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‘Cause we’re evil.
That would be the truthful answer if the Taliban were asked why they feel the best way to attack a government is through it’s civilian population. Since the 1000 or so hostages taken by Islamic militants are undoubtedly a Muslim majority, one can only assume they will be used as a mass human shield for the exodus of Mo’s minions. As to the number who will be made an example of is anyone’s morbid guess. At the end of the day [or week] this story has the potential to be huge in scale of people and tragedy. Those points will make the news but how these events and others in the past relate to Islam will again be ignored.
400 students and kin abducted by militants, Pakistan police say
Militants in a Taliban-held area of Pakistan are believed to have abducted more than 400 students and their relatives Monday after a ceremony marking the last day of school, a police official told CNN.
The abduction took place in North Waziristan, located in Pakistan’s tribal region, where the military has waged a bloody battle against Taliban insurgents.
The militants seized more than 30 vehicles carrying 443 students and their relatives who were leaving the ceremony marking the last day of school at Razmak Cadet College, according to Iqbal Marwat, a police official in nearby Bannu District.
He said 22 students in two vehicles managed to escape; the remaining 421 students and their relatives are still missing. The students are between the ages of 9 and 22, Marwat said.
The reported abductions follow a series of attacks on civilians in northwest Pakistan.
An explosion struck a bus station in the city of Kohat on Monday, killing two civilians and wounding 18, a police official said. Kohat is in North West Frontier Province, where a string of militant attacks in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan killed 12 people last week.
Militants also struck the Pakistani city of Lahore last week, killing 27 people in a suicide attack on a building that housed police, intelligence, and emergency offices.
Pakistan’s Taliban claimed responsibility for the Lahore bombing, and threatened to continue attacking cities in Pakistan until the military ends its operations against Taliban militants.
As a result, Pakistani authorities increased security in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city.
The Pakistani military has been conducting a month-long offensive against the Taliban, centered in the Swat region of North West Frontier Province
Pajamas TV for June 1 well worth 9 mins 50 seconds of your time
As usual PJTV does a good job of giving us the news the ah, news doesn’t seem to bother with anymore. I can’t help but notice that self funded groups like Pajamas Media and blogs seem to be the ones bringing important information to supposedly free nations while mass media news outlets are censored or self censor any news which may generate a complaint from groups which perpetrate the horrors being reported on. It’s also interesting that many groups are looking after their own security abandoning the notion that the state is using the tax money collected from us all for what it was intended. One begins to wonder of the writ of state itself is losing meaning as leftism and Islam subverts resources of the state leaving all basic requirements of civilization to the individual to fulfill. While the state achieves less and less of what the basic requirements are, the cost of operations continue to go up. There is no formula that can make this sustainable. I would watch the UK and parts of Scandinavia to see where this is likely to go.
PAKISTAN: ISLAMIC RADICALS STORM ‘BLASPHEMY’ HEARING
I think it was Hitchens who said: “Blasphemy is the one truly victimless crime”. Sadly it’s just the opposite. Blasphemy is the crime where all are victims. As this article from Compass Direct shows, an Irrational unprovable thought crime is the perfect fertile soil for blackmail. Much like how the morality laws created in Iran forced a large number of women to become prostitutes, blaspheme pretty much forces everyone to live in fear of what a neighbor may accuse you of, for any number of reasons. Be afraid of this one people. While this blog shows a large number of Islamic and irrational leftist horrors around the world be aware that many nations including but not limited to, Ireland and Holland are considering laws banning blaspheme, and this may have larger consequences to culture and every day life then someone blowing up in the next country over.
An assault on freedom of speech is an assault on all freedoms. Even ones most of us so take for granted we don’t even think of them as freedoms at all. Blaspheme isn’t an assault on freedom of speech and thought, its a chemical weapons attack on it.
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PAKISTAN: ISLAMIC RADICALS STORM ‘BLASPHEMY’ HEARING
Christian couple on trial; member of prosecution team threatens to kill wife.
