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"Letters from extremists distributed March 13 and 14 also warned schools to make sure girls are covered from head to toe and to avoid coeducation."
Sharia Alert. "Extremists target aid groups in Pakistan," by Kathy Gannon for the Associated Press:
MANSEHRA, Pakistan - Long-haired gunmen burst into the white stone building and killed four charity workers helping earthquake victims, then wrecked the office with grenades and set it on fire. Police came, but did not intervene.
In a tactic reminiscent of neighboring Afghanistan, Islamic militants are attacking aid groups in the Pakistan's volatile northwest, and local authorities appear incapable — or unwilling — to stop them.
Reminiscent? Not exactly. More like a direct ideological link.
The threat has forced several foreign agencies to scale back assistance to survivors of the October 2005 earthquake that killed at least 78,000 people and left 3 million homeless — risking the region's recovery from the worst natural disaster in the country's history.
The Feb. 25 attack on employees of Plan International, a British-based charity that focuses on helping children, was the worst in a series of threats and assaults on aid workers in the northern mountains where Taliban-style militants have expanded their reach in the past year.
Nearly a month later, menacing letters are still being sent to aid organizations. Although all four victims in Mansehra were Pakistani men, Islamic extremists despise the aid groups because they employ women and work for women's rights.
Local officials in Mansehra, who spoke on condition they not be identified for fear of retaliation, said letters from extremists distributed March 13 and 14 also warned schools to make sure girls are covered from head to toe and to avoid coeducation.
The militants also may be trying to discredit Pakistan's central government, and to enforce a radical religious agenda in a conservative region where jihadist-linked groups were themselves a source of aid after the quake.
Police accuse a local militant, Mohiuddin Shakir, who goes by the alias Mujahid, of masterminding the attack last month on the aid office in Mansehra. He has not been arrested.
Shakir, a former member of an al-Qaida-linked group, has criminal charges against him in Pakistan dating back to 2002, including for murder, according to police records obtained by The Associated Press.
Shakir now leads a jihadist group called Lashkar-e-Ababeel, named after small birds that the Quran says threw stones to defeat an army of 60,000 warriors who sought to destroy Mecca in the 7th century.
Last summer, Shakir wrote a letter to newspapers warning international aid groups about hiring women and warning women to wear an all-encompassing veil.
Yet Abdul Ershad, an officer investigating the attack, said that as recently as late 2007, Shakir had a working arrangement with police in his hometown of Phulra not far from Mansehra. To advance his agenda, he would tell police about residents involved in "un-Islamic" activities — like men selling pornographic videos and socializing with women — and police would arrest them, Ershad said.
Posted by Marisol at March 18, 2008 3:52 PM
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Hey! Aren't jihadis EMPLOYING women to be suicide bombers in Iraq?
Little bit hypocritical don't you think?
Posted by: Mr Ape Pig
at March 18, 2008 3:58 PM
Well our ally and buddy with almost billions of US aid as well as European aid going to this country, it sure has paid off in the long run.
Posted by: savsiv
at March 18, 2008 3:59 PM
Forgot to add "not really". Come on our leaders must not really be that ignorant and dumb?
Posted by: savsiv
at March 18, 2008 4:00 PM
Based on that revelation, we can just imagine how the Islamic world really feels about Nancy Pelosi (and what the Democratic Party's 'friends' at CAIR REALLY think of the Dems' "Madame Speaker")!
Posted by: pythagoras
at March 18, 2008 4:14 PM
End all aid, that simple, its' "Inshallah" that they live the way they "choose" to.
Posted by: senor doeboy
at March 18, 2008 4:19 PM
Even an animal is smart enough not to bite the hand that feeds it.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi
at March 18, 2008 5:15 PM
ImNoDhimmi said
Even an animal is smart enough not to bite the hand that feeds it.
The mentally deranged people who think they understand the "plight" of the "peaceful" Muslim people, who think they are going to "save" the Muslims from themselves, must be kept far away from Dar al-Islam for their own safety. They must be kept safely in an institution, where they won't cause the deaths of others or themselves. And yes, I include GWB in that group requiring institutionalization and medication.
