From AFP,
The blast occurred in Khar, the main town of lawless Bajaur tribal district, once a stronghold of Taliban militants who have carried out several bombings and suicide attacks in the area, which is near the Afghanistan border.
A suicide bomber wearing a burqa, and who some officials said was a woman, killed at least 43 people and wounded 100 as many of them queued for food that was being distributed by the United Nations food agency.
Most of the victims belonged to the local Salarzai tribe which supported military action against the militants and formed a militia to force them from Bajaur.
Source: AFP
Comments: It is good to see the Salarzai tribe rejecting the Taliban. They should rewarded and compensated for their loss. Sadly, it wouldn't be surprising if they aren't that much more enlightened than the Taliban.
Watch out for the possibility that the U.N. might be infiltrated by the terrorists.
The terrorists like to complain if there are accidental civilian deaths from anti-terror military operations and yet they deliberately target civilians.
Some new legal, moral and ethical standards, and rights should be devised to deal with such terrorists. The current moral, ethical, legal and rights framework isn't suitable and doesn't work against those that sink too low to be considered equal and deserving of the same treatment as the rest of humanity. [And why is it a heresy and blasphemy to question your dogma, and why should we accept it without questioning?] It is plain wrong to treat everyone as equal, without taking in to account the factual moral inequalities. And besides being wrong, this false ideology and mental handicap also kill innocent lives by preventing effective action against the killers. So there is an urgent need for reform.
The post World War Two framework was an excessive knee-jerk reaction to the excesses of the Nazis. They are both extremes and are not based on facts. The liberals and leftists exploited the Nazi excesses (while ignoring the equally heinous Communist atrocities) to push their everything-everyone-is-good-and-equal agenda, and today we are suffering as a result and are paralyzed and can't take any effective action, even to save innocent lives.
How we treat others should be based on how they treat us and others.
This is the Golden Rule of Jesus.
To not take into account how they treat others or us, and insist that no matter how they treat others, they will be treated according to some fixed and pre-defined criteria is not only blind, unjust, unfair and wrong, but is also deadly to all by endanger our lives. It simply allows the wicked to hide behind the rules and use it against us.
Rules are made to save lives. If they don't then they should be discarded and replaced with those that do. It is the same for officials, governments and leaders.
Our response should be based on facts and not some blind dogmatic notion of equality or false taboos and moral superstitions.
And we should be flexible and respond to each threat on its merit, and not on fixed dogma that has no connection whatsoever with reality but is based on fantasy and madness.
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82 dead after suicide bomber sent by terrorist “beasts” turned Sunni mosque in Pakistan into a “graveyard” during Friday prayers [That's their standard]
US should invade if Pakistan continue supporting terror, says Muslim former US ambassador to Afghanistan [Even the state itself supports terror]
Pakistan Foreign Minister says nearly 37,000 killed by terrorists in the country [Terrorists "that offers no quarter, obeys no law and holds nothing sacred"]
Aid agencies to ask US to give aid anonymously due to terror threat to US aid [Boundless hate]
Four Taliban suicide bombers dead in attack on UN base in Herat, Afghanistan [The U.N. that is more concerned about terrorists than their victims gets a bit of it's own medicine back]
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Iran hangs 11 members of Sunni-Baluch militant group Jundallah (Army of God) days after a Jundallah suicide bomber killed 39 Shiites during Ashura in revenge for hanging its leader
From AP,
Iran hanged 11 men authorities said were members of an armed Sunni militant group convicted of bombings, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The men were said to be members of Jundallah, the group that claimed responsibility for an attack [to avenge the hanging of its leader, Abdulmalik Rigi, earlier this year] last week on Shiite worshippers that killed 39 people in the southeastern port city of Chahbahar.
Jundallah has been waging an insurgency for years in remote Sistan-Baluchistan province, a lawless area in southeastern Iran bordering Pakistan where smuggling and banditry are rife. The groups says it is fighting for the rights of the Baluchi minority, which it says suffers discrimination at the hands of Iran's Shiite's leadership.
[Those hanged were convicted of alleged] involvement in attacks over the past years that killed 15 policemen and 12 members of the Revolutionary Guards — Iran's most powerful military force. The were also accused of supplying arms and refuge to terrorists, armed kidnapping and arms smuggling.
From AFP 1
Shadowy Sunni militant group Jundallah (Army of God) has claimed several deadly attacks in Sistan-Baluchestan, of which Zahedan is the capital and which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, including a December 15 suicide bombing in the city of Chabahar that killed 39 people and wounded dozens.
The bomber struck in a central square as worshippers took part in the procession marking the eve of the last day of Ashura, the most revered Shiite mourning ritual.
Iranian officials charge that the group is receiving support from the intelligence services of the United States, Britain and Pakistan.
[After the Chabahar attack] Iranian president "asked Zardari to order his country's security forces to quickly arrest known terrorists and hand them over to the Islamic Republic of Iran," Ahmadinejad's office said in a statement posted on its website.
[Sistan-Baluchestan provincial justice department head Ebrahim Hamidi said] "These corrupt and Mohareb (waging war against God) elements ... went through all the legal and religious procedures of receiving a fair and public trial,"
[Those hanged were accused of] "corruption on earth, fighting against God and the Prophet and confronting the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
Under Iranian penal code these crimes are punishable by death.
From AFP 2
Millions of Iranians, beating themselves with fists and chains, marked the climax of Ashura on Thursday a day after a suicide bomber killed 34 people in a procession for Shiite Islam's most revered mourning ritual.
Men, women and children dressed in black gathered in cities across the country as the 10 days of rituals mourning the death of Imam Hussein, the faith's third imam, reached a peak.
Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, was killed by armies of the caliph Yazid in 680 AD. Tradition holds that he was decapitated and his body mutilated in the battle at Karbala, now in Iraq.
Shiites make up around 15 percent of Muslims worldwide. They represent the majority populations in Iran, Iraq and Bahrain, and form significant communities in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Source: AFP (1,2), AP
Comments: No non-Muslims involved here, although, as usual, the US and others are blamed, to create further hate, paranoia and conspiracy theories among Muslims.
Claims of intra-Muslim discrimination (Probably true).
Discrimination excuse for terror attacks.
