Something tells me they're not scoring any brownie points for this...

From here:

.By Gideon Long

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber caused carnage at a Shi'ite funeral and guerrillas ambushed a vital fuel convoy outside Baghdad in a wave of attacks that killed nearly 60 people on Wednesday, the bloodiest day in Iraq for weeks.

Car bombs went off in the capital and in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, suggesting a level of coordination that may be a response by Sunni Arab insurgents to last month's largely peaceful parliamentary elections.

The funeral attack was the bloodiest single incident since the vote, killing 36 and wounding 40 in the town of Miqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the capital. The area is rapidly emerging as the most violent in the country, eclipsing the previous hotspots of Falluja and Ramadi to the west of Baghdad.

The victims were gathered at a cemetery to mourn a local member of the Dawa party, headed nationally by Shi'ite Islamist Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

Assailants fired mortar bombs, forcing the mourners to take cover amid the gravestones, before a bomber wearing an explosive vest blew himself up among them, security officials said.

I don't know where these idiots in dirty night shirts think they're going to get by perpetrating violence on other Muslims. I have a feeling that continued stunts such as this will lead to a backlash of the Iraqi people, not against the U.S., but against the murderous thugs who think nothing of wiping out innocent civilians, and touting it as a "holy act."

(Filed under Religion of Peace?)