This will be an interesting test of Pakistan’s attachment to the Sharia — not the tribe-ordered gang rape, which is some barbaric local custom, but the enforcement of Sharia evidence laws (requiring four Muslim men who saw the act to establish that it actually happened) by the court that overturned the original convictions. Mukhtaran Mai […]
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Lodi Imam Admits Giving Speeches Urging Pakistanis to Fight Americans
Ice cream jihad update from News10, with thanks to Twostellas: The spiritual leader of the Lodi mosque who was arrested in a sweep earlier this month admitted to the FBI that when he was in Pakistan he gave speeches to Muslims urging them to fight Americans in Afghanistan in the months following the September 11 […]
Pakistan: Rape victim could be charged with adultery
…because of the peculiar evidence requirements of Islamic law: the victim’s testimony is disallowed, and she must produce four male Muslim witnesses who saw the act. I discuss this evil law and its effects in Islam Unveiled. “Rapist cop booked under controversial religious law,” from the Indo-Asian News Service via Newz.in, with thanks to Doc […]
Pakistanis assure Afghans of support on security
From Reuters: KABUL – Pakistan has assured Afghanistan of its support and cooperation in the war on terror after angry words between the neighbours over accusations Pakistan is not doing enough to stop Taliban violence. The assurance comes as fears mount that Taliban fighters launching attacks from Pakistan will disrupt a September parliamentary election in […]
Afghans hold Pakistanis for plot to kill U.S. envoy
Pakistani duplicity update from Reuters, with thanks to Fanabba: KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan security forces have arrested three Pakistanis for allegedly planning to assassinate the U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan government official said on Monday. The Pakistanis, who were suspected of being linked to a Pakistani Islamic militant group, were arrested in the eastern […]
Pakistan: Terror Camps Scatter, Persist
More on Pakistani duplicity from the LA Times, with thanks to Looney Tunes: WASHINGTON “” U.S. counter-terrorism authorities say that the detention of a Lodi, Calif.-based group of Pakistani men this month underscores a serious problem: the Islamabad government’s failure to dismantle hundreds of jihadist training camps. Long before the FBI arrested Hamid Hayat and […]
Pakistan: Draft of law finalised to abolish marriages to Quran
Change comes slowly to Pakistan’s rural areas. From the Daily Times, with thanks to LH. ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has drafted a law abolishing the un-Islamic and inhuman custom of so-called marriage of a girl to the Holy Quran and recommended life imprisonment for persons involved in this practice. This practice, commonly […]
Pakistan’s tribe of “infidels”
Tales of ancient Kafiristan. “Lost tribe struggles for survival,” from the Guardian, with thanks to Skeetstreet: More than 2,000 years ago Alexander the Great tore across the mountains of northern Pakistan, plundering, conquering and, according to legend, sowing the seeds of a tribe that endures to this day. And today, the Greeks are back. In […]
Kashmiri rebel confirms Pakistani spy agency help
Rashid Ahmed update from Reuters, with thanks to Skeetstreet: ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s main spy agency gave military training to Kashmiri rebels battling security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, a separatist leader has revealed for the first time. While India has long accused Pakistan of training and arming the rebels, a charge Islamabad denies, this is the […]
Pakistan Information Minister “is a mujahid and played a great role in jihad.”
An update on the Pakistani jihadist who is now a member of the government, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. “Rashid had Jihad links: Ex-ISI man,” from the Times of India, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: ISLAMABAD: Former ISI (Inter-State Intelligence) functionary Khawaja Khalid has corroborated Yasin Malik and Mirza Aslam Baig’s assertions that Pakistan Information Minister […]