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Washington DC Extremist Imam Blames Christmas Day Terror Attack on U.S. and Israel
Imam Abdul Alim Musa (aka Clarence Reams) , founder and director of As-Sabiqun, has appeared on Iran’s Press TV stating that the U.S. government and Israel’s Mossad are to blame for the failed Christmas Day terror attack on Northwest Flight 235 attempted by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Abdul Alim Musa is a member of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), and has been described in the DC Muslim Link as the Imam of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C. Imam Abdul Alim Musa has supported calls for extremist Violent Extemism, called for support for terrorist organizations, and seeks the creation of an extremist caliphate to “dominate all other ways of life.” Masjid Al-Islam recently held a fund-raiser for the family of alleged criminal Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who reportedly sought violent jihad against America, and Imam Abdul Alim Musa recently defended Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan as “victimized” and the “target of psychological warfare.”
In the latest interview, provided by MEMRI, Imam Abdul Alim Musa states: “We said it then, and we say it now, and this is the belief in the Muslim world: 90% of the bombing plots — or this plot or that plot — we believe is done by and with the help and the aid of Mossad, and the United States government.” “We believe that whoever this guy is from Nigeria – we don’t believe he has any ties with Islam. If you talk about the World Trade Center bombing – all of these things are done… I can give you two quick reasons, and it will solve the problem. Number one – to blame these things on Muslims. You get the Patriot Act, you get the anti-terrorism bill, you get a right to what they call stop, put a freeze, on the global Islamic movement, which has been spreading, growing, and developing. You get a chance to launch missiles, to kill, and to put a freeze on the Islamic movement.” (See MEMRI-TV video.)
Musa also stated that such conspiracies are an attack on Islam: “It’s a message that these Muslims are evil. It gives the United States the justification for Yemen, for even northern Nigeria, for anybody. And the people are doing it. Why is this young rich guy all of a sudden going to blow up something? The no-fly list – the man [Obama] is lying through his teeth. I’m on the no-fly list. If I take ten flights in the US, I’m held up. I miss five of them.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes As-Sabiqun as follows:
— “Sabiqun is an anti-Semitic Muslim group that advocates for the creation of a global Islamic state that would abolish all ‘man-made’ forms of governance. Arabic for ‘vanguard,’ Sabiqun was founded by Imam Abdul Alim Musa, the head of the Masjid Al Islam mosque in Washington DC.”
— “While Sabiqun claims to have a national presence with centers in several cities, including in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, it appears to have a relatively small following organized primarily around two mosques; Alim Musa’s DC mosque and the Masjid Al Islam mosque in Oakland, California, which is led by the movement’s other main figure, Imam Amir Abdul Malik Ali. The mosques are located in poor neighborhoods and claim to provide social services to the communities.”
— “Sabiqun claims that it was created in the early 1990s at Masjid Al Islam mosque in Philadelphia. On July 4, 1995, it published a document called ‘Resolution of Philadelphia,’ which declared the group’s ‘independence from man-made concepts.’ The document, created as a challenge to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, resolved to work toward establishing a self sufficient Muslim community that will work with other Muslims ‘for the purpose of reestablishing the system of governance known as Khilafah, or the Caliphate.’ ”
— “Sabiqun predicts that Islamic rule will be established in the U.S., which it calls ‘the Islamic State of North America,’ by ‘no later than 2050.’ Speaking in 2000 at a gathering organized by Jamaat al-Muslimeen in Baltimore, Alim Musa said: ‘Islam went everywhere in the [ancient] world… so why can’t Islam take over America… We are on the right road.’ ”
— “An article published in the Sabiqun newsletter in March 2002 claimed that there is ‘open warfare’ between Muslims and the U.S., which it described as “the united forces of kufr [non-believers]… the criminal constitutional dictatorship of the USA.’ ”
— “Sabiqun advocates for a ‘revolution,’ which it describes as ‘absolute change rooted in Allah’s guidance.’ The first issues of the Sabiqun newsletter included a section called ‘Things to do now,’ in which it listed the following: ‘Always cherish the intention of jihad and the desire for martyrdom in the way of Allah and actually prepare yourself for that.’ ”
— “Sabiqun openly supports Iran and Hezbollah and has links to the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), an international pro-Iranian, pro-Hezbollah think tank that distributes anti-Semitic propaganda in its magazine, Crescent International. Alim Musa is a ‘senior’ member of the ICIT, and ‘issues of Crescent International serve as regular monthly reading for most Sabiqun members,’ according to the Sabiqun Web site.”
