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Imran Firasat, served official documents by the Spanish government, residency status revoked

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From Stand Up America:

 

Imran Firasat has been served the official documents by the Spanish government confirming that his residency status has been revoked

The authorities quickly hand-delivered the official revocation documents to Imran on Friday evening, December 22nd, giving him no chance to consult his lawyer or plea his case.  Through these actions, Spain has proven to the world that it holds Islamic law in high regard, even above its own laws.

Firasat is an ex-Muslim from Pakistan who has taken a radical stand against Islam since his conversion to Christianity.  He has received many death threats from Muslim individuals and groups in various Islamic countries for seven years because of his criticism of Islam.

Spain, a free western nation, had given Imran welcome asylum to protect him from these violent and radical Islamic groups.

Imran has been involved in the co-production of the Youtube, The Innocent Prophet, with Terry Jones and Stand Up America Now.  The Innocent Prophet was released to the public on Youtube on December 15, 2012.

Imran officially backed out of the project when the Spanish government threatened to revoke his protected residency status and have him deported to Pakistan where the death penalty is waiting for him because of his criticism of Islam.  Firasat did his best to cooperate with Spanish authorities by presenting documented proof to them that he had backed out of the project.   Despite this, Spain quickly revoked Imran’s protected asylum status during a period of approximately ten days.  This would normally take the government about six months to process.

Imran has not committed any crime according to Spanish law.   He has only exercised his right of free expression concerning his views on Islam.  Nevertheless, his residency status has been revoked and he faces imminent deportation to a Muslim nation where the penalty for blasphemy against Islam or Muhammad is death.

The Innocent Prophet – English Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gwcuG2jb9k

 

The Innocent Prophet – Spanish Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytXPifypkH0

 

 

Spain’s Threats (with documents)

Interview with Imran

Images and Text from The Innocent Prophet

 

 

 

Jihadis attack airport in Pakistan

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H/T Magic Matin.

This is alleged to be footage from the attack but it looks suspiciously like footage from a bomb in a Moscow airport some years ago. Mind you it is entirely possible that Russians built this airport from the same blueprint and put the camera in the same location.

Militants attack airport in NW Pakistan; 9 killed

Miami Herald:

By JAMAL KHAN

Associated Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suicide bombers armed with rockets attacked the military side of a Pakistani airport in the northwestern city of Peshawar Saturday, killing four civilians and wounding more than 30, officials said. Five militants also were killed.

Peshawar is on the edge of Pakistan’s tribal region, the main sanctuary for al-Qaida and Taliban militants in the country. The city has frequently been attacked in the past few years, but Saturday was the first strike against the airport, which is jointly used by the air force and civilian authorities.

The militants fired three rockets at the airport, two of which hit a wall ringing the premises, said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Peshawar is the capital. The third landed near a government building outside the wall, Hussain said.

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‘Specials ops’ team rescuing Pakistani Christians

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From WND:

An American ministry organization has created what amounts to a special operations team to work with a group in Pakistan to rescue Pakistani Christians who are unjustly charged under that longtime ally’s draconian blasphemy law.

The group Rescue Christians is the brainchild of former PLO terrorist-turned-Christian activist Walid Shoebat.

Shoebat says the organization established what is called the Raoul Wallenberg Project, named after the man who rescued Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

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Swede shot in Pakistan still in ‘critical’ condition

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The Local.Se

Published: 10 Dec 12 09:25 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation

A Swedish charity worker who was critically wounded in a gun attack in Pakistan last week was flown home on Monday for specialist medical treatment, officials said.

Birgitta Almeby, 72, was coming home from work when she was shot in the chest in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, on the eastern border with India.

She was working in Lahore for the US-founded Full Gospel Assemblies, which describes itself as a “church fellowship” with congregations all over the world.

“She was still unconscious, her condition is critical, she is on a ventilator,” said Fazlur Rehman, chief doctor at Jinnah Hospital.

“There was a special request from Sweden. They sent a special air ambulance manned by a team of doctors and we shifted her today.”

Pastor Liaquat Qaiser, a spokesman for the Full Gospel Assemblies, confirmed that her condition was serious and that she had been flown to Sweden for better treatment.

The organization runs charities in Pakistan including a technical training institute, adult literacy centre and orphanage. According to police, Almeby has been living in Pakistan for 38 years.

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Worldwide travel ban on Pakistanis recommended

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H/T Michael Laudahn:

 

The News Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has recommended the imposition of international travel restrictions on every child or adult travelling out of polio-endemic Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria so that they do not carry the risk of polio with them to imperil the hard-earned status of countries that are now free of the crippling virus.

“No country should allow a citizen from any endemic polio state to cross their border without a valid vaccination certificate,” recommends the sixth IMB report, which has just been released. The Board was convened at the request of the World Health Assembly to monitor and guide the progress of the GPEI’s 2010-12 Strategic Plan. This plan is aimed at interrupting polio transmission globally by the end of 2012, a target which in spite of appearing closer than ever before, is still far from being achieved.

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H/T Don L

More multi culti wonders in Pakistan

Pakistan Tribune:

Underage victims: ‘To stop child marriages, state needs to step in’

Published: September 11, 2012

Child marriages accounted for 32 per cent of all marriages in the country from 1987 to 2005. PHOTO:FILE

ISLAMABAD: Marriage at an early age is a harsh reality for many young women, with dire repercussions for them, their children and the community. Still, according to UNICEF, child marriages accounted for 32 per cent of all marriages in the country from 1987 to 2005.

During a consultative meeting that was held to discuss the sensitive topic on Monday, it was shared that not much is expected to change in the next decade if the government does not take the issue seriously. Around 100 million girls are expected to enter into child marriage in the next decade, it was said.

Participants got together to map out the social, medical and legal work being done to decrease the prevalence of child marriages.

Qindeel Shujaat, legal adviser on human rights, said that while there are laws to prevent child marriages, the Child Marriages Restraint Act 1929 hasn’t been modified in 82 years. “The punishment for violating the law is a fine of Rs1,000, or one month imprisonment. If a marriage involving children takes place, the adults are punished, but the marriage is not dissolved,” she said. However, according to Shujaat, the law’s implementation is non-existentant.

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Belated Children’s Day: Over 5,000 children became victims of violence this year

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H/T Don L

More multi cultural goodness from Pakistan:

 

The Express Tribune
Published: November 24, 2012

A total of 943 children were found murdered, while 1,170 were injured in violent incidents.

KARACHI: Around 5,659 children in the country became victims of violence from January to October this year, according to a report released by Madadgar National Helpline.

A total of 943 children were found murdered, while 1,170 were injured in violent incidents, said the report. On Thursday, the Madadgar National Helpline also organised a series of painting and singing activities to mark Universal Children’s Day, originally scheduled for November 20.

According to the report, the highest number of violence cases against children, 2,597, was reported in Punjab, followed by 1,574 in Sindh, 945 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 543 in Balochistan.

While non-governmental organisations as well as minority legislators continue to push the government to draft legislation banning forced conversions and marriages, the Madadgar report points out that 410 children were forced into marriage, while another 176 were used to settle debts between tribes in a practice known as Vani.

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Malala Yousafzai, Fatwa To Be Issued On Pakistani Schoolgirl Shot By Taliban, Claims Cleric Anjem Choudary

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H/T Don L

Huff Post:

Islamic radicalists based in Britain are reportedly preparing to issue a fatwa on Malala Yousafzai.

According to controversial cleric Anjem Choudary, the fatwa will be announced at Islamabad’s Red Mosque later this month, The Telegraph reported.

The 15-year-old, who was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for the “crime” of promoting education for girls, will be denounced as an apostate and accused of turning her back on Islam.

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Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen
 

While this ordinarily carries the death sentence, Choudary says he is not calling for Malala’s demise.

The former solicitor believes the schoolgirl is being used as a propaganda tool by the US and Pakistan, he told the newspaper.

Choudary, who lives in Ilford, London, is a co-founder of Islamist organisation al-Muhajiroun, which has staged several anti-Western demonstrations.

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UK government told anti-Islam film incites terrorism

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Interesting double twist on classic extortion scheme. Double twist in the sense that if you do the math and cancel out all the double negatives, what you get is, ‘remove the film (and presumably anything else we don’t like) or we, Muslims, will hurt you unbelievers’

H/T Don L

The News.com.Pk

Murtaza Ali Shah
 Saturday, November 03, 2012
From Print Edition

LONDON: Britain’s Counter-terrorism Command Unit and Specialist Internet Bureau have taken notice of a representation made by an influential Muslim organisation which is asking the government to ban the blasphemous film “Innocence of Muslims” for posing danger to UK’s national security.

 

The Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat UK, which claims to represent the majority of Muslims in Britain, has approached the home secretary and police forces around the country requesting that the movie be removed from YouTube on the grounds that it incites racial and religious hate crimes and openly encourages violence in the name of faith. The group didn’t request that the film, which caused outrage among Muslims across the world, be banned for being offensive, nor that it will incite hatred against the Muslims but rather that it would encourage violence by Muslims to non-believers. Raja Zahid Nawaz confirmed to The News that his organisation had been contacted by the security officials with assurance that the contents of the letter were being studied and all the activity around the film online and otherwise was being monitored.

Ghulam Rabanni, Secretary General of the organisation, told The News that the blasphemous film is not about the “freedom of speech”. “This film is aimed at inciting religious and racial hatred. It incites extremism and terrorism and will lead to the radicalisation of young Muslims in the UK. It encourages physical and violent attacks on non-Muslim communities around the world. It encourages child abuse. It will damage the fabric of a multi racial and multi faith society and it will lead to tensions and disturbances within the UK and in particular in inner city areas. We have asked the government to ban the film on YouTube.”

 

Did a drone attack Malala?

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Anas Abbas has done an excellent job of compiling and comparing the facts and exposes some simple truths.

In 2012: 758 deaths by suicide bombers.  227 terrorists & 7 civilians killed by drones.

 

Did a drone attack Malala?

By Anas Abbas | | 4 hours ago

In his book ‘Inside Al Qaeda and the Taliban’, slain journalist Syed Saleem Shehzad who spent considerable part of his research with al Qaeda militants, described comprehensively the formation of the new al Qaeda players and their strategic objectives in the lawless FATA region of Pakistan after the crippling defeat of the Taliban and al Qaeda in 2001.

He magnificently illustrates this al Qaeda strategy in well-crafted 3 points:

  • The re-grouping of its militant structure and development of a battle strategy against the Pakistan Army and Nato Forces in Afghanistan
  • Conduct peace deals with the Pakistan Army and used the breathing space to strengthen its struggle against the United States
  • Extending the war into Pakistan, and from there strategising and launching the war from central Asian Republics to India for the sole purpose of defeating the Nato forces in Afghanistan.

In order to achieve this strategy, al Qaeda annihilated the centuries-old Pakistani tribal structure and traditions by killing thousands of tribal elders as well as clerics and launched a new generation of militants. However during this time Al Qaeda’s objectives were constantly under assault because mostly whenever a new leader was nominated and trained, he was eradicated by the formidable drone. This notorious drone is known to have successfully struck down not only the key al Qaeda and Taliban operatives but also fugitives responsible for hijacking of Pan American World Airways Flight 73 and 1998 United States Embassy Bombings.

According to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, since the outset, there have been a total of 349 drone strikes in Pakistan to date, killing approximately 3300 people of which 500-800 are estimated to be civilians and this estimation has also been credited by the Stanford/NYU Clinics in ‘Living Under Drones’, a recent report heavily critical of the drones which was commissioned by London-based charity Reprieve that represents Guantanamo Bay prisoners .

read on: http://dawn.com/2012/10/16/did-a-drone-attack-malala/

Taliban shoot Pakistani schoolgirl campaigning for peace

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(Yes we had this story yesterday but this one has photos)

Reuters:

By Jibran Ahmad | Reuters – 20 hrs ago
  • Hospital staff assist Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old schoolgirl who was wounded in a gun attack, at Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital in the Swat Valley region in northwest Pakistan October 9, 2012. According to authorities, gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded Yousufzai on Tuesday for speaking out against Taliban militants. Yousufzai became famous for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban at a time when even the government seemed to be appeasing the hardline Islamists. REUTERS/Hazart Ali Bacha (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday a 14-year-old schoolgirl who rose to fame for speaking out against the militants, authorities said.

Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad. Two other girls were also wounded, police said.

Yousufzai became famous for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban at a time when even the government seemed to be appeasing the hardline Islamists.

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Taliban claim responsibility for shooting young activist

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 AGI.IT

16:33 09 OTT 2012

(AGI) – Miranshah, Oct. 9 – The Taliban has claimed responsibility for shooting and wounding 14-year-old Malala Yusyufzai, who is campaigning to bring peace back to Pakistan’s Swat Valley and the right to be educated. Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said in a phone call that his organization was responsible, adding that anyone who speaks against the Taliban will be attacked in the same way. Yusyufzai came to the attention of the world in 2009 when she told the BBC Urdu service of Taliban atrocities. She was on a bus that was taking her to school in the town of Mingora, when an armed man stopped and entered the bus asking which one was Malala. Once he had identified her, he shot her three times with a pistol. The first shot hit her in the face, the second hit a friend and the third hit another friend in the leg. Malala was flown by an Interior Ministry helicopter to a hospital in Peshawar, where doctors say the young girl is in stable conditions and out of danger. . .

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Pakistan gunmen shoot 14-year-old girl in the head for speaking out against Taliban

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National Post:

Jibran Ahmad, Reuters | Oct 9, 2012 8:02 AM ET
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MOHAMMAD REHMAN/AFP/Getty Images Pakistani hospital workers carry injured Malala Yousafzai, 14, on a stretcher at a hospital following an attack by gunmen in Mingora on October 9, 2012.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday a 14-year-old schoolgirl who rose to fame for speaking out against Taliban militants, authorities said.

Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad. Two other girls were also wounded, police said.

Yousufzai became famous for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban at a time when even the government seemed to be appeasing the hardline Islamists.

The government agreed to a ceasefire with the Taliban in Swat in early 2009, effectively recognizing insurgent control of the valley whose lakes and mountains had long been a tourist attraction.

The Taliban set up courts, executed residents and closed girls’ schools, including the one that Yousufzai attended. A documentary team filmed her weeping as she explained her ambition to be a doctor.

REUTERS/Hazart Ali BachaHospital staff assist Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old schoolgirl who was wounded in a gun attack, at Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital in the Swat Valley region in northwest Pakistan October 9, 2012.

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