Again, Pakistan is a major beneficiary of U.S. aid. We have leverage we are not using to defend the most minimal standards of human rights. More on this story. “Minority women in Pakistan face harassment: Study,” from the Indo-Asian News Service, March 16 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Around 74 percent of Pakistani women […]
British diplomat says U.K. “not worried” about Islamic government in Egypt, welcomes pledges to “respect” treaty with Israel
Surely someone has noticed the Muslim Brotherhood’s knack for saying different things to different audiences, particularly where Israel is concerned. “UK doesn’t fear Egypt Islamists, welcomes their respect for peace treaty: British diplomat,” by Amer Sultan for Al Ahram Online, March 14: The British government is not worried about an Islamist government in Egypt and […]
Congolese government under scrutiny amid expanding Hizballah dealings in Africa
Hizballah is also set to mess with the rainforest. Where are the environmentalists? “Exclusive: Congo under scrutiny over Hezbollah business links,” by Dino Mahtani for Reuters, March 16: LONDON (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo has awarded lucrative forestry concessions to a company controlled by a Lebanese businessman who also runs a firm subject to […]
Bin Laden plotted to attack Air Force One, to make “totally unprepared” Biden assume presidency
The vice-president jokes write themselves. But in the end, it was bin Laden who turned out to be “totally unprepared” for the Navy SEALs. “The bin Laden plot to kill President Obama,” by David Ignatius for the Washington Post, March 16: Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells […]
Iraq: Interior ministry removes directive to “eliminate” the “emo” youth subculture from website
“The interior ministry said on March 8 that it had not recorded any anti-gay or anti-emo killings.” So they never happened. So there’s nothing to investigate. So shut up. An update on this story. “Iraq must investigate ’emo’ killings: rights groups,” by Prashant Rao for Agence France-Presse, March 16: Three major international human rights groups […]
Tunisia: “Our Qur’an is our constitution”
More Friday fun in Tunisia. Remember when this was supposed to be a tiny, harmless, marginal sideshow of a minority of extremists? Even here, however, we see the self-deception that Sharia somehow isn’t what it is and won’t execute (sometimes quite literally) the Qur’an’s own prescribed punishments: “The secularists would have one believe that Islam […]
India: Salman Rushdie to speak in Delhi “despite Muslim anger”
The great irony here is that, if not for the explosion of anger and decades of seething against Rushdie for a book published 24 years ago, almost no one would have heard of Salman Rushdie, and The Satanic Verses would be quietly gathering dust on bookshelves. Far more people have read it, paid for it, […]
Archbishop of Canterbury says wearing a cross does not offend non-Christians
Except when it does, and the display of crosses is forbidden under Sharia. In a country already struggling with the consequences of enabling creeping Sharia, and of a broader campaign of reckless multiculturalist social engineering, further concessions must be resisted. Those aspects of the issue must not be left out of the discussion, as they […]
Al-Qaeda’s former second banana to Pakistani jihadists: be more revolting
Oh, wait. He said he wanted a revolt. “Qaeda urges Pakistan revolt, vows to keep US hostage,” from Agence France-Presse, March 16: Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to rise up against their government and military in a video posted on the Internet on Friday, US monitors said. He also said that, unless […]
Egyptian clerics: Jews are donkeys and Ben Franklin hated them, hating Jews is a form of worshiping Allah
They also appear to be conflating Ben Franklin and Franklin Roosevelt. Priceless. More on the hoax of the “Franklin Prophecy” can be found here. As for the mention of donkeys, that is Qur’an 62:5, which alleges the Jews have fallen away from the true “Torah”: “The example of those who were entrusted with the Torah […]