Posted by: special_guest
at March 18, 2008 5:26 PM
Somehow I am relishing the thought of Hitelry visiting the area.. not just Pakiland but all the other lands of Najistan...
Better than sending Oprahbama, wouldn't you say?
Yes, I know full well that she is no friend of Israel... she may yet beome one once she gets her first-hand up-close and personal experience with how they treat women over there..
Oh.. to see them seething underneath their headgear when they have to stand at attention while she descends off Air Force One..
hehehehe..
wRight now I just hope Obama is done.
For Good and FOErever!
So long, Pied Piper O... don't let the door hit ya..
Posted by: Allah Schmallah
at March 18, 2008 5:26 PM
Oh.. and they WILL love the dulcet tones of her voice..
Posted by: Allah Schmallah
at March 18, 2008 5:44 PM
When I read "MANSEHRA, Pakistan - Long-haired gunmen burst into the white stone building and killed four charity workers helping earthquake victims, then wrecked the office with grenades and set it on fire. Police came, but did not intervene."
I thought, hey, what are hippies doing in Pakistan killing folks? Then I remembered that the hippies were for making love and not war... the RoP® say they're for peace as well. It must be some more islamo-misunderstanders!
And don't you dare co-educate those girls! And make sure they're covered head to toe! Geez, what a sick cult ‘o death.
at March 18, 2008 5:46 PM
Visit or work in a Muslim country and whatever happens, happens. No sympathy here. Why don't we just leave them alone? No more aid or relief from THE GREAT SATAN. Rot in your Islamic rat holes, Muslim brothers. Anyone who goes there is a fool.
Posted by: Rick
at March 18, 2008 6:02 PM
I missed the memo. Tell me again why we are sending kabillions of my money to these animals? They're obviously happy with what they have. Let them be.
When they quit burning American flags and shouting death to my and my country over a couple of cartoons, then I may feel some compassion for them. Until then, not another penny.
But I am willing to spend the money for some heavy duty bombardment in order to protect our troops stationed next door.
Posted by: walterc
at March 18, 2008 6:22 PM
We know what to do. Give them no more aid. When the next magnitude 8.0 earthquake comes along, let them stew in their own juice, and with any luck, such an earthquake might take a considerable number of Jihadists out.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683
at March 18, 2008 6:39 PM
We know what to do. Give them no more aid. When the next magnitude 8.0 earthquake comes along, let them stew in their own juice, and with any luck, such an earthquake might take a considerable number of Jihadists out.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683
I feel the same way about the next tsunami in Indonesia.
Posted by: walterc
at March 18, 2008 6:42 PM
Stop the Jiziyah!
Posted by: sheik yer'mami
at March 18, 2008 7:27 PM
"Shakir wrote a letter to newspapers warning international aid groups about hiring women and warning women to wear an all-encompassing veil.
Meaning no eye slits. Allah knows how sexually arousing female eyes can be, especially to an impulse control challenged murderer like Shakir, who clearly hates the FACT that women have such power over his innermost pornographic thoughts.
Why doesn't he just shoot himself and be done with it? He can call it defensive jihad.
Posted by: Lex
at March 18, 2008 7:39 PM
Monkeys have more brains than these morons.
Posted by: Ruebacca
at March 18, 2008 7:41 PM
Why aid a tiger (Islam) that ate your grandparents (North Africa, Constantinople, Afghanistan, part of India etc., etc. etc.) just because it is not now fit enough to eat you?
Bringing it back to health (with "aid") will only mean that it can simply resume its natural predation.
Only declawing Islam will make a difference.
Otherwise this naive "humanitarianism" (to the inhuman) is a recipe for gullible disaster.
at March 18, 2008 7:43 PM
If you would care to send a condolence message to Plan Int'l, Pakistan, there's a link here.
I didn't exactly send a condolence message. Instead I asked if Shakir had been arrested, and what about the police officers who stood by and DID NOTHING, thereby aiding and abetting murder?
Posted by: Lex
at March 18, 2008 8:04 PM
Ban the Business Burqa:
http://peoplesgeography.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/leunig-ban-the-business-burqa-cartoon.jpg
Posted by: champ
at March 18, 2008 8:39 PM
Unanimous!
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/ama/lowres/aman255l.jpg
Posted by: champ
at March 18, 2008 8:46 PM
Too bad these politicians and policy makers never knew my Grandpa, he used to tell me that "you can't buy friends".
They sure look like they are trying to buy friends.
Posted by: stickman
at March 18, 2008 9:59 PM
Well, you know, you get a bunch of women together, some of them able to read and write, and you never know what's gonna happen. Soon they'll be sharing those uppity "equal rights" ideas, and thinking they really don't have to stay home and submit to their husbands' every whim. That would be the end of Islam; these illiterate losers have to make sure they have SOMEBODY to boss around and put the fear of Allah into.
... Religion of Peace? More like Religion of Malignant Narcissists with No Self-Control...
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse
at March 18, 2008 10:20 PM
What a nice bunch of charity-minded Christian folk some of the posters on this board are.
Posted by: angloirishslav
at March 18, 2008 10:51 PM
Having said that, however, I do believe that aid groups in places like Pakistan should be armed to the teeth, and have no compunction about using said arms if the need arises. If you're not prepared to use armed force against someone trying to stop you from helping women and children, you don't deserve to call yourself an aid worker.
Posted by: angloirishslav
at March 18, 2008 10:58 PM
angloirishslav said
If you're not prepared to use armed force against someone trying to stop you from helping women and children, you don't deserve to call yourself an aid worker.
You want the aid workers to only help women and children? What about the men? You want the women and children to watch their poor freedom-fighting husbands and fathers starve? That doesn't sound very charity-minded or Christian.
Don't forget, women and children have worn bomb belts too. Are you going to use force against them, or help them, or what?
What do you know, I guess I've run out of cheeks to turn when it comes to people who follow a religion that compells them to forcibly convert me, make me submit to dhimmitude, or kill me.
Posted by: special_guest
at March 18, 2008 11:15 PM
Gotta get my sarcasm detector fixed.
Posted by: special_guest
at March 18, 2008 11:17 PM
Oh.. to see them seething underneath their headgear when they have to stand at attention while she descends off Air Force One..
lol i dont think even if hillary gets in she will will be asked to dar al islam though obomba might
Posted by: crusader
at March 18, 2008 11:37 PM
"Even an animal is smart enough not to bite the hand that feeds it."
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi
I have to agree that dogs, and certainly pigs, are smart enough to realize where their meal ticket comes from...
I'm not sure about these guys, though.
However, when it comes to these folks, I'd just as rather deal with a rattlesnake. The snake, at least, is not trying to convert me to a religion of death.
Posted by: PorkFatRules
at March 18, 2008 11:58 PM
Big mo’s birthday coming up on the 21st March, Saturday. Returning home, I decided to stop at a neighborhood that has come up near the city limits. I was pretty filthy from travelling all day anyway, and decided to brave the stench and the sights and went right in. Well to cut a long story short, I was sitting in a stall sipping tea when I saw some boys carrying chains. Quite a number of them, in fact. Two old believers on a bench nearby in complete getup ; ankle length sacks, henna-dyed beards, skull caps, the works, started inshallahoing at the sight of the chain-carrying boys. The sight seemed to have stirred deep emotions within them. I hung around, trying to follow their conversation, curious as to the reason of this outburst. It seems that the boys were bringing out the chains to whip themselves with. Festival season opens on the 21st . That means that after banging their heads two times in the nearest mosque, the believers will carry out processions in the city and will disrupt traffic the entire day. I sure chose a nice time to return. :(
Posted by: arjun.sevak
at March 19, 2008 3:01 AM
Jihadists "despise the aid groups because they employ women and work for women's rights"
of course they would after all women are soposto be barefoot pregnant and in the kitchen right at least according to big mo
at March 19, 2008 3:45 AM
Dear jihadists, if you have complete faith in your profiteer (er.. prophet)'s words, then you musn't worry. Your prophet said that women have no common sense. And women conerts are thronging to islam. So, your worst fears won't come true.
