Islam forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims intentionally (cf. Koran 4:92), but the attackers here no doubt saw their victims as apostates or hypocrites, because of their connection with the U.S.-supported Pakistani army. “35 killed in mosque suicide attack,” from Dublin’s Independent, December 4 (thanks to Twostellas): Suicide attackers have stormed a mosque close to […]
Pakistani Christians: Will Saudis allow construction of cathedrals to challenge Swiss ban on minarets?
While the world waxes indignant over the Swiss minaret ban, it is useful to put things into perspective. In Egypt, Christians are persecuted. In Pakistan, construction of new churches is severely restricted. In Saudi Arabia, it isn’t allowed at all. So why is a ban on minarets — not on mosques — so much more […]
Pakistani Muslims beat Sikh, threaten him “to convert to Islam if he wanted to live in Pakistan”
Islamic Tolerance Alert. While the article does not elaborate, the fact that he was apparently active in some capacity as an advocate for the Sikh community — and thus an undesirably uppity dhimmi — likely singled him out to be targeted as an example to others. “Pak Sikh thrashed for not converting,” by Yudhvir Rana […]
Taliban trying to destroy Buddhist art
Imperiled Islam, of course, forbids representational art. And we all saw what happened to the Buddhas of Bamiyan. More on this story. “Taliban trying to destroy Buddhist art from the Gandhara period,” from Asia News, November 27 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Islamabad (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Pakistani and foreign archaeologists have set off the alarm bell, warning […]
Taliban attempt to erase Pakistan’s Buddhist heritage
Cultural genocide is a consequence of jihadist warfare, as the supremacist impulse to impose Islamic law cannot tolerate any competition, especially from the non-Islamic past, or time of jahiliyyah. Ensuring submission requires extinguishing a populace’s attachment to — or curiosity about — its prior existence, unless it can be subsumed in a narrative leading inevitably […]
Report: Pakistani intel helped Mullah Omar flee Quetta
Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update. “EXCLUSIVE: Taliban chief hides in Pakistan,” by Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter, and Barbara Slavin for the Washington Times, November 20 (thanks to Alan): Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential […]
Peshawar: Another day, another bombing
This string of attacks has focused significantly on law enforcement in various forms, targeting the government’s ability to protect its citizens, and striking at symbols of insufficiently Islamic law. “Four killed, 31 injured in Peshawar suicide bombing,” from the Press Trust of India, November 16: Islamabad/ Peshawar: A suicide bomber today rammed his explosives-laden truck […]
Another suicide bombing strikes Peshawar
After Friday’s bombing at the local ISI headquarters. “Suicide car bomb in Pakistan kills 11,” from CNN, November 14 (thanks to Alan): ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A suicide car bomber who blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in Peshawar killed 11 people and wounded 26 — marking the second straight day of major […]
Pakistani Army ran training camps for jihad group
No one should be surprised by this. But all the learned analysts who know how much we need Pakistan will be. Double Game Update: “Pakistani Army ran Muslim extremist training camps, says anti-terrorist expert,” by Charles Bremner in the Times Online, November 14 (thanks to Kris): The Pakistani Army ran training camps for a Muslim […]
Spencer: Pakistan Defeats the Taliban — Again
In my column in Human Events this morning I discuss Pakistan’s longstanding double game: The Taliban, sponsor of Osama bin Laden, terror-makers for decades, are on the ropes — at least in Pakistan. Pakistan’s foreign minister, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, delivered the good news on Sunday: the Taliban is being routed along the Afghanistan border. […]