I think he has some sort of palsy in his hands though
Hat tip Jadamn
Category Archives: Sharia Law
Free Speech Summit: Lord Pearson on Geert Wilders, Shariah and Suprmacism
Depressing news out of Pakistan
From The Guardian UK:
Their deaths were squalid, riddled with bullets in a field near their home by Taliban gunmen as the execution was captured on a mobile telephone.
In footage which is being watched with horror by Pakistanis, the couple try to flee when they realise what is about to happen. But a gunman casually shoots the man and then the woman in the back with a burst of gunfire, leaving them bleeding in the dirt.
Moments later, when others in the execution party shout out that they are still alive, he returns to coldly finish them with a few more rounds.
Their “crime” was an alleged affair in their remote mountain village controlled by militants in an area that was only recently under the government’s sway. It was the kind of barbarity that has become increasingly familiar across Pakistan as the Taliban tide has spread.
But this time, with black-turbaned gunmen almost at the gates of Islamabad, the rare footage has shown urban Pakistanis what could now await them.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, has warned that Islamic extremists could take over the nation.
In the past few days the footage has circulated among Pakistanis who usually show little interest in the rough ways of the distant frontier regions.
They have now started to wake up to the fear that al-Qaeda-linked rebels from the frontier could take over their nation.
The killings happened in Hangu district, in North West Frontier Province, about two hours drive from the regional capital Peshawar. The punishment was administered by a local group of the Pakistani Taliban, the Islamic militia which has swept across the NWFP towards the capital Islamabad.
Another video on Pakistan’s rapid demise
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Pakistan. first caliphate
Taliban pushes Pakistan to the brink
From The National Post April 24:
ReutersTaliban fighters have taken control of strategic sites and could strike at Pakistan’s largest dam and sites holding nuclear weapons.
Pakistan tottered on the edge of a precipice this week as the Taliban made a concerted push into mountain districts that overlook Islamabad.
Near panic seized Pakistan’s allies, as masked and heavily armed Taliban terrorists invaded the Buner district, just 115 kilometres northwest of the capital Islamabad, overran government offices, looted foreign aid agencies and established makeshift sharia courts that banned everything from music to shaving.
The strategic consequences of the invasion are immense.
It exposed far more than Pakistan’s fragility or Islamabad’s vulnerability. It thrust the worst possible doomsday scenario to centre stage.
The Taliban, backed by al-Qaeda, are now established in a district that straddles two crucial targets.
Just 50 kilometres southeast of Buner lies the Tarbela Dam, the largest earth-filled dam in the world. It provides central Pakistan with most of its electricity and the country’s farmers with most of their water.
Thirty kilometres further on lies the Wah Cantonment, an army ordinance complex that produces almost all of Pakistan’s weapons and military supplies – including nuclear weapons – in a collection of 14 massive factories that employ up to 40,000 people. Continue Reading →
Hillary Clinton gets this one dead on the money. This will not end in Pakistan
How screwed is Pakistan?
From Infidels are Cool hat tip Jdamn. Click here for larger map.
Bruce bawer: Europe’s shift to the right.
Hat tip to Fred over at GAR for sending me this most excellent and important article from Bruce Bawer author of ‘While Europe Slept’. Bawer’s book is one of the first ones to analyze the effects of mass Islamic immigration to Europe and warn of its likely and current threat to western liberal democracy. It is a must read as is this article. Also, on the agendas and views of this site page on Vlad, at the bottom of the page is a link to a PDF of a speech given at Pim Fortyne’s memorial service which is also a must read. Bruce refferences Pim near the end of this article. Do read and pass on. Some articles are worth the effort to get through more than a few paragraphs and this is truly one of them even though I do not agree 100% with is assesment of the BNP or VLams Belang in belgium.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124043553074744693.html
PINION: FEDERATION FEATURE
APRIL 23, 2009
Heirs to Fortuyn?
Europe’s turn to the right
By BRUCE BAWER
When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment or health care. For much of the American left, Western Europe was nothing less than an abstract symbol of progressive utopia.
This rosy view was never accurate, of course. Europe’s socialized health care was blighted by outrageous (and sometimes deadly) waiting lists and rationing, to name just one example. To name another: Timbro, a Swedish think tank, found in 2004 that Sweden was poorer than all but five U.S. states and Denmark poorer than all but nine. But in recent years, something has happened to complicate the left’s fanciful picture even further: Western European voters’ widespread reaction against social democracy.
The shift has two principal, and related, causes. The more significant one is that over the past three decades, social-democratic Europe’s political, cultural, academic and media elites have presided over, and vigorously defended, a vast wave of immigration from the Muslim world—the largest such influx in human history. According to Foreign Affairs, Muslims in Western Europe numbered between 15 million and 20 million in 2005. One source estimates that Britain’s Muslim population rose from about 82,000 in 1961 to 553,000 in 1981 to two million in 2000—a demographic change roughly representative of Western Europe as a whole during that period. According to the London Times, the number of Muslims in the U.K. climbed by half a million between 2004 and 2008 alone—a rate of growth 10 times that of the rest of the country’s population.