Posted by: proud-hindu
at March 19, 2008 4:01 AM
It dawned on me after reading this article what a whore-house Islam is. The men will do anything, no matter how atrocious, for sex. The woman are controlled and forced to service the men. The children are forced into a narrow minded and warped childhood so that everybody can do it all over again. And to top it all off it's very well organized and terror ensures enforcement.
Yep, prostitution, Muslim style. Al Capone would be so proud.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader
at March 19, 2008 5:04 AM
It is a useless effort to create women’s issue and Media hype on this site regarding women in Pakistan.
'In Pakistan today a women Dr. Fehmida Mirza was elected as Speaker of The National Parliament which is not so common, even in the so called Free World
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Love for all, Hatred for None
at March 19, 2008 7:46 AM
arjun.sevak,
Your comment about Mo's birthday (Eid Milad-un-Nabi) prompted a Reaganesque search: "Trust, but verify."
It evidently depends on who you ask. At one site I read that Mo's birthday is "20 April 570 if you're Sunni. 26 April 570 if you're Shi'ite."
Looks like another good reason for them to kill each other as heretics.
Yet another site had 3 April as Mo's birthday.
You pegged 21 March as the Big Day, which also happens to be Good Friday this year in Christianity, or the day when Jesus was crucified, which event was denied by Mohammad as "conjecture," as in, it didn't happen, and Christians believe a blasphemous and infidelicious lie.
Mohammad died on June 6, 632 (a.k.a. D-Day) after complaining of a headache. His brain had finally fried itself (This is your brain on Islam) and no, he didn't rise from the dead.
Posted by: Lex
at March 19, 2008 8:21 AM
A. Khokar,
Congrats to Dr Fehmida Mirza! Let us hope that she doesn't suffer Benazir Bhutto's fate.
Mirza may even have gotten a congratulatory call from Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on behalf of all female politicians in the "so called Free World."
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Love for all, Hatred for Islam
at March 19, 2008 8:40 AM
Mohammad died on June 6, 632...
That's 666-32...Thirty two is the Qabalistic number for everything there is...10 Sephira, 22 paths on the 'Tree of Life'. Mohammad as 666, put the beast in charge of everything. Everything to Islam, is Islam. Allah is the Lord of Matter, all evil happens in matter. The number 66632 then represents evil
incarnate, applied to everything. Or if your religious, Satanic influence. Mohammad's number is 66632...You can try calling it, but I don't think anyone is at home...
at March 19, 2008 8:53 AM
Khokar...I don't think Nancy Pelosi is a good example...And what do you mean 'may even have', you mean you don't know for sure?
Posted by: duh_swami
at March 19, 2008 9:01 AM
duh_swami,
Please do read my post again. I appears that you have mistaken me for A. Khokar, to whom my post was addressed, and no, I have no idea if Pelosi called Mirza, but it would make sense if she were to do so.
As for 66632, very interesting, depending as it does on the Gregorian (Christian) calendar. I wonder what Louis Farrakhan thinks of it?
Posted by: Lex
at March 19, 2008 9:11 AM
Lex...Your right, I think I better get some more coffee...my hallucinations are starting to get blurry... :)
Posted by: duh_swami
at March 19, 2008 9:31 AM
Mojos to the aid workers: that will teach you a lesson! (tossing a hand grenade)
Actually, I am totally satisfied by scaling back of aid to the land of ever retarded.
Posted by: Charles Martel
at March 19, 2008 10:38 AM
Khokar: Love for all, Hatred for None
You know Khokar this is not very Islamic. Allah never said anything about loving everybody. That's a Christian concept. Unless what you really mean is love for all muslims, (also uncalled for by Allah).
