Archive for July 7th, 2008
Pakistan transported nuclear material to NK
At the time, the current President Pervez Musharraf was head of the army.
He has repeatedly stated that no-one apart from Dr Khan had any knowledge of the nuclear transportations which caused international concern.
Dr Khan said that uranium enrichment equipment was sent in a North Korean plane loaded under the supervision of Pakistani security officials.
Will this have any effects on the present result of the six-party talks about NK nuclear program?
Tags Technorati: North Korea, Six Party Talks, South Korea, North Korean nuclear deal, US, Pakistan, AQ Khan, Pakistani supervision of centrifuges’ flight to Pyongyang, Pyongyang, Pervez Musharraf,
UK: Nazir Ali continues to be brave when defending Anglicanism
He continues to defend Anglican Christians’ rights in England.
Tags Technorati: Nazir Ali, Anglican Church, UK, Great Britain, Islamism.
“Legalise polygamy”
The petition (demand…) has been issued by the leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Indonesia. But for Australia:
Polygamy “should be accepted”, he said. “If you believe in what you call human rights and freedom of expression, then it must be allowed. If someone wants to marry and take responsibility for a woman, why wouldn’t you let them?”
Of course, some idiot in internet has even defended the right to choose to be a slave, something not reasonable because later you don’t have liberty to end your slaveness. Yes, I believe in Human Rights and Freedom of Expression but I also believe in E-Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y between men and women. And I don’t believe polygamy is the best way to defend it.
Hibz ut-Tahrir asked for the coming of the Global Caliphate last summer and also incited war on Western countries. Among other things, the group posted hard-line propaganda on Youtube.
Tags Technorati: Hibz ut-Tahrir, polygamy, Islamism, Australia, Indonesia, Global Caliphate, Hibz ut-Tahrir incited war on West
Jihadism in Montreal
Fabrice de Pierrebourg’s book profiling fanatic, violent jihadist networks in North America’s premier francophone city appeared last year. Currently available only in French, it’s received a few notices in English, including at Canada’s The Hour and the blog Covenant Zone.
An interesting read to know about Jihadism in Canada.
Tags Technorati: Jihadism, Islamism, Canada, Montreal, Montrealistan, terrorism.
UK: The cost of surveillance
is huge: £20 billion, a equivalent amount to £800 per household and includes £19 billion for the planned ID card system and £500 million for CCTV cameras.
The report by the TaxPayers’ Alliance was highlighted by David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, who stands in a by-election this week on the issue of civil liberties. Mr Davis resigned as an MP after the opposition failed to defeat Government plans to hold terrorism suspects for 42 days.
Mr Davis said: “This is yet further damning evidence of Big Brother’s expensive tastes. ID cards, CCTV, the DNA database and other measures are a huge waste of taxpayers’ money on policies that undermine freedom and are utterly ineffective in fighting crime or terrorism.
But everything in life is not money. And counterterrorism is not an exception.
Tags Technorati: UK, Great Britain, terrorism, Al-Qaeda, David Davis, Big Brother society, July 7 bombings, Abu Qutada, Abu Hamza, counterterrorism
Pakistan: Catholic outreach continues
Speaking in an interview with the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Rodrigues said, “The task of evangelization in a theocratic country, strongly Islamicized… is a difficult thing, but in my diocese there is a large tribal apostolate”.
Tags Technorati: Pakistan, Catholicism, Islamism, Catholic Church, Aid to the Church in Need.
Honor killing in Georgia
Chaudhry Rashad, 54, apparently became angry during an argument in which the victim, Sandela Kanwal, told him she wanted out of the marriage, Clayton police spokesman Timothy Owens said.
The father and daughter are both of Pakistani origin.
From FOX Atlanta: this is the father-killer:
Related: Pakistan is trying to stop honor killings:
Pakistan’s last government had introduced three laws for safeguarding the rights of women and aimed at curbing the practice of honour killing and inhuman customs of swara and vani (giving away small girls to settle family disputes), allowing bail to women in most of the offences and amending the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance so as to stop its misuse.
The women from tribal areas from the North have still been deprived of these rights.
