Why would anyone have gotten the crazy, Islamophobic idea that the Taliban might threaten Karachi officials to crack down on music on public transportation? Muhammad’s prohibition of musical instruments: Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance.” (The Hadith […]
Black-market Obama Viagra smuggled from Afghanistan into Pakistan
Barack Obama, a symbol of virility? In Afghanistan and Pakistan, of all places, with the pills apparently manufactured in China — three countries where he would most fittingly be a symbol for inadequacy and impotence? Well, this is pill-induced virility, after all, not the natural variety, so apparently the message is: If you’re suffering from […]
Pakistan: Suspects in murder of Christian politician who opposed blasphemy law could go free due to jihad threats
How can the murderers of Shahbaz Bhatti be punished when so many people in Pakistan sympathize more with them than with their victim, and believe that the Christians who have been hounded and persecuted under that country’s blasphemy laws had it coming and deserved what they got? More on this story. “Islamic Extremist Threats in […]
Pakistan: Couple stoned to death for adultery after Muslim cleric issues fatwa
The advocates of stoning can and do claim that they are simply implementing Islamic law. The caliph Umar, one of Muhammad’s closest companions, maintained that the punishment of stoning for adultery (this story doesn’t specify the method of punishment, but the outcome of the punishment is the same in any case) was originally in the […]
Fatwa declares Pakistan constitution a “perfect Islamic document,” fully Sharia-compliant
The federal government of Pakistan obtained this fatwa in order to try to stave off the Taliban, which is demanding that Sharia be implemented. The ominous aspect of the fatwa is that it ratifies Pakistan’s existing legal system, including the blasphemy law that Islamic supremacists use to victimize so many non-Muslims. “Religious decree: ‘Constitution completely […]
Pakistan: Muslims torture Christian to force him to convert to Islam and threaten to kidnap his children
“There is no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256) but in practice, all too often Islamic supremacists find room in that phrase for all manner of coercion. What constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. After all, the institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be […]
Pakistan: 500 women and girls murdered in Islamic honor killings each year, many more go unreported
This article, like most about honor killings, never once mentions Islam. This steadfast and universal refusal to identify the root cause of honor murders only ensures that there will be more of them. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by […]
Pakistan: Devout Muslim students stone other students for celebrating Valentine’s Day, fire on police, set hostel ablaze
Islamic supremacists don’t just want to bypass and denigrate Valentine’s Day. They want you to do so also, and if you don’t, the stones and bullets will start flying. Here again we see that morality in Islamic culture is not so much a matter of virtue freely chosen, but of people living in terror of […]
Pakistan: Police torture to death innocent Christian; Christians “usually treated worse by police”
“The Church did not get involved because ‘Sabir Masih is a Christian,’” and “anyone, ‘Muslim or any other religion,’ could have been in his place. At the heart of the matter is police brutality, which should be stopped regardless of religion.” However, “if a Christian is detained, he ‘usually is treated worse by police or […]
Pakistan: Islamic jihadists bomb police bus, murdering 13 and wounding 47
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said that the attack was revenge for the killing of jihad terrorists. Revenge attacks are hallowed by the Qur’an: “And We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, […]