Yet instead of encouraging these immigrants to integrate and become part of their new societies, Western Europe’s governments have allowed them to form self-segregating parallel societies run more or less according to Shariah. Many of the residents of these patriarchal enclaves subsist on government benefits, speak the language of their adopted country poorly or not at all, despise pluralistic democracy, look forward to Europe’s incorporation into the House of Islam, and support—at least in spirit—terrorism against the West. A 2006 Sunday Telegraph poll, for example, showed that 40% of British Muslims wanted Shariah in Britain, 14% approved of attacks on Danish embassies in retribution for the famous Mohammed cartoons, 13% supported violence against those who insulted Islam, and 20% sympathized with the July 2005 London bombers.
Deals with the devil. The crossroads in Pakistan
Below please find an article from earthtimes.org keeping in mind, these are the people who the government of Pakistan made a peace deal with, which was immediately breached by the Taliban, unsurprisingly. I hope never again to read the phrase ‘suicide bomber nursery’ again as long as I or anyone else lives.
Tank, Pakistan – Haneef Mehsud was a normal teenager who spend most of his time hanging out with friends and playing cricket before he was recruited by the Taliban and turned into a suicide bomber. Less than a month after his 17th birthday, Haneef killed two soldiers when he rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into an army convoy in late 2008 on a road not far from his home in Pekai, a hamlet in the militancy-plagued South Waziristan region of northern Pakistan.
“We tried to stop him when he visited the family two weeks before the attack and informed us that he was soon going to embrace shahadat,” or martyrdom, Haneef’s father, Ghazi Mehsud, recalled. “I don’t know what they [the Taliban] did to my son,” Ghazi said as tears rolled down his cheeks and disappeared in his long grey beard. “His mother and sisters were crying, but he stood there like a stone. He only requested us to forgive him in the name of the love we had for him and left.”Ghazi moved to the neighbouring district of Tank in the North-West Frontier Province, which is also the gateway to South Waziristan, to save his second teenage son from the influence of his fellow tribesman and local warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who he blames for Haneef’s recruitment and death. But hundreds more children are still undergoing brainwashing at dozens of “suicide nurseries” run by the ethnic Pashtun militant commander. Mehsud, in his 30s, has emerged as the most dangerous militant commander in recent years. He heads Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella group for around a dozen Pakistani militant outfits and has close links with al-Qaeda. Continue Reading →
Swat’s Taleban expand operations
Taleban militants from Pakistan’s troubled district of Swat have expanded operations into nearby regions after a peace deal with the government.
Dozens of militants have been streaming into bordering Buner district to take over mosques and government offices.
Buner is part of the Malakand region which has just seen the implementation of Islamic Sharia law.
This is part of a peace deal with the militants who had been fighting security forces since August 2007.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister for North West Frontier Province, said he had received reports of the Taleban expansion.
Recent reports said the Taleban had ransacked the offices of international aid and development agencies working in Buner.
Some employees of the agencies were also briefly taken hostage before being released on Monday.
Patrols
The Taleban have banned the playing of music in cars and are also using mosques to invite local youth to join them.
The Taleban have also started regular patrols in the district.
Buner’s police chief, Rashid Khan, said the police had lodged an official complaint over the matter.
But the Taleban are not mentioned in the reports, which only names “unknown persons” as the culprits.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain maintains that the Taleban must disarm as agreed under the peace deal.
“Even Sufi Mohammad has said that there is no reason for the Taleban not to disarm,” he said.
He was referring to the head of a local religious group who has been acting as the government’s chief negotiator with the Taleban.
“We initially adopted the path of dialogue and reconciliation, but this is as far as we can go,” Mr Hussain said.
“We implemented Sharia law as it was a demand of the people, not just the Taleban.
“If they continue with their activities, they will not have the support of the people.
“The majority of the people are now with the government. The government will not stand by and tolerate [the violation of] the peace deal.”
Meanwhile, the Taleban say they will continue to operate in the valley and will not lay down their arms until Sharia is fully implemented.
“We told [non-governmental organisations] to stay away from Malakand division”, Muslim Khan, a spokesman for the Swat Taleban, said.
On Monday, he said there was “no question” of the Taleban laying down their arms.
He said his movement’s aim was the enforcement of Sharia law in all of Pakistan.
Bernard-Henri Levy on Daniel Pearl. Listen to this lecture. Please.
Bernard-Henri Levy is one of France’s leading public intellectuals. In this lecture, he critiques present-day leftist politics for its anti-liberalism, anti-Americanism, and for being soft on radical Islamism. He draws from his latest book “Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism”.
Somalia caves to militant demands
After seeing the great success other governments have had in appeasing militant Islam, this comes as a no-brainer for Somalia. A state funeral for the recently deseased pirates is next I’m sure.
Somalia parliament votes in Sharia
(CNN) — Somalia’s transitional federal parliament has unanimously backed the introduction of Islamic Sharia law in the country after a vote over the issue was brought to parliamentarians Saturday.
The vote will boost new President Sharif Ahmed’s efforts to defeat the hard-line Islamic group of Alshabab, which opposes his government.
