tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post4038488013865529819..comments2024-03-27T15:36:44.737-07:00Comments on Haq's Musings: Jibran Nasir in Silicon ValleyRiaz Haqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-82108664075353923492015-11-03T08:53:17.341-08:002015-11-03T08:53:17.341-08:00#Pakistan Supreme Court Orders Blasphemy Law Refor...#Pakistan Supreme Court Orders Blasphemy Law Reforms https://shar.es/15sZx3 via @@4christiannews<br /><br />“In the absence of adequate safeguards against the abuse of the blasphemy law, people falsely accused of the offense suffer irrevocably,” the judgment written Oct. 27 reads<br /><br />The effectiveness of a Supreme Court of Pakistan ruling that blasphemy laws be reformed to discourage false allegations hinges on the government’s response to the order, a leader of the International Christian Concern watchdog group told Baptist Press.<br />The three-judge Pakistani bench called for reforms when it upheld the death penalty imposed upon Malik Mohammad Mumtaz Qadri for assassinating in 2011 Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer based on hearsay that Taseer had committed blasphemy.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-3752761597972155192015-07-24T12:26:13.897-07:002015-07-24T12:26:13.897-07:00If social media can be used to recruit terrorists,...If social media can be used to recruit terrorists, it can also be used to stop them. <br /><br />In testimony before a Senate panel last week, FBI Director James Comey stated that ISIS has over 21,000 English-speaking followers on Twitter and that this form of “crowdsourcing terrorism” is living proof that social media works. Unfortunately, it appears that this type of internet-based recruiting of “Lone Wolf” terrorists has worked yet again as manifested by yesterday’s attack at two military facilities in Chattanooga which left four dead and three others injured. One news source reported that prior to the shooting the suspect posted on his blog Islamic rhetoric referring to “separate the inhabitants of Paradise from the inhabitants of Hellfire.”<br /><br />Well, if social media can work for ISIS in recruiting these self-radicalized terrorists or individual lone wolf attackers, it can also work against them. As concerned citizens and guardians of our communities we the people can mobilize to report posts from potential lone wolf attackers who seek to injure and kill others. A familiar mantra from law enforcement over the years has been to stay vigilant in our fight against crime. Today, staying vigilant online is just as important—and, as demonstrated by a recent case in Canada— can result in saving lives. <br /><br />This past February, a Geneva, Illinois woman was arrested in Canada for a shooting plot after leaving a trail on social media, including a post prior to her arrest that said “Let’s go commit mass homicide.” Lindsay Souvannarath posted disturbing pictures advocating race hatred, an allegiance to Hitler and Nazi beliefs, bizarre photos of herself and others, and what appeared to be a fascination with mass killers and their handiwork, especially the Columbine High School shooters and their tools of murder. Police received a tip about a couple planning a Valentine’s Day massacre at a mall in Halifax, Canada, and she was arrested by Canadian police on charges of conspiracy to commit mass murder. Her partner in this thwarted crime committed suicide before authorities could take him into custody. <br /><br />As responsible citizens who care about our communities, we need to assist law enforcement in serving as their on-line “eyes and ears” when we see threatening posts. Maybe even more importantly when we see posts and also have personal knowledge of potential offenders securing or practicing with weapons or making threats against specific individuals or groups we can “connect the dots” and provide that information to local, state or federal authorities. If you are online and read a post that includes terrorist-related chatter, threats and postings regarding weapons and mass murder, or information on upcoming or planned attacks, don’t assume that someone else will report it. Take personal responsibility and call your local police or federal authorities. If terrorist organizations or lone wolf attackers believe social media works for them, let’s show them it can also work against them.<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/07/17/chattanooga-shootings-america-lets-use-social-media-to-stop-terrorist-attacks.html Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-54119336327328890282015-05-25T20:36:06.813-07:002015-05-25T20:36:06.813-07:00The 2013 bombing, designed to fan sectarian violen...The 2013 bombing, designed to fan sectarian violence between minority Shiite and majority Sunni Muslims, helped inspire the 28-year-old activist to kick off a six-week tour last month of colleges and universities throughout the United States to tell Pakistanis in America that their homeland is "not a nation of Taliban apologists," that together they could find a solution to the religious intolerance and violence back home.<br /><br />He spoke at Stanford, UCLA and UC Davis, among other colleges.