And he don’t mean no interior spiritual struggle. “Jihad against India only solution to Kashmir issue: Nazria Pakistan Trust,” from ANI, March 23: The Nation’s editor-in-chief and Nazria Pakistan Trust (NPT) Chairman Majid Nizami has reiterated that Pakistan must wage jihad against India to ‘free’ Kashmir. “I ask every Pakistani who acts upon the spirit […]
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Pakistan moves ahead with case against 17-year-old accused of “blasphemy” on school exam
“It was reported by a professor that he wrote some blasphemous remarks in the answer sheets of Physics and Islamic Studies papers.” And so authorities threw the book at Syed Samiullah, complete with recourse to a handwriting expert and psychiatric evaluations. The latter may save him from the blasphemy laws’ death sentence, but mark him […]
Pakistan: Tribal elders declare jihad against U.S. as revenge for drone attacks
Malik Jalal Sarhadi Qatkhel of the North Waziristan Peace Committee (remember, Islam is the Religion of Peaceâ„¢!) says that suicide attacks are permitted against Americans as part of this jihad. Yet still we don’t see any of the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims journeying to North Waziristan to correct this widespread misunderstanding of Islam. Where […]
Pakistan Muslim League leader: Release of CIA contractor a “national tragedy”
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is so-called because its leader is former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. The party is “struggling for a peaceful world for a humane and socially just society with equal opportunities for all in light of the universal principles of Islam.” Here, it expresses that ever-present source of Muslim rage, the feeling […]
Pakistan: Christian accused of “blasphemy” dies in prison under suspicious circumstances
If you’re accused of blasphemy in Pakistan, your life is essentially over. If the governing authorities don’t get you, jihadist vigilantes will. This is a human rights issue crying out for the world community to address, but no one has the courage to do so, because doing so might offend Islam. “Pakistani Christian Sentenced for […]
Pakistan acquits CIA contractor after U.S. submits to Sharia, pays $2.34 million in blood money
$2.34 million! The Islamic principle of qisas, or retaliation, allows for blood money (diyya) to be paid by the perpetrator to the relatives of the deceased in cases of accidental death or even murder. This is not just an Islamic ritual; it is part of Islamic law and suffices as punishment for the murder if […]
Jihadist groups threaten to “punish” Pakistani actress for “shaming” the country by appearing on Indian reality show
That’s what’s going to put Pakistan to shame. Not the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti or Salman Taseer. Not the wild popularity of the blasphemy laws Bhatti and Taseer were murdered for criticizing.. Not the slow encroachment of jihadists across Pakistani territory and the accompanying intrusion of Sharia into personal decisions like whether or not to […]
Islamophobia boils over, racists bomb mosque in Pakistan — no, wait…
I thought this was a story about the Islamophobia that has been unleashed worldwide in the wake of the King hearings, but oddly enough, the perpetrators in this mosque bombing turn out not to have been greasy Islamophobes at all, but…Muslims — of all people! “Explosion hits mosque in northern Pakistan,” from KUNA, March 11 […]
Maryland Muslim charged with illegally exporting nuke materials to Pakistan
Yet another reminder of why it is perfectly reasonable to subject Islamic groups and individual Muslims in the U.S. to reasonable scrutiny within the bounds of the law. “US charges Pakistani with illegal nuclear exports,” from Reuters, March 10 (thanks to Mehreen): WASHINGTON: A Pakistani national has been arrested and charged with a scheme to […]
Pakistani hospitals see epidemic of marital rape: “If I refuse the angels will curse me all night”
Who could possibly tell a woman such a thing? Muhammad: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460).” And there is more: “By him in Whose Hand lies my […]