ISTANBUL, May 29 (Compass Direct News) – Radical Pakistani Muslims in a town outside of Lahore this month overran a courtroom in hopes of swaying a judge in a “blasphemy” case against a Christian couple, and a member of the prosecution later threatened to kill the wife.
Some 50 molvis (Muslim clergy) on May 14 burst into the courtroom in Mustafabad, where a bail hearing was taking place in the case against Munir Masih and his wife Ruqiya Bibi, according to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS).
“Nobody could stop them as they rushed into the court,” said CLAAS’s Tahir Gull, sole representative for the accused. “They said, ‘No non-Muslim has the right to keep a Quran in his house, they have done this so they are liable to be punished.’”
Masih and Bibi, both in their 30s, were originally accused under section 295-B of Pakistan’s penal code with defiling the Quran by touching it with unwashed hands on Dec. 8 of last year. Masih was taken to prison and remained there until Jan. 22, when a Muslim neighbor who had asked him to store some of his possessions, including his Quran, testified on his behalf and the case was dropped.
The complainant, Mohammad Nawaz, subsequently filed another accusation on Feb. 12, this time under 295-C, blasphemy against Muhammad, Islam’s prophet. This charge carries a death sentence, whereas defiling the Quran calls for life imprisonment.
Despite pressure from the crowd of clerics, Judge Shafqat Ali – also a molvi – granted the couple bail. Following the hearing, however, a member of the prosecution team approached Bibi outside the courtroom and threatened to kill her.
“Ruqiya was waiting outside the court,” said Gull, “and one man came and said, ‘Whatever the decision, we will kill you.’”
A prosecution lawyer read portions of the Quran while presenting his case, he added.
“He was not explaining the law in which the accused were charged,” said Gull. “He was trying to influence the court religiously.”
Charges of blasphemy are common in Pakistan and particularly incendiary, often leading to strong shows of religious zeal. It is not uncommon for sections 295-B and 295-C of the Pakistani penal code to be invoked in retaliation for personal grievances.
“It is very easy to grab any person for religious reasons,” said Parvez Choudhry, chairman of Legal Aid for the Destitute and Settlement, who specialize in blasphemy cases. “There are many personal cases involving property, or money, or business that motivate the complainant against the accused person. All the cases are falsely charged.”
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have come under heavy fire from international rights groups. Any private citizen can file blasphemy charges, destroying reputation and livelihood. The charge can possibly lead to the death penalty in the conservative Islamic country.
Masih, who before his initial arrest had been a day laborer, is no longer able to find work due to the stigma of the blasphemy accusation.
“There is a need to repeal these sections [295-B and 295-C],” said Choudhry. “This is considered a draconian law.”
Section 295-C carries a death sentence for anyone found “by words or visible representation or by an imputation or insinuation, directly or indirectly, [to have] defiled the name of the Muhammad of Islam.”
Choudhry suggested that just correcting the vagueness of this definition would go a long way toward reducing its frequent misuse.
“The word ‘indirect’ should be repealed – this is wrong, unconstitutional,” he said. “They have no value in the Evidence Act of Pakistan. The Evidence Act states that there needs to be direct evidence for a conviction.”
The next court date has not yet been assigned, but Gull said he is confident about securing an acquittal.
“We have a good case on our side,” he told Compass. “I am very optimistic.”
END
Breaking: Powerful blast rocks Lahore Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan, – A huge explosion rocked Pakistan’s cultural capital Lahore sending thick black smoke into the sky as ambulances rushed to the scene, police and witnesses said.
The blast apparently occurred near the city police headquarters and a branch of the country’s premier intelligence agency, said police officer Omar Ahmad.
Several people were wounded, mostly from shrapnel, police said.
Blast in 15 building in Lahore, several feared dead and hurt
LAHORE: A blast occurred in 15 building adjacent to CCPO office in Civil Lines in Lahore on Wednesday.
