Category Archives: Sharia Law

BRITISH ‘DIRTY BOMB’ ATTACK

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TERRORISTS are closer than ever to launching a dirty bomb attack, the Government has warned.

From The Daily Star:

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It is now “likely” and could happen at any time, ministers said, while the chances of chemical or biological weapons being used are “more realistic” than ever.

A top-level report also claimed al-Qaida could splinter into several factions as ever more deadly groups spring up to follow Osama bin Laden’s lead.

The document, prepared for Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, warned: “Contemporary terrorist organisations aspire to use chemical, biological, radiological and even nuclear weapons.

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Education increasing in Afghanistan

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If there is one reason for Canadians to value our presence in Afghanistan it would be this one. Gloria Galloway writes for the Globe and Mail of the steady increase in school enrolment despite continued threats of death, dismemberment and mutilation of children by the Taliban. At the Mirwais Mina high school where students and their teachers were sprayed in the face with battery acid last November, enrolment has increased. Initially students stayed away immediately following the attacks but now nearly all have returned. Attendance has increased from 800 pupils to 1300 in one year.

It would seem that the combined efforts of  parents, school officials, Canadian and NATO troops are providing the Taliban with an lesson of their own; education is important and threats of danger and even death will not stop children from attending school.

Hajim Anwar, director of education in Kandahar province is frustrated by those who claim little progress has been made in the Afghan education system. ” There is good education and the education is increasing, not decreasing” he said. Parents are resolved in their desire to bring better lives to their children through schooling. Yet most of the spike in attendance is due to the increasing number of boys going to school with many girls still being denied the opportunity as gender discrimination remains the prominent factor in the lives of Afghanis. Hopefully, this gender disparity will decrease as more schools with a rounded and balanced cirriculum open and Taliban inspired madrasses are challenged as the only marker of learning.

France: french human rights court sues Geert Wilders

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France: Human rights organization sues Wilders from Europe News DK

Islam in Europe 24 March 2009

A French human rights organization is summoning Geert Wilders to court.  The head of the PVV party is accused of inciting to hatred of Muslims.

“Wilders made statements about French Muslims, about Muslims in Paris and Marseilles, which incite to racial hatred,” says lawyer Yassine Bouzrou.  He lodged the complaint on behalf of the organization, which is being studied by the public prosecution.  If Wilders is found guilty, he can be sentenced for one year in prison.

Wilders was not aware of the complaint yesterday evening.  “I hear this for the the first time,” he said.  “The wold is becoming small with trials and procedures everywhere: from the Netherlands, Jordan and England to France. Dreadful.  But I’ll naturally fight back judicially.  They won’t prevail over me.”

Last week the PVV head signed an official appeal against the UK’s refusal to let him into the country.

The French complaint is based on Wilders’ speech in New York last September.  “Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods,” he said then.  “Many neighbourhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves.”

He called the riots in the suburbs in 2005 a “Muslim intifada”.  Bouzrou came to the conclusion that the expressions are criminal.  “Wilders says in that speech also that one in three French Muslims supports suicide attacks.  With that he suggests that one in three French Muslims is a potential terrorist.  Where he does he get all of this?  How did he get ot it?  Wilders makes serious accusations which are based on nothing.”

Bouzrou made the complaint for the French human rights organization ADDH.  They work together with the Collective against Islamophobia in the fight against Muslim hatred.

“A politician may express his idea.  But Wilders makes dangerous statements about something of which he has no understanding.  These are not political ideas, but insults and prejudices,” says the lawyer.  “We already had in France attacks on mosques and against Muslim cemeteries.  The statements by Wilders instigate further extremism against Muslims.”

Source: AD (Dutch)

Posted March 24th, 2009 by hd

Sky News does another piece on Swat and imposition of sharia law

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One thing, the interview with the elderly gentleman at the end should be taken with a grain of salt. No one dares speak against the Taliban. Anyone interviewed with half a brain or who likes living will say they think its a good thing.

This video found on Frozen North:

NGO’s ordered out of Swat. Taliban finds them ‘vulgar’

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Karachi, Mar.23 (ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has virtually imposed a ban on all the non-governmental organizations (NGO) working in the Swat Valley, as it has asked them to leave the region immediately.
The TTP has said the way of working of the NGOs was against Islam and it is not acceptable to it.
NGO is another name for vulgarity and obscenity. They hire women who work with men in the field and in offices. This is totally un-Islamic and unacceptable, TTP spokesman, Muslim Khan said.
Khan strongly opposed the presence of foreigners in the region.
They come and tell us how to make lavatories in mosques and houses. Im sure we can do it ourselves. There is no need for foreigners to tell us this, The Daily Times quoted Khan, as saying.
When asked that why the Taliban has been opposing the polio vaccination, Khan said: It (vaccination) causes infertility.
He added that the major reason why the Taliban was against the vaccination is that the vaccines were manufactured in foreign countries, and the vaccination program was run by NGOs. (ANI)

Laina Farhat-Holzman: British are gutless supporters of multicultural tolerance

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From The Santa Cruz Sentinal:

Baroness Warsi has warned that politicians have failed to tackle the problem of polygamy because of 'cultural sensitivity'Baroness Warsi has warned that politicians have failed to tackle the problem of polygamy because of ‘cultural sensitivity’

Recently in my part of California, an immigrant fieldworker, Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, sold his teenage daughter to a man in marriage in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer, 100 cases of meat, and a case of Gatorade. He went to the police to get his daughter back when the “husband” did not pay up. He thought he had done nothing wrong; people did this in his home village. The public and legal response was immediate and unsympathetic. In the U.S., we do not let “multiculturalism” trump American law and values. But this is not true everywhere.

England, from whom we derived our religious and political values, concepts of liberty, justice, and equality under the law, has lost its way. Today’s England is a multicultural mess, whose basic values are being challenged by its largest immigrant community, migrants from the Muslim world mainly Somalia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The challenges are coming from polygamists who not only want the British justice system to permit them to practice, but also expect it to pay welfare to them, their many wives, and hordes of children. The British courts have become gutless supporters of multicultural tolerance — which is finally stirring up public wrath.

How is this done?

A man seeks sanctuary or immigration rights. He brings a wife and then divorces her a sham divorce so that he can bring a younger wife or wives from his native land. There are thousands of these cases.

The wives generally speak no English, are not permitted out of the house, and have nowhere to turn when the polygamy begins. Add to this the threat of beatings or “honor killing” if a wife goes public and “shames” the family.

Men claim that Islam permits them to have up to four wives, provided they are treated equally. For some, this means separate apartments for each wife and her children, of course paid for by state welfare money.

When the issue goes to court, surplus wives being faced with deportation, the men claim that they are only doing what their religion permits and that British law should respect that. Some judges appear weak-kneed enough to buy this.

Other government departments apparently collude in this too. This from the Daily Mail, Sue Reed, Feb. 24: “A recent review by four Government departments — the Treasury, the Work and Pensions Department, the Inland Revenue and the Home Office — has concluded that 1,000 men in the United Kingdom are now polygamists, although some say the figure is higher.”

What is more, the review found, a Muslim man can claim state support of more than 10,000 pounds a year to keep his wives, if the wedding took place in one of those countries where polygamy is commonplace, such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia and across huge tracts of Africa.

At a time of financial crunch, note what a polygamist can get from the state: more generous housing benefits and bigger council houses to reflect the large size of his family. He is also able to claim 1,000 a year in child benefit for each of his growing brood.

The “growing brood” should also alarm the British, who at this rate would find themselves well outnumbered. Is this desirable? The Taxpayers’ Alliance, a lobby group, has complained: “Polygamy is not officially condoned here, so why should British taxpayers have to pay for extra benefits for men to have two, three or four wives?’ ”

One National Health Service nurse said this was now commonplace. He knew of a Bangladeshi-born male patient with two wives and 13 children aged between 3 months and 15 years.

Finally, let’s hear from a British intellectual. A leading Muslim academic at Cambridge University has claimed that men are biologically designed to desire more than one woman and that, therefore, polygamy should be legalized.

Biologically designed, eh? Perhaps wife battery is biologically designed too. How about murder? Who gave him an academic degree?

Laina Farhat-Holzman is a historian, lecturer, and author. Contact her at Lf********@*ol.com or globalthink.net.

The Czech republic seems to have it togther. From Czech TV

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Here is a video show from Czech TV which mirrors England’s show, Hidden Mosque which you can also see here on Vlad both one and two. Both are worth watching but you can tell the British government was in the editing room when they did the sequel.

At least the Czech’s seem to be willing to monitor the invasion with due dilligence unlike most of Europe. This may mean they have a chance of surviving as a European democracy for a while longer and its another reason to admire Vaclav Klaus. A leader among leaders.

Found on Gates of Vienna:

Brother of girls murdered in honor killing threatens to kill their aunt

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Brother of girls murdered in honor killing threatens to kill their aunt

Found through Muslims Against Sharia

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Amina and Sarah Said were murdered by their father, Yaser Said, on New Year’s Day 2008, because they had non-Muslim boyfriends. Yaser Said has never been caught. Islam Said, the girls’ brother, has apparently gone to Egypt, where he has been sending a series of unhinged comments to the blog Combatting Moonbat News, threatening to murder the girls’ aunt, Gail Gartrell (whom the moronic boy addresses as “gall”). These are by no means the first of these murderous threats, but they are the latest, coming in last week:

kill gall fu*****@***oo.com 82.201.179.161Submitted on 2009/03/13 at 10:01pm
i will shot you gall like a dog your time is coming it may take years but you will diey by my hands we will show you a honor killing so smok your weed if you can i will get you all

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Submitted on 2009/03/13 at 10:16pm i will show you a honor killing gall will be shot frst i am in dallas going too a gun show i am buying gun and boms to get you all no one is going to step on us you think you can run but cant your time is come we will fight for yaser . all i can say fuck the u.s.a and kill them all this sunday you will see i will kill one of you god is god good. do not play games all the time Islam Said Will Not Defend Yaser Said

Pamela at Atlas Shrugs has details, plus extensive background on these horrific honor killings that continue to be largely ignored by the mainstream media.

Sharia courts begin work in Swat Valley with restrictions on women

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by Qaiser Felix
Women cannot go out unaccompanied or speak in public but must cover their heads. Girls’ schools could be closed for good. Local Catholics and Protestants fear for their future; some are starting to leave the region. Taliban militia leader threatens new judges; anyone not applying Sharia correctly will be removed from office immediately.

Peshawar (AsiaNews) – Sharia courts have begun to administer justice in the Swat Valley. With Sharia in place in Malakand area, women are no longer allowed to go out unaccompanied or speak in public. They must also cover their heads. Girls’ schools, essentially run by missionaries, could close for good, especially after recent bomb attacks. Although no one was injured in the blasts, about a thousands girls are now unable to go to class, about 95 per cent of whom are Muslim.The future of the region’s Catholics and Protestants, who number around a thousand, is grim. Many of them are labourers and street sweepers, but some work in hospitals and a few teach in missionaries-run schools. All of them fear discrimination and many have begun packing up to move to areas where Sharia is not enforced. .

Since the start of the year the Taliban have carried out hundreds of attacks against schools, video and CD stores and barber shops and all other activities they claim to be un-Islamic.

With the implementation of Nizam-e-Adl Regulations 2009, civilian courts no longer have jurisdiction in this area and have been replaced by Qazi (Islamic) courts and Qazis (Islamic judges).

More specifically seven courts are now in place in the Swat Valley after Tehreek-i-Nafaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) Taliban militias and the government of President Asif Ali Zardari reached an agreement to that effect. The Lower and Upper Dir districts, Buner, Malakand Agency, Shangla, Kohistan and Chitral districts are now under Sharia law.

North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Communication Minister Iftikhar Hussain said that the aforementioned courts will be the models other districts will follow when they will implement Sharia. This way the latter can come into effect without presidential approval.

In announcing the start of the new courts TSNM chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad said that Islamic courts will come under a new supreme court, the Darul Qaza. Two of its three qazis have already been selected; the third one will be designated in the near future.

Sufi Muhammad also said that if qazis do not correctly implement Sharia they will be replaced.

This has led the High Court in Peshawar to express concerns with respect to the TSNM chief’s threats, calling on NWFP authorities to ensure the safety of the judges.

Is freedom subjective? This post verbatim from Gates of Vienna.

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The text cannot be improved so I am copying it word for word. Please watch this speech and read who the speaker is.

Is Freedom Subjective?

by Dymphna

On March 14th, Ehsan Jami, a politician in the Netherlands, was in Denmark to accept the Danish Free Press award. What follows below his is speech at that event.

Before you watch it, here’s some background on Mr. Jami. He is a former Muslim, a naturalized Dutch citizen, and the co-founder of the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims.

Ehsan Jami was born in Iran, to an upper-class family, in 1985. His father was a doctor and politically active, which forced the family out of the country. They landed in the Netherlands when Mr. Jami was nine years old.

It wasn’t until after 9/11 that he began to read the holy books of Islam. His father was nominally Muslim and his mother was a Christian. As he began to question the tenets of Islam, he says the greatest gift his family gave him was the freedom to ask questions and to choose. He found Islam unacceptable; at some point he identified himself as an atheist.

By 2007, having gone public with his denunciation of Islam, he was aggressive in his founding of the Committee for ex-Muslims.

In late 2008, Mr. Jami made the infamous film “An Interview with Mohammed”, which you can see here.

Predictably, he was beaten up, threatened with death, and lives in hiding. He quit school. Because of the large immigrant student population, Ehsan Jami is not safe, as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders are not safe.

Here is his speech on March 14th, at the Danish Free Press Society’s award ceremony:

Ehsan Jami from Snaphanen on Vimeo.
Mr. Jami says many things you’ve heard before; perhaps sentiments you have expressed yourself. However, I trust you are not in hiding, or living in the presence of bodyguards because of saying these things.

I won’t go through the whole thing, but there were several points he made that struck me, coming as they do from someone who was born and raised in Mashhad, Iran. Next to Mecca, this is the holiest city of the Shi’ite Muslims. His has been a long path to Copenhagen.

Most of what I say will be paraphrases; I’m not fast at dictation so I took some short-cuts, some of which I had trouble deciphering afterwards. But I think I did get the gist of what Mr. Jami wanted to get across to his audience and to us.
These are the things he said which most stood out for me. They may not be what you find most memorable, but I’d like to hear from people about that: what stood out for you?

Before beginning his speech, he dedicated his award to his mother, expressing his gratitude to her for allowing him to decide his own religious path. After the government put him under security, it was she who came to visit him. You can hear how isolated he felt.
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Some links for Sunday March 15 2009

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Shades of Buffalo, a moderate Muslim in the UK who was an advisor to the government on Islam was arrested for stabbing someone in his home.

A Muslim who advised the Government following the July 7 London bombings has been arrested after an alleged stabbing.

Inayat Bunglawala, 39, was held on suspicion of attacking another man at his £300,000 home.

Mr Bunglawala, who also briefed former Security Minister Tony McNulty on the threat posed by Islamic radicals in the UK, was arrested two weeks before Christmas last year.

Anjem Choudary said he wanted every woman to be covered by a full-length cloak in his vision of Britain under Sharia law. Remember Britain? It’s the place that arrested and sent home an elected member of the Dutch Parliament Geert Wilders as they felt his message that Islam posed a threat to liberal values was one unfit for British ears. Apparently Choudary’s is not.

The lawyer, who praised the Mumbai terror attacks, also said he wanted to see the “flag of Allah” flying over Downing Street, adulterers stoned to death and drunks whipped.

Choudary, 41, sparked fury this week when he branded British soldiers “cowards” and was behind a sickening anti-war protest against troops who were arriving home from Iraq to a heroic welcome.

Last night politicians and fellow Muslims condemned his comments while some called for him to leave the country.

Choudary, the leader of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah, a group set up following the banning of extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, led by now-exiled preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, said he offered “a pure Islamic state with Sharia law in Britain”.

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More on the UN and its anti UN agenda:

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International Humanist and Ethical Union

The UN Human Rights Council is not allowed to judge religions, according to president Doru Romulus Costea of Romania. Criticism of Sharia law or fatwas is now forbidden.

This ruling follows attempts by the Egyptian and Pakistani delegates at the Council to silence criticism of human rights abuse in the Islamic world.

The representative of the Association for World Education, in a joint statement with the International Humanist and Ethical Union, had denounced the stoning to death of women accused of adultery and of girls being married at the age of nine years old in countries where Sharia law applies.

The speaker, David Littman, was interrupted by no fewer than 16 points of order and the proceedings of the Council were suspended for forty minutes when the Egyptian delegate said that “Islam will not be crucified in this Council” and attempted to force a vote on whether the speaker should be allowed to continue.

On giving his ruling after the break Council President Costea said that the Council “is not prepared to discuss religious questions and we don’t have to do so”. “Declarations must avoid judgments or evaluation about religion. … I promise that next time a speaker judges a religion or a religious law or document, I will interrupt him and pass on to the next speaker”.

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Egypt sucker punches Canada’s efforts for free speech

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From The Edmonton Journal:

un2UNITED NATIONS — Egypt sought to outmanoeuvre Canada at the United Nations Human Rights Council Friday as it began pushing for a “free-speech” resolution the West says deviates from traditional norms.

Egyptian diplomats effectively hijacked the recurring measure Canada has traditionally sponsored by acting three months before their Canadian counterparts were preparing to move.

UN practice dictates the first version of a resolution to be tabled sets the course for subsequent negotiations, meaning Canada and the West would face an uphill battle to get the changes they want. But the office of Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said late Friday in response to inquiries from Canwest News Service that Canada intends to sponsor its own draft resolution anyway.

Officials noted the Egyptian draft is only “circulating” among the 47-members states of the council, though it is expected to be “tabled” within days.

“Canada will continue to speak out against limitations in freedom of speech at all levels. While there is not yet a resolution tabled, Canada has in the past made it clear that it will not support any text which would undermine this fundamental right,” said Catherine Loubier, spokeswoman for Cannon.

The Canadian declaration sets the stage for a showdown in the Human Rights Council, which the UN General Assembly launched in 2006 to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission after that body had become dominated by countries with poor human rights records.

But even in the new body, Western countries are outnumbered, while the United States has yet to stand for election.

Canada long ago took lead on tabling successive freedom of expression resolutions in the commission, and also played an instrumental role in establishing in 1993 the mandate of a UN free-speech watchdog — called a Special Rapporteur.

The measures are not legally binding, but enter the international record. As such, human rights groups say authoritarian governments could use a resolution along the lines of the Egyptian text to justify targeted crackdowns.

“If Egypt tables and maintains a text in March, Canada will have to take a position on it. If it is not acceptable, we will not support it,” Loubier said.

The Egyptian draft expresses “concern” at what it calls a “rise of instances of abuse,” and highlights a need for “limitations.” It also calls on countries to co-operate with the Special Rapporteur by handing over “all (requested) necessary information.”

“The text of the (Egyptian) resolution is pretty much what one would expect from a country that throws its bloggers in jail for no reason at all,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch.

Some of the measures appeared for the first time as amendments to a Canadian-tabled free speech draft last year that ended up redefining the special rapporteur’s duties. In that contest, Pakistan and Egypt, as well as critics of the West such as Cuba, won sufficient backing from like-minded council members to force changes that led Canada to drop its sponsorship.

“Last year, the repressive regimes that dominate the council inserted two subversive amendments; this year they’ve taken over the whole resolution, with the result Western states are playing defence and losing,” Neuer said.

Western diplomats in Geneva said privately they knew Egypt was considering its Friday move, but decided to respect an additional tradition of waiting for the special rapporteur to file his report, which is expected in June. Loubier said it remained “appropriate” to wait until then.

One diplomatic source said Marius Grinius, Canada’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, had in advance “complained forcefully” to the Egyptian ambassador, as had other Western diplomats. This source also said the group had yet to agree on whether Canada would take the lead this year.

None of the diplomatic sources agreed to be identified because most of the negotiating over texts takes place behind closed doors.

The Egyptian move surprised a number of observers.

“They’ve totally hijacked the agenda and pre-empted Canada,” said Bani Dugal, principal representative of the Baha’i faith’s UN-based office, which follows freedom of speech and religion issues.

Several of the Egyptian measures relate to speech affecting religion.

“This is moving down the road of incorporating anti-blasphemy laws into freedom of expression protection and international law,” warned Bennett Graham, international program director with the Becket Fund, a think-tank aimed at promoting religious liberty.

According the Western diplomatic source, Islamic countries on the council had sought a deal in which the West would refrain from tabling a draft resolution on religious freedom in exchange for a promise by the Islamic group to leave the free speech resolution to the West, and hold off on tabling a text on combatting defamation of religions.

France and the Netherlands began circulating a religious freedom draft Friday after Pakistan Wednesday tabled its text on religious defamation, which critics say is another instrument that risks impinging on free speech.
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Another singer silenced in Pakistan. NPR

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Pashtun Singer Gulzar Alam in Peshawar, Pakistan, in February 2003.


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Popular Pashtun singer Gulzar Alam practices behind closed doors at his home in Peshawar, Pakistan, in February 2003. AP

Click here to hear the audio NPR report and interview with this Pakistani artist

All Things Considered, March 12, 2009 · In Pakistan, Muslim religious extremists have long sought to ban secular music — and in some parts of the country, militants are enforcing their views with violence.

In areas controlled by the Taliban, CD stores have been destroyed or forced to shut down. Musicians have fled or been silenced, and fear is spreading even in areas where the Taliban is not in full control. One popular singer from the city of Peshawar no longer dares perform.

