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Some background that helps explain the easy victory won by the Lal Masjid. From the Daily Times, with thanks to Nicolei: ISLAMABAD: A newspaper warns that Jews and Christians are engaged in “genocide” against Muslims. A website says children should love guns instead of cricket. A video shows a child beheading a militant accused of […]

“The veil has long been part of local culture and nobody is allowed to make fun of these values.” Sharia Alert. From AFP: ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistani authorities have banned a stage play for ridiculing the burqa, the veil traditionally worn by Muslim women, a minister said after Islamist MPs raised the issue in parliament […]

“You must understand that Pakistan and Islam are synonymous.” Misunderstanders of Islam growing ever more assertive and confident in Pakistan; where is the vast majority of moderates to explain to them that they are getting their religion all wrong? We saw the anti-Sharia demonstrators recently, but they were unable to stop the government’s capitulation to […]

Lal Masjid Update.”Govt accepts Lal Masjid demands: All issues settled: Shujaat,” by Syed Irfan Raza for Dawn: ISLAMABAD, April 24: The government has agreed to accept all demands put forward by the Lal Masjid management, including the enforcement of Sharia in the country. The second round of talks started on Tuesday night when Pakistan Muslim […]

Because they’re “un-Islamic.” Islamic law forbids music (cf. ‘Umdat al-Salik r40.1), although this law has of course often been ignored. There is some terrific music created in the Islamic world. And of course there was beginning in the Fifties an Islamic vogue in American jazz, with prominent musicians — Art Blakey (Abdullah ibn Buhaina), Yusef […]

This is very encouraging news. 100,000 in Karachi and 500,000 Turks. I have long called for peaceful Muslims to stand up to the jihadists. They didn’t do it after 9/11, or 7/7, or multitudinous other atrocities committed in the name of Islam. But that they are doing it now to resist the Islamization of Turkey […]

Sharia Alert. “Islamists attack festival in Pakistan university,” from IANS: Lahore, April 15 (IANS) A group of Islamists attacked a social festival in Pakistan’s Punjab University and beat up boys, girls and the teachers protesting against ‘vulgarity, obscenity and immorality’. More than 70 activists of the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) were involved in the incident […]

And with good reason, recalling the assassination of Zil-e-Huma Usman in February, for allegedly “un-Islamic” attire and behavior. More on this story. “Clerics issue edict over sinful hugging,” by Sadaqat Jan for Associated Press: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s tourism minister says she fears for her life after clerics at a radical mosque issued an edict […]

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Alert: “We don’t care for such baseless allegations, our only goal is to enforce Sharia in Pakistan through jihad while the political-religious leaders want to impose Sharia though democratic norms, which we don’t admire.” Musharraf wants to impose Sharia through democratic norms? That’s news to us. Lal Masjid Update: “Militant […]

They’re-Going-To-Have-To-Overcome-That Update from Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph: PARACHINAR – Suspected Sunni Muslim tribesmen in Pakistan have raided a Shia Muslim village near the Afghan border, killing five people, in the lastest clash in a week of violence that has killed about 40 people. Sectarian violence has bedevilled Pakistan since the 1980s but the […]