According to sources, several people have been killed and injured in the blast. Gunshots also heard in the area after the blast. The windowpanes of nearby buildings have also shattered in the blast and many 15 vehicles have been destroyed. The entire building of 15 has reportedly collapsed…..more
‘If We Now Kill Schoolgirls, You Shouldn’t Be Surprised’ – Taliban
WTF Muslims I would be surprised if you stopped. No one is surprised when you butcher women or pour acid on them.
From Der Spiegel:
By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada in Kunduz, Afghanistan
Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls’ schools have shut down near Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. Visiting the schools is a dangerous proposition — a trip leading directly into the heart of Islamist territory.
When the deputy director of Aqtash High School talks of the government, he isn’t referring to Hamid Karzai’s central government in Kabul. Nor does he refer to the provincial administration in Kunduz. “The Taliban are our government,” Bashir says. “They have taken over our region, their commanders give the orders here.”
PHOTO GALLERY: POWERLESS AGAINST THE TALIBAN
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Bashir is standing in a dusty classroom on the ground floor of his modern school, roughly half an hour from Kunduz by car. As recently as just one month ago, he says, some 400 girls were still coming to the school in three daily shifts to learn reading, writing and arithmetic. Figures and formula are still scrawled across the blackboard.
But now, the girls’ classrooms have been left to deteriorate. The desks and chairs are still laid out in neat rows, but a film of dust has collected, and Bashir stands helplessly in the middle of the room. “Parents in Aqtash are afraid to send their girls to school anymore, after the death threats,” he explains. The school director speaks quietly and carefully. He too is afraid, and several of his teachers double as informants for the Taliban. The bearded fighters, he says, would certainly not like it if they knew a reporter was at the school in Aqtash. “You should leave quickly if you want to get out of Aqtash alive,” he whispers.
‘Apprehended and Killed’
Bashir’s warning is hardly an exaggeration. Not 30 minutes after our arrival in Aqtash, located 15 kilometers northeast of Kunduz just off the main north-south arterial, a group of a dozen Taliban fighters, armed with AK-47s, gathers in front of the blue arch at the entrance to the school. “What do you want here?” one of the fighters calls. “This is our region, the Islamic Emirate of North Afghanistan.” Continue Reading →
History of modern India Occidental Soapbox #7
There are two people who I always look forward to seeing new videos from. Pat Condell and Occidental Soapbox. I was delighted this morning to find the latter had done another excellent and accurate video depicting bits of history of India and it’s relationship with Pakistan, the British empire and Islam that most simply do not know. Watch, be informed and enjoy!
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PBS on the Taliban, use of children as weapons, Islam and Pakistan
Despite this journalists wonderful detachment and staunch effort to show an even objective expose of this issue and these people, it is difficult not to notice the fear she hides when she is face to face with some young turdburger who tells her the government must treat women as plastic bags. You can see she is in immediate danger for her life if she argues the point. These people, Islam, does not debate. These are not Jews. Much of this documentary has nothing new for readers of Vlad. But there are still some shocking revelations about how serious Islam really is in terms of illiberal values and it’s ambitions for the rest of us, and perhaps mpore interestingly, when PBS does an expose showing the horrors of Islam to this extent. you know things are bad. We expect the facts from FOX when they may not be PC. Its quite another thing when PBS calls it like it is.
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Some consequences of blasphemy laws in Pakistan.
Keep in mind, Ireland is seriously considering introducing anti blasphemy laws. This would be to say the least, retrograde to liberal democracy which has as it’s very foundation the right to criticize irrational religious authority. But what may make this more dangerous than even the horrors of European blasphemy we learn about during the middle ages is the idea that Islam would be able to employ these laws. In fact, they are being instituted within Europe specifically for Muslims. This means that the least tolerant and most arbitrary interpretation of blasphemy would have criminal implications.
Islam tends to feel that it is blasphemous for non believers to disobey Koranic teachings. For an example, religious Jewish people do not eat pork but at no time do they ask non Jews to not eat pork. Muslims in the UK have already protested even images of pigs to the point where financial institutions in the UK have stopped giving the traditional piggy banks to children and UK police had to pull an add that used a puppy dog as Muslims apparently also object to the existence of dogs. When Islam is given the power of law to enforce their endless sensitivities on the general non Muslim population we can kiss arts and literature goodbye as well as necessary freedoms of speech required to maintain a culture and civilization of growth and development.