— “Alim Musa and Malik Ali have participated at events organized by Muslim-American organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, Muslim American Society, Islamic Circle of North America and the Islamic Society of North America. They have also spoken at large community mosques around the country. But Alim Musa and Malik Ali are particularly popular with Muslim student groups, in particular the Muslim Student Union at the University of California, Irvine.”
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has a report on Abdul Alim Musa, including previous videos of his speeches, and states that:
— “In his role as an Imam and representative of Masjid al-Islam and As-Sabiqun, Musa has consistently put forth strident anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages that emphasize his conviction that America and Israel seek to destroy Islam and subjugate all Muslims. Based on this, Musa preaches on the glory of suicide bombings and Violent Extemism, while praising terrorist groups like Hamas and Hizballah as ‘heroes’ and condemning the U.S. as the true terrorist. Musa also denies that al-Qaeda was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and blames it instead on the Bush Administration and the CIA.”
On December 25, 2009, Imam Alim Musa’s Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C. held a fundraiser for the family of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, Islamic Imam of Masjid Al-Haqq located in Detroit, Michigan. The blog for the DC Masjid Al-Islam stated that the FBI had “assassinated” Detroit’s Luqman Ameen Abdullah, and that “we of the As-Sabiqun movement will continue to challenge Zionist American domination of Islamic affairs locally and worldwide.” The Masjid Al-Islam seeks to create replace the current government in the United States and the world with a global extremist caliphate, rejecting the U.S. Constitution and its laws.
On October 28, 2009, FBI agents sought to raid the Masjid Al-Haqq in Dearborn, Michigan, but when Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah fired on FBI agents during the raid, he was killed in a shootout. The October 28 FBI arrests included arrests of individuals in Detroit as well. A joint statement by the Detroit FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office stated that the eleven suspects “are members of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over a period of many years and known to be armed.”
In R.E.A.L.’s October 29, 2009 posting, we stated that a federal criminal complaint stated that eleven individuals linked to the head of a Dearborn, Michigan area mosque Masjid Al-Haqq, including Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, sought to promote violence against the United States government, including calls for attacks on the FBI, attacks on the U.S. federal government, calls for a nuclear attack on Washington DC, and encouraging attacks on police. The federal criminal complaint also documented reports of Luqman Ameen Abdullah’s talking to little children about how many people he had killed, and it also stated that Luqman Ameen Abdullah told another member that “I shot a lot of nigg*rs.”
According to the federal criminal complaint by the FBI:
“The investigation has shown that Luqman Ameen Abdullah, Imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq, in Detroit, Michigan, is a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group consisting primarily of African-Americans, some of whom converted to Islam while they were serving sentences in various prisons across the United States. Their primary mission is to establish a separate, sovereign Islamic state (‘The Ummah’) within the borders of the United States, governed by Sharia law. The Ummah is to be ruled over by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown, who is currently serving a life sentence in the Florence, Colorado Supermax for shooting two police officers in Georgia.”
“In 1981, Luqman Abdullah was convicted in Wayne County, Michigan of felonious assault and carrying a concealed weapons. Further a check of law enforcement indices shows that in 1979, Abdullah was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and assault on a police officer by the Mobile Alabama Police Department; the disposition of those charges is unknown.”
“Luqman Abdullah calls his followers to an offensive jihad, rather than a defensive jihad. He regularly preaches anti-government and anti-law enforcement rhetoric. Abdullah and his followers have trained regularly in the use of firearms, and continue to train in martial arts and sword fighting. Abdullah encourages members of the Masjid Al-Haqq, many of whom are convicted felons, to carry a firearm, and information obtained during the course of this investigation indicates that many of Abdullah’s followers are usually armed. Abdullah preaches that every Muslim should have a weapon, and should not be scared to use their weapons when needed. Members and former members of the Masjid Al-Haqq have stated they are willing to do anything Abdullah instructs and/or preaches, even including criminal conduct and acts of violence.”