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Ethnic Baluch Sunni Iranian rebel group Jundullah declared a terror group by the US [Ethnic (Persian-Baluch) and sectarian (Sunni-Shiite) division in Iran]
Iranian Nazi site IranNazi.Ir unblocked by Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic guidance after a brief ban [Claims of Persian supremacism in Iran]
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Iran hanged 11 men authorities said were members of an armed Sunni militant group convicted of bombings, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The men were said to be members of Jundallah, the group that claimed responsibility for an attack [to avenge the hanging of its leader, Abdulmalik Rigi, earlier this year] last week on Shiite worshippers that killed 39 people in the southeastern port city of Chahbahar.
Jundallah has been waging an insurgency for years in remote Sistan-Baluchistan province, a lawless area in southeastern Iran bordering Pakistan where smuggling and banditry are rife. The groups says it is fighting for the rights of the Baluchi minority, which it says suffers discrimination at the hands of Iran's Shiite's leadership.
[Those hanged were convicted of alleged] involvement in attacks over the past years that killed 15 policemen and 12 members of the Revolutionary Guards — Iran's most powerful military force. The were also accused of supplying arms and refuge to terrorists, armed kidnapping and arms smuggling.
From AFP 1
Shadowy Sunni militant group Jundallah (Army of God) has claimed several deadly attacks in Sistan-Baluchestan, of which Zahedan is the capital and which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, including a December 15 suicide bombing in the city of Chabahar that killed 39 people and wounded dozens.
The bomber struck in a central square as worshippers took part in the procession marking the eve of the last day of Ashura, the most revered Shiite mourning ritual.
Iranian officials charge that the group is receiving support from the intelligence services of the United States, Britain and Pakistan.
[After the Chabahar attack] Iranian president "asked Zardari to order his country's security forces to quickly arrest known terrorists and hand them over to the Islamic Republic of Iran," Ahmadinejad's office said in a statement posted on its website.
[Sistan-Baluchestan provincial justice department head Ebrahim Hamidi said] "These corrupt and Mohareb (waging war against God) elements ... went through all the legal and religious procedures of receiving a fair and public trial,"
[Those hanged were accused of] "corruption on earth, fighting against God and the Prophet and confronting the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
Under Iranian penal code these crimes are punishable by death.
From AFP 2
Millions of Iranians, beating themselves with fists and chains, marked the climax of Ashura on Thursday a day after a suicide bomber killed 34 people in a procession for Shiite Islam's most revered mourning ritual.
Men, women and children dressed in black gathered in cities across the country as the 10 days of rituals mourning the death of Imam Hussein, the faith's third imam, reached a peak.
Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, was killed by armies of the caliph Yazid in 680 AD. Tradition holds that he was decapitated and his body mutilated in the battle at Karbala, now in Iraq.
Shiites make up around 15 percent of Muslims worldwide. They represent the majority populations in Iran, Iraq and Bahrain, and form significant communities in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Source: AFP (1,2), AP
Comments: No non-Muslims involved here, although, as usual, the US and others are blamed, to create further hate, paranoia and conspiracy theories among Muslims.
Claims of intra-Muslim discrimination (Probably true).
Discrimination excuse for terror attacks.
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Ethnic Baluch Sunni Iranian rebel group Jundullah declared a terror group by the US [Ethnic (Persian-Baluch) and sectarian (Sunni-Shiite) division in Iran]
Iranian Nazi site IranNazi.Ir unblocked by Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic guidance after a brief ban [Claims of Persian supremacism in Iran]
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Missile strike in Pakistan 'allegedly' killed White British Muslim convert terrorists, Stephen (Abu Bakr) and Dearsmith (Mansoor Ahmed)
According to local officials, White British Muslim converts with surnames Stephen, 48, and Dearsmith, 25, and with pseudonyms Abu Bakr and Mansoor Ahmed, died after (BBC) Hellfire missile strike by a remote-controlled US aircraft (Daily Mirror) on a car near the town of Datta Khel in North Waziristan on December 10. (BBC)
Their bodies, along with that of two other militants in the car, were incinerated by the attack and what little was left was taken away by the militants. (BBC)
The two are thought to have arrive in Pakistan in November 2009 to fight with al-Qaeda. (Daily Mirror)
Daily Mail warned that
"[British] Foreign Office made clear that there had been no official confirmation that Britons had died in the missile attack seven days ago.
Sources warned that the reports could be propaganda put out by the Taliban to encourage more British Islamists to the region to join the fight against coalition forces, including British soldiers, in neighbouring Afghanistan.
They also suggested that the Pakistani security services might have concocted the claims to stifle criticism of their failure to tackle extremism in the country."
The Foreign Office said the British High Commission in Pakistan was seeking further information. (BBC)
Source: BBC, Daily Mail (U.K.), Daily Mirror (U.K.)
Comments: This is unconfirmed yet but either way it would be yet another Muslim convert terrorist case or a lie by the Taliban or Pakistanis.
There is also a big possibility that the politically correct British authorities are trying to down play the problem of Islamic extremism in Britain (for example Londonistan).
Some previous similar or related stories:
Taqiyya BIG talk: Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid exaggerates death toll, as they regularly do [Taliban propaganda]
WkikLeaks: US and Karzai say UK 'not up to the task' in Afghanistan and ‘made a mess of things’ according to ‘dismayed’ U.S. General Dan McNeil [Both on and off the battlefield, British authorities prefer appeasement while targeting those speaking out against Islamic extremism]
US should invade if Pakistan continue supporting terror, says Muslim former US ambassador to Afghanistan [Pakistan behind Afghan terror]
Pakistan involved in Mumbai terror attacks according to David Headley [Pakistan supporting terror not only in Afghanistan but also in India]
White American Muslim convert Zachary Adam Chesser pleads guilty to terror charges [A white Muslim convert terrorist]
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Their bodies, along with that of two other militants in the car, were incinerated by the attack and what little was left was taken away by the militants. (BBC)
The two are thought to have arrive in Pakistan in November 2009 to fight with al-Qaeda. (Daily Mirror)
Daily Mail warned that
"[British] Foreign Office made clear that there had been no official confirmation that Britons had died in the missile attack seven days ago.
Sources warned that the reports could be propaganda put out by the Taliban to encourage more British Islamists to the region to join the fight against coalition forces, including British soldiers, in neighbouring Afghanistan.
They also suggested that the Pakistani security services might have concocted the claims to stifle criticism of their failure to tackle extremism in the country."
