Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attacks have been leading to higher tensions between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan. A major crisis is reportedly looming. According to the US Institute of Peace: The Pakistani Taliban, which has killed thousands of Pakistanis and seeks to establish a Taliban-style, Shariah-compliant state in Pakistan. This has stunned Islamabad, which was operating […]
Pakistan: Muslim mob lynches tourist over claim he desecrated Qur’an, torches police station
The idea behind this outpouring of violent rage is to frighten people to the extent that they will never dare to insult Islam again. Which is not to say that this “blasphemy” happened at all. The accusation is enough. “Pakistani mob lynch tourist over allegations he desecrated Islamic holy texts,” Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2024: […]
Pakistan: Afghans flee to border in an exodus of tens or hundreds of thousands, ahead of immigrant crackdown
Afghans are headed to the Pakistan border to leave the country before the expiration of a Pakistani government anti-immigrant deadline. Some reports are saying that their numbers are in the tens of thousands, but others are saying hundreds of thousands. Whatever the number, it’s nothing short of a humanitarian crisis. Yet the world turns a […]
Pakistan: Jihadis murder eleven laborers riding in truck to construction project
Ever wonder why countries that are hotbeds of jihad are generally economic basket cases? Here’s one reason. “Militant attack kills 11 labourers in North Waziristan: PM Kakar,” Reuters, August 20, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): PESHAWAR: Eleven labourers were killed in a militant attack in northwestern Pakistan… Security and police officials in northern […]
Pakistan: Muslim arrested for ‘offending the prophet’s companions’
Charging someone with disrespect for Muhammad’s companions is essentially saying that the offender is a Shi’ite. Someone who “defiles the sacred name of any wife” of Muhammad is likely deriding Aisha, Muhammad’s child bride. Shi’ites hate Aisha, because she opposed Ali ibn Abi Talib, whom they believe was Muhammad’s rightful successor. So this law is […]
Pakistan: Sharia hardliners blow up two girls’ schools
Those who destroy girls’ schools believe that it is un-Islamic to give girls an education. “Terrorists blow up two girls’ schools in North Waziristan,” by Rasool Dawar, The News International, May 22, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): In another extremist act, terrorists blew up two girls’ schools in the Mir Ali sub-division of […]
Pakistan: Muslim mob lynches man accused of ‘blasphemy’
It strains credulity that someone who was addressing a rally of pro-Sharia Imran Khan’s party would be so foolish as actually to utter blasphemy against Islam, unless he was suicidal. What he actually did was compare Khan to a prophet. The mob took umbrage, and killed him. The idea is that “blasphemers” must be immediately […]
Pakistan: Chinese engineer arrested for ‘insulting Islam’ after he asked Pakistanis to work faster during Ramadan
China might find its path to global economic hegemony not quite as smooth as it expects. If they pull out of Pakistan because of this, it will become another illustration of one of the many, many reasons why Sharia leads to poverty. “Pakistan: Chinese engineer arrested for ‘insulting Islam’ after he asked his Pakistani subordinates […]
Pakistan: Christians denied burial space, forced to bury 5-10 bodies in graves ‘already filled with skeletons’
The human rights of kaffirs living under Sharia oppression continue to be ignored in a world in which burning a Quran is big news. The Christian community in Pakistan already faces human rights abuses including forced conversions and bogus accusations of blasphemy. Now comes news that they are allotted so little burial space that they […]
Pakistan: Rapist released from jail on condition that he marries his victim
This all stems from Islamic assumptions derived from the hijab imperative: women must cover in order to remove temptation from men. If a man is tempted, whether the woman is covered or not, the fault lies with the woman, for not removing the temptation. If she is raped, the rape is therefore her fault. But […]