<br /><br />"They are stakeholders," Nasir said before addressing more than 100 Pakistanis and Pakistani Americans at Pomona College.<br /><br />Nasir helps run two grass-roots groups — Pakistan for All and Never Forget Pakistan — that campaign for the Pakistani government to shut down militant extremist groups.<br /><br />The lawyer turned protester said he hoped the estimated 455,000 Pakistanis living in the U.S. will support the cause and advocate for a more liberal Pakistan instead of simply donating money. With about 40,000, California has the third largest number of Pakistanis in the U.S. after New York and Texas.<br /><br />"Pakistanis here can be more vocal because there is no threat to their life," he said.<br /><br />Although the number of extremist attacks has decreased in the last year, there has been an overall surge in such violence in Pakistan since 2007, said Daniel Markey, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.<br /><br />A 2013 report from the U.S. State Department illustrates the point: Pakistan had the second-most terror attacks in the world that year after Iraq.<br /><br />"Some of those attacks were the most devastating in terms of loss of life," Markey said. "It's very bad right now."<br /><br />The cycle of violence repeated itself this month, when armed men opened fire on a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community, a sub-sect of Shiite Islam, in Karachi. The passengers were reportedly traveling to a house of worship in a bus that belonged to an Ismaili welfare society.<br /><br />At least 43 people were killed and 13 wounded in the worst attack in recent memory against Pakistan's Ismailis, widely regarded as a progressive and largely apolitical community whose members are prominent in the health and education sectors.<br /><br />In December, a devastating Taliban attack on a Peshawar army school killed nearly 150 people, including more than 130 children.<br /><br />But the extremist leader of the Red Mosque, an Islamist bastion in Islamabad with ties to the Taliban, refused to condemn the attack and called it understandable.<br /><br />Unable to stomach the cleric's statement, Nasir organized a protest and took to the streets in response, rallying Pakistanis to "reclaim Pakistan" and "reclaim our mosques."<br /><br /><br />That's when the threats poured in, he said — from militant groups, from Red Mosque authorities and from the Taliban — warning him to tone down his activism.<br /><br />"They say I am the one giving Pakistan a bad name. But I am not the one giving Pakistan a bad name," Nasir said. "Religion can never be the root of the problem. Thou shalt not kill ... thou shalt not steal, all these things we learn from religion."<br /><br />What is corrupting Pakistan is a "perverse" mixture of Islam and politics that leads to misinterpretations of the faith, Nasir said.<br /><br />"We cannot and should not legislate on how a man reaches out to his god," he said. "Whichever god it is, it is personal."<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-pakistani-activist-20150525-story.htmlRiaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-4447402672853507782015-05-21T16:58:59.954-07:002015-05-21T16:58:59.954-07:00Ravi: "Have you read Dr. Hoodhboy, Raza Rumi&...Ravi: "Have you read Dr. Hoodhboy, Raza Rumi's comment on this so called RAW connection."<br /><br />Have you read the history of RAW's covert actions in Pakistan?<br /><br /><br />Excepts from Mission R&AW by RK Yadav:<br /><br />Pakhtunistan:<br /><br />Page 21<br /><br />" Wali Khan (son of Abul Ghaffar Khan) wanted moral, political and other support from Mrs. Indira Gandhi. R.N. Kao sent hs deputy Sankaran Nair to negotiate as the Indian representative. Since Pakistan embassy was keeping watch on the movements of Wali Khan, the rendezvous was shifted to Copenhagen in Sweden where Nair and another R&AW man of Indian mission I.S. Hassanwalia met Wali Khan. Subsequently all sorts of Indian Government till 1977 when Indira Gandhi lost election". <br /><br /><br />Agartala Conspiracy:<br /><br />Page 197<br /><br />"In view of the disclosures of S.K. Nair, it is evidently true that Mujib was implicated in the Agartala Consiracy case at the instance of Pakistan Government. However, it is also true that other accused in this case were certainly agents of Intelligence Bureau (IB) in India"<br /><br />Fokker Hijacking in Srinagar:<br /><br />Page 227:<br /><br />There was an agent of R&AW-Hashim Qureshi in Srinagar.......R&AW persuaded Hashim Qureshi to work for them....A plan was devised that Qureshi would be allowed to hijack a plane of Indian Airlines rom Srinagar Airport to Lahore where he would demand the release of 36 members of Al-Fatah who were in jail in India in lieu of the passengers on the plane. He was directed not to give control of the plane to he Pakistani authorities until he was allowed to talk to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, who was the chief architect of instigating political turmoil in Pakistan at the time....After the plan was given final shaoe, on January 30, 1971, Hashim Qureshi along with another operative Ashraf Qureshi, his relative, was allowed to hijack a Fokker