Kuwait Mosque Hit By Is Suicide Bomb Reopens As Fears Remain

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — The wood paneling bearing Quranic verses gleams inside the Imam Sadiq Mosque and the carpeting is soft underfoot for worshippers who come to pray in what is one of Kuwait's oldest Shiite mosques — and the site of the country's worst militant attack in modern history. The Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the Kuwait bombing, along with the attack in Tunisia. Since that day of carnage, Kuwait has rebuilt the mosque and flooded billboards and social media with calls for unity in this small nation of 3 million people. "Kuwait is certainly not immune to the sectarian tension in the area," Kuwait University political science professor Shafeeq Ghabra said. The Imam Sadiq Mosque, named after a historically revered Shiite figure, is tucked into the capital's al-Sawabir neighborhood on a street of boutique restaurants popular with the oil-rich emirate's chic socialites.

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