Remember, history did not start at the renaissance. Ours would not be the first modern society which fell to barbarism superstition and irrational religious authority. I’m dead certain that the ancient Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and even the Persians and ancient Egyptians thought exactly what you are now.
“This can never happen here”
Four Muslims connected to Pakistan arrested in NYC. Planned massive attack on Synagogue.
U.S.: Four Arrested In Synagogue Plot
May 21, 2009 0320 GMT
U.S. agents have arrested four people who plotted to bomb a synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and to shoot down military jets with Stinger missiles, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan announced in a statement e-mailed May 20. Charges against the suspects include conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to use anti-aircraft missiles. One of the four suspects reportedly told an FBI informant that he had ties with Jaish-e-Muhammad, a jihadist group based in Pakistan.
Kudos to NBC for reporting that they’re Black Muslims, i.e., convict-converts.
NBC: 4 arrested in plot to bomb NYC targets
Suspects were under heavy surveillance, authorities say MSNBCWASHINGTON – Four men have been arrested in a plot to attack several targets in the New York City area, including synagogues, federal and local authorities told NBC News Wednesday.
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Investigators say the four, described as Black Muslims from the Bronx, had planned to place bombs at various targets. But New York city police and federal agents got wind of the plot and kept the men under careful surveillance.
Two years ago, two Muslims pleaded guilty to plotting to attack synagogues in Los Angeles. But officials said that they knew of no connection between those arrests and this latest plot in New York.
New York Muslim Terror Cell Plotted to Blow Up Synagogue
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu(IsraelNN.com)The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested four terrorists in New York City after they bought what they thought were explosives and a Stinger missile to be used to blow up two synagogues and shoot down a plane at a nearby National Guard base.
The four men are from New York City and bear American names but told authorities they are linked with terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The FBI is still investigating their backgrounds.
The cell had been under surveillance for a year and bought phony explosives from FBI agents, who also sold them a fake Stinger missile. The men planned to place the would-be bombs in front of the Riverdale Temple in the Bronx and under parked cars as well as blow up the Riverdale Jewish Center.
An informer from a mosque helped authorities track the cell, which was arrested after New York policemen blocked the terrorists’ black SUV parked outside the temple, broke in the windows and handcuffed the suspects.
The alleged ringleader was James Cromitie, who the New York Daily News reported is the son of an Afghan immigrant and has a criminal record. His three accomplices were jailhouse converts to Islam.
Pakistan expanding nuclear facilities, Now to include plutonium weapons.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Satellite photos released on Tuesday show Pakistan has expanded two sites crucial to its nuclear program as part of an effort to bolster the destructive power of its atomic arsenal, a US arms control institute said.
The commercial images reveal a major expansion of a chemical plant complex near Dera Ghazi Kahn that produces uranium hexalfuoride and uranium metal, materials used to produce nuclear weapons, said analysts at the Institute for Science and International Security.
At a site near Rawalpindi, photos suggest the Pakistanis “have added a second plutonium separation plant adjacent to the old one,” the ISIS report said.
Pakistan in recent years also has been building two new plutonium production reactors, it said.
“All together, these recent expansion activities indicate that Pakistan is indeed progressing in a strategic plan to improve the destructiveness and deliverability of its nuclear arsenal,” the report said.
The expansion would enable Pakistan to build smaller, lighter plutonium-fission weapons and thermonuclear weapons that employ “plutonium as the nuclear trigger and enriched and natural enriched uranium in the secondary,” it said.
The commercial photos of the chemical plant in Dera Ghazi Kahn, taken on August 25 of last year, show new industrial buildings, new anti-aircraft installations and several new settling ponds as part of the expansion, ISIS said.
The satellite images follow confirmation from the top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, on Friday that Pakistan was expanding its nuclear arsenal.
Mullen on Monday said US military assistance to Pakistan was not being used by Islamabad to bolster its nuclear weapons program.