The Foreign Office said the British High Commission in Pakistan was seeking further information. (BBC)
Source: BBC, Daily Mail (U.K.), Daily Mirror (U.K.)
Comments: This is unconfirmed yet but either way it would be yet another Muslim convert terrorist case or a lie by the Taliban or Pakistanis.
There is also a big possibility that the politically correct British authorities are trying to down play the problem of Islamic extremism in Britain (for example Londonistan).
Some previous similar or related stories:
Taqiyya BIG talk: Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid exaggerates death toll, as they regularly do [Taliban propaganda]
WkikLeaks: US and Karzai say UK 'not up to the task' in Afghanistan and ‘made a mess of things’ according to ‘dismayed’ U.S. General Dan McNeil [Both on and off the battlefield, British authorities prefer appeasement while targeting those speaking out against Islamic extremism]
US should invade if Pakistan continue supporting terror, says Muslim former US ambassador to Afghanistan [Pakistan behind Afghan terror]
Pakistan involved in Mumbai terror attacks according to David Headley [Pakistan supporting terror not only in Afghanistan but also in India]
White American Muslim convert Zachary Adam Chesser pleads guilty to terror charges [A white Muslim convert terrorist]
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Shiite doctor Naushad Valiyani arrested for alleged blasphemy for throwing away business card of Muhammad Faizan in Pakistan
From AFP
Source: AFP, AP
Comments: Doesn't take much to 'insult' or 'blaspheme' Islam and the hypersensitive Muslims does it?
This is exactly what is also happening in the West with criticism of the problems with Islam and Muslims being labeled as 'hate' and 'Islamophobia' - in other words, insult or blasphemy.
Sunni-Shiite clash also involved here.
Members of the Ahmadi sect of Islam are also frequent target of blasphemy accusations.
There is also the case of Christian woman Asia Bibi, sentenced to death after an argument with Muslims women who insulted her by saying water she carried was 'unclean' (In Pakistan Christians are frequently considered unclean). Her death sentence is set to be appealed.
Can't blame 'racist' 'facist' 'imperialists' (and whatever hate-labels and name calling the PC fascists and Islamofascists fancy) White Westerners, or Christian 'crusaders', or invaders or occupiers, or Zionists (Jews) for this one - the usual suspect scape goats for all and any problems of Islam and Muslims.
This is Islam's 'bloody innards' so nothing to do with 'infidels' or 'Kuffar'.
The point as Samuel Huntington pointed out long before 9-11 attacks is that
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Saeed Malekpour reportedly sentenced to death in Iran for porn web sites, anti-government activities and "insulting the sanctity of Islam"
Abdel Kareem Nabil (aka Kareem Amer), the first Egyptian blogger jailed for criticizing Islam, al-Azhar and the government freed after a 4yrs sentence
Ex-Muslim Atheist Palestinian, Walid Husayin, facing life sentence for “insulting” Islam as some call for his death for apostasy
Asia Bibi (aka Aasia Bibi and Aasia Noreen) case summary - Christians unclean, pressured to conver to Islam, defending Christianity as blasphemy
Death threats against Swedish Mohammed cartoonist Lars Vilks by Swedish al-Shabaab member Abu Zaid – migration for terror also urged
Bomb attacks against Shiite Iranian pilgrims in Iraq kill 8 and injure 52
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"The arrest was made after the complainant told the police that Valiyani threw his business card, which had his full name, Muhammad Faizan, in a dustbin during a visit to his clinic," regional police chief Mushtaq Shah told AFP.From AP
Naushad Valiyani, a Muslim doctor in the southern city of Hyderabad, was arrested Friday after a complaint was lodged with police alleging his actions had insulted the Prophet Muhammad, said regional police chief Mushtaq Shah.From AFP
Shah said the issue had been resolved after Valiyani, a member of Pakistan's Ismaili community, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, apologised but local religious leaders intervened and pressed for action.From AP
Shah said ... the police had registered a case under the Blasphemy Act.
Shah said police were investigating whether Valiyani should be charged with blasphemy.
Source: AFP, AP
Comments: Doesn't take much to 'insult' or 'blaspheme' Islam and the hypersensitive Muslims does it?
This is exactly what is also happening in the West with criticism of the problems with Islam and Muslims being labeled as 'hate' and 'Islamophobia' - in other words, insult or blasphemy.
Sunni-Shiite clash also involved here.
Members of the Ahmadi sect of Islam are also frequent target of blasphemy accusations.
There is also the case of Christian woman Asia Bibi, sentenced to death after an argument with Muslims women who insulted her by saying water she carried was 'unclean' (In Pakistan Christians are frequently considered unclean). Her death sentence is set to be appealed.
Can't blame 'racist' 'facist' 'imperialists' (and whatever hate-labels and name calling the PC fascists and Islamofascists fancy) White Westerners, or Christian 'crusaders', or invaders or occupiers, or Zionists (Jews) for this one - the usual suspect scape goats for all and any problems of Islam and Muslims.
This is Islam's 'bloody innards' so nothing to do with 'infidels' or 'Kuffar'.
The point as Samuel Huntington pointed out long before 9-11 attacks is that
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power —— Huntington's 1998 text The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order.
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Saeed Malekpour reportedly sentenced to death in Iran for porn web sites, anti-government activities and "insulting the sanctity of Islam"
Abdel Kareem Nabil (aka Kareem Amer), the first Egyptian blogger jailed for criticizing Islam, al-Azhar and the government freed after a 4yrs sentence
Ex-Muslim Atheist Palestinian, Walid Husayin, facing life sentence for “insulting” Islam as some call for his death for apostasy
Asia Bibi (aka Aasia Bibi and Aasia Noreen) case summary - Christians unclean, pressured to conver to Islam, defending Christianity as blasphemy
Death threats against Swedish Mohammed cartoonist Lars Vilks by Swedish al-Shabaab member Abu Zaid – migration for terror also urged
Bomb attacks against Shiite Iranian pilgrims in Iraq kill 8 and injure 52
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
Asia Bibi (aka Aasia Bibi and Aasia Noreen) case summary - Christians unclean, pressured to conver to Islam, defending Christianity as blasphemy
A brief summary of some main points from Asia Bibi's case from a TIME magazine article.
Source: TIME (Magazine)
Comment:
Where are those bleeding heart liberals, romantists and 'human rights' people, always concerned about the rights of terrorists, Islamists, Muslims and anything to do with Islam now?
