Because after all, what are women for? From AP, with thanks to OBH: A farmer fatally shot two of his teenage daughters in a remote Pakistan village after one did not immediately serve him a glass of water when he returned from working in the fields, police said Friday. The 47-year-old man shot his 18-year-old […]
Archives for 2005
Pakistan denies terrorist camps exist after arrests in California
From the Bridge for Sale Department: Terrorist lamps, you say? No, we don’t know anything about any — oh, terrorist camps! Of course! In Pakistan? Why, the very idea is preposterous! Universities of jihad? Well, yes, but of course, jihad is an inner spiritual struggle! From AP, with thanks to AP, with thanks to Skeetstreet: […]
UAE: 1-Year Jail for Kissing Couple
Sharia alert from the Arab News, with thanks to Designnut: SHARJAH, 4 June 2005 “” An unmarried Indian couple have been sentenced to one year in prison for hugging and kissing in a taxi in the Emirate of Fujairah in the north of the UAE. A report in the local press identified the man as […]
Pakistan court orders 12 men freed in gang rape
A horrifying story from Reuters (thanks to Mackie): LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani court on Friday ordered the release next week of 12 men connected to a notorious gang-rape case, including six convicted of the crime, court officials said. The men, detained in connection with the 2002 rape of Mukhataran Mai, were ordered to […]
Osama’s Road to Riches and Terror
Saudi double game update from Spiegel Online, : The Bin Laden family disowned black sheep Osama in 1994. But have they really broken with the mega-terrorist? Recently revealed classified documents seem to suggest otherwise. Osama’s violent career has been made possible in part by the generosity of his family — and by his contacts with […]
Indictment: Saudi Pair in Colo. Kept Slave
Sharia slavery update from AP, with thanks to Mackie: A Saudi Arabian couple was in custody Friday, accused of turning a young Indonesian woman into a virtual slave, forcing her to clean, cook and care for their children while she was threatened and sexually assaulted. Sexually assaulted? “And all married women (are forbidden unto you) […]
A statement from Zayead Christopher Hajaig
I have posted two stories about Zayead Christopher Hajaig: “Weapons Belonging to Terror Suspect Found” and “Atlanta: Alert issued for ex-flight school student.” I have just received a statement from a man who says he is Mr. Hajaig himself, disputing the allegations in those stories. As I am only interested in publishing the truth at […]
Sheikhs debate whether killing Muslim non-combatants is permissible
Note that the debate in Amir Taheri’s “To Kill Or Not To Kill” in the New York Post (thanks to Cid Martel) is not over whether or not it’s permissible to kill non-Muslims: everyone takes that for granted. It is over whether Muslims can be killed in the course of jihad operations. Note also that […]
Jihadists on the march? Never fear! Omid Safi is here!
William Fisher, who “has managed economic development programs in the Middle East for the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development,” writes this in “Progressive Islam, or how to accept it’s time to start a-changin,’” in Lebanon’s Daily Star (thanks to Mackie): In the United States there is an impression that no […]
Bail denied to warm, gentle, kind person in California jihad case
Hamid Hayat is a “warm, gentle kind person.” Therefore he couldn’t be a jihadist, right? This kind of assumption, of course, comes from the exclusive use of the “terrorist” label and the mislabeling of this present conflict as a “war on terror.” A “terrorist” is one who just wants to commit mayhem. One would expect […]