The Washington DC-based Masjid Al-Islam also promotes efforts to free Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown.
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge extremist supporters to drop the burden of the hate of supremacism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
— See also:
— October 29, 2009: Michigan: Imam Called for Attacks on FBI, Washington DC, Police – Sought Hate, Violence Against Non-Muslims
— December 4, 2009 – Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT): “Radical Movement’s Leader Forecasts America’s Demise”
— IPT News: “As-Sabiqun, a Washington D.C.-based organization with branches in four other major American cities, released a flyer labeling shooter Nidal Malik Hasan as ‘victimized’ and the ‘target of psychological warfare.’ The handout also defended convicted terrorists and suspects.”
— “As-Sabiqun has repeatedly predicted the demise of the United States and dreams of ‘the Islamic State of North America no later than 2050.’ ”
— See also R.E.A.L. postings on the threat of Racial Supremacism
Pakistan Women Acid Victims Seek Hope – Women “Treated Like Commodoties”
Pakistan’s acid attack victims pin hope on new laws
— Daily Telegraph: “Pakistan is a conservative Muslim country, where women – especially in poor, rural areas – can be treated like commodities with little protection provided by the police and under pressure not to disgrace their families.”
— “Farhat was just 13 years old when a man threw acid in her face in 2003 because her parents refused to let him marry her.”
— “The attacker was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay 1.2 million rupees (£8,882) in damages, but on appeal a high court reduced the damages and said the man could go free once the money was paid.”
— “Enraged, Farhat and ASF went to the supreme court – the first acid attack case to be taken to the highest court – where judges overturned the high court ruling within minutes.”
— “Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry took a personal interest in the case, and recommended that the government pass new legislation to control the sale of acid and increase punishment for acid attacks.”
Pakistan: Justice for acid burn victims, but when?
— “Acid Survivors Foundation statistics show attacks on the rise in Pakistan”
— “New domestic violence bill still held up in parliament”
Pakistan: “Mob in Pakistan Wounds Christian Family”
Pakistan: “Mob in Pakistan Wounds Christian Family”
— Compass reports: “Assailants threaten to charge mentally ill son with ‘blasphemy’ if victims pursue justice”
— “Infuriated by an alleged anti-Islamic comment by a mentally ill man, more than a dozen Muslims attacked his Christian family here last week, beating his 20-year-old sister unconscious and breaking her leg.”
— “The woman’s father, Aleem Mansoor, said his daughter Elishba Aleem went unconscious after being struck in the head with an iron rod in the Dec. 28 attack. Mansoor said a Muslim known as Mogal beat him and his daughter with the rod on the street in front of their apartment home after falsely accusing his 32-year old son, who suffers from schizophrenia, of blasphemy.”
Pakistan: Taliban Claim Responsibility for Karachi Bombing – Attack on Minority Shiite Muslims
Pakistan: Taliban Claim Responsibility for Karachi Bombing
Voice of America reports:
“A top Pakistani Taliban commander is claiming responsibility for Monday’s attack on a Shi’ite religious procession that killed 43 people and sparked fires that burned for days.”
“Asmatullah Shaheen said Wednesday his group sent the bomber who wreaked havoc on the Ashura ritual in the southern city of Karachi. He told Reuters news agency that the Taliban ‘will carry out more such attacks within ten days.’ ”
“Sunni Muslim extremists, including the Taliban, regard Shi’ites as heretics. Shi’ites make up one-fifth of Pakistan’s population, while Sunnis account for about 70 percent.”
“Monday’s bomb attack in Karachi was the third in as many days targeting Ashura observances by Pakistani Shi’ites.”
Pakistan: Taliban own Karachi Ashura carnage – killing 44 minority Shiite Muslims
— Dawn: “The claim was made by one of the country’s most wanted commanders of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).”