And where are those moralizers who like using words like 'discrimination', 'prejudice', 'bigotry', 'hate', 'equality' and all sorts of other Newspeak words?
Too busy putting Christians, Whites, the US, the West, those fighting terrorism and those making legitimate criticism of Islam under the microscope to see the 800 lb gorilla in the room?
Oh and of course those hypersensitive Muslims that always gets enraged and protest any wrong, however minor, against Muslims are protesting now too as usual, but for Bibi's death this time.
There is a curious question as to why these discriminated and oppressed Christians don't use it as an excuse for terrorism?
The most important point from here is the fact that Muslims consider Christian defense of their religion as insults to Islam or blasphemy. But Christians who reject Islam need to explain the reasons for their rejection and those explanations would invariable involve showing how and why Islam is a false religion. And this is not to blaspheme but merely to explain one's belief.
The reason why this point is important is that there is a trend emerging in West where politically correct elites don't want anyone debating or criticizing anyone else in order to force through their dogma that everything and anything is good and equal so that there should be no choice or individuality (choice is 'discrimination') and that nothing is bad, except the questioning of their dogma by un-PC heretics.
So keep in mind the Islamic blasphemies and the politically correct (PC) blasphemies, and note the similarities between the two.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Muslims profit from terror; New US military aid for Pakistan, on top of annual 2 billion, 7.5 billion pledged and 400 million flood aid
Muslim cleric Maulana Yousef Qureshi offers $5800 for anyone who kills Asia Bibi - he offered over $1 million in 2006 for Danish Mohammed cartoonists
Pakistan court rules Asia Bibi can't be pardoned while her court case continues, after lawyers filed a petition
Islamists massacre a Christian family of 7 including children in Pakistan
Asia Bibi's family in hiding after death threats, no immediate Presidential pardon and no repeal of the blasphemy law as protests held against her
Asia Bibi Update: Some Muslims considered water fetched by her, a Christian, to be unclean
Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan
Ex-Muslim Atheist Palestinian, Walid Husayin, facing life sentence for “insulting” Islam as some call for his death for apostasy
Musa Sayed, 45, and Ahmad Shah, 50, awaiting trial and facing death penalty in Afghanistan for conversion to Christianity from Islam
Abdel Kareem Nabil (aka Kareem Amer), the first Egyptian blogger jailed for criticizing Islam, al-Azhar and the government freed after a 4yrs sentence
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A group of women farm workers were suffering in the heatLiberal lawmaker Sherry Rehman said that although the blasphemy law was unlikely to be repealed, the positive result from this case was that “It's not a taboo subject anymore”.
Aasia Noreen ... offered them water
[She] was a Christian, they said, and therefore her water was unclean — sadly, a common taunt
But rather than swallowing the indignity, she mounted a stout defense of her faith.
In a depressingly familiar pattern, [it] was twisted into an accusation of blasphemy
The district judge relied on the testimonies of three other women, all of whom bore animus toward her.
Noreen had long been under pressure by fellow farmworkers to convert to Islam, her family says.
The Lahore High Court has taken the controversial step of saying that it won't allow President Asif Ali Zardari to issue a pardon, a move that legal experts have said is unconstitutional.
Christians are subject to vicious prejudice in Pakistan, where there beliefs are said to make them "unclean." Municipalities routinely advertise jobs for cleaners with a note saying they would prefer Christian applicants. And defending their rights is not popular.
While no one has been executed for blasphemy yet, 32 people — including two judges — have been slain by vigilantes.
Source: TIME (Magazine)
Comment:
Where are those bleeding heart liberals, romantists and 'human rights' people, always concerned about the rights of terrorists, Islamists, Muslims and anything to do with Islam now?
And where are those moralizers who like using words like 'discrimination', 'prejudice', 'bigotry', 'hate', 'equality' and all sorts of other Newspeak words?
Too busy putting Christians, Whites, the US, the West, those fighting terrorism and those making legitimate criticism of Islam under the microscope to see the 800 lb gorilla in the room?
Oh and of course those hypersensitive Muslims that always gets enraged and protest any wrong, however minor, against Muslims are protesting now too as usual, but for Bibi's death this time.
There is a curious question as to why these discriminated and oppressed Christians don't use it as an excuse for terrorism?
The most important point from here is the fact that Muslims consider Christian defense of their religion as insults to Islam or blasphemy. But Christians who reject Islam need to explain the reasons for their rejection and those explanations would invariable involve showing how and why Islam is a false religion. And this is not to blaspheme but merely to explain one's belief.
The reason why this point is important is that there is a trend emerging in West where politically correct elites don't want anyone debating or criticizing anyone else in order to force through their dogma that everything and anything is good and equal so that there should be no choice or individuality (choice is 'discrimination') and that nothing is bad, except the questioning of their dogma by un-PC heretics.
So keep in mind the Islamic blasphemies and the politically correct (PC) blasphemies, and note the similarities between the two.
Some previous similar or related stories:
Muslims profit from terror; New US military aid for Pakistan, on top of annual 2 billion, 7.5 billion pledged and 400 million flood aid
Muslim cleric Maulana Yousef Qureshi offers $5800 for anyone who kills Asia Bibi - he offered over $1 million in 2006 for Danish Mohammed cartoonists
Pakistan court rules Asia Bibi can't be pardoned while her court case continues, after lawyers filed a petition
Islamists massacre a Christian family of 7 including children in Pakistan
Asia Bibi's family in hiding after death threats, no immediate Presidential pardon and no repeal of the blasphemy law as protests held against her
Asia Bibi Update: Some Muslims considered water fetched by her, a Christian, to be unclean
Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan
Ex-Muslim Atheist Palestinian, Walid Husayin, facing life sentence for “insulting” Islam as some call for his death for apostasy
Musa Sayed, 45, and Ahmad Shah, 50, awaiting trial and facing death penalty in Afghanistan for conversion to Christianity from Islam
Abdel Kareem Nabil (aka Kareem Amer), the first Egyptian blogger jailed for criticizing Islam, al-Azhar and the government freed after a 4yrs sentence
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Friday, December 3, 2010
Muslim cleric Maulana Yousef Qureshi offers $5800 for anyone who kills Asia Bibi - he offered over $1 million in 2006 for Danish Mohammed cartoonists
A hardline, pro-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric has offered $5,800 for anyone who kills Asia Bibi, a Christian sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam.
