Alleging torture when no torture has taken place is a move straight out of the Al-Qaeda playbook. When Al-Qaeda operatives are jailed, they are told to claim that they have been tortured. From the Al-Qaeda playbook: 1. At the beginning of the trial, once more the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted […]
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Islamophobes murder 22 Shi’ites in Pakistan — no, wait…
The Sunni/Shi’ite Jihad that we have seen on the upswing lately in Iraq now appears again in Pakistan. “Blasts hit Shiite Muslims in Pakistan; 22 killed (3rd Lead),” from DPA, February 5 (thanks to Twostellas): Islamabad – Two successive blasts targeting Shiite Muslims killed at least 22 people in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on […]
Five U.S. Muslims who confessed to joining jihad in Pakistan: just kidding!
Never mind Apparently their avowal of jihad didn’t help them as much as they thought it would. An update on, and reversal of, this story. “Five American Muslims retract statement on joining Jihad,” from PTI, February 2: LAHORE: Five American Muslims arrested for allegedly plotting terror attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan today retracted their statement […]
UAE: Pakistani man beats wife to death for “disobedience”
There can be no truly frank and forthright discussion about domestic violence in Islamic societies without acknowledging the role of Qur’an 4:34: “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women […]
Jihad/martyrdom bomber kills 14 in Pakistan
“Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain…” — Qur’an 9:111 “Bomb blast in NW Pakistan kills 14,” from Reuters, January 30: PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suspected suicide car-bomber set off his […]
Pakistan: Abuse, death of 12-year-old girl highlights plight of Christian domestic workers
Qur’an 4:3 permits Muslim men to have sexual relations with captives and slaves, and it is the supposed divine endorsement of the idea that makes it so persistent in Muslim countries — most notoriously in Saudi Arabia, but not only there. “Lahore: 12-year-old Christian domestic worker killed by Muslim employer,” from Asia News, January 25: […]
U.S. friend and ally Pakistan reaching out to “all levels” of Afghan Taliban
Reintegration! Reconciliation! This will amount to more Sharia. “Pakistan reaching out to ‘all levels’ of Afghan Taliban,” from Dawn, January 23 : ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is reaching out to “all levels” of the Afghan Taliban in a bid to encourage reconciliation with its war-torn neighbour, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. “We are trying to reach […]
Three honor killings in Pakistan
“Karo-Kari” is honor killing. “Three women slain in Shikarpur over Karo-Kari,” from The News International, January 20 (thanks to Block Ness): KHAIRPUR: Three women were killed in Shikarpur on Tuesday on the charge of Karo-Kari. Sources said Nadir Shar shot dead his wife, Sughran, in village Rakhial Shar Ji Wandh and fled the scene. Police […]
Pakistan: Jihadists bomb, destroy boys’ school
Equal-opportunity enforced ignorance. “Pakistan: Militants blow up boy’s school in northwest,” from AdnKronos International, January 18: Landi Kotal, 18 Jan. (AKI) – Militants on Monday blew up a government primary school for boys in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber tribal region, Pakistani media reported. The militants planted two powerful bombs which exploded simultaneously, destroying the school. No […]
American jihadists in Pakistan claim they were tortured
Alleging torture when no torture has taken place is a move straight out of the Al-Qaeda playbook. When Al-Qaeda operatives are jailed, they are told to claim that they have been tortured. From the Al-Qaeda playbook: 1. At the beginning of the trial, once more the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted […]