Archive for the 'Taliban' Category
Monday, August 9th, 2010
(Image via Wikipedia) A team of Christian medical volunteers including 6 American doctors providing care to poor villagers in remote northeast Afghanistan were lined up, stripped, and shot to death by the Taliban. Later the Taliban bragged about doing this evil deed. Here’s an account from the Christian Science Monitor: The execution-style killings of 10 […]
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
(Image via Wikipedia) A 7-year-old boy was publically hanged by Taliban militants in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province. According to reports, the child was accused of ‘spying’ for the Afghani government. Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai responded to the news: “A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a […]
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
(Lahore via Wikipedia) When are Muslims not Muslims? I guess anyone you disagree with if you are with the Taliban. Two mosques of a Muslim minority sect were attacked in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday. At least 98 people were killed and dozens were wounded as Jihadi terrorists opened fire on Ahmadi worshippers during Friday services. […]
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Over the Weekend, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the Times Square bombing attempt. Also, two videos of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud surfaced with Mehsud claiming that the reports of his death were incorrect along with threats that he planned to take the war to American cities. Up to this point, U.S. officials had been confident […]
Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Obama Administration, Taliban, War on Terror
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
(Image by Ravages via Flickr) Now the Taliban is training and using children as suicide bombers? Seems incredible but also terribly true. Here’s what their typical day looks like: A typical day for the mostly Pashtun “fidai” – suicide bombers, who call other jihadis “common mujahids” – begins before dawn in camps numbering no more […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
(Image via Wikipedia) Pro-Taliban Muslim radicals beat to death a student because he was playing music. The incident happened at the University of Engineering & Technology in Peshawar, Pakistan. The student, Anan Khan, was beaten along with a number of others by the hard-line Jamiat-e Islami party. Members of this Pro-Taliban student group have a […]
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
(Pakistan by Omer Wazir via Flickr) From Compass Direct News: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 10 (CDN) — Suspected Islamic militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a Christian relief and development organization in northwest Pakistan today, killing six aid workers and wounding seven others. Approximately 15 gunmen attacked the World Vision offices near […]
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
(Quetta via Wikipedia) There are around 35,000 Christians living in the old colonial city of Quetta, Pakistan but they are nearly invisible and for good reason. Even their churches are like concrete fortresses that are under constant police protection. Thousands of Christians have lived here for hundreds of years as a throw back to the British colonial period […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
(Chris Matthews via Wikipedia) Chris Matthews of MSNBC said the other day that ‘the religious right is like the Taliban’? Ed Morrissey of Hot Air observes: That must be from all of the times the Religious Right throws acid in women’s faces, or bars girls from attending schools, or beat barbers in the streets for […]
Filed under: Culture & Religion, Culture Wars, Free Exercise of Religion, Politics & Religion, Taliban
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Here we go again, another humane hostage video from followers of the ‘religion of Peace’. Apparently there are at least three different accounts on how the soldier got ‘abducted’ by the Afghani Taliban in the first place. One thing for sure, anyone who has followed how these ‘religious’ fanatics have treated their prisoners in the […]
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