Maulana Yousef Qureshi, Imam of Masjid Mohabat Khan, a major mosque in the city of Peshawar, said during a rally by hardline Islamists on Friday that
He later told Reuters
In 2006, Qureshi and his followers offered over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists that drew caricatures of Mohammed [in support of freedom of expression and against the Islamist threat to it].
Source: Reuters
Comment: Pakistan has ridiculous discriminatory blasphemy laws but no laws against clear, open and public calls for murder and terrorism.
Surely murder and incitement to murder are worse blasphemies (supposing that Islam really was against death for blasphemy) than mere words that insult.
So where is the outrage from the mythical and supposedly overwhelming majority of Muslims who they and the PC elites and the media keep saying are 'moderate', 'peaceful' and 'tolerant'?
Where are they and why don't they do something about it? And why didn't they already do anything about in 2006?
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Islamists massacre a Christian family of 7 including children in Pakistan
Pakistan court rules Asia Bibi can't be pardoned while her court case continues, after lawyers filed a petition
Asia Bibi's family in hiding after death threats, no immediate Presidential pardon and no repeal of the blasphemy law as protests held against her
Asia Bibi Update: Some Muslims considered water fetched by her, a Christian, to be unclean
Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan
Ex-Muslim Atheist Palestinian, Walid Husayin, facing life sentence for “insulting” Islam as some call for his death for apostasy
Musa Sayed, 45, and Ahmad Shah, 50, awaiting trial and facing death penalty in Afghanistan for conversion to Christianity from Islam
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Maulana Yousef Qureshi, Imam of Masjid Mohabat Khan, a major mosque in the city of Peshawar, said during a rally by hardline Islamists on Friday that
"Anyone who kills Asia will be given 500,000 rupees in reward from Masjid Mohabat Khan,"He also said that they would "strongly resist" any attempt to repeal blasphemy laws that sentenced Bibi to death.
He later told Reuters
"We expect her to be hanged and if she is not hanged then we will ask mujahideen and Taliban to kill her."No one has so far been hanged for blasphemy in Pakistan but accusations of blasphemy are common and many have been killed by mobs and fanatics after being acquitted on appeal.
In 2006, Qureshi and his followers offered over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists that drew caricatures of Mohammed [in support of freedom of expression and against the Islamist threat to it].
Source: Reuters
Comment: Pakistan has ridiculous discriminatory blasphemy laws but no laws against clear, open and public calls for murder and terrorism.
Surely murder and incitement to murder are worse blasphemies (supposing that Islam really was against death for blasphemy) than mere words that insult.
So where is the outrage from the mythical and supposedly overwhelming majority of Muslims who they and the PC elites and the media keep saying are 'moderate', 'peaceful' and 'tolerant'?
Where are they and why don't they do something about it? And why didn't they already do anything about in 2006?
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Suicide bombing by Pakistani Taliban kills 6 - 1 police, boys aged 7 & 9, 3 other civilians - and injures 19 in the town of Bannu near Afghan border
The suicide bomber on foot was targeting a police van in the town of Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border.3
According to AFP, the town 'lies close to Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, an area which Washington has branded Al-Qaeda's global headquarters and the most dangerous region on Earth.'1
The attack killed two boys aged seven and nine, along with a police official and three pedestrians, according to Bannu police chief Iftikhar Khan.1
He said 19 others were also injured in the attack.1
The Associated Press reports that a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.2
Sources: 1. AFP 2. AP, 3. BBC
Comment: Will those, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, who are always outraged by inavoidable casualties resulting from the fight against terror (mostly due to terrorists hiding among civilians) be also outraged by terror attacks such as these?
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According to AFP, the town 'lies close to Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, an area which Washington has branded Al-Qaeda's global headquarters and the most dangerous region on Earth.'1
The attack killed two boys aged seven and nine, along with a police official and three pedestrians, according to Bannu police chief Iftikhar Khan.1
He said 19 others were also injured in the attack.1
The Associated Press reports that a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.2
Sources: 1. AFP 2. AP, 3. BBC
Comment: Will those, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, who are always outraged by inavoidable casualties resulting from the fight against terror (mostly due to terrorists hiding among civilians) be also outraged by terror attacks such as these?
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Pakistan court rules Asia Bibi can't be pardoned while her court case continues, after lawyers filed a petition
Lawyer Allah Bakhsh Leghari said "We argued that since the death sentence given by the trial court to Aasia Bibi has yet to be confirmed or rejected by the high court, the president could not use his power at this stage."2
The ruling was issued by the top court of Pakistan's Punjab province2 [where her appeal is being heard].
President Asif Ali Zardari has earlier said that he might pardon Asia if her appeal drags through the courts for too long.1
Sources: 1. Islam & Terrorism News (Blog), 2. NewsCore
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Musa Sayed, 45, and Ahmad Shah, 50, awaiting trail and facing death penalty in Afghanistan for conversion to Christianity from Islam
The ruling was issued by the top court of Pakistan's Punjab province2 [where her appeal is being heard].
President Asif Ali Zardari has earlier said that he might pardon Asia if her appeal drags through the courts for too long.1
Sources: 1. Islam & Terrorism News (Blog), 2. NewsCore
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Asia Bibi's family in hiding after death threats, no immediate Presidential pardon and no repeal of the blasphemy law as protests held against her
Asia Bibi's lawyer has filed an appeal to the Lahore High Court against her death sentence for blasphemy.3
She had been visited in prison by Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who has appealed to the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari for clemency.2
A report by minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti, who is a Christian, recommending Bibi be pardoned and immediately freed,3 has also been submitted to the Zardari.2
The report, which was commissioned by Zardari, "concluded that the blasphemy case against Asia Bibi has been registered on grounds of personal enmity."2
Zardari has however decided not to immediately pardon her and has instead decided to wait and see her legal appeal process.3 He indicated that he may grant a pardon, a risky move given that his party's reliance on support of Islamists in parliament, if the appeal process takes too long.3
Nazir S. Bhatti, head of Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC) told AsiaNews.it earlier when news of Aisa sentence emerged that4
Meanwhile protests has been held against any pardon for Bibi and she has been provided with security in prison7 while her family has gone into hiding after death threats.2
Bibi's husband, Ashiq Masih, who works in a brick factory in the Shekhupura district near Lahore said1
In the city of Lahore, Qari Yaqub, chief coordinator for a subsidiary of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) - a banned charity blacklisted by the UN as terror linked - lead a protest against Bibi.5
A nationally known mufti Muneer Ur Rehman, a leading cleric in Lahore, Hafiz Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer,6 and head of the Sunni Ittehad Council, Sahibzada Fazal Kareem5 also voiced opposition to any pardon for Bibi.
