An extraneous criterion is giving Muslim students an edge over non-Muslims with higher marks. Putting displays of piety over competence: What could possibly go wrong? “Educational bias: Memorise the Quran for twenty extra marks,” by Taha Siddiqi for the Express Tribune, February 8 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): LAHORE: Haroon Arif, a student from […]
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Pakistan: Three women killed for “loose morals”: “They deserved death. I can’t let my wife talk to other men”
The perpetrators’ sense of entitlement to control in the name of Islam’s strict separation of the sexes had been somehow challenged. The men’s attitudes were surely informed by Qur’an 4:34’s endorsement of the idea of violence (yes, violence) to control disobedient women, as they were also already beating their wives. When violence doesn’t “work” to […]
Pakistan: Muslim arrested for blasphemous text message insulting Muhammad’s companions
Remember: this is the kind of world the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) wants you to live in. This is the kind of world that all pro-Sharia advocates, and all opponents of anti-Sharia laws, want you to live in: a world in which a text message that a pious believer thinks is offensive against some […]
Pakistan: Honor killers hunting down couples who marry for love
“It’s not a crime to marry the person we want to. But back home, our elders think women are their property. We can’t do things we want to do.” “Insult and honour: Tribal predators hunting down newlyweds in Karachi,” from the Express Tribune, February 2 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): KARACHI: Back home, Z […]
NATO report adds to evidence of Pakistani support for Taliban
It seems all but miraculous that no one has claimed “Pakistanophobia” as the root of these reports of Pakistan’s double game. “Secret NATO Taliban report revives Pakistan fears,” by Nick Paton Walsh for CNN, February 1: Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Pakistan continues to support the Taliban in Afghanistan, a secret NATO report says, according to […]
Pakistan: TV host sacked after ambushing couples on air for “immoral behavior”
Once again, wherever Sharia experiences a resurgence or increases its encroachment upon a society, tolerance decreases, and harassment increases. Indeed, as also seen in Tunisia, a sense of entitlement to harass and mind others’ business emerges, even short of the formal establishment of morality police. “‘Are you married?’: Pakistani TV host dubbed the ‘vigil-auntie’ sacked […]
Defense secretary Panetta: Pakistan must have known someone of interest was in bin Laden compound
Indeed. It defies imagination that a secretive group holed up in a meticulously controlled compound in close proximity to the Pakistani military never made them wonder who their neighbors were. Panetta’s observations echo what he said after the bin Laden raid in May: either the Pakistanis were incompetent, or complicit, though Panetta now seems to […]
Pakistani foreign minister: Islam is the most misunderstood religion in the world
How, then, pray tell, is Islam so consistently “misunderstood,” across geographical areas and schools of jurisprudence, with respect to jihad warfare, and the rights of women and non-Muslims, from Great Britain to Nigeria to Algeria to Tunisia to France to Egypt to Germany to Turkey to the Palestinian territories to Lebanon to Syria to Saudi […]
Pakistan: Muslim murders sister with axe for her “loose morals”
Carrying on (allegedly) with “different men from the neighborhood”: haram. Murdering with an axe the person so accused: halal. It is no accident or coincidence that Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in […]
Pakistan: Christian woman who was kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam is free after 10 years
“There is no compulsion in religion,” according to Qur’an 2:256, but in reality, Islamic law is rife with means of coercion directed at unbelievers, whom Qur’an 9:29 offers the options of conversion, subjugation, or war. For that matter, “compulsion” is ultimately in the eye of the person in power doing the compelling, and rationalizations abound […]