Another car bombing in Baghdad took the lives of al least 14 people and injured another 40 in an incident that took place outside a Shiite mosque.

The car exploded outside the al-Taf mosque as the Muslims were celebrating Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, a major holiday in Islam.

A man sitting next to his dead child was crying: “I had breakfast with him this morning. I told him, ‘Let’s go to your grandfather,’ but he insisted on going for prayers first.”

The day before a chief terror leader in Iraq lashed at Shiites in an internet audio recording, targeting promoting political division in the country.

“They broke into the safe houses of God,” Al-Zarqawi, the leader of Iraq’s al-Qaida affiliate speaker said about Shiites. “They defiled them and they hung the photos of their Satan, al-Sistani, on the walls and they spitefully wrote: ‘Today, your land; tomorrow it will be your honour.”’

The attacks on Shiites intensified before the election scheduled for January 30 that are strongly supported by the Shiite majority that makes up 60% of the population. The Shiites believe that the vote will empower their group that remained oppressed for years. Today’s attack was the second run on a Shiite mosque this week.