In Karachi, dozens of Christians have held their own protests against the law.3
Nasir Saeed from the UK office of Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), which provides free legal support to Pakistan’s Christians said that such laws5
Shahbaz Bhatti has therefore called instead for changes to the law instead, including making false accusations a crime, abolishing the death penalty and requiring higher courts to hear such cases at the start.3
Sources: 1. 2. AFP, 3. AP, 4. AsiaNews.it 5. Christian Today, 6. CNN, 7. Reuters
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She had been visited in prison by Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who has appealed to the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari for clemency.2
A report by minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti, who is a Christian, recommending Bibi be pardoned and immediately freed,3 has also been submitted to the Zardari.2
The report, which was commissioned by Zardari, "concluded that the blasphemy case against Asia Bibi has been registered on grounds of personal enmity."2
Zardari has however decided not to immediately pardon her and has instead decided to wait and see her legal appeal process.3 He indicated that he may grant a pardon, a risky move given that his party's reliance on support of Islamists in parliament, if the appeal process takes too long.3
Nazir S. Bhatti, head of Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC) told AsiaNews.it earlier when news of Aisa sentence emerged that4
“According to the constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the president of Pakistan or the interior minister have the power to withdraw any case,”4Pope Benedict XVI last week called for Bibi's release2,3 saying her case highlights the persecution of Pakistani Christians3 who were "often victims of violence and discrimination."2
“There are examples of cases of terrorism withdrawn by the government of Pakistan. Why then the Pakistani administration is silent on Asia Bibi’s sentence?”4
“In Pakistan, some 2.8 million Christians are treated as second class citizens, whilst Islamic government feel no shame to release Muslim criminals and terrorists,”4
Meanwhile protests has been held against any pardon for Bibi and she has been provided with security in prison7 while her family has gone into hiding after death threats.2
Bibi's husband, Ashiq Masih, who works in a brick factory in the Shekhupura district near Lahore said1
"We are frightened. We are receiving threats, especially from clerics. They started demonstrations in the area,"1In the city of Multan Tariq Naeemullah, a leader of Citizen Front of Multan said during a protest, “We will resist if the government moves against the court verdict and attempts to amend the blasphemy law.”3
"Yesterday there was a protest in Shekhupura. They said they will not leave Asia Bibi alive if she is pardoned."1
In the city of Lahore, Qari Yaqub, chief coordinator for a subsidiary of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) - a banned charity blacklisted by the UN as terror linked - lead a protest against Bibi.5
A nationally known mufti Muneer Ur Rehman, a leading cleric in Lahore, Hafiz Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer,6 and head of the Sunni Ittehad Council, Sahibzada Fazal Kareem5 also voiced opposition to any pardon for Bibi.
In Karachi, dozens of Christians have held their own protests against the law.3
Nasir Saeed from the UK office of Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), which provides free legal support to Pakistan’s Christians said that such laws5
“foster an attitude of superiority among the majority-Muslim population, that it is somehow ok to mistreat Christians.”5The Manifesto of President Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party calls for the repeal of the blasphemy law but they lack the numbers in parliament to carry it out.6
Shahbaz Bhatti has therefore called instead for changes to the law instead, including making false accusations a crime, abolishing the death penalty and requiring higher courts to hear such cases at the start.3
Sources: 1. 2. AFP, 3. AP, 4. AsiaNews.it 5. Christian Today, 6. CNN, 7. Reuters
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Death threats against Swedish Mohammed cartoonist Lars Vilks by Swedish al-Shabaab member Abu Zaid – migration for terror also urged
Court rules judges in Wilders trial suspected of bias, new trial ordered
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Asia Bibi Update: Some Muslims considered water fetched by her, a Christian, to be unclean
The Independent reports,
Bibi's husband, Ashiq Masih, 51, however, said he would appeal the death sentence on his wife claiming the conviction was based on "false accusations".
The 45-year-old1,2,4 mother of two sons and three daughters1 was sentenced to death after being found guilty of blasphemy under section 295-C of Pakistan's penal code which states3
Sources: 1. AFP, 2. BBC, 3. CNN, 4. Independent (U.K.)
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[Bibi] was sent to fetch water. When she returned, some Muslim women refused to drink it, saying it was unclean because it had been carried by a Christian. The women then fought.4From the BBC,
[Bibi's Husband] said the other women challenged his wife and said it was sacrilegious to drink water collected by a non-Muslim.2From AFP,
"My wife took offence, saying, 'Are we not humans?' This led to an altercation," he said2
[Bibi] was asked to fetch water while out working in the fields. But a group of Muslim women labourers objected, saying that as a non-Muslim, she should not touch the water bowl.1Local police official Muhammad Ilyas told CNN that Bibi allegedly said3
"the Quran is fake and your prophet remained in bed for one month before his death because he had worms in his ears and mouth. He married Khadija just for money and after looting her kicked her out of the house"3Qari Muhammad Salim, the Muslim cleric who filed the police report against Bibi, claims Bibi confessed and apologized to him.3
Bibi's husband, Ashiq Masih, 51, however, said he would appeal the death sentence on his wife claiming the conviction was based on "false accusations".
The 45-year-old1,2,4 mother of two sons and three daughters1 was sentenced to death after being found guilty of blasphemy under section 295-C of Pakistan's penal code which states3
Whoever ... defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.3Although no one had ever been executed for blasphemy under this law, around ten accused,1 including Pastor Rashid Emmanuel, 32, and his brother Sajjad, have been murder during their trials.1,2
Sources: 1. AFP, 2. BBC, 3. CNN, 4. Independent (U.K.)
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Days after Pakistan sentenced Christian woman to death for blasphemy, Muslim countries will vote again at the UN for global blasphemy law
Only days after a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, was sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan, U.N. members will again vote this week on the resolution “On Combating Defamation of Religions” put forward by Organization of the Islamic Conference, made up of 57 states with large Muslim populations.3 The resolution calls for a ban on expressions which offend religious sensibilities. Pakistan has been pushing for an international blasphemy law since 1999.3
[Theo Van Gogh was murdered in 2004, on the 2nd of this month, by a Muslim for making a short film called "Submission" that was considered blasphemous. Molly Norris, who a few months ago urged people to draw pictures of Muhammad as an exercise of free speech has had to changed her name and go into hiding following FBI advice, after death threats. The threat from Muslims is there. The only difference is tactical, between those who openly use violence and those who engage in stealth jihad and lawfare, playing the victim card, while issuing death sentences, such as those at the U.N. on this issue.]
