On Tuesday, reports out of Pakistan revealed that the country’s second suspected case of Ebola has surfaced in the past twenty-four hours. The 41-year-old man has been kept under watch in an isolation unit at PIMS Hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan,
Just a few weeks ago Prince Charles, a man sometimes criticized for being too supportive and praising of Britain’s Muslim community, made a passionate speech calling for the Islamic world to stop persecuting its Christian minorities. It was entirely coincidental
This article was originally posted by the New York Times. LONDON — Pakistan’s polio crisis has reached new depths this year, health officials say, intensified by a deadly mix of ruthless militant violence, large-scale refugee displacement and political chaos that has cemented
30-year-0ld Muhammad Gullistan shot his 16-year-old niece to death after finding her home alone, listening to loud music. Due to loopholes in Pakistani law, it is possible Gullistan may never see justice. Reuters reports that an argument began at the niece,
Pakistani Muslim Bollywood actress, Veena Malik, her actor husband, Asad Bashir Khan, the owner of the country’s largest media group plus the show’s host and two guests were all sentenced to 26 years in prison for “blasphemy.” How was “blasphemy”
A new report by Canada’s Point de Bascule takes the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to task for participating in a panel discussion Wednesday sponsored by the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Windsor. RCMP Superintendent Doug Best, who heads the Canadian law-enforcement agency’s national
(Reuters) – The suicide bomber, his explosives concealed under his clothes, walked quietly into a packed volleyball venue in eastern Afghanistan. His target: a local police commander. Minutes later, a devastating explosion tore through the place. At least 50 people were
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan lawmaker Shukria Barakzai says the suicide bomber who plowed into her motorcade a week ago wanted to silence a voice on women’s rights with a deafening blast. Barakzai is lucky to be alive after her
DHAKA (Reuters) – A former leader of Bangladesh’s ruling party was sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal on Monday in connection with atrocities committed during the country’s war of independence from Pakistan. Mobarak Hossain, 64, a local leader
From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: ISIS is now well known for its widespread appeal to individual jihadis around the world. As the New York Times noted on Friday, “the black standard of the Islamic State has been popping up all over” in Pakistan lately. But
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 45 people, officials said. Dozens more were wounded when the bomber, who was on foot and mingling with the crowd, detonated
Texas State Senator and Lt. Governor-elect Dan Patrick argued that Hispanic voters “want law and order on the border” on Saturday’s “Huckabee” on the Fox News Channel. Patrick credited his success among Hispanic voters (he received 46% of the vote among Hispanics)
(Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike killed six suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan, security officials said on Friday, as al Qaeda said two members of the group had been killed in a previous strike. Two missiles struck a house in
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Germany’s friendly relations with Russia turn hostile More Pakistan jihadist groups swear allegiance to ISIS Japan in shock as economy plunges into recession Germany’s friendly relations with Russia turn hostile Putin wags his finger
A joint study by Gallup and the Walk Free Foundation finds that the global scourge of slavery has now grown to include 35.8 million adults and children worldwide. The landmark 81-page report, titled “The Global Slavery Index 2014,” is the first index of
An NHS doctor has skipped bail for charges of assault and fled to Pakistan, where he has become a senior Taliban leader. He was able to leave the country despite being ordered to surrender his passport as part of his
Why do they have to be taken care of? It’s me that needs taking care of!” Like many of Italy’s poor, 51-year-old Elvio has had enough. And the unemployed construction worker thinks he knows who to blame. Born and raised
A surge in the number of cases of the severely debilitating polio disease has brought the number of people infected in Pakistan to 244, following the most recent infection of an 18-month-old girl. The newest case was discovered and reported
Four Islamic State (ISIS) flags have been confiscated after being raised near the Pakistan Ordnance Factory (POF) in the city of Taxila. The flags followed reports that an ISIS spokesman “visited banned militant outfit Jundullah,” an offshoot of the Pakistan
Forbes Israel ranked the ten richest terrorist groups, listing them in order by estimated annual income. The following ranking and revenue data was provided by Forbes Israel: Islamic State (Iraq, Syria & Jordan), Annual Revenue: $2 Billion Hamas (Gaza Strip and
