wars are long gone. Russia is sympathetic to Hamas in the Gaza War right now. So, IS attacks Russia when they could have attacked French or Americans in Tajikistan whence the gunmen originated?

Please!

Or, could France or America have staged the whole thing in Tajikistan where IS does have a presence but a precarious one i.e. they'd have enough troubles at home rather than provoke Russia and then never say why. But finding a few Tajik losers wouldn't be hard.

There have been several IS related terrorists attack in Russia recently but no reason to think they weren't more of the same iu.e. Tajik Losers recruited by the CIA.

Punishing Russian voters for re-electing Putin is a typiclly thug Ukrainian-American thing to do and may also intend to turn Russians against Islam in general and Putin's policy regarding Hamas.

Of course, they couldn't say that and maybe that's why no reason was given : a typically clumsy CIA-Mossad False Flag.

I may be wrong. It's too soon to know wnything. But it's hardly "lazy" to look at the obvious.

An RT editor also notes that the on line format used to claim teh attack was one IS hasn't used for years. This is also typically clumsy CIA.

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Thank you for such a level-headed look at an ongoing situation. By comparison , I've been forced to hear the U.S. media, both left and right, screaming conspiracy theories all day. Your article cleared up several questions for me about who might be involved.

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Well I’m glad that X decided to remove my account without reason or warning so I don’t have to witness it. This seems like sound reasoning for now. People go way too far with conspiracy theories in that it becomes way too simplistic.

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A sane analysis at this point in time. Hopefully time will uncover more information, but this analysis is logical for sure at this point in time.

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Yeah just blame the made-up “non-state” actors who did it because they are evil and hate our freedumbz. Very convenient.

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It's no great surprise that Islamic fundamentalists would have done this:

"Playing instruments of music is a great Sin. It is haram to play instruments such as the guitar, piano, tambourine, drums etc. Listening to music is also a great sin. Music as a great sin is reported by Faql ibn Sha'qan from Imam 'Ali ibn Musa ar-Rida عليه السلام :

"And to be engrossed in musical instruments is also one of the great sins."

All the Mujtahids are unanimous in their opinion that the manufacturing, selling and purchasing of musical instruments is haram (forbidden) and any income derived from musical activity is also haram. The transactions involving these (instruments) are invalid (bātil). It is haram to keep instruments of music in one's possession - it is obligatory to destroy them. This is revealed in a lengthy tradition from Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq عليه السلام , as recorded in the book "Tuhaf al-'Uqul". Similarly, Shaykh Hurr al-Amuli (the compiler of the famous collection of hadith entitled Wasa'il ash-Shi'a) records the following tradition from Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq عليه السلام :

"The Almighty Allah has prohibited the manufacturing of all such things that are exclusively used in haram ways; and things that only create evil such as the pipe, flute, chess and all types of instruments of gambling, images and statues. The manufacturing of all such articles is haram."

The Imam عليه السلام concluded, "Thus even learning to sing or play music, teaching it, to be paid for these things, or to be in any way engrossed in these vices is haram." ...

The Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) said: "Verily Allah, the Highest appointed me to guide (mankind) and as a mercy for the entire universe, and commanded me to remove the Mazamir (a type of drum), the Ma'azif (a stringed instrument such as a piano, violin, guitar, etc.), the autar and the awthan as well as the acts of the period of Ignorance." He then said, "Verily the instruments of music, its construction, selling, profit and trading (of them) are all forbidden." (Mustadarak al- Wasa'il, Volume 13, Page 219)

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: يحشر صاحب الطنبور يوم القيامة وهو اسود الوجه وبيده طنبور من نار ، وفوق رأسه سبعون الف ملك بيد كل مقمعه يضربون وجهه ورأسه ويحشر صاحب الغناء من قبره اعمى واخرس وابكم ويحشر الزاي مثل ذلك وصاحب المزمار مثل ذلك وصاحب الدف مثل ذلك

- https://www.al-islam.org/articles/status-music-islam-saleem-bhimji

Interestingly enough, this is from a Shi'a Muslim web page, not a Wahhabl (Sunni) Muslim web page. The Shi'a come mainly from Iran...

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