Sources: 1. Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (U.S.), 2. Catholic Online (www.catholic.org), 3. The New York Times
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[Note: The New York Times article by Paula Schriefer contains some false "moral equivalence" arguments, such as trying to equate (or suggest) the Danish Muhammad cartoons and opposition to the 9-11 mosque in New York with things such as death penalty for blasphemy. This is the standard practice of Muslims and their liberal and leftist sympathizers. It is unlikely that the New York Times would publish anything critical of Islam without also including some criticism of others, however minor, trivial, petty and insignificant it may be. This is borne out of "inferiority complex" leading to obsession with "equality". There is a complete hatred and ressentment (ressentment, not mere resentment) of anyone being better.]
Freedom House's Paula Schriefer wrote in the New York Times that it was hypocritical that countries with appalling religious and other human right records, such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt were pushing for the resolution.3 He also pointed out that blasphemy laws were used to suppress religious minorities and those dissenting from orthodoxy, or simply to settle personal scores.3
According to AsiaNews.it, the National Commission on Justice and Peace (NCJP) of the Catholic Church recorded 974 people being charged for “defiling the Qur'an or insulting the Prophet Muhammad” between 1986 and August 2009 in Pakistan.2 Christians and Ahmadis (who do not consider Muhammad the last prophet) there made up less than 2 percent of the population but accounted for nearly half of the cases during the last two decades, showing how minorities were disproportionately targeted.3
Deacon Keith Fournier wrote on Catholic Online that,
This so called "Blasphemy Law" is in actuality an instrument of oppression with which Christians and other religious believers are persecuted by Islamic supremacists.”2The Catholic League, which is an anti-defamation organization, also claim that blasphemy laws were
designed to give Islamist nations the right to plunder the religious rights of non-Muslims—under the guise of fighting religious intolerance!1It said that “it is one thing to issue a news release, conduct a letter-writing campaign, call for a boycott or hold a street demonstration; it is quite another to criminalize offensive speech” and has urged for the resolution to be voted down.1
[Theo Van Gogh was murdered in 2004, on the 2nd of this month, by a Muslim for making a short film called "Submission" that was considered blasphemous. Molly Norris, who a few months ago urged people to draw pictures of Muhammad as an exercise of free speech has had to changed her name and go into hiding following FBI advice, after death threats. The threat from Muslims is there. The only difference is tactical, between those who openly use violence and those who engage in stealth jihad and lawfare, playing the victim card, while issuing death sentences, such as those at the U.N. on this issue.]
Sources: 1. Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (U.S.), 2. Catholic Online (www.catholic.org), 3. The New York Times
Related stories: Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan
[Note: The New York Times article by Paula Schriefer contains some false "moral equivalence" arguments, such as trying to equate (or suggest) the Danish Muhammad cartoons and opposition to the 9-11 mosque in New York with things such as death penalty for blasphemy. This is the standard practice of Muslims and their liberal and leftist sympathizers. It is unlikely that the New York Times would publish anything critical of Islam without also including some criticism of others, however minor, trivial, petty and insignificant it may be. This is borne out of "inferiority complex" leading to obsession with "equality". There is a complete hatred and ressentment (ressentment, not mere resentment) of anyone being better.]
Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan
Asia Bibi, who is a married5 mother of two,1 in her 30s,5 worked as a field laborer5 in the village of Ittanwali3,4 in Punjab4 province, and had been under pressure from some Muslim co-workers to leave Christianity and convert to Islam.1,3,4,5
On June 19, 2009,3,5 while working in the fields,4 female co-workers called her an “infidel”3 and Christianity a “religion of infidels”,3 and pressed her to convert to Islam.3 Bibi, who has a strong faith4 responded by saying Christianity was the only True religion3 and that Jesus died on the cross for their sins and asked what Muhammad, the founder and prophet of Islam, had done for them.1,5 This reply enraged5 the Muslim women who then beat her.1
She was then either, locked up in a room by some men who then began broadcasting on the local mosque public address (PA) system plans to blacken her face and parade her through the village on a donkey, while a mob of villagers and Muslims clerics beat her two daughters,5 or she fled to her home where she was followed and beaten and her daughters tortured.3 Two other Christian families also lived in the village5 and either some of them5 or someone else3 informed the police and she was arrested.
Pressure from local Muslims leaders1 lead the police to charge her with blasphemy for insulting Muhammad under section 295-B and C of Pakistan Penal Code,3 which carries a sentence of death or life in prison.3 Bibi denies the charges and said instead that she was being persecuted for her religion.2
The trial lasted over 16 months4 and she was found guilty on November 7 5 in the town of Sheikhupura2 and sentenced to death in the first ever such sentence for a woman.5 She was also fined £728, which is around two and a half year's wage for an unskilled laborer.5 Bibi can appeal the sentence but it may take years before her case is heard.4
In a similar case, another Christian, Martha Bibi, is currently on trial for blasphemy in Lahore, after getting into a dispute with builders in Kasur.1,5
Release International, a Christian organization working for persecuted Christians worldwide, said the blasphemy law is easily4 open to abuse for vengeance,5 and Pakistan Christian Congress has called on the government to repeal it.3
Sources: 1. Christian Today (Australia), 2. Daily Telegraph (UK), 3. Pakistan Christian Post, 4. 5. Release International
UPDATE: A second article on this story has been posted here. Later reports claim Aisa Bibi is be 45-years-old and that she has at least 3 and up to 5 children.
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On June 19, 2009,3,5 while working in the fields,4 female co-workers called her an “infidel”3 and Christianity a “religion of infidels”,3 and pressed her to convert to Islam.3 Bibi, who has a strong faith4 responded by saying Christianity was the only True religion3 and that Jesus died on the cross for their sins and asked what Muhammad, the founder and prophet of Islam, had done for them.1,5 This reply enraged5 the Muslim women who then beat her.1
She was then either, locked up in a room by some men who then began broadcasting on the local mosque public address (PA) system plans to blacken her face and parade her through the village on a donkey, while a mob of villagers and Muslims clerics beat her two daughters,5 or she fled to her home where she was followed and beaten and her daughters tortured.3 Two other Christian families also lived in the village5 and either some of them5 or someone else3 informed the police and she was arrested.
