Supposedly timed to go off when prayers started, only prayers started an hour later than normal.
I guess Allah was protecting them ...
OR,
the nail bomb was set off by some Muslim affiliated with the Mosque who already knew prayers would be starting late because of Rama-lama-ding-dong.
Fuck Islam.
From the Telegraph:
The homemade device exploded near the Kanz Ul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton, West Midlands, shortly after 1pm – when up to 200 worshippers would normally have been in the area for Friday prayers.
However, the prayers had been moved back an hour because of Ramadan and no one was injured in the blast.
The bomb, which was left on a disused railway line behind the mosque, showered the area with nails and other debris.
Police were last night treating the explosion as a terrorist incident and were investigating whether there are any links to a small explosion near a mosque in nearby Walsall last month.
Officers were also examining whether there is any connection to right wing extremists.
It was being treated as a suspected terror attack because of the size of the explosion, the fact nails were included and it appeared to have been timed to coincide with the Friday prayers.
One police source said such factors "appear to indicate at this stage intent to cause serious injury or damage".
Residents in Tipton believed the attack had also been timed to coincide with the day of the funeral of Drummer Rigby in Bury.
The soldier died in an alleged Islamic terror attack in Woolwich, east London, in May.
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Can't have Lee Rigby's funeral drive sympathies during the days news cycle.
If the suffering of the monthly fast during Ramadan isn't enough to dominate the news cycle, damn it, a bomb that damages nothing and hurts no-one even when planted outside a mosque will!
"Alleged Islamic Terror attack"
Fuck the Telegraph, there was nothing alleged about that attack. It was witnessed by 100's, if there were justice he would have been taken straight to the hangman.
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