“Pakistan will deport six Indonesian students suspected of having links to terrorism next week, including the brother of a recently detained militant considered to be Al-Qaeda’s point man in Asia, Indonesian officials said yesterday.” This from Straits Times, with thanks to nicolei. “The suspects, all of whom were studying at the Abubakar Islamic University in […]
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Pakistan responsible for resurgence of Taliban
Just as India’s BSF charges that Pakistani intelligence is working with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Abdullah Al Madani of Gulf News writes that in fact, “Pakistan, through its madrassah, fundamentalist parties, and Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, is helping the Taliban remnants return to power, repeating exactly what was done in the mid-1990s.” And all this despite […]
Pakistan working with Al-Qaeda, Taliban?
India’s Border Security Force is charging that “the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan is backing Northeast-based militant groups having camps in Bangladesh with the help of al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorist organisation.” This comes from India’s Manorama Online. “‘The Northeast-based terrorist outfits, including the ULFA, NDFB and other groups, are aided by the ISI in their […]
Mullah Omar spotted; Pakistan turns “a blind eye”
Mullah Omar?* “Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammed Omar was spotted last week in Pakistani city of Quetta and charged Islamabad with ‘turning a blind eye’ to terrorism in its border areas.” (Thanks to Fanabba.) “‘We have received information that Mullah Omar was seen praying in a mosque ten days ago,’ […]
Dhimmitude in Pakistan: Police arrests Christian for “blasphemy,” lets attackers go
Pakistan’s Daily Times reports: “Shadhra Town police arrested a Christian labourer Anwar Masih for blasphemy on Friday, after a case was registered by his acquaintance Naseer Ahmad, who converted to Islam about three months ago. While registering the case against Mr Masih, the police ignored the fact that his accuser gathered other people and attacked […]
European Parliamentarians express concern over persecution of Pakistani Christians!
The Pakistan Christian Post reports that Claude Moraes, a member of the European Parliament, has declared that “the suppression of individual’s freedom to practice their religion is a violation of human rights and breach the fundamental ideals of democracy.” The report here is a bit unclear, but it indicates that at least a few people […]
Pakistan’s “Universities of Jihad”
Newsweek introduces to the Jamia Uloom Islamia religious academy in the mountains of Pakistan, where students as young as nine years old “spend most of the day reciting the Qur’an; memorizing every one of its 6,666 verses is the main requirement for graduation.” This is the sort of thing we should encourage, right? Because surely […]
Pakistani Christian calls for equal rights
Christians living in our friend and ally Pakistan still suffer under much of the discrimination and deprivation of dhimmi status. But this is a courageous community that is not willing to accept dhimmitude without a struggle. According to the Pakistan Christian Post, James Khokhar, a prominent Christian leader who has now been granted asylum in […]
Liberal Islam being marginalised, warns Pakistani academic
Recently on the Michael Medved Show, Salam Al-Maryati of the Muslim Public Affairs Council criticized my characterization of radical Islam as a widespread global movement, and suggested that it was in fact a marginal radical fringe. He brushed aside my statements that moderate Muslims need to do more to convert radical Muslims to a more […]
“Islamic activists” held in Pakistan
From Bahrain’s Gulf News comes a story headlined “Islamic activists held in Pakistan.” “Islamic activists,” eh? Were they working to get out the vote? Or to fluoridate the water? Not quite: “A police official said that Sajid Ali Naqvi, head of Islami Tehrik-e-Pakistan and accused over the killing of Maulana Azam Tariq, the leader of […]