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has again courted controversy, by opining that primary school teachers should be allowed to wear the niqab, or veil, while teaching. During an interview with the Christian think-tank Theos, he claimed that people’s fears
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in southern Pakistan killed 58 people on Tuesday, police said. The collision ignited a fuel fire, and a rescuer later described how he
Down a broken road winding through a corner of Pakistan’s Punjab province lies a silent graveyard, the resting place of hundreds of soldiers who fought for Britain in two world wars. Nestled in the rocky hills of Punjab’s salt ranges,
An association of Pakistani schools held an “I am not Malala” day on Monday, condemning young Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai for what it called her support for controversial novelist Salman Rushdie. Education campaigner Malala was shot in the head
Former Navy Seal Robert O’Neill who says he fired the fatal shot that took down Osama bin Laden, in an audio interview aired on CNN, says it does not matter anymore if he is the shooter. “The most important thing
On CNN’s “New Day” on Monday, co-hosts Chris Cuomo, Michaela Pereira and Alisyn Camerota debated the merits of former Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill’s decision to step forward and reveal details of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan,
The Indian Army has admitted it made a mistake in shooting dead two teenagers in restive Indian-administered Kashmir this week, a rare public admission of fault by the armed forces. The teenagers died after soldiers fired at a car on
Rufin Anthony, the bishop of Islamabad, has denounced the culpable silence of Muslim leaders who have failed to forcefully condemn what is being called “the worst religiously motivated hate crime in Pakistan’s history”—the recent murder of a Christian couple in
Rufin Anthony, the bishop of Islamabad, has called the recent attack and burning of a young Christian couple on the basis of mere allegations “a mockery of the justice system.” On November 4, Shahzad Masih and his pregnant wife Shama
Pakistani police have detained forty-three people believed to have taken part in a mob killing of a Christian couple who allegedly damaged a Koran. According to several reports, the couple was beaten to death by a hundreds-strong mob, who were
A Pakistani policeman used an axe to kill a man arrested for allegedly committing blasphemy, officials said Thursday, days after an enraged mob murdered a Christian couple accused of the same crime. Tufail Haider, a 50-year-old from the minority Shiite
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), in a report to Congress, accused Pakistan of using militants as “proxy forces” in Afghanistan and India and acting as a sanctuary for terrorists. Pakistan denies the accusations, calling them “unsubstantiated allegations” and “unwarranted
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pakistan mob lynches Christian couple over alleged blasphemy charge Jordan recalls Israeli envoy as violence increases in Jerusalem Pakistan mob lynches Christian couple over alleged blasphemy charge Site of the brick kiln where the
A Christian couple, 35-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 31-year-old wife Shama Bibi, were burned to death Tuesday morning by a Muslim mob in the south of Lahore (Punjab province), accused of committing blasphemy for allegedly burning pages of the Qur’an.
“No Christian should sleep well at night while our brothers and sisters are being martyred,” said the late Charles Colson. Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship and former “hatchet man” to President Nixon, was one of the top Christian leaders who
The famed laissez faire liberalism of the Dutch is only matched by their flinty commonsense. Two years after the brutal 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh at the hand of Islamist jihadists in Amsterdam, the Dutch government quietly introduced a form
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Multiple Taliban groups claim credit for suicide bombing in Pakistan Abu Nimr tribes blames Iraq government for massacre by ISIS Journalist finds young Iranians very friendly to America Multiple Taliban groups claim credit for
After a firestorm of criticism, authorities at the prestigious International Islamic University of Pakistan empaneled a special disciplinary committee to “investigate” and punish the students behind a booth that promoted Israeli culture at a recent international student fair held at
Brookings’ partnership with the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in conjunction with its Qatari-backedProject on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, sends a mixed message for a think tank that claims to want “a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.”
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special tribunal sentenced the leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party to death on Wednesday for atrocities and multiple killings during the nation’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971. Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, sat calmly in