Alshabab previously declared that it would continue fighting until Sharia law is imposed in Somalia.
“Calling us anti-Islamic lawmakers is now over,” said Osman Elmi Boqore, deputy speaker of the Somali parliament, after voting ended.
The parliament’s vote comes amid high tension in Mogadishu after the killings of key supporters of Ahmed’s government in recent days.
The new form of law would replace the traditional charter, which was not as strict as Sharia law.
The strict interpretation of Sharia forbids girls from attending school, requires veils for women and beards for men, and bans music and television.
DIana West: Islam today in Harvard yard.
Apr 15
Photo: Harvard Islamic chaplain Taha Abdul-Basser, ’96, who believes there is “great wisdom” in the death penalty for converting from Islam.
From the Internet to the media, slowly: Yesterday’s Harvard Crimson carried a story on the Harvard Islamic chaplain’s support for capital punishment for Muslims who leave Islam as revealed in an email the chaplain “allegedly” wrote. (We’re still at “allegedly”–although no one, including the chaplain, has disputed the authorship of the email.) I posted the story here on April 4. What caught my eye in this week’s Crimson story was the “clarification” flagged at the bottom of the following Crimson paragraph:
“I believe he doesn’t belong as the official chaplain,” said one Islamic student, who asked that he not be named to avoid conflicts with Muslim religious authorities. “If the Christian ministers said that people who converted from Christianity should be killed, don’t you think the University should do something?” [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW]
Scrolling down, I found it:
CLARIFICATION: The April 14 article “Chaplain’s E-mail Sparks Controversy” included a quotation from a named Harvard student, who was later granted anonymity when he revealed that his words could bring him into serious conflict with Muslim religious authorities.
Got that? For opposing death for apostasy, for opposing the Islamic chaplain’s continued tenure based on said chaplain’s support for death for apostasy, a Harvard Muslim student felt compelled to call up the Crimson to seek post-publication anonymity to avoid coming into “serious conflict with Muslim religious authorities.”
This isn’t the Swat Valley. This isn’t Taliban-controlled Afghanistan–or, for that matter, Karzai-controlled Afghanistan. This isn’t Iran. This isnt Iraq. This is what sharia creep looks like in America…in Harvard Yard.
Women pelted with stones in Afganistan for protesting new pro rape law
From Ottawa’s Metro daily paper:
KABUL – Dozens of young women braved crowds of bearded men screaming “dogs!” on Wednesday to protest an Afghan law that lets husbands demand sex from their wives. Some of the men picked up small stones and pelted the women.
“Slaves of the Christians!” chanted the 800 or so counter-demonstrators, a mix of men and women. A line of female police officers locked hands to keep the groups apart.
The warring protests highlight the explosive nature of the women’s rights debate in Afghanistan. Both sides are girding for battle over the legislation, which has sparked an international uproar since being quietly signed into law last month.
The law says a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days, unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse. It also regulates when and for what reasons a wife may leave her home without a male escort.
Though the law would apply only to the country’s Shiites, who make up less than 20 per cent of Afghanistan’s 30 million people, many fear its passage marks a return to Taliban-style oppression of women. The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001, required women to wear all-covering burkas and banned them from leaving home unless accompanied by a male relative.
Governments and rights groups around the world, including Canada, have condemned the legislation, and U.S. President Barack Obama has labelled it “abhorrent.” Afghan President Hamid Karzai has remanded the law to the Justice Department for review and put enforcement on hold.
A host of Afghan intellectuals, politicians and even a number of cabinet ministers have come out against the law. But those who decry the legislation face quick criticism from conservative Muslim clerics and their followers, as Wednesday’s protests showed.
“You are a dog! You are not a Shiite woman!” one man shouted to a young woman in a head scarf.
The woman, who held a banner reading “We don’t want Taliban law,” replied quietly: “This is my land and my people.”
The demonstrators chose a risky spot to hold their protest – in front of the mosque of the legislation’s main backer – and were easily outnumbered by supporters of the law. They said many women had been stopped on their way to the protest.
In the end, more women demonstrated in favour of the law than against it, with a few hundred Shiite women marching with banners to join the angry men. They blamed foreigners for inciting the protests.
“We don’t want foreigners interfering in our lives. They are the enemy of Afghanistan,” said Mariam Sajadi, 24.
Sajadi is engaged to be married, and said she plans to ask her husband’s permission to leave the house as put forth in the law. She said other articles – such as the one allowing husbands to demand sex – have been misinterpreted by westerners prejudiced against Islam. She did not elaborate.
On the other side of the shouting, Mehri Rezai, 32, urged her countrymen to reject the law.
“This law treats women as if we were sheep,” she said.
Both sides say they are defending their constitutional rights but Afghanistan’s constitution is unclear. It defers to Islamic law as the highest authority, but also guarantees equal rights for women.
Abbas Noyan, a Shiite legislator who opposes the law, said he is hopeful it will be changed. But others are less sure, and even the country’s minister of women’s affairs, who is female, has declined to comment on the law.
New York-based Human Rights Watch maintains that the judicial review ordered by Karzai is unlikely to be truly independent because those leading the process come from a conservative Shiite background.