Bodh Gaya is the holiest site for the Buddhists world over. It was bombed early this morning in a series of Islamic terror attacks. Their most holiest site. The Muslims prohibit the Jews from praying at their most holy site (the Temple mount.) not to mention the false religious claims to Jerusalem. The Muslims are converting one of the most important monuments of Christianity, the 13th-century Church of Hagia Sophia, into a mosque. Tens of thousands of Hindu temples have been destroyed by Muslims.
But Robert Spencer and I are banned from Britian because we discuss such things. Such is poison fruit of a world held hostage by savages.
"Terror attack rocks Bihar's Bodh Gaya, serial blasts at Mahabodhi temple" Hindustan Times, HT Correspondents Gaya/New Delhi, July 07, 2013 (thans to Lookman)
Nine serial blasts in a coordinated terror attack rocked the
Mahabodhi temple complex in south central Bihar's Buddhist pilgrimage
town of Bodh Gaya early on Sunday, injuring two monks.
"It is a
terror attack," Union minister of state for home RPN Singh said about
the blasts that took place between 5:30 and 5:58am.
A
Buddhist monk is carried on a stretcher for treatment after he was
injured in a blast in Bodhgaya, about 140 kilometers southwest of Patna.
AP
Sources in the ministry of home affairs said there had been
intelligence of a possible attack on the temple and Bihar was alerted
last month.
The Intelligence Bureau (IB) had alerted the state that two
terrorists, brothers originally from Bihar but based abroad in recent
years, had entered the state to carry out terror attacks, according to
an official aware about the intelligence input.
According to intelligence sources, Bodh Gaya has been in the
crosshairs of Pakistan-based terrorists, who want to avenge violence
against Rohingya Muslims in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar.
The police said crude explosives were used for the low-intensity
blasts. No structural damage was reported to the 7th century temple,
which is regarded as one of the holiest Buddhist shrines and is a Unesco
World Heritage Site.
Buddhists from all over the world visit
the temple, which has the Bodhi tree under which Buddha is said to have
attained enlightenment.
"The holy Bodhi tree is safe and there is no damage to it," said Bihar director general of police Abhayanand.
While four blasts took place inside the Mahabodhi Temple complex,
three occurred at the Terega monastery, the usual abode of the 17th
Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, whenever he is in town, the police said.
The
Karmapa - head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools
of Tibetan Buddhism - was not in Bodh Gaya at the time of the blasts.
Broken windows at the Bodh Gaya Buddhist temple complex after the blasts. (AFP)
A blast also took place near the base of an 80-feet-tall Buddha
statue and another went off inside an empty tourist bus, bearing Uttar
Pradesh registration, parked close to the temple complex. Gaya City
superintendent of police Chandan Kushwaha said two live bombs were
recovered from the area - one of them near the 80-ft Buddha statue - and
defused.
The Centre rushed experts from the National Investigation
Agency (NIA) and the National Security Guard (NSG) to the site of the
blasts.
An Buddhist monk injured in the blasts receives medical treatment. (AFP)
Arvind Singh, a member of Mahabodhi Temple Management Committee,
said the injured monks - Myanmar national Vilas Ga, 30, and Tibetan
Tenzing Dorjee, 50, were admitted to Magadh Medical College and
Hospital.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar condemned the blasts
and rushed to Bodh Gaya, about 140 km southwest of capital Patna. He
admitted the IB and other security agencies had alerted the state
government about the Mahabodhi temple complex being in terror
crosshairs, but evaded questions on lapse in security.
Kumar said he would request the Centre to deploy the Central
Industrial Security Force (CISF) to take over the security of the temple
complex. "This is the appropriate agency for the job."
Last year, security of the Mahabodhi temple was handed over to the special task force of Bihar Police.
State additional director general of police (law and order) SK
Bhardwaj said prima facie the serial blasts were the handiwork of some
terrorist organisation.
No terrorist outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Gaya is also a Maoist stronghold.
Bodh
Gaya is a high priority area and always has an adequate amount of
security cover. Pilgrims are thoroughly checked before they enter the
temple.
Investigators are trying to ascertain the point of security breach.
Attacks
on Buddhists are rare in India but there have been tensions in the
wider region recently following clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in
Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The complex attracts visitors from around the world during the peak tourist season from October to March