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Watch for Michael van der Galien to charge Dr. Farrukh Saleem with dishonesty for failing to claim that, back in the seventh century, Muhammad improved the status of women, and that the hijab was borrowed from Christianity. But in the real world, it is good to see this published in Pakistan. “Women in Muslim world,” […]

“Terrorism” according to what definition? With what accountability? “US offers Pakistan government $7bn in non-military aid to fight terrorism,” by Julian Borger in The Guardian (thanks to all who sent this in): The US has promised to curb air strikes by drones against suspected militants in Pakistan, as part of a joint counter-terrorism strategy agreed […]

The hope is that the largely Pakistani Muslim population in Britain would be more receptive to messages of moderation from Pakistani clerics. But this is ultimately rather useless as long as “moderation” is such an ill-defined term. What specific ideas and practices do these “moderate” imams reject? Or will authorities settle for a sense of […]

“Manzoor Qadir, the president of the Lahore Bar Association, said that the present government was not doing enough to rein in foreigners indulging in blasphemous acts.” “500 Pak lawyers protest against anti-Islam Dutch film,” from Asian News International: Lahore, Apr.15 : Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers on Tuesday staged a protest against a Dutch film that […]

Tiny Minority of Extremistsâ„¢ On Parade I wrote an article for FrontPage last Thursday speculating about why there has been such a muted reaction to Fitna up to this point, but by the time they run it it may be inaccurate. Tiny Minority of Extremistsâ„¢ Update: “Over 25,000 Pakistanis Rally Against Anti-Koran Film, Prophet Cartoons,” […]

Worth killing for? From the Jama’t-ud-Da’wah site in Pakistan comes this poll (thanks to Miss Kelly). There are only 197 respondents as of this writing, but the Tiny Minority of Extremistsâ„¢ are way out in front: What should be the response of Muslim Ummah to the blasphemous caricatures published in Denmark? 1 Boycott Danish products […]

I initially assumed that Islamophobes must have done it because, as everyone knows, no Muslims today take seriously the traditional Islamic law mandating stoning for adulterers, and it’s only venomous Islamophobes who bring that sort of thing up, and remember, you can find stoning in the Bible, too. But oddly enough, it turns out that […]

Registering an objection to the education of girls. “Security forces find 58 bodies in Kohat: Girls” primary school attacked in Darra,” from the Daily Times (thanks to Twostellas): …School attacked: Meanwhile, militants blew up the gate of a girls” primary school in the semi-tribal Darra Adam Khel area late on Saturday, a Daily Times staff […]

The predicted and predictable outrage begins — over a film, mind you, that merely depicts how jihadists commit violence and justify it according to the Qur’an. Yet that fact itself has never aroused outrage among significant numbers of Muslims, such that they would be moved, say, to mount protests against it. “Pakistanis protest Dutch film,” […]

The assailants may have thought that their victim was doing “mischief in the land.” “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides…” (Qur’an 5:33) “Limbs […]