Bombing at Afghan Mosque Kills Popular Religious Scholar The attack, which killed two people in all, mirrored a Taliban strategy of targeting those with religious influence to exert the militant group’s power far from the battlefield. Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:A Canadian Terrorism Confession on a Times Podcast: the Canada LetterKangaroo Pelted With Rocks Dies in Chinese Zoo, and Fury FliesA Trace of Novichok on Your Salad?Natalie Portman Backs Out of Israeli Award CeremonyA French Honor Not Always for the Honorable; Assad Returns HisThe Saturday Profile: Long Before Cambridge Analytica, a Belief in the ‘Power of the Subliminal’