Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Asia Bibi petition: “We refuse to accept that this mother of five children will continue to languish in her putrid, stifling, freezing cell for so long”

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Blasphemy laws: Keeping Pakistan safe from devout Christian women. Here is the text of the petition reported on in this story. From UN Watch, March 13: Since June 2009, Pakistani citizen Asia Bibi, mother of five little children, has been imprisoned in appalling and intolerable conditions in Sheikhupura prison in Punjab province. Her crime: being […]

Pakistan running for a seat on UN Human Rights Council; 50 human rights activists sign petition to council for release of Asia Bibi

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Pakistan on the Human Rights Council, and Asia Bibi’s release: the former should not happen without the latter, unless the council changes its name to the UN Council for Window Dressing and Hypocrisy. “Petition: Free Pakistani Christian woman set for execution,” from CNN, March 14: (CNN) — Activists presented a petition Tuesday to the United […]

Iran: Many executed for “drug offenses” who were initially arrested for resisting the regime

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According to this report, the vast majority of executions in 2011 involved alleged drug offenses. “UN: Iran executes anti-Islam citizens,” by Benjamin Weinthal for the Jerusalem Post, March 14 (thanks to L): BERLIN — Iran executed 670 people in 2011, including more than 20 for offenses against Islam, a UN investigator said in Geneva on […]

Iranian officials can’t keep their stories straight on imprisoned ex-Muslim pastor

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Once again, the tacked-on charges seem to have evaporated, and Nadarkhani is said to have somehow “humiliated” and “offended” Islam even as the Iranian “human rights envoy,” Mohammad Javad Larijani, claims changing religions is no big deal. But as even CNN has observed, as of 2010, the only charges against Nadarkhani were about apostasy. As […]

Australia: “Convert to radical Islam” insists he didn’t really mean death threats

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This guy again: he had said of Australian non-Muslims, “One day they know they will be controlled,” but apparently none of that applies to him, and he doesn’t seem to take any responsibility to control himself. “Muslim radical on child porn, terror threat charges,” from ABC News (Australia), March 14 (thanks to Dumbledoresarmy): A convert […]

U.S. nuke expert spots high-explosive test chamber at site Iran won’t show inspectors

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Uh, we like, need this for electricity or something. Go away. More on this story. “U.S. nuclear expert finds Iran explosive site in imagery,” from Reuters, March 13: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. non-proliferation expert said on Tuesday he has identified a building at the Parchin military site in Iran suspected of containing, currently or […]

Somalia: Al-Shabaab forbids you to Save the Children

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Another aid group banned on flimsy pretext. We often say “jihad causes poverty,” but al-Shabaab is taking that idea to a whole new level of literalism. “Somali rebels ban aid group Save the Children,” from Agence France-Presse, March 13: Somalia’s Shebab rebels Tuesday banned the aid group Save the Children from operating in regions under […]

Iraq: Interior ministry allegedly knew of planned massacre of “emo” youth

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More on this story. Note the freewheeling conflation of the suspicion of homosexual tendencies, allegations of devil worship, and whatever else the government’s thugs please to level at their targets. The all too literal witch-hunt is ultimately an indiscriminate, arbitrary display of power designed to terrorize the populace into line, and into erring on the […]

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