Pakistan: burned Christian dies from his wounds

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This is an update on this story:

Arshad Masih was brutally killed by Muslims because he refused to renounce the Christian faith. He died from burns which covered 80 per cent of his body and it took three agonizing days before he finally passed away from being burnt alive by Muslims.

The Seoul Times.

Terrible…

Pakistan: Christian killed with an axe for refusing to convert to Islam

Rasheeh Masih, after his violent death

Six Muslims in Khanewal district, southern Punjab Province, killed a Christian with multiple axe blows for refusing to convert to Islam this month, according to family and police sources.

The six men had threatened to kill 36-year-old Rasheed Masih unless he converted to Islam when they grew resentful of his potato business succeeding beyond their own, according to Masih’s younger brother Munir Asi and a local clergyman. The rival merchants allegedly killed him after luring him to their farmhouse on March 9, leaving him on a roadside near Kothi Nand Singh village in the wee hours of the next day.

The Rev. Iqbal Masih of the Mian Channu Parish of the Church of Pakistan said Rasheed Masih was a devoted Christian, and that both he and his brother Asi had refused the Muslims’ pressure to convert to Islam.

via Compass Direct News.
Another one killed, and no Western MSM complains nor reports about this.

Pakistan: Reports of Christian Girl Burnt Alive After Rape

After Shazia Bazir’s murder, it happens again (that we know of):

— “A Christian girl working as housemaid was raped by son her Muslim employer and on her threats to report police was burnt by rapist and his sister in city of Sheikhupura in Punjab province of Pakistan.”

— “Kiran George  (pictured) was 80% burnt when Mohammad Ahmad Raza and his sister threw petrol on her and set her on fire to keep her mouth shut to report rape.”

— “Kiran George was brought to Mayo Hospital Lahore from Sheikhupura on March 9, 2010, where she recorded her statement to police that Mohammad Ahmed Raza raped her in his home during work.”

— “She died here in Mayo Hospital Lahore today and her dead body was taken back to her home in Jahangirabad colony in Sheipkupura.”

via Pakistan: Reports of Christian Girl Burnt Alive After Rape :: Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.).

Spain: Amnesty International's campaign for Judeophobia in schools

Remember I wrote some days ago about a campaign in Spanish schools in which some individuals were making children send letters to the Israeli embassy to tell Israelis “stop killing women and children” or “you’re killing because of money”. In that moment, everyone asked who was the instigator of the campaign. It results that this dubious honor belongs to NGO Amnesty International:

The school El Castell is a member of the net of schools created by AI, and whose purpose, according to the organization in its own web, consists in making “some (or all!!) mobilization proposals” that AI sends to its associates. So, this scandal has unconvered the existence of a net, created by AI, for the indoctrination and political proselytism in some schools and high schools throughout Spain, where it organises activities and distributes material. But that’s not all: according to the website, the school enters this net if only one school’s teacher wants it. AI offers this possibility of taking part in this net of political activism without any knowledge from the parents or the school board, not being mandatory in the application form,that neither of them give their consentment or even are notified about it.

Now, after the scandal, we know that AI organizes visits and campaigns in schools, where its activists give speeches and distribute their material among the children.

Freedom: middle classes living in dictatorships aren't very anxious to end them

“These new middle classes in developing countries are still fragile and fear unstability. They are ready to accept authoritarian regimes which offer some kind of order, in exchange of those regimes not slowing, with corruption or patronage their ambition of social progress, their aspiration to compete under equal conditions and their desire for giving their sons and daughters a better future”, says the British historian Lawrence James, author of  The Middle Class: a history.

(via).

The article refers to people living under dictatorships such as Chinese citizens. It’s a particularly interesting analysis, specially when it says that maybe that lack of interest in democracy has its basis in the inexistence of a history of democracy or, at least, of fighting for it throughout an important period of time. So, the citizens get used to live with no individual freedoms, as servants of the State. That produces fear, so they are not going to denounce something if they consider they can be hurt in any form by that State. The latter of course, knows this so it reinforces the fear through subtle means (censorship of new ideas or of ideas not liked by the regime, for example) or less subtle and more brutal means (such as the imprisonment of dissidents).

We’ll see what are the consequences for average Chinese people, now that both Google and GoDaddy have announced they are not operating in China anymore.

Somalia: Al-Shabab Destroys Grave of Well-Known Somali Cleric in Mogadishu

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The Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen have destroyed the grave of Sheik Mohudin Eli, a well-known Somali cleric buried in Karan district in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, official said on Tuesday.

Fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen with high representatives of Banadir region of Al-shabab had reached at the sites of Sheik Mohidin Eli's grave and Sheik Ahmed Haji in north Mogadishu on Tuesday morning where they lastly wiped out the two burial grounds.

“These people were worshipping these graves. For the first time we achieved to demolish them. We shall continue our operations to devastate the groves in Mogadishu. There are other towers buried we destroyed, because they were buried Africans and other foreign,” said the governor.

via Aid News.org.

Must be the cleric didn’t voice his support for Al-Shebaab terrorists. It’s understandable: he was dead . So they destroyed his grave.

For once, I would like a ghost to appear.

Before: Islamists destroy derelict church.

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Generation Jihad Episode 2

Episode 1 is here.

Pakistan: Jordan's ambassador targeted by plot

Jordan‘s ambassador to Pakistan was the target of a Taliban kidnap attempt foiled by authorities in Islamabad and is now safe, the Jordanian information minister said Tuesday.

The incident followed calls for attacks on the Jordanian government by an al-Qaida double agent who killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian agent in Afghanistan last December (NOTE: a CIA drone has killed one of the key figures in the preparation of this bombing).

… Pakistani police spokesman Naeem Iqbal says investigators were questioning the two Taliban militants in custody about their plans to kidnap the Jordanian ambassador and attack a five star hotel and a club frequented by Westerners.

via The Associated Press: Jordan’s ambassador to Pakistan targeted by plot.

It’s possible that Jordanian position gets more radizalised in several issues after these attacks, specially towards Israel.

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• in Other Words, They Aren’t an Ally: (brothersjuddblog.com)

Iran is training the Taliban, The Times reports

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The attack was a training exercise overseen by Iranian security officials in plain clothes. The Taliban do not know whether they were police officers, soldiers or secret service agents. What they can say is that in camps along the border between Afghanistan and Iran, Taliban recruits are being taught how to ambush British, American and other Nato troops using guns and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

They are learning to attack checkpoints as well as mountain bases. Iranian instructors are also giving them target practice on desert ranges with Kalashnikov assault rifles.

… A Taliban (Sunni) commander who has been trained in Iran (Shia) said last week: “Our religions and our histories are different, but our target is the same — we both want to kill Americans.”

(via).

Meanwhile, the Taliban leader Hetmayar has “offered” a peace proposal (via), something shocking specially because he is the leader of one of the three most important Taliban groups. It would be quite stupid to make peace with one of those groups, while the others continue attacking.

The plan calls for a full withdrawal of NATO and allied troops by the end of 2010, a withdrawal of those forces from cities to remote bases in the interim, and a full turnover of security to the Afghan Army and police. “Foreign troops will have no rights to carry out military operations, house search and arrests on their own anywhere in Afghanistan,” the statement read.

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