Given turmoil in Pakistan with the army waging war against Taliban militants in the northwest, the ISIS said the “security of its nuclear assets remains in question.”
Muslims in NYC calling for jihad in US etc. blah blah yada yada wuzza wuzza
My favorite part is where he calls for stopping the attacks in Swat and Pakistan against Muslims who “just want to pray and worship” etc. when in fact they want to commit genocide against non Muslims in the area and enforce sharia law on all Muslims and non Muslims alike. Hell the vast majority of the refugees from the Taliban and Al Queda ARE Muslims who want nothing to do with them.
Another video you should not watch.
Really. This isn’t the first time I have posted videos with express instructions not to watch them. It probably looks like a device I use to get people to watch them. Longtime readers of Vlad know it is not. For any newcomers I will explain why I am doing such an odd thing.
From time to time I need to remind myself why I do what I do here. Let me be clear. Islam is a dangerous belief system, one which has obliterated entire ancient civilizations – all of which were infinitely superior in terms of values, knowledge, progress, civility, tolerance, and pluralism – and killed in the hundreds of millions of people and tens of millions at least in India alone. Its ‘legal system’ is snuff porn. There are no rights for the accused or for anyone except Muslim males, and frankly, Muslim males have more rights in Israel than in any Islamic nation, however, compared to non Muslims or non males, they are gods.
So how does this relate? I’ll explain….
The terms ‘evil,’ ‘pernicious,’ ‘Hitler-like,’ ‘Nazi’ and so on have been so badly abused to refer to anything or anyone whom we don’t like, from people who smoke in bars to people who wear their hair or shoes unfashionably, that they have become utterly meaningless. Now and again I need to remind MYSELF what I am fighting – what this really is about, because despite overwhelming evidence, the daily onslaught of absurd demands by Muslims living in the non-Muslim world, the infiltration and horrors I see in Islamic nations – I still need to make sure Islam is what I know it to be. I, like many of you, want to believe that Islam is some misunderstood form of Christianity. Having a self-checking mechanism is healthy. To make sure that what I am doing is truly in the interest of the preservation of liberal democracy is crucial or else I am not just as bad as the enemy but as bad, perhaps, as I say the enemy is.
This is not the case. The enemy — Islam and its orthodox adherents will implement Sharia law wherever they have the numbers to do so, and remember that the portion of the world which lived under Sharia once spanned from Spain to India and was minority Muslim. These films show, among other brutal acts of barbarity, what Sharia means. Remember that these are not like courts in the West where the accused is granted the benefit. This is a court in which prosecutors threaten to kill the defendants themselves if the judge doesn’t sentence them to a Sharia death. So once again, do not watch these videos unless you feel that you need the reassurance or that you have real doubts about the nature of Islam when in control of a territory.
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Headless bodies found as Pakistan continues Swat operation
From Canada’s CBC News: (Hat tip tgomorgan)
Pakistani government troops secured footholds in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley on Wednesday, discovering five headless corpses near the region’s main town.
Military officials said 11 militants were killed in the past 24 hours as commandos airlifted into the northeastern valley the day before took “firm hold’ in the remote Piochar area.
Troops were also consolidating their positions near a strategic bridge and a shrine in the valley, an army statement said.
Soldiers found the headless bodies near the town of Mingora, but no further information about the victims was provided. Local residents have said the Taliban uses the area as a dumping ground for decapitated victims.
Elsewhere in the turbulent northwest, police said dozens of assailants stormed a transport depot handling supplies for NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan and torched eight trucks before escaping.
Under strong U.S. pressure, Pakistani authorities abandoned peace talks last month with Taliban militants and launched a military operation to expel them from their stronghold in the Swat Valley.
The army claims it has killed more than 750 militants since the operation started.
Roughly 800,000 people have been forced from their homes in the violence, which has sparked concerns that more of Pakistan’s border regions are slipping from government control.
Tens of thousands of refugees have moved into camps run by the government and the United Nations. Others are living with relatives and friends.