From AP: PESHAWAR, Pakistan Chanting “Death to America,” angry anti-U.S. Islamic groups staged nationwide protests Sunday against a purported CIA airstrike that Pakistan says killed innocent civilians instead of the apparent target – top al-Qaida lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf meanwhile, warned his countrymen not to harbor militants, saying it would only increase […]
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Pakistan: Police asked to arrest 16 prayer leaders
Despite strong indications that jihadist allegiances can be found at the highest levels of the Pakistani government, cosmetic anti-jihad efforts continue. Meanwhile, why did these “prayer leaders” need arms licenses and weapons? I don’t know of any priest or rabbi who packs heat. What were these guys praying for, anyway? From the Daily Times, with […]
Pakistani government reluctant to expel foreign madrassa students
More indication of where Pakistan really stands. “Govt reluctant to expel foreign madrassa students,” from the Daily Times, with thanks to Nicolei: KARACHI: The provincial home department has been asked to wait for sometime in carrying out its plans to expel hundreds of foreign students enrolled with the seminaries in Sindh, sources in the government […]
Pakistani Killed Daughters to Save ‘Honor’
Why shouldn’t he be calm and unrepentant? By his lights, he has done a good and even holy thing. More on this story from AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: MULTAN, Pakistan – Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters […]
Pakistan: Jihadis allege desecration of Koran in jail
It was thrown on the floor. Allegedly. But never fear, Khalid Khawaja, a former official of Pakistan’s secret service and a friend of Osama bin Laden, is on the case of this immense human rights violation. From AKI, with thanks to Hutchrun: Karachi, 27 Dec. (AKI) – (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) – After the reported […]
Father in Pakistan Kills His 4 Daughters
Another honor killing in Pakistan. Those who claim that this sort of thing has nothing to do with Islam and the Sharia imperative have yet to explain why the overwhelming majority of such cases happen in an Islamic context. The shame/honor culture, rooted in Islamic ideas of purity and impurity, is what gives rise to […]
Editor Of “Pakistan Today” Against Rampant Moslem Anti-Semitism
Tashbih Sayyed, one of the most courageous Muslims in the world today, speaks truth to power. From Israel National News, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Dr. Tashbih Sayyed, editor of the weekly Pakistan Today, expressed support for Israel and his belief that anti-Semitism presents the greatest challenge for the Moslem world today to overcome. Dr. […]
Forced conversions go on in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Journalist Irfan Husain describes the horrors of forced conversions in this report from the SouthAsia Network: MEET Sanno Amra and his wife Champa: a middle-aged Hindu couple. They live in a small, simple but spotlessly clean home in Karachi’s Punjab Colony. Until six weeks ago, they lived with their five children, reasonably content with their […]
Bomb kills at least 12 in troubled Pakistan region
More ruthless and indiscriminate targeting of civilians by jihadists. From Reuters, : WANA, Pakistan – At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomb exploded on Thursday in a market in Pakistan’s troubled tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said. The blast hit a hotel and shops in a market in […]
Al-Qaeda #3 killed in Pakistan
“Officials: CIA missile strike kills al-Qaida No. 3,” from NBC News, : ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The operational commander of al-Qaida and possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, Hamza Rabia, was killed early Thursday morning by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan, officials told NBC News. Pakistan’s president later confirmed […]