"Dancing girls" must be exiled, businesses closed during prayer

An agreement has been made in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley to remove dancing girls from the main town of Mingora, a top official has said.

Malakand Commissioner Mohammed Javed told the BBC that an agreement had also been made for shops and businesses in Swat to close during prayer times.

Militants and officials recently agreed a truce as they try to implement a peace deal that will bring Sharia law.

However, more violence on Tuesday has put the truce under increased strain.

Suspected militants shot and killed two soldiers and kidnapped an official.
'Talebanisation'

Mr Javed told the BBC that the agreement to remove the dancing girls and close businesses during prayers was agreed between him and Sufi Mohammad, the cleric who is brokering the peace deal between the government and militants in Swat.

The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Pakistan says that critics of the deal see it as part of the growing Talebanisation of Swat and proof that the militants are increasingly exerting their influence despite President Asif Ali Zardari's recent assertions that Pakistan has not and will not negotiate with "extremist Taleban and terrorists".

Our correspondent says that the decision to make the dancing girls leave Mingora effectively means they have been sent into internal exile and that Swat is now embracing an Islamic legal system that also pronounces on social and political questions.

The Taleban have destroyed nearly 200 schools, most of them for girls, during a sustained campaign against secular education in Swat...

Take a good look at this muslim scholar. He is the one that is in charge. He looks as ignorant as can be. I will be he knows the koran though. These are the people that need to just be killed. Well, actually all muslims need to be killed.

UN may make ban on criticizing Islam mandatory, making it a criminal offense in the U.S.

Muslim-dominated nations at the United Nations are once again pushing a religious "anti-defamation" plan that would bar worldwide all criticism of their founder Muhammad and his teaching.

According to a report by CNN's Lou Dobbs posted on YouTube, the proposal that has been repeatedly brought in recent years by the Organization of Islamic Conference states is expected to resurface as early as this spring.

This time, however, the resolution wouldn't allow nations to opt out.

"The United Nations has adopted what it calls a Resolution to Combat Defamation of Religion," Dobbs said in the report. "The U.N. now wants to make that anti-blasphemy resolution binding on member nations, including, of course, our own. That would make it a crime in the United States ... to criticize religion, in particular, Islam."

Note well: the point of outlawing criticism of Islam is not just to shield notoriously thin-skinned believers from the prospect of critical examination of the religion's texts and tenets. Along with that, the point of outlawing criticism of Islam is to keep law enforcement, government, media, and the general public in the dark about the beliefs, the ideology, and the motives and goals of jihad terrorists. You can't defeat an enemy that you can't speak about and don't understand.

Constitutional lawyer Floyd Abrams said in the report, "What they would do would be to make it illegal to put out a movie or write a book or a poem that somebody could say was defamatory of Islam."...

The anti-defamation resolutions began with describing the "need" to protect Islam and in recent years has developed into a call for the protection for "religions" from defamation.

However, the only religion specifically cited, in fact, is Islam.

The Muslim nations have sought to have member states enact laws banning such "blasphemy."
The plan expected to be introduced soon, however, will include a recommendation to the U.N. Human Rights Council that the ban be made binding on member nations, the report said....

I know I will be in jail. I make no bones about it, I HATE MUSLIMS!!!

Family of Jerusalem tractor jihadist: he was "a normal person who did not hold extremist views"

He plowed into a police car and was apparently also trying to hit a bus. But it was an accident, you see, and he was a "moderate."

And there was an open Qur'an in the glove compartment.

Of course, every time a Muslim commits a jihad attack, we hear from his family and friends about how he was just a regular guy, a gentle soul, wouldn't hurt a fly, and they're shocked, shocked, by this incident. Just once it would be refreshing to hear the uncle or cousin of a jihadist admit it all and say something like, "Yes, he did this because he totally hated Jews and Christians and wanted to kill them, as per the Qur'an's instructions to wage war against unbelievers."

An update on this story. "Tractor driver's family: He was not an extremist," by Ali Waked for Ynet News, March 5 (thanks to Tribalhorn):

Family members of Mir'i Radeideh, 26, of the Beit Hanina neighborhood in east Jerusalem, who carried out the Thursday tractor attack in the city, told Ynet that they believe the event was an accident.

According to the family, he was "a normal person who did not hold extremist views" and thus they don't believe he was undertaking a terror attack.

He has the book of hate open in the glove compartment and it has nothing to do with terrorism or islam? Sure.

Taliban blows up Pakistani music stores

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Taliban militants blew up 16 shops selling music and DVDs in northwest Pakistan overnight, police said Thursday.

"An improvised explosive device planted in a market selling music and DVDs in Takhtbhai town blew up 16 shops overnight," local police official Fazal Mabood told AFP, blaming Taliban insurgents.

There were no casualties in the attack in the town, northwest of Peshawar, because the market was closed at the time of explosion, he added.

Islamist militants have bombed scores of entertainment shops across the country's northwest in recent years, charging that music and films are contrary to the teachings of Islam...