Category Archives: Terrorism

Pakistani Taliban vs Islamists

By Faisal | Published: July 24, 2010
Fascinating article by Arif Jamal in Jamestown Foundation on the implications of the attack, by a 14 year old suicide recruit of the Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM aka Pakistani Taliban), on the far-right Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islam, who the leader of the TNSM regard as “munafiqs” and traitors to their jihadist ideology. The article contains a history of factionalism within JI [...]
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A Portrait of the Terrorist as a Young Man

By Effendi | Published: July 16, 2010
This unintentionally hilarious video could be straight out of Four Lions, but is in fact of Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square terrorist bomber.
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Lahore Attacks: Blame the Foreigners

By Faisal | Published: July 4, 2010
Another barbaric suicide attack in Lahore which shows all the signs of a jihadi mission by the Punjabi Taliban: The bombing was captured on CCTV and shown on TV. The first bomber was seen running into a basement clutching a bag filled with explosives and ballbearings, pursued by a guard, before a large explosion swept across [...]
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Zaid Hamid: Pakistan’s answer to Glenn Beck

By Effendi | Published: June 25, 2010
From the Christian Science Monitor: Pakistan’s ultra-nationalist, far-right Islamist televangelists such as Amir Liaquat Hussain, who hosts the popular “Alim Online” show on Geo Television, Pakistan’s largest private TV network; the fez-sporting ex-jihadi Zaid Hamid who famously coined the term “Hindu Zionist” to describe what he sees as the unholy alliance of Israel and India in [...]
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Bunglawala and Faisal Shahzad betraying Afghans

By Guest | Published: June 23, 2010
This is a cross post by Shiraz Maher from Standpoint Over at his new blog Inayat Bunglawala is already tying himself in knots over the guilty plea by failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. During his plea hearing Shahzad told the court: Unless the US pulls out of Afghanistan and Iraq, until they stop drone strikes in [...]
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Great News for Al Qaeda in the United Kingdom

By Guest | Published: May 18, 2010
This is a cross post from Lucy Lips **** Al Qaeda have had a real boost, today. A special immigration court said Abid Naseer was an al-Qaeda operative – but could not be deported because he faced torture or death back home in Pakistan. Mr Naseer, 23, was one of 10 Pakistani students arrested last April as part [...]
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Sikh Extremism “On The Rise” in Canada

By Faisal | Published: April 25, 2010
We have here a report on Sikh extremism in Canada which has startling similarities with the situation of Islamist extremism in the UK. Ujjal Dosanjh, a former Canadian Liberal Party cabinet minister says Sikh extremism is on the rise in British Columbia, Canada. He goes on to say that a distorted multiculturalism has allowed Sikh extremism to take root [...]
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Negotiating Scylla and Charybdis – Human rights and terrorism

By Guest | Published: March 7, 2010
This is the text of a speech by Gita Sahgal at AIUSA Public Round-table on 16 Feruary 2007 cross-posted from Human Rights For All **** In 1993, at the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, a group of feminist advocates held a now famous tribunal on Violence against Women. And in that moving event which [...]
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YMO: Praying For Hamas

By Guest | Published: March 4, 2010
This is a cross-post of an article by habibi from Harry’s Place **** This post from earlier this week covered the men the Young Muslim Organisation (YMO), the youth wing of the Islamic Forum of Europe, recommends for spiritual advice about Ramadan. Every single one of them is an extremist. Three of the nine have [...]
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Azzam Tamimi: Killing civilians is fine if it produces results

By Guest | Published: March 4, 2010
This is a guest post by The Professor first posted on Harry’s Place Two days ago the Pakistani Sufi organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran launched their remarkably comprehensive fatwa (religious ruling) against terrorism and suicide bombing. Since then the Muslim Brotherhood’s Azzam Tamimi has been on a one-man mission to discredit it. On the BBC, he mocked al-Qadri for not preventing [...]
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