Asia News is leading an effort to deliver as many messages as possible, whether through their site or directly to Pakistani President Zardari, demanding not only the release of Asia Bibi, but also lasting and meaningful reforms that remove Pakistan’s laws against blasphemy and insulting Islam as the scourge that they are on minority rights […]
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Pakistan: “The campaign to confront the country’s blasphemy laws…is hampered by the danger of being accused of undermining Islam”
And so innocent people continue to be victimized. “Family leads outcry at blasphemy death penalty,” by Andrew Buncombe (what a perfect surname for a mainstream media journalist!) in the Independent, November 16 (thanks to all who sent this in): Campaigners in Pakistan say the case of Asia Bibi – the first woman to be sentenced […]
Pakistan’s Islamic supremacist and jihadist madrassas “run on the goodwill of local businessmen”
They’re not Saudi-funded. Apparently the businessmen in question share their point of view. How odd, at least if one buys the perspective of the learned analysts, that they all misunderstand Islam in the same way. “The Wahabi money trail,” by Imtiaz Ahmad in the Hindustan Times, November 9: There is a misconception, say Karachi police […]
“In Pakistan, some 2.8 million Christians are treated as second class citizens”
Although the laws of the dhimma mandating a second-class status for Christians are not fully in force in the Islamic world today, in many areas they remain as a cultural hangover, manifesting themselves in various ways to the detriment of equal rights for Christians and other non-Muslims. An update on this story. “Asia Bibi’s conviction […]
Stop the presses: Pakistan supported jihad outfits as hedge against India and Afghanistan
And they may still be doing it. “Pakistan used terror as a hedge against India: Clinton,” from the PTI, November 13 (thanks to I.): Islamabad used to support terror outfits as a hedge against India and an unfriendly Afghan regime, so that the two neighbours of Pakistan do not undermine it, U.S. Secretary of State […]
Pakistan: Christian woman sentenced to death for “blasphemy”
Apparently all she did was confess the Christian faith. Islamic Tolerance Alert: “Punjab: Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy,” from Asia News, November 9 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Islamabad (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Pakistan has “crossed a line” in sentencing a Christian woman to death for blasphemy. Asia Bibi, a 37-year-old farm worker mother of two, […]
Pakistani Misunderstanders of Islam aiding jihad plots of Yemeni Misunderstanders of Islam
Misunderstanding Islam is a global enterprise. Yet no one ever seems to ask Islamic spokesmen in the West why, if what they’re saying is true, so many Muslims seem to get Islam so drastically wrong. “Pakistan al Qaeda Aids Yemen Plots,” by Adam Entous and Margaret Coker in the Wall Street Journal, November 5 (thanks […]
Jihadists murder 50 with suicide bomb during prayers at Pakistani mosque
Watch now and see. Watch and see if, over the next few days, there are any protests in the Islamic world against this desecration of a mosque. Watch and see if anywhere, at any time, any group of Muslims musters anything approaching the level of indignation, to say nothing of murderous rage, with which they […]
Pakistan: Police break up Mass held in front of chapel seized by Muslims
Imagine the reaction if they had disrupted Muslim prayers on any legal pretext. An update on this story. “Rawalpindi: Police stop mass in front of Gordon College chapel,” by Jibran Khan for AsiaNews, October 25: Islamabad (AsiaNews) – The situation remains tense between Christians and local authorities in Rawalpindi (Punjab) over the illegal occupation of […]
Pakistan: Muslims seize Christian chapel
They stole it fair and square, and now they intend to sell it. Islamic Tolerance Alert: “ASIA/PAKISTAN – Christians protest chapel violently taken over by Muslims,” from Agenzia Fides, October 22 (thanks to Twostellas): Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) – A nonviolent protest and an outdoor Mass: this is how Christians in Pakistan intend to raise awareness […]