I think Allah made it clear who and what he hates, as a good muslim you are supposed to hate what Allah hates. Shirkers, apostates, and every form and type of non believer. So if you believe what Allah believes, 'Love for All', does not exist, but hate for 'the other' does....Allah is watching what you write...
at March 19, 2008 10:47 AM
Love for all, Hatred for Islam
Posted by: Lex
LOL! That's great!
Posted by: champ
at March 19, 2008 1:24 PM
"Mohammad died on June 6, 632 (a.k.a. D-Day) after complaining of a headache. His brain had finally fried itself ... and no, he didn't rise from the dead."
Posted by: Lex March 19, 2008 8:21 AM
-- -- -- -- -- --
Yeah, but in another sense, he just lives on, and on, and on... to our detriment.
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse
at March 19, 2008 4:35 PM
AMERICAN RAPE STATISTICS
Dear All,
They say; Acclaim not your Piety beyond your stretch. Look inward; see that your own flashy garbs and apparels are also blotted, blackened and in tattered!
Although Western Societies are also striven with many a devilish ailments, spread across the country but I have selected only one issue; ‘the women rape Issue’. These are the extracts from the Report about the ‘American Rape Statics’ published by ‘World Food Programme Feed Bag’ under the caption of ‘Women Issue’ in USA. The Report Says:
‘Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 2 minutes, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
In 1995, 354,670 women were the victims of a rape or sexual assault. (NationalCrime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996.)
Over the last two years, more than 787,000 women were the victim of a rape or sexual assault. (National Crime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S.Department of Justice, 1996.)
The FBI estimates that 72 of every 100,000 females in the United States wereraped last year. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Statistics, 1996.)
SILENT VICTIMS :
One of the most startling aspects of sex crimes is how many go unreported. The most common reasons given by women for not reporting these crimes are the belief that it is a private or personal matter and the fear of reprisal from the assailant.
Approximately 28% of victims are raped by husbands or boyfriends, 35% by acquaintances, and 5% by other relatives. (Violence against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994)
The FBI estimates that only 37% of all rapes are reported to the police. U.S. Justice Department statistics are even lower, with only 26% of all rapes or attempted rapes being reported to law enforcement officials.
In 1994-1995, only 251,560 rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement officials -- less than one in every three. (National Crime Victimization Survey, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996.)
An overwhelming majority of rape service agencies believe that public education about rape, and expanded counseling and advocacy services for rape victims, would be effective in increasing the willingness of victims to report rapes to the police. (Rape in America, 1992, National Victim Center with Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center.)
LIVING IN FEAR :
According to the U.S. Department of Justice: (All statistics are taken from: Violenceagainst Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994.)
One of every four rapes take place in a public area or in a parking garage.
31% of female victims reported that the offender was a stranger.
68% of rapes occur between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
At least 45% of rapists were under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
In 29% of rapes, the offender used a weapon.
In 47% of rapes, the victim sustained injuries other than rape injuries.
75% of female rape victims require medical care after the attack.
NOT JUST A FAMILY MATTER :
Family violence and abuse are among the most prevalent forms of interpersonal violence against women and young children -- both boys and girls. The sexual abuse of a child should never be "just a family matter," but many children are afraid to report an incident to the police because the abusers are too often a family friend or relative.
Approximately one-third of all juvenile victims of sexual abuse cases are children younger than 6 years of age. (Violence and the Family, Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, 1996.)
According to the Justice Department, one in two rape victims are under age 18; one in six are under age 12. (Child Rape Victims, 1992. U.S. Department of Justice.)
FACE OF AMERICA :
About 81% of rape victims are white; 18% are black; 1% are of other races. (Violence against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994.)
About half of all rape victims are in the lowest third of income distribution; half are in the upper two-thirds. (Violence against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1994.)
There were 71 forcible rapes per 100,000 females reported to United States law enforcement agencies in 1996. 2
Data from the National Women's Study, a longitudinal telephone survey of a national household probability sample of women at least 18 years of age, show 683,000 women forcibly raped each year and that 84% of rape victims did not report the offense to the police.3
Using Uniform Crime Report data for 1994 and 1995, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that of rape victims who reported the offense to law enforcement, about 40% were under the age of 18, and 15% were younger than 12.4
In a national survey 27.7% of college women reported a sexual experience since the age of fourteen that met the legal definition of rape or attempted rape, and 7.7% of college men reported perpetrating aggressive behavior which met the legal definition of rape.5
The National Crime Victimization Survey indicates that for 1992-1993, 92% of rapes were committed by known assailants.1 About half of all rapes and sexual assaults against women are committed by friends and acquaintances, and 26% are by intimate partners.1
Risk factors for perpetrating sexual violence include: early sexual experience (both forced and voluntary),6 adherence by men to sex role stereotyping,7,8 negative attitudes of men towards women,6,9,,10,11,12, alcohol consumption,8,13 acceptance of rape myths by men.8,9,12,14,15
Non-forceful verbal resistance and lack of resistance are associated with rape completion.1,6
The adult pregnancy rate associated with rape is estimated to be 4.7%. This information, in conjunction with estimates based on the U.S. Census, suggest that there may be 32,101 annual rape-related pregnancies among American women over the age of 18.17
Non-genital physical injuries occur in approximately 40% of completed rape cases.18 As many as 3% of all rape cases have non-genital injuries requiring overnight hospitalization.19
Victims of rape often manifest long-term symptoms of chronic headaches,18,20fatigue20, sleep disturbance20, recurrent nausea,20 decreased appetite,21 eating disorders,22 menstrual pain,18 sexual dysfunction,23 and suicide attempts.21 In a longitudinal study, sexual assault was found to increase the odds of substance abuse by a factor of 2.5.24
Estimates of the occurrence of sexually transmitted diseases resulting from rape range from 3.6% to 30%.18,22 HIV transmission risk rate from rape is estimated at 1 in 500,22,25 although a few probable cases have been documented in Sweden and Great Britain. 26,27
Victims of marital or date rape are 11 times more likely to be clinically depressed, and 6 times more likely to experience social phobia than are non-victims. Psychological problems are still evident in cases as long as 15 years after the assault.28
Fatalities occur in about 0.1% of all rape cases.29,30
A study examining the use of health services over a five year period by female members of a health maintenance program found that the number of visits to physicians by rape victims increased 56% in the year following the crime, compared to a 2% utilization increase by non-victims.31
The National Public Services Research Institute estimates the lifetime cost for each rape with physical injuries which occurred in 1987 to be $60,000.32'
Reference; Womens Issues; World Food Programme Feed Bag
Publishers; Paralumun New Age Village
Link: http://www.paralumun.com/issuesrapestats.htm
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Love for All, Hatred for None
at March 19, 2008 7:46 PM
Khokar, All the statistics in the world can not change the fact that rape of muslim women is not considered a crime perpetrated by muslim men. It is considered a crime of seduction by the women who are raped. Pakistan's women's prisons are filled with rape victims. I guess they just couldn't find four men to witness the rape for them. And of course you won't deny that rape is used as a punishment to retaliate for perceived wrongs. Sure, we know how fair and objective you really are.
Posted by: imamerican
at March 19, 2008 10:29 PM
re. "‘American Rape Statics’ published by ‘World Food Programme Feed Bag’" by "Publishers; Paralumun New Age Village:"
This moslem poster has found the most liberal New-Agey purveyor of "facts". And what exactly is all of this supposed to prove?!
In the US we have 300 million people so the phrase "in the US a woman is raped every two minutes" has no meaning at all.
What are you going to measure that against? The rape statistics of Liechtenstein?!
The FACT is that we have LAWs against rape - and YOU DO NOT!!
We stigmatize rapists and you DO NOT!
THAT is what sets us apart, moslem filth!
I am so DONE with your relativism!
Posted by: Allah Schmallah
at March 20, 2008 1:35 AM
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