Category: Bin Ladenism

reports and articles on those with extremist views that mirror those of Osama Bin Laden

Pakistan: Top Pakistan university to ban kissing

Pakistan: Top Pakistan university to ban kissing
— CSM reports: “When an unsuspecting female student at Lahore University of Management Sciences turned to peck her boyfriend on the cheek during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan last month, she probably thought her private moment would remain just that.”
— “Instead the kiss – which a fellow student witnessed, documented, and then blasted in an email to the entire university as part of her “dossier” on campus PDAs (personal displays of affection) – has sparked a passionate, headline-grabbing debate about how conservative Pakistani society should be”
— “The LUMS Office of Student Affairs has promised to issue a code of conduct to ban PDAs”

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Pakistan: Meeting to suggest changes in blasphemy laws postponed until January 2010

Pakistan: Meeting to suggest changes in blasphemy laws postponed until January 2010
— Pakistan Daily Times reports:
— Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti “said despite discussing the issue in the meeting, the final draft to bring amendments to the laws could not be made”
— Shahbaz Bhatti: “We have asked assembly members to discuss the issue with the leadership of their parties and then a draft would be prepared, so that when it would be brought in the national assembly, it has the support of all political parties, therefore we have postponed the meeting till January 2010”

Pakistan – IPS: “Repeal of Blasphemy Laws Still a Pipe Dream”

Pakistan – IPS: “Repeal of Blasphemy Laws Still a Pipe Dream”
— IPS reports:
— “In 2000, then President Pervez Musharraf promised to repeal the laws. ‘He retracted when the ‘mullahs’ (religious teachers) threatened protests,’ recalled Zohra Yusuf, vice chairperson of the Sindh chapter of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).”
— “Rights activist Tahira Abdullah said mobs using the law to inflict harm on others are acting ‘like private vigilante groups,’ she said.”
— “No less than governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer has called for a repeal of the blasphemy laws. But his bold call on Sep. 16 for the controversial laws’ repeal was met with a warning from the president of the conservative Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam), Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who said that his party would resist any attempt to annul the blasphemy laws.”
— “Continued state inaction on the much-maligned blasphemy laws has only reinforced perceptions that ‘the present government has no intention of repealing the laws,’ said Yusuf.”
— “I.A. Rehman, noted rights activist and secretary general of the HRCP, told IPS ‘(neither) the present government (nor any) government in Pakistan is likely to have the courage to repeal the blasphemy laws”. He added that “the state has committed the folly of making obscurantist fanatics stronger than itself.” Calling for a repeal of the law “is the only rational way out’ although ‘this demand is unlikely to be met.'”

— October 12, 2009: Karachi: Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) stages rally to oppose changes in blasphemy law

— SAP-PK: government hostage to the extremists will not abolish the blasphemy law
— Asia News reports that “Irfan Mufti, director of South Asian Partnership-Pakistan (SAP-PK), who tells AsiaNews that the country lacks the ‘political will’ to reject the ‘controversial law'”

— April 16, 2008 – Rehman and Gilani at Pakistan National Assembly mtg where it passes resolution calling for U.N. to impose death penalty internationally for blasphemy
—- Pakistan Daily Times: “Karim’s resolution condemned the reprinting of the controversial cartoons in Danish newspapers and demanded that the UN make a law suggesting capital punishment for blasphemy”

Indonesia: Two Indonesian Churches Receive Bomb Threats

Indonesia: Two Indonesian Churches Receive Bomb Threats
— Compass reports “Islamic groups demand halt to threatened congregation’s worship.”
— “Two churches in the greater Jakarta area have received bomb threats.”
— “In East Jakarta, the pastor of a Batak Protestant Christian Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestan, or HKBP) on Bogor Street received a threatening phone call before Sunday services on Oct. 4. The church building is located near the headquarters of an elite police corps.”
— “The unknown caller to the Rev. Abidan Simanungkalit’s cell phone said the bomb would explode during the morning worship service, the pastor told Compass.”
— “‘I was startled to receive the short message,’ he said. ‘I immediately phoned some church leaders and then called police.'”
— “Scores of police and bomb squad officers came to the site and combed the area for a bomb, discovering a black package in a garbage container near the front of the church building. It contained four large batteries, a small wall clock and a tin can, and after a two hours police determined that it was not a bomb.”

Italy: 15 Year Old Muslim Girl Threatened in Italy for Loving Italian Boy

— Il Giornale: “I love an Italian, dad kills me” Moroccan 15 years under cover — 15 year old Moroccan girl threatened
— “Request for help is heartbreaking: “Help me, I do not want to end up like Hina and Sanaa.  Said the police in tears of Pavia, just a few hours ago, a fifteen Moroccan escaped from home in Voghera.”
— “And the soldiers have moved immediately. Now the student is in a protected location in Sydney, away from parents by herself accused of having threatened to do the same end of Sanaa.  Besides its history, for some months now, is similar to that of two girls, which took the lives of ‘guilty’ only of loving an Italian man and not a Muslim. A script already seen.”
— “Start the harassment.  Her father beat her repeatedly and the threat of death: “I’ll make an end to the other …” alluding to the most horrific cases of poor Muslim girls massacred because they were trying to break free from a world of fundamentalist and dull. Beatings and threats that have witnessed without blinking, even sharing the “method of education, whether the mother. The girl tries to cling to what is around him, makes contact with friends including Social Services, as I will explain later also to the police.  Anyone away from that family that now beats her and insulted almost every day. Phrase you hear is always angry, “Raki daimen Muslima u-maghribiyya (you are always Muslim and Moroccan).  These are your sources, you must not forget, and that is why you can not attend the Italian boys who are not Muslims. Your father feels dishonored. And off blows.”

— original report in Italian: “Amo un italiano, papà mi uccide” Marocchina di 15 anni sotto scorta”

— Associated Video (in Italian)

Pakistan — ICC report: “Pakistan Court Grants Bail to Six More Muslims Accused of Violence against Christians”

Pakistan — ICC report: “Pakistan Court Grants Bail to Six More Muslims Accused of Violence against Christians”

Previous reports of Pakistan violence against Christians in Gojra:

Pakistan Christians Call for Justice while Extremists Oppose Changes in “Blasphemy Law”

Pakistan Christian Post: “Attack on Gojra Christians was supervised by government of Pakistan”

Pakistan – ICC report: “Pakistan Grants Bail to 13 Muslims Accused of Carnage Against Christians”

Pakistan: Police issue warrant for Bishop of Faisalabad and 128 other Christians of Gojra — in retaliation for complaints of incompetence in massacre

Pakistan: Extremist blames Gojra massacre of Christians on “Western conspiracy”

NYC: Protest at United Nations HQ against Extremist Religious Oppression and Blasphemy Laws

Pakistan: Christians rally on ‘black day’ against Gojra killings

Pakistan: Christians remember victims of Gojra violence

DC: National Press Club Press Conference Announcing “Black Day”, Petition Against Pakistan Blasphemy Law

Pakistan: 17,000 in Pakistan Christian Post Poll to Observe “Black Day” Challenging Religious Discrimination

“Pakistan Muslim Groups Threaten More Violence”

Pakistan: Christians Burned to Death (including women and children), Mob Burns Houses, Church in Punjab’s Gojra — Korian Area

Pakistan: Hate Engulfs Christians in Pakistan

UK: “Honor killing girl ‘wanted love'” — Tulay Goren trial – reportedly tortured by father before killed

— BBC: “Honour killing girl ‘wanted love'”

— “A teenager allegedly murdered by her father in a so-called ‘honour killing’ hated her family and wanted to run away, a court has heard.
— “Tulay Goren, 15, a Kurdish Turk from Woodford Green, north London, vanished in 1999 and her body has never been found, the Old Bailey has been told.”
— “Her boyfriend at the time, Halil Unal, 41, told the jury she said she wanted ‘a man who will love me and marry me'”
— “He recalled the time he met Tulay at Stratford bus station, in east London after she had been beaten.”
— “‘I saw that she had bruising to her eye. She told me that her father tortured her and beat her and that her uncle Cuma was pressuring her.'”
— “Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said Tulay was killed ‘to restore the so-called honour’ of the family, who originate from Turkey.”
— “The court heard Mr Unal was brought up as a Sunni Muslim while the Gorens were from the Alevi branch of the faith.”

— BBC reports: “He added: ‘In our honour customs, they are either going to finish off, kill the girl, or they are going to kill both of them. That is definite.'”

— BBC reports: “The prosecution says Tulay was killed ‘to restore the so-called honour’ of the family, as a relationship between she and Mr Unal – who are from different sects of Islam – ‘would not have been tolerated'”

— Daily Mail: “Schoolgirl ‘was tortured by her father’ before she was murdered in honour killing”


Women in Alevism
— “According to Australian anthropologist Dr. Sevgi Kilic, while Alevi women do not experience gender segregation in the private and public domain they are subject to traditional male values about women’s sexuality and constructed within the honour/shame paradigm”