The Qur’an says there is “no compulsion in religion ” (2:256) but Islamic law and the Qur’an itself are actually full of subtle and not-at-all-subtle means of coercion of non-believers (e.g., dhimmi status, the jizya tax, and of course, warfare). Add to that a situation where authorities, steeped in hatred of unbelievers (cf. Qur’an 98:6) […]
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Pakistan: Mob of “pro-Taliban radicals” beats student to death for playing music
Emulating Muhammad’s profound hostility toward music. “Student beaten to death for playing music,” from Big News Network, March 20: A student has died after being beaten to death by pro-Taliban radicals at a Pakistani university. The beating, which occurred earlier in the week, culminated in the death of Anan Khan, who attended the University of […]
Hitler hugely popular in that epicenter of jihad activity, Pakistan
In Pakistan, jihadists are folk heroes. And so is Adolf Hitler, for largely the same reasons: genocidal Jew-hatred, militarism, etc. Yet the execrable libelblogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs had the mendacious temerity to smear anti-jihadists as neo-Nazis. “The Führer Cult: Germans Cringe at Hitler’s Popularity in Pakistan,” by Hasnain Kazim in Spiegel, March […]
Pakistan charges five U.S. Muslims with terrorism
They have tried to defend themselves by saying they only were waging jihad, and jihad is not illegal in Pakistan. “Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism,” by Zarar Khan for Associated Press, March 17 (thanks to Visvas): ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the […]
Jihad/martyrdom bomber murders thirteen in Pakistan
Claiming the Qur’an’s guarantee of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). “Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 13 people,” from the Daily Star, March 14 (thanks to all who sent this in): A suicide attacker set off a bomb at a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing at least […]
Pakistan: Christian maid burned alive to keep her from reporting rape
Another in a long line of stories of abuse of Christian workers by Muslims in Pakistan. This behavior has its roots in the doctrine that unbelievers are “vile” (Qur’an 98:6) and must be subjugated (9:29), and of the lawfulness in Islam of sex with slaves and captives (4:24). “Punjab: Christian maid burned alive to prevent […]
A Pakistani member of the English Defence League speaks out
The English Defence League (EDL), a group standing up against the spread of Sharia and Islamic supremacism in England, is often stigmatized as racist and fascist — but here again this common tactic of the Left is without substance. Sajid Khan, a Pakistani member of the EDL, kindly sent me this message: I am an […]
Pakistan: Jihadists murder six aid agency workers
“Those who kill humanitarian workers must be reminded that they are not only killing their own country’s residents, but also people seeking to improve the lives of victims of poverty and injustice.” They don’t care about that. As far as they’re concerned, the only thing that would improve the lives of their country’s residents would […]
Pakistani pols who refused airport body scans hailed as heroes in Pakistan
And who was there to hail them as heroes but my old pal, the artless dissembler Hamid Mir! An update on this story, and yet another Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: “Upset by U.S. Security, Pakistanis Return as Heroes,” by Jane Perlez for the New York Times, March 9 (thanks to David): ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — […]
Would-be jihad murderer a heroine in Pakistan, hailed by Prime Minister as a “daughter of the nation”
Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: Aafia Siddiqui is a heroine in Pakistan. One would think that if the vast majority of Muslims there rejected the ideology of Al-Qaeda, as Charles Krauthammer and so many others assume they do, she would not have attained this exalted status. “U.S. Sees a Terror Threat; Pakistanis See a Heroine,” […]