For Pashtuns, the dominant ethnic group in Pakistan’s rugged northwest, the voice of Gulzar Alam could bring tears. Drawing on their favorite poets, he sang of love, pride and nationalist aspirations. He packed local halls and was the musician of choice for weddings. He was handsome, well dressed, with a bit of the matinee idol about him.

Now, he sits on the floor of a slum, wrapped in a traditional shawl. His shaggy hair and scraggly beard are shot with gray.

He laughs ruefully at what he has become: an old man before his time who cannot afford to shave.

Alam’s problems started seven years ago when a coalition of religious parties won elections in Pakistan’s northwest. The authorities harassed him, and a crowd attacked his house with rocks. He and his family fled south to Baluchistan.

Last year, after the religious coalition in the northwest was defeated, the new secular Pashtun government urged him to return — promising he would now be safe. It was a promise the government could not fulfill.

“Four months ago, performers were attacked as they returned from a function. Four musicians were injured, one was killed. No one is safe from the Taliban here. People have retreated into self-imposed censorship,” Alam says.

Once again, Alam began receiving threatening phone calls. He was shot at on the street.

He returned to Baluchistan, but found that the Taliban is now threatening musicians there, too. He tried to find gigs in the port city of Karachi, but there, he faced a different problem: ethnic violence against Pashtuns.

Back in Peshawar, he is afraid to perform. He has no source of income. After his elder brother turned him away, fearing the singer would put him in danger, Alam, his wife and five children sought refuge with other relatives. Now, three large families are crammed into three dank, dark rooms with no running water.

“It’s like falling from the sky to earth,” says Rukhsana Muqaddas, Alam’s wife. “Before this we had a very modern, wonderful life. We used to send our kids to good schools. Now, we can’t afford to educate them at all.”

Alam’s favorite song, a Pashtun ballad about loss of identity, has taken on a new meaning. Once the voice of the Pashtun downtrodden, Alam is now a member, his dreams of a peaceful Pashtun renaissance hijacked by the Taliban.

In downtown Peshawar, some music stores are still open. Arshat Khan has come from an outlying area, where all of the stores have been closed, to buy CDs of his favorite singers; Alam is among them. Although his old recordings are still on sale, there is no system of royalties. So while it may warm Alam’s heart to know he is loved, this doesn’t fill his children’s stomachs.

Khan says cultural life has come to a standstill.

“Life is colorless. … It’s like living in [a] world that is black and white. You have just to eat and excrete and live under perpetual fear,” Khan says.

And like Gulzar Alam, he expects the situation to get worse.

Another major attack on women’s rights in Swat

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Sometimes the most vicious attack on a people’s rights are the most subtle. While Vlad has in sadly much gory detail written about attacks on women to enforce barbaric policies, this next story I feel in an important way is considerably more serious.

Notice that I did not use the adjective ‘primitive’ to describe the Taliban’s treatment of women as frankly, there are many if not all societies that predate the Taliban and indeed predate Islam altogether where women had more value to society as well as power. Ancient Rome Greece and Egypt all have records of powerful women and while they may not overall have had the rights of men, certainly life would be better for them than it is under ‘true Islamic states’.

Now the story from Hindustan Times:

The Pakistani Taliban in the troubled Khyber tribal region have warned authorities not to issue national identity cards to women, saying the practice is un-Islamic.

Omar Farooq, the commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in Khyber Agency, warned the National Database and Registration Authority that its offices would be attacked if it issued identity cards to women.

Farooq told reporters on phone from an unknown location that making identity cards for women went against Islamic rules. The Taliban will not allow women to obtain these cards, he said.

He also warned women that they would have to face the consequences if they went to NADRA offices to get themselves registered for the identity cards.

The Taliban in Swat valley of the North Western Frontier Province and parts of the restive tribal have banned girls education and barred women from visiting markets unless they are accompanied by male relatives.

This story quite literally seeks to officially remove the actual status of women as human beings by the state. Women will not be able to have identity cards symbolically of course meaning they can have no identity as individuals but practically, no access to the state whatsoever. Imagine yourselves with no legal papers. I feel this story is considerably more important than the western media does clearly as there appears to be no reports on it whatsoever.

I humbly beg you all to please forward this link to the original source on this, the Hindustan times to any and all media you may know. This cannot go unnoticed and keep in mind. if Obama is to be taken at his word, these are the people he suggested reaching out to.