Tags Technorati: honor killing, Georgia, Islamism, Islam, women’s rights, Pakistan.
HR case against Catholic Insight dropped
(…) The struggle, therefore, is still in its beginning stages. The outrages committed against Chris Kempling in B.C., Stephen Boissoin in Alberta, Christian Horizons service organization in Ontario, and many others, must be undone. The demands of people like Rob Wells that everyone must affirm homosexual activity and bow to their demands is intolerable. The promotion of homosexual behaviour through enforced curricula changes in many provinces needs to be reversed. So let us pursue this struggle with vigour.
thanks to Blazing Cat Fur.
If you read what the CHRC actually said, they are labelling the Catholic teachings on homosexuality as “of offensive nature“.
Anyway, they are still liable for the costs of the process.
Tags Technorati: De Valk, Catholic Insight, homosexuality, Fr De Valk, Canada, CHRC, Human Rights
More on the insistent calls to introduce Sharia Law in UK
I blogged the other day about some more calls to legally introduce Sharia Law in the UK. Islamist Watch has an interesting reflection about it:
The British government already promotes Shari’a finance and awards additional welfare benefits to Muslim men with more than one wife. However, Downing Street quickly distanced itself from Phillips, reiterating that “British law should be based on British values and determined by the British Parliament.”
That politicians on both sides of the aisle have thus far resisted calls to formally sanction Shari’a law for dispute resolution is cause for optimism; that so many prominent figures keep issuing such demands is cause for pessimism.
This is what I call hypocrisy: don’t speak openly about introducing Sharia Law because the citizens can be angry at you, but introduce it nonetheless quietly.
Tags Technorati: UK, Sharia Law, Sharia Law in Europe, Sharia Law in the UK, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Islamism, Islamization, Eurabia
Pakistan Jihad will continue
That’s what Pakistan Jihadis have told America, in the first anniversary of the raid to the Red Mosque. As if to prove their openly expressed intentions, a suicide bombing outside Lal Masjid in Islamabad has killed 19 people:
A suicide bomber killed 19 Pakistanis, including 15 policemen, in an attack outside a police station in Islamabad. More than 40 Pakistanis were reported wounded. (…) The “death toll is expected to mount considering the intensity of the blast.”
The attack occurred on the anniversary of the Pakistani government assault on the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque. One year ago, the Pakistani government ordered a siege and subsequent full-scale assault on the Lal Masjid, after its leaders attempted to impose sharia, or Islamic law, in neighborhoods in the heart of Islamabad. Their followers kidnapped policemen and prostitutes, and beat those who would not comply with sharia.
Quietly and slowly, the narco-state of Jihadistan is appearing in the frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan:
“What has changed today is that these powerful, fiercely independent tribes have now acquired an ‘allegiance’, indeed the rudiments of a cohesive political identity, within the ambit of the Taliban/Al Qaeda nexus that is now transforming Waziristan and its environs into a loosely integrated jihadist state. I shall call this quasi- or prototypical-state, this state within a state, “Jihadistan”.
(…) Bill Roggio, in the Long War Journal Sep 13, 2006, is even more emphatic: “South Waziristan fell some time in the spring of 2006 (I suspect sometime in late March). On March 6, I referred to South Waziristan as ‘Talibanistan’. Shariah Law was instituted … at this time and the Taliban began to rule openly. A single political party was established in South Waziristan, a party loyal to the Taliban. It is said a secret accord was signed between the Pakistani government and the Taliban around this time…”
(…) “The Taliban reportedly control most of the region with its own authoritarian rule, including beheadings and other violent punishments which the Pakistan government has been unable to stop,” declares Mansoor Ijaz (Wall Street Journal, Sep 19, 2006).
Al Qaeda/Taliban have also established a viable narco-based agricultural economy within their domain which makes up for the personal fortune that Osama bin Laden originally used to fund the jihad until American and Saudi interdiction dried it up.
Tags Technorati: Pakistan, terrorism, terrorist attack, Islamabad, Taliban, Jihad against unbelievers, Lal Masjid, terrorism,
