Pamela Geller Supports Another Fascist Group Posted on 21 June 2010 by Emperor LOONWATCH.com It isn’t surprising that Pamela Geller, who runs a hate group herself (SIOA) would support fascist groups. Charles Johnson rips her a new one, Pamela Geller Supports Yet Another Fascist Group by Charles Johnson Here’s popular right wing blogger (and writer for Newsmax, World Net Daily, and Andrew Breitbart’s websites) Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller, expressing her unqualified support for antisemites, Holocaust deniers, and extreme right wing European fascist groups again — because they hate Muslims as much as she does: Hundreds attend Paris sausage, Wine fest … Continue reading American fanatic supports throwing bacon on Jews!

GOP Senate Candidate Waging “Stealth Jihad” against the US Government Posted on 19 June 2010 by Inconnu LOONWATCH.com Sharron Angle calls for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government and a “return” to Biblical Law. Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle has made some very interesting statements about what could happen if the ballot box fails: “You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. In fact Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every … Continue reading American Mullah calls for violent overthrow of US Government!

What stands in the way of Bosnia reconciliation When will those involved in Srebrenica – including the UN – admit their responsibility and atone for the 1995 genocide? Heather McRobie guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 June 2010 14.30 BST Article history An UN investigator removes earth from bodies in a mass grave outside the village of Cerska, near Srebrenica, Bosnia on July 15, 1996. Photograph: Odd Andersen/Getty Images.The admissions of the Saville report last week, and the government’s apology for Bloody Sunday, remind us of the imperative to acknowledge responsibility for state crimes against civilians, however too little or too late. But … Continue reading The UN and EU stands in the way of Bosnia reconciliation

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles: a casualty of Afghan policy war The British special envoy’s scepticism about the US-led surge meant he had to go. Being proved right will be cold comfort Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 June 2010 19.16 BST Article history Britain’s special envoy Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles (centre), with then foreign secretary David Miliband, sharing a pleasantry with Afghan minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta in Kabul, 2009. Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters The sudden departure of Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain’s special envoy to Afghanistan, represents another body blow for a US-led policy that is already shredding at the edges. Cowper-Coles brought a wealth … Continue reading The British special envoy’s scepticism about the US-led surge meant he had to go.

dawn.com Pakistani fans of the Brazilian football team watch the World Cup 2010 Brazil and Ivory Coast match on a big screen in the southern Lyari neighbourhood of Karachi. — AFP KARACHI: Brazilian flags flutter from homes across one battle-scarred Pakistani suburb, as gang warfare is set aside for the World Cup and fans, painted in the Brazil colours, vow allegiance to the South Americans. The Karachi suburb of Lyari is known for two things: unremitting gang violence and for producing Pakistan’s best football players. Pakistan may not be playing in the Cup, but hundreds of fans stayed up late … Continue reading Pakistani gang-war zone basks in Brazil glory

By Imran Ayub A police officer shows the images of suspected militants, who escaped from court after a shootout, at his office in Karachi, June 19, 2010. — AP Photo dawn.com KARACHI: Police investigating the escape of four suspected militants, who got freed from police custody by their aides following an armed attack on the City Courts premises, have found a 9mm pistol, a hand grenade and two cellphones believed to be in possession of the undertrial prisoners, it emerged on Sunday. While the investigators have not yet achieved any breakthrough in finding the whereabouts of the suspected militants, they … Continue reading Suspicion falls on police connivance in militants’ escape

VIEW: The liabilities of our state —Yasser Latif Hamdani The state is not only negligent of its duty in protecting the faith of the Ahmedis, it is directly criminally liable under its own Blasphemy Law every time it prints a passport or an identity card application A first information report, commonly known as an FIR, has been lodged in Lahore against Facebook under section 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). Legally, this raises some very poignant questions about the criminal liability of a corporation, i.e. a business with legal identity. The issue has been the subject of much … Continue reading The liabilities of our state

Nadeem F. Paracha dawn.com Many Arab as well as some western academics (who were paid large sums of money and perks) were continuously invited to the rich, conservative kingdoms and asked to scribble books claiming that the Muslim holy book was punctuated with scientific truths hundreds of years before the West discovered them in their labs. — Illustration by Abro I am itching to get my hands on a recently published book, God Created the Universe by Fatehulla Khan. After reading the review of the book, I can safely assume it is yet another document in the long line of … Continue reading Science ends here

By Ardeshir Cowasjee Whatever progress we have made in Pakistan’s 63 years of life has been on the negative side, writes Ardeshir Cowasjee. — Photo by Reuters dawn.com We must read to remember. The early days of Pakistan were far from halcyon, though those of us who lived through them look back with some nostalgia. Whatever progress we have made in this country’s 63 years of life has been, as it turns out, on the negative side. Where have we progressed in leaps and bounds? Well, in the scale of wholesale corruption, political and administrative ineptitude, and bigotry and intolerance … Continue reading In our beginning is our end

COMMENT: Islam, secularism and Pakistan —Shahid Ilyas Had Islam not been central to the creation of Pakistan, we would not have had the Objectives Resolution as a guiding principle of our constitutions Without recognising that a problem is widespread and deep-rooted, efforts towards resolving it are likely to have only partial success. Although the myth of ‘a silent majority’ of moderates in Pakistan gained currency during the period of General Musharraf, the same has existed for decades. Indeed, it was not entirely a myth until the early 1970s when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave in to Islamic fundamentalists’ demand for Islamisation. … Continue reading A Secular Pakistan the only solution left?