Pressure from local Muslims leaders1 lead the police to charge her with blasphemy for insulting Muhammad under section 295-B and C of Pakistan Penal Code,3 which carries a sentence of death or life in prison.3 Bibi denies the charges and said instead that she was being persecuted for her religion.2
The trial lasted over 16 months4 and she was found guilty on November 7 5 in the town of Sheikhupura2 and sentenced to death in the first ever such sentence for a woman.5 She was also fined £728, which is around two and a half year's wage for an unskilled laborer.5 Bibi can appeal the sentence but it may take years before her case is heard.4
In a similar case, another Christian, Martha Bibi, is currently on trial for blasphemy in Lahore, after getting into a dispute with builders in Kasur.1,5
Release International, a Christian organization working for persecuted Christians worldwide, said the blasphemy law is easily4 open to abuse for vengeance,5 and Pakistan Christian Congress has called on the government to repeal it.3
Sources: 1. Christian Today (Australia), 2. Daily Telegraph (UK), 3. Pakistan Christian Post, 4. 5. Release International
UPDATE: A second article on this story has been posted here. Later reports claim Aisa Bibi is be 45-years-old and that she has at least 3 and up to 5 children.
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
82 dead after suicide bomber sent by terrorist “beasts” turned Sunni mosque in Pakistan into a “graveyard” during Friday prayers
The death toll has now reached 82,4 including 11 children,1 with 80 others wounded5 after a suicide bomber attacked a Sunni2 mosque in Pakistan during Friday prayers attended by around 300.5 The bomber blew himself up in the Waali Mosque's main hall after guards at the gate tried but failed to stop him.5 Mohammad Usman, 32, a schoolteacher who was wounded in the attack said the place looked “just like a graveyard” afterwards.2
The mosque in Akhurwall village, Darra Adam Khel area, near Peshwar, was owned3 and frequented2 by tribal elders running a government sponsored anti-Taliban militia, although none of them were there on this day.2
Khalid Umarzai, a regional administrator, said the army was conducting operations against militants in the area and that such a revenge attack had been expected.1
Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, whose only son was killed by militants earlier this year, said the attack was part of international terrorism and that militant "beasts" were lashing out against a crackdown on them.2 He urged America, Pakistan and Afghanistan to cooperate and work “more aggressively to root out this menace”.2
Sources: 1. AFP, 2. AP, 3. Daily Mail, 4. Indo-Asian News Service, 5. Reuters
Monday, October 25, 2010
Roadside bomb kill 3 civilians, injure 2 others on a van in Pakistan
A road side bomb has struck a van traveling near the village of Tanda in Pakistan's Orakzai tribal region, killing 3 civilians and injuring 2 others, according to Aurangzeb Khan, a local government administrator.
Source: AP
Source: AP
6 dead, including 2 women, 13 others injured after Sufi shrine bombed in Pakpattan, Pakistan
The bombing of a Sufi shrine in the Pakistani city of Pakpattan has killed at least 6 people,1 two of them women,2 and injured 13 others.3 The bomb was placed inside a milk churn on a motorcycle parked outside the gate of the shrine,4 where a 12th century saint, Baba Farid, also known as Ganjshakar is buried.5 Three of the wounded were women.6 Taliban, which has carried out attacks against Sufi shrines in the past,7 and Sunni extremists vehemently oppose Sufi Islam and consider their shrines idolatrous.8 In July, two suicide bombers killed 42 at Data Darbar shrine in Lahore and on October 7, nine worshipers, including two children were killed by two suicide bombers at Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine in Karachi.9
Source: AFP 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9. BBC 4. Reuters 1,7.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Pakistan mosque bombing kills 4, including children aged 7 and 10
A 1.5 kg improvised-explosive device (IED) explosion near a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers, which usually attract the largest crowd, in Pushta Khara neighborhood of Pesahwar, Pakistan, has killed at least four, including a seven-year-old boy and 10-year-old child, while injuring 22 others. Police official Ejaz Ahmad said the bombing may have been a response to recent crackdown on militants in the area.
Source: 1. AFP, 2. AP
US should invade if Pakistan continue supporting terror, says Muslim former US ambassador to Afghanistan
The former US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the UN, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, who is a Muslims, says the US should give Pakistan "a stark choice" between receiving US aid and support and fighting terror, or face an invasion. Despite receiving billions in aid, Pakistan provides sanctuary and support to Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani terrorist network, planning to use them as Pakistan's proxies in Afghanistan once the US withdraws. Khalilzad says the US should invade and attack terror bases in Pakistan if the country doesn't shut them down and stop supporting them.
Source: 1. The New York Time, 2. The Atlantic Wire
Source: 1. The New York Time, 2. The Atlantic Wire
$2 billion more in US military aid for a Pakistan that doesn't fight terror
The US is to give Pakistan $2 billion in military aid from 2012 to 2016.1 Nearly $5bn has already been given from 2005 to the last financial year. A White House report to Congress earlier this month said Pakistan avoids direct military action against Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda in North Waziristan, not for lack of military resources only but also for political reasons.2
Source: 1. AP, 2. BBC
Source: 1. AP, 2. BBC
Friday, October 22, 2010
Pakistan Foreign Minister says nearly 37,000 killed by terrorists in the country
Terrorists "that offers no quarter, obeys no law and holds nothing sacred" have killed nearly 30,000 civilians and nearly 7,000 soldiers and police in Pakistan, according to the country's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
Source: AP
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Atmosphere of terror as 52 killed in 4 days of ethno-political violence in Karachi
Fifty-two people have been killed in four days of ethno-political violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi. A local resident Mohammad Sadiq said there was an "atmosphere of terror" in the city. In one attack, 11 people, including 8 ethnic Baluch were shot to death. Most of the killings have been blamed on gangs allegedly controlled by political parties. There had already been 300 "targeted killings" in the first half of this year. The current round of violence stems from the bye-election for the seat of assassinated MQM MP, Raza Haide. The secular MQM blames the Pashtuns based Awami National Party, which has boycotted the election, for the Talibanisation of the city.
Source: Press Association, AP
Source: Press Association, AP
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