A “culture of disrespect and abuse.” From Zenit, with thanks to all who sent this in: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, DEC. 2, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Christians are being expelled from their homes in Pakistan to make room for victims of the earthquake that hit Kashmir and the northwestern region of the country in early October. Reports from Catholic […]
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Minister: “In Pakistan there is complete freedom of speech and expression.”
Apparently, the good minister does not consider this nor this nor this to be stark contradictions to his bold statement. But of course! Violations of Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws are punishable just as violations of laws are in any other “democratic” nation. From the Online – International News Network: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has underlined […]
Religious minorities fearful after attack in Pakistan
An update to this Dhimmi Watch archive. Reported by the Boston.Com News: The enraged mob had already started to scale the walls of the Catholic compound in Sangla Hill when the Rev. Samson Dilawar hurriedly ushered the nuns, teachers, and 23 teenage students to safety. The group crammed into a small upstairs room of the […]
Pakistan Gets Pledges of $5.4 Billion to Rebuild After Quake
From Bloomberg: Pakistan gained pledges of $5.4 billion from international donors and lenders, more than the south Asian nation was seeking, to rebuild cities and rehabilitate people devastated by last month’s earthquake. The magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the northern Himalayan territory of Kashmir on Oct. 8, killing more than 74,000 people and leaving millions homeless. […]
Pakistani Christians call for Strike
In response to Muslim attacks on believers, destruction of churches, from WND: Christian schools throughout Pakistan will go on strike Nov. 17 to protest the attacks on Christians in Sangla Hill, Punjab, this past weekend. Christian Solidarity Worldwide, or CSW) says Hindu, Sikh and Muslim leaders have joined church leaders in condemning the outbreak of […]
Christians under siege in Pakistan after riot
More detail on the riots in Pakistan from the Telegraph, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The Christians of Sangla Hill in Pakistan were a community under siege last night after a Muslim mob rampaged through the town, burning churches and a Roman Catholic compound. Father Samson Dilawar, parish priest of the Roman Catholic Church of […]
2,000 Muslims go on anti-Christian rampage in Pakistan
Note that the violence was stoked by Islamic clerics. Update on this story. “Anti-Christian rampage features 2,000 Muslims,” from WND, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: They came in buses to the small village of Sangla Hill in the Nankana district of Punjab in Pakistan. Some 2,000 organized Muslims first vandalized three churches, a nuns’ […]
Two suspected al-Qaeda figures arrested in Pakistan, sources say
This could be a major victory. From AP, with thanks to Cindy: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani security agencies have arrested two al-Qaeda suspects and are investigating whether one is a Syrian believed to be a key figure in Osama bin Laden’s terror network in Europe, two intelligence officials and a senior government official said Thursday. […]
London bomber buried in Pakistan
Shazad Tanweer, a thoroughly English lad according to his father, was not buried not in Twickenham or Surrey or Newcastle-on-Tyne, but in Pakistan — in the shrine of an Islamic saint. Now why is that? Could it be that his family and others think of Tanweer as having done something honorable on July 7? What […]
Hearts and minds in Pakistan
Will earthquake aid really win over Pakistani hearts and minds? This article, “For Devout Pakistani Muslims, Aid Muddles Loyalties,” from the New York Times (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist), suggests that it does win over those who are not politicized, but that jihadists and their sympathizers are unswayed — as I observed about the tsunami […]