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the improbable reach of Pakistan’s Taliban extends to Binghamton, NY?
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Aziz Poonawalla
The Taliban’s Pakistani franchise apparently suffers delusions of grandeur: PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani Taliban militant leader Baituallah Mehsud claimed on Saturday responsibility for an attack on a U.S. immigration centre in New York state in which 13 people were killed. “I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to…
VIDEO: Taliban flogging 12-year old girl (explicit)
By
Aziz Poonawalla
Barbarism has a name in Islam – hirabah. (WARNING – graphic violence) This is why we need a War on Terror (or better yet, a WOMBAT). It’s also why I favor intervention rather than isolationism. Pursuant to the debate here at Talk Islam, I reject the argument that we are “imposing” our values on other…
Pakistan mosque bombing
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Aziz Poonawalla
A suicide bomber atttack at a mosque in the frontier town of Jamrud, Pakistan has destroyed the building and killed dozens of people during Friday prayers: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers for Friday prayers in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more,…
Shari’a versus the Taleban in Swat
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Aziz Poonawalla
Shari’a law is (by definition) a system for rule of Law. It may not be the kind of Law that Westerners would want to be ruled by, but it is a system of Law nevertheless. Therefore, in a very simple yet fundamental way, Shari’a is an anathema to the might-makes-right oppression of gangs and warlords,…
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