Piety A billion-plus Muslims, savagely and unsuspectingly attacked by an octogenarian pontiff! Casting their grievances in those terms is, of course, an attempt to broaden the conflict beyond Pakistan, by portraying the Pope’s criticism of the law as an attack on all Muslims. “Rally supports governor’s killer,” from the Press Association, January 14: Islamic extremists […]
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Pakistani interior minister orders blocking of websites, text messages “promoting an anti-Islam agenda”
No txt msgs? Srsly? 🙁 An update on this story. “Pak to block websites, SMS ‘propagating anti-Islam agenda’,” from Indian Express, January 13: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik today directed the authorities to block websites and SMS “propagating an anti-Islam agenda” within 24 hours. In south- and southeast Asian media, text messaging is most often […]
Pakistani interior minister to citizens: Stop talking about the blasphemy laws, report un-Islamic websites to authorities
That’ll fix everything. The blasphemy laws aren’t the problem, you see; it’s people talking about them when our modern, moderate Friend and Ally has decided there’s nothing to discuss. “Malik for blocking un-Islamic content on websites,” from The News, January 13: NOWSHERA: Interior Minister, Rehman Malik on Thursday reiterated that government has no intention to […]
Please help man falsely imprisoned and tortured for blasphemy in Pakistan
An urgent request from Faith Freedom regarding Hector Aleem: Help Hector Aleem Hector Aleem sentenced to seven years prison for blasphemy, despite the lack of evidence. As you read this page, there is an innocent man in Pakistan, accused of blasphemy, who has spent the last three years in jail. He has been beaten and […]
Pakistan: Jihad-martyrdom bomber murders 18, damages mosque: watch for international riots — no, wait….
The suicide bomber must have been an Islamophobe. “Suicide bomb kills 18 in NW Pakistan,” from AFP, January 12: PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Eighteen people were killed and 15 wounded when a suicide bomber ploughed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan Wednesday, officials said. The bomber’s car struck Miryan police station […]
Biden to Pakistan: “We are not the enemies of Islam”
He doesn’t seem to have addressed the question of whether or not large segments of Islam are at war with us, and what the implications of that might be. He doesn’t seem to have addressed how it is that Pakistan can be a “key anti-terror ally” when it has funneled much of the money it […]
Pakistan: Islamic party leader says “the Pope’s statement is an insult to Muslims across the world”
How did the Pope supposedly insult every Muslim man, woman, and child on Allah’s green earth? Did he open an ancient codex of “Yo Mamma” jokes? No, he called for the repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. But Farid Paracha of Jamaat-i-Islami is not just being overly dramatic. He is trying to broaden the conflict and […]
Pakistan: Imam and son jailed for life under blasphemy law for alleged damage to poster containing Qur’anic verses
Former Pakistani information minister Sherry Rehman is now living under a death fatwa only for seeking to revise the law where the death penalty was concerned. Even that would not help these two, who found themselves accused amid local rivalries between Barelvi and Deobandi Muslim sects. Anything short of a repeal guarantees the laws will […]
Pakistani TV: “Jihad is a great prayer, and is meant to spread the message of Allah and the rule of Islam”
The rule of Islam — that is, Sharia. These scholars retail standard jihad doctrine about the necessity and obligation of jihad, defensive and offensive jihad, etc. I have explained these doctrines in several of my books and many, many times here at this site. These Islamic scholars confirm the truth of everything I have said […]
Pakistan: Islamic supremacist groups to hold rallies protesting Pope’s call to scrap blasphemy law
Still no word on those anti-bin Laden rallies denouncing the Tiny Minority of Extremists, but I’m sure they’re just around the corner! An update on this story. “Pakistan: Islamists criticise Pope’s anti-blasphemy law comments,” from AKI, January 11 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Islamabad, 11 Jan. (AKI) – An alliance of Pakistani Islamist organisations said they […]