Paracha wanted “to help al-Qaida ‘do something big against the US.’” Here are the media’s predictably dishonest and misleading headlines. The U.S. releases the oldest prisoner in Guantánamo Bay – NPR U.S. releases Guantanamo’s oldest prisoner after almost 18 years – NBC News The story is Paracha’s age, as if it’s the main topic, rather […]
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Sharia Pakistan: Police arrest woman on accusation of blasphemy as mob forms to lynch her
A glimpse into the near future of Britain. “Woman held over blasphemy charges in Karachi: police,” by Imtiaz Ali, Dawn, October 27, 2022: The Karachi police on Thursday arrested a woman over allegation of desecrating the Holy Quran and lodged a case against her under the blasphemy law. Bilal Colony Station House Officer (SHO) Ahmed […]
Pakistan: Muslims fire guns toward Hindu homes to prevent them from celebrating Diwali
“O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty.” (Qur’an 9:123) “‘We can’t celebrate Diwali or Holi..send us to India, or let us die’ – Islamists fire on Sindhi Hindu homes on […]
Pakistan: Policeman killed in jihad attack on polio vaccination team
We have seen this many times in the past. In September 2022, four polio workers were murdered in Pakistan. Eight polio workers were murdered in Afghanistan in February 2022. A Pakistani Muslim cleric has said that polio vaccinations are un-Islamic. And in Nigeria, a Muslim cleric was arrested for playing a role in sparking the murders of polio workers. […]
Spain: Muslim migrant couple killed their daughter in Pakistan for marrying without their approval
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for […]
Pakistan: Hindus protest against abduction and conversion of minor Hindu girls to Islam
The latest protest in Pakistan has begun over the forced conversion of a 14-year-old Hindu girl who was abducted from a village by four Muslim men. After her forced conversion to Islam, she was “forcibly married to her abductor, who is a Muslim.” Her grieving mother joined the protest to demand an immediate law against […]
Pakistan: Muslim kidnaps 14-year-old Hindu girl, converts her to Islam, forces her to marry him
These “love jihad” incidents stem from supremacist assumptions. Muslim women are forbidden to marry non-Muslim men: “Do not marry idolatresses until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave woman is better than an idolatress, even though she pleases you. And do not give your daughters in marriage to idolaters until they believe, for indeed, a […]
Pakistan: Muslims at Karachi company won’t speak to Hindu employee, make her eat from separate dishes
“O you who believe, the idolaters only are unclean.” (Qur’an 9:28) “‘Agar kheera utha lun to poori plate dustbin mein daal dete hain’: Hindu woman narrates religious discrimination she faces in Pakistan,” OpIndia, October 14, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Hindus, a minority in the Islamic country of Pakistan, are frequently targeted with […]
Pakistan: Three Muslims gang-rape 13-year-old Sikh boy
A way to express dominance of and contempt for the Sikh community. “13-year-old Sikh boy gang-raped by three Muslims in Pakistan,” Firstpost, October 12, 2022: Islamabad: A 13-year-old boy was gang-raped by three Muslim men in the Jacobabad area of Pakistan’s Sindh province. The minor victim belongs to the Sikh community. The accused allegedly took […]
Pakistan: Christian hospital worker’s life in danger after false accusation of blasphemy
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are routinely used for the worst human rights abuses. The world yawns, as stories such as this one don’t fit the narrative. “PAKISTAN: Christian Hospital Worker in Danger After Being Accused of Blasphemy,” Voice of the Martyrs, October 12, 2022: Forty-two-year-old James Masih has been a hospital worker at the THQ Hospital […]