— Dawn quote of Taliban’s Asmatullah Shaheen: “We carried out the suicide bombing in Karachi”
— Pakistan Daily Times: Taliban claim Youm-e-Ashur bombing, threaten more attacks
— AKI : Pakistan: Taliban claims deadly attack on Karachi procession
Chicago: Hizb ut-Tahrir America Promotes Extremism As Solution to Pakistan Violence, Poverty
In the Chicago suburb of Lombard on December 20, 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) held a recruitment event to promote its anti-democracy views, with the focus of this event by claiming that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is not sufficiently “Islamic” enough for Hizb ut-Tahrir’s goals of creating “Islamic states” in building a global aliphate.
Three days before the HTA Lombard event, Hizb ut-Tahrir published an “open letter to the Ulema of Pakistan” calling for the Pakistan people to overthrow their government, and “uprooting the agent government,” and stating “the Ulema should issue a Fatwa for the expulsion of America from the region.” In this December 17 press release, Hizb ut-Tahrir further claimed that “America has planned to shift the blame of her crimes towards the Muslims…”
This message was conveyed to new American recruits in the Chicago area by Hizb ut-Tahrir America in a “lecture given by Abu Baseer.” Baseer spoke to a group of approximately 40 individuals, with women once again segregated in the back of the Lombard community building facility.
In the Lombard government-managed facility, Abu Baseer told new Hizb ut-Tahrir America recruits not to trust Christians and Jews as “allies,” stating that it was against Allah’s will. Abu Baseer also denounced “the Kafir” (“infidel”) stating that the “sanctity of Muslim blood is greater… than the sanctity of the Kafir.” (The next day, December 21, Hizb ut-Tahrir America posted an article stating that schools for other religions, such as Jews, would only be permitted for “Dhimmis” accepting a state of servitude.)
Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s Abu Baseer described the circumstances in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as one where that nation has suffered from a Pakistan government that is “bombing Muslims and burning innocent females and children alive.” He used this as the emotional centerpiece of his argument as to why extremism was necessary to end the “corruption” in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Abu Baseer provided a pro-extremist spin on the July 2007 confrontation between the Pakistan government and the extremist jihadists who took over the Lal Masjid (“Red Mosque,”) using it as a base for extremists who held children hostage and killed Pakistan soldiers, as reported by the New York Times, London Times, Dawn News, and others. Abu Baseer did not tell new recruits how Lal Masjid was not used as a place of worship, but as a extremist armory of “machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, ammunition, antitank mines, unexploded suicide vests and a crate of petrol bombs”, anti-aircraft weapons, nor does he mention that it was extremists that “booby-trapped the compound.” He didn’t mention that the Lal Masjid mosque was used to try to shoot down planes. He didn’t mention about the letters found there from Al-Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri providing direction. He did not tell American recruits how extremists held boys and girls hostage at Lal Masjid from their Muslim parents, were not allowed to leave, and how the extremists shot one father who dared to pick up his son. He did not tell American recruits how the Pakistan government pleaded for the Lal Masjid jihadists to release the hostage children to safety.
Nor did Abu Baseer tell new Hizb ut-America recruits that it was in fact a Lal Masjid Violent Extremist who spilled “Muslim blood” as reported in the London Times that “transformed from a seat of religious learning to an inferno by the suicide bomber who detonated his charge as the Pakistani commandos stormed the Red Mosque compound.” All the new American recruits for the extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir were told is that it was the Pakistan government “burning innocent females and children alive,” inciting hatred against the Pakistan government as “un-Islamic.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s Abu Baseer used a showman’s countdown of a litany of “symptoms” of Pakistan’s problems, war, violence, poverty, describing “the Pakistani government bombing Muslims,” claims that Pakistani people were “bombed indiscriminately from the air,” describing the “Pakistan economy in shackles,” stating that “to get billions of dollars of aid, Pakistan has to agree to draconian measures… to increase poverty in the country,” Abu Baseer kept stating that all these were merely “symptoms,” not the “cause” of Pakistan’s problems. Abu Baseer got at least one audible “wow” from his audience when describing the suffering of the Pakistan people, which he blamed on the Pakistan government not being sufficiently “Islamic,” and described myriad imagined “plots” by America to take over Pakistan, including blaming President Barack Obama.
Abu Baseer claimed that “America wants to invade and occupy Pakistan for itself,” imagining a U.S. plot “to control the gateway to Southeast Asia” and “immense energy resources” and an imagined U.S. plot to create a “major front against America’s competitors like China and Russia,” viewing the “war on terror” as a “proxy war” intended to “partition Pakistan.” Never criticizing the Taliban, Abu Baseer claimed that the violence in Pakistan was not the result of terrorists, but was coordinated by the Pakistan government and U.S. contractor Blackwater. Abu Baseer claimed that U.S. contractor Blackwater is planning activities for inside Pakistan to “destabilize the country,” with Blackwater agents working to “make others look bad” using the “same devious practices used to create chaos in Iraq.” Abu Baseer claimed that “Pakistan rulers are providing all support to U.S. in this bloodbath” and that “the government is declaring every bomb blast a suicide blast to exonerate the [Pakistan] secret service and secret agencies like Blackwater…”
Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s Abu Baseer claimed that all of Pakistan’s problems, like those of Iraq and other nations, had the same “cause” – the failure to adopt what Hizb ut-Tahrir America calls an “Islamic state.” Hizb ut-Tahrir’s “Islamic state” has been clearly defined in the past with its rejection of democracy, rejection of liberty, rejection of women’s rights, rejection of religious freedom, and calls for the “death penalty” for “traitor” apostates who leave Islam.
Abu Baseer continued to attack democracy at the Lombard event as well, claiming that democracy was part of “British colonial law” designed to subjugate the Pakistan Muslim population, and stating that democracy is something “other than what Allah” demands, which will result in continued “injustices towards the people.” Abu Baseer denounced the current “system of ruling” in Pakistan, stating that “a fair system can only come from Allah” – and that “system of Islam… an Islamic state” is required. Regarding democracy in Pakistan, Abu Baseer stated that Muslims must “replace [such] systems altogether” and that with its population and nuclear weapons that Pakistan would be more powerful if it became a true “Islamic state.”
Abu Baseer stated that there would be “great punishment” against the Pakistan army, and claimed that the rulers of Pakistan “have violated the command of Allah.” Their greatest crime, in Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s views, was Abu Baseer’s view on “security alliances.” Abu Baseer told the Lombard event audience “all you who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians for your allies, they are but allies to one another, and whoever allies themselves with them becomes one of them” and that “Allah does not prize such evil doers.”
The crowd concluded the event with a chant of “Allahu Akbar.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir Pakistan’s manifesto calls for all male children at age 15 to get military “Violent Extemism training” (page 37).
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) contacted the Lombard government and law enforcement authorities regarding Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s past calls for the “death penalty” for those who leave Islam as “traitors,” and urged them to contact federal authorities. No response was received on this issue. In addition, R.E.A.L. also contacted the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division on Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s pattern of upremacist threats against others civil rights. No response has yet been received on this issue.
The anti-democracy international Hizb ut-Tahrir organization has a long history of making death threats both in the U.S. and around the world. In Bangladesh in November 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir was reported as having threatened to murder a university vice chancellor who sought to prevent professors who promoted hate at a Bangladesh university. At the beginning of December 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia called for stonings and whippings as the answer to addressing the AIDS disease.
Muslims such as Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), reject the anti-democratic message of Hizb ut-Tahrir as a “Violent Extremist indoctrination group.” In AIFD’s comments regarding Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s July 2009 event in the Chicago Oak Lawn suburb, AIFD stated that:
“Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamist network that is committed to creating an Islamic Caliphate that spans the globe. The organization is banned in Germany and Russia as well as several Arab countries and targets Muslim children between the ages of 9 and 18. Many compare their efforts to organizations like the Hitler Youth. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is counted among their alumnus.”
Dr. Jasser stated that “Hizb ut-Tahrir preaches an ideology that calls for the destruction of the principles that America is founded on.”
BBC television broadcast on its Panorama television show on the Hizb ut-Tahrir, interviewing a British “influential Muslim figure” who stated about Hizb ut-Tahrir to BBC: “I believe that if Hizb ut-Tahrir are not stopped at this stage and we continue to let them to politicize and pollute the youngsters’ minds and other gullible peoples minds, that what will happen in effect is that these terrorism acts and these suicide bombings that we hear going on around us in foreign countries, we will actually start seeing these incidents happening right outside our doorsteps.”
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters to drop the burden of the hate of extremism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
Other R.E.A.L. Postings on Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Anti-Democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir Promotion at Indonesian-Govt Sponsored Event
Hizb ut-Tahrir Using Twitter to Promote Anti-Democracy Message
Hizb ut-Tahrir America Says “Dhimmi” Schools Permitted for Jews, But Nothing Like Today’s Schools
Pakistan: “Hizb ut-Tahrir turn on the charm in Pakistan”
Chicago: Extremist Group Conspires Against Rights
UK: British School Linked to Hizb ut-Tahrir Funding Restored
Chicago: Anti-Democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir Group Event in Lombard, IL on December 20
World AIDS Day: Hizb ut-Tahrir Calls for Stonings, Whippings, Islamic Caliphate
National Post Describes Anti-Jewish Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Growth on College Campuses
Bangladesh: Anti-Freedom, Extremist Group Hizb ut-Tahrir Threatens to Murder University Official
UK: Hizb ut-Tahrir Anti-Democracy Extremist Group Schools Receive Government Funding
White House Adviser Joins UK Interview with Anti-Democratic Hizb ut-Tahrir Group
Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir Event Promoted with Beheaded Statue of Liberty
UK: Press Reports of “Furious Residents” over Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir Conference
Canada: Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) Extremist Group to Meet in Govt-Managed Community Center
Chicago’s Moment of Freedom: Chicagoans Stand Up for Freedom Challenging Hizb ut-Tahrir
July 19 – Chicago: R.E.A.L. Pro-Freedom Protest to Challenge Hizb ut-Tahrir America Conference
Pakistan: Bomb Attack on Minority Shiite Muslims
Pakistan: Christians Celebrate Christmas Under Threat of Attack
— “No Christmas decorations brighten the tent camp sheltering Christians left homeless by the worst violence against minorities in Pakistan this year. Instead, there is a pervasive sense of fear.”
— “The Christians have received cell phone text messages warning them to expect a ‘special Christmas present,’ they say, and are terrified of their tents being torched or their church services being bombed.”
— ” ‘Last year I celebrated Christmas full of joy,’ said Irfan Masih, cradling his young son among the canvas shelters and open ditches of the camp. But now ‘the fear that we may again be attacked is in our hearts.’ ”
— ” ‘They are threatening us, (saying) ‘We will again attack you and will not let you out of homes, we will burn you inside this time,’ he said.”
— “It was the fires that most traumatized Gojra’s Christian Colony, a neighborhood in the heart of this Punjabi city about 220 miles (354 kilometers) southwest of Islamabad. In early August, hundreds of Muslims rampaged through the dirt streets, looting and torching homes as panicked residents tried to flee and thick black smoke rose into the air.”
— “Eight Christians died — seven of them from one family trapped in a burning home.”
— ” ‘We are going to celebrate Christmas in sorrow because the whole family is hurt by this,’ said Almas Hameed, whose father was shot dead during the riots. His wife, two of his children and members of his brother’s family all burned to death.”
Human Rights Day – Pakistan Christian Congress Address and Video
Pakistan Court Orders Mutilation “as part of an Islamic punishment”
— Times of India: “Pakistan court orders a nose for a nose”
— ” ‘The court ordered that the nose and ears of Sher Mohammad and Ammanat Ali be chopped off as part of an Islamic punishment of a nose for a nose and ears for ears,’ court official Azhar Ameen said.”
— “The men were found guilty of kidnapping a woman who had refused to marry one of them, then hacking off her nose and ears.”