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 […]
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Pakistan: To settle a loan, stepfather sells 12-year-old girl to old man for forced marriage
“Whenever I protested against the marriage and asked to be freed, he told me I was his property as he has purchased me from my father.” This idea is a natural result of the treatment of women as commodities in Islamic law. “Forced marriage: Step-father, elderly “˜husband” arrested,” by Shamsul Islam in the Express Tribune, […]
Pakistan: Muslim jailed for life for burning Qur’an
They didn’t kill him. They must be moderates. But note well: this is the kind of treatment Islamic supremacists would love to see imposed in the West upon those who “offend Islam.” Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: “Pakistani Muslim jailed for burning Koran,” from AFP, March 15 (thanks to David): MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, […]
Pakistan running for a seat on UN Human Rights Council; 50 human rights activists sign petition to council for release of Asia Bibi
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 […]
Pakistan: Another Christian woman charged with blasphemy
Blasphemy laws: keeping Pakistan safe from devout Christian women. You can learn a lot about someone by what and whom they are afraid of. “Yet another Christian woman charged with blasphemy,” by Asher John for Pakistan Today, March 13 (thanks to Kenneth): LAHORE – Police in Khichiwala, Bahawalnagar district have charged a young Christian woman […]
Pakistan: Muslims torture woman, shave her head, and parade her through the streets for converting to Christianity
Muhammad said, “If anyone changes his religion, kill him,” and every school of Islamic jurisprudence still mandates death for apostates. So the Muslims who tortured Seema Bibi but did not kill her must have been moderates. More terrifying Islamophobia, and more on this story. “Christianity to Islam, and back: 60-year-old woman disgraced for reconversion,” by […]
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan: 20 to 25 Hindu girls forcibly converted to Islam each month
Qur’an 2:256 says there is “no compulsion in religion,” but there is plenty of coercion in Islamic law. Sharia is set up in its dealings with non-Muslims to pressure them to convert through marginalization, punishment, humiliation, fear, and danger (cf. Qur’an 9:29). There are also innumerable opportunities for semantic games and rationalizations; above all, those […]
Report: Pakistani women from religious minorities “are the victims of constant attempts at forced conversion or false charges of blasphemy”
Pakistan is a major beneficiary of U.S. aid. We have leverage that we are not using to fight for basic human rights. “Life on the margins, discrimination against Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan,” from Asia News, March 8: Islamabad (AsiaNews) – Women from Pakistan’s minority communities have a lower level of education but a […]
Pakistan: Christian woman tortured, paraded in streets for “anti-Islam views”
On the anniversary of the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, there seems to be little sense of urgency in Islamabad as long as the victims are not Sunni Muslims, but the same impulses that lead to the persecution of non-Sunnis and non-Muslims will ultimately devour Pakistan itself. “Pakistan woman tortured, paraded in streets for ‘anti-Islam views’,” […]
My jihad can beat up your jihad: Suicide bombing on rival group kills 23 in Pakistan
As was also recently on display in Indonesia, and has been on display in the Palestinian territories for many years, jihadist groups eventually turn on each other, guaranteeing continued instability even after they would ever run out of infidels to target. “Suicide bomber hits Pakistan militant base, 23 killed,” from the Associated Press, March 2: […]