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Tag Archives: Pakistan
Woman Stoned in Nuclear Pakistan
Stoned to death. In the 21st century. And she was three months pregnant. And Pakistan has about 100 nuclear weapons. Think about that. What if fanatic, populist, fundamentalist Muslims of the sort that stoned this woman for “family honor” attain … Continue reading
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Tagged family, feminism, India, Islam, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, women's rights
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Penguin Withdraws and Destroys Scholarly Work on Hinduism
A pretty disturbing incident of censorship is taking place right now in India. A retired school teacher has been campaigning for the banning of a book, and Penguin is relenting, pulping its remaining copies. You can read the whole sorry … Continue reading
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Tagged book banning, censorship, Hinduism, India, Islam, Pakistan, religion
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The New Hitler Youth of India
With India’s rise on the global stage, it would seem valuable to know the attitudes of its most elite educated teenagers, and Dilip D’Sousa at the Daily Beast reports that a not inconsiderable number of them harbor fascist sentiments: My … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, fascism, herderianism, Hinduism, Hitler, India, Islam, nationalism, Pakistan, the future
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Christian Rimsha Masih’s Alleged Blasphemy in Nuclear-Armed Pakistan
As evidenced by the recent ill-treatment of Christian Rimsha Masih, the average Pakistani Muslim, in approving that treatment, appears to take his or her Islam straight. In the past 24 hours, Rimsha, so that she does not get murdered prior … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, blasphemy, Iran, Islam, netanyahu, nuclear proliferation, nuclear war, Pakistan, Rimsha Masih
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The Islamic Bomb: Osama bin Laden is Just One Head Removed from a Nuclear Weapons Seeking Hydra
At Slate this week, Christopher Hitchens uses his gift for tart summing up to give the following obituary to Osama bin Laden: It seems thinkable that he truly believed his own mad propaganda, often adumbrated on tapes and videos, especially after … Continue reading
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Tagged India, Iran, Islam, Israel, muhammad, nuclear terrorism, nuclear weapons, osama in laden, Pakistan, the bomb
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I Have a Conspiracy Theory about the Discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan
What does it mean, exactly, for Osama bin Laden to have been discovered so close to Islamabad (just 80 miles away)? I have a conspiracy theory. I think it means that there were at least some elements within the Pakistani military … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracies, conspiracy theory, fundamentalism, India, Iran, Islam, nuclear weapons, osama bin laden, Pakistan, terrorism, the bomb
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Salman Rushdie Gets It: Abbottabad is “Pakistan’s West Point”
Salman Rushdie calls bullshit on Pakistan authorities’ feigning of surprise that Osama bin Laden was in their midst: Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man, was found living at the end of a dirt road 800 yards from the Abbottabad military … Continue reading
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Tagged abbottabad, America, closure, mission accomplished, nuclear terrorism, nuclear war, osama bin laden, Pakistan, terrorism, war, west point
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Islamic Militants Seek Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
This today at the BBC: In one of the latest cables to be released by Wikileaks, senior UK Foreign Office official Mariot Leslie told US diplomats in September 2009 that Britain had “deep concerns about the safety and security of Pakistan’s … Continue reading
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Tagged America, BBC, disarmament, Islam, Muslims, nuclear terrorism, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, peace, war, wikileaks
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Asia Bibi: Christian Mother of Five Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy in Pakistan
Pakistan’s population is 170 million, three million of whom are Christians. The country also has three million Hindus and a miniscule Sikh community (about 20,000 people). Presumably there are no out of the closet atheists anywhere in Pakistan. And no Jews. Below is … Continue reading
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Tagged blasphemy, Christianity, God, Islam, Jesus, muhammad, Muslims, Pakistan, religion
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A Moderate Muslim Interviews a Suicide Bomber
This Pakistani television interview, with English subtitles, I think emphasizes the importance of Westerners not to make blanket and stereotyped observations about “what Muslims believe” as a group. As with the majority of Christians and Jews, the majority of Muslims are … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Christianity, fundamentalism, Islam, Judaism, Muslims, Pakistan, Politics, psychology, suicide bombers, taliban
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Get out of Afghanistan Now?
That’s former NY Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges’s advice in an essay posted yesterday at TruthDig.com. Chris Hedges thinks that we’re in a quagmire in Afghanistan, and that we are, by meeting violence with violence, creating more problems for ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Chris Hedges, France, Islam, London, morocco, Muslim, Pakistan, taliban, Vietnam
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The New Bolsheviks?
Is nuclear armed Pakistan on the verge of collapsing to a band of revolutionary Islamic militants? The New York Times today reports on a “shaky” Pakistan being targeted by Al Qaeda: “They smell blood, and they are intoxicated by the … Continue reading
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Tagged al qaeda, bolshevik, bolshevism, Communism, Pakistan, sharks, terror, terrorism
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David Kilcullen Says WATCH PAKISTAN
The Washington Post interviewed David Kilcullen this weekend: Why is an Aussie anthropologist coaching American generals on how to win wars? David Kilcullen, an Australian army reservist and top adviser to Gen. David H. Petraeus during the troop surge in … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, al-queda, India, Islam, Muslims, nuclear weapons, osama bin laden, Pakistan, Politics, religion, taliban, terrrorism
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What Would Voltaire Say? A Christian Minister in LONDON is Assaulted by a Group of Muslim Men
A Christian minister who has a gospel television show, and has publicly contradicted Muslims who have called into his show, has been assaulted by three Muslim men. The Christian minister is Pakistani, so Muslims may perceive him as an apostate from Islam. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, England, intolerance, Islam, Jesus, Muslim, Pakistan, Politics, religion, the Enlightenment, Voltaire
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Question of the Day: Who Laced the Shoes I Just Purchased?
I recently purchased a pair of shoes at Walmart that were PRE-LACED. And here’s my question: WHO LACED THEM? It used to be, when purchasing a pair of shoes, that they were not laced, and you would lace them yourself (or … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, child labor, China, equality, exploitation, honduras, industrial revolution, injustice, Karl Marx, Pakistan, shoes, walmart
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Prometheus Unbound 