Is this because our friends and allies the Pakistanis are complicit, or because they are powerless? “Al Qaeda establish ‘Islamic state’ in Pak province,” from the Times of India, : NEW DELHI: After taking “virtual control” of the entire North Waziristan province of Pakistan, Taliban and Al Qaeda have recently “declared” the establishment of an […]
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Pakistani Shi’ites, Sunnis Reach Cease-Fire
An update on the Ashura bombing in Pakistan from VOA: Rival Muslim groups in northwestern Pakistan have ended an armed standoff after two days of violence that killed 38 people and injured dozens more. The police chief in Hangu said Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims reached a cease-fire agreement in talks Saturday. The fighting began Thursday […]
Pakistan: 27 Shi’ites killed in Sunni bomb attack on Ashura procession
Sunni jihad against Shi’ites. “Bomber Attacks Procession,” from SkyNews, with thanks to Twostellas: At least 27 Shi’ite Muslims have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a religious procession in northern Pakistan. The attack in Hangu came on the day of Ashura, Shia Muslims’ most important holy day. Five people were also killed in […]
Pakistan ‘delay let bin Laden escape US raid’
More assistance from our friend and ally Pakistan. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Prevarication by the Pakistani government cost America the chance to kill Osama bin Laden in an airstrike near the Afghan border two years ago, the Sunday Telegraph has been told. A CIA lead that the al-Qaeda leader was hiding […]
Pakistan: riot against mixed-sex race
Sharia Alert: “Pakistan: Islamists riot against mixed-sex race,” from AP, with thanks to Twostellas: Authorities beefed up security on Saturday for a planned marathon for men and women, a day after police arrested 400 protesters from an Islamic group that has branded the race obscene and vowed to block the runners. Several Islamists and two […]
Islamic groups want Pakistani doctor back in Arizona
Do CAIR and MAS, who are involved in this according to this story, believe that Jamaat al Tabligh (aka Tablighi Jamaat) is not a terrorist organization? Evidently they don’t, judging from this story. On what grounds do they think this? What evidence do they have that DHS’s finding that it is a terrorist group is […]
Pakistan: Muslim, Christian leaders brainstorm about intolerance
One says it comes from a failure on the part of clerics: in other words, Islam is peaceful and tolerant, but is, as always, beset by misunderstanders. Another denies that there is any intolerance at all: in other words, Islam is peaceful and tolerant, but is, as always, beset by Islamophobes. Nobody seems to have […]
Heeding Pakistani Protest, U.N. Blocks Talk by Rape Victim
From the New Duranty Times: UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 – Mukhtar Mai, the Pakistani woman whose defiant response to being gang-raped by order of a tribal court brought her worldwide attention, was denied a chance to speak at the United Nations on Friday after Pakistan protested that it was the same day the country’s prime […]
Fitzgerald: Pakistan and other myopias
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses Pakistan’s indignation at the United States over the Zawahiri strike, the failure of our policies toward Pakistan in general, and other erroneous stances toward the Islamic world arising from the Cold War: It is common in the Islamic world for America to be regarded as “the bully […]
Thousands hold anti-US protests in Pakistan over attack
“Are you ready for jihad against America?” Tiny Minority of Extremists Update from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Thousands of protesters took to the streets yesterday, chanting ”Death to America” and calling for holy war as outrage persisted over an airstrike that heavily damaged a remote border village. Pakistani authorities […]