According to the CIA World Factbook, Nepal is currently Hindu 80.6%, Buddhist 10.7%, Muslim 4.2%, Kirant 3.6%, other 0.9%. That’s from the 2001 census. And so the U.S. Government under the rule of Barack Obama is reaching out to…the Muslims. “DeLisi in mosque,” from The Himalayan Times, June 25 (thanks to herr Oyal): KATHMANDU: US […]
Nepal and France: Two Opposite Responses to Terrorism
Resistance vs. appeasement, from Daniel Pipes at FrontPage: In the Nepalese case, a group of cooks, janitors, laundry attendants, and other laborers had just crossed the border from Jordan into Iraq when it was kidnapped by Ansar al-Sunna, a violent Islamist group. On Aug. 31, an Islamist website showed a four-minute video of their executions. […]
Curfew in Kathmandu after protest over Iraq killings
It’s notable that, despite hysterical and inflated assertions to the contrary, there was never any kind of reaction like this to 9/11 in the United States. From Reuters, with thanks to Ali Dashti: KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali authorities clamped an indefinite curfew in Kathmandu on Wednesday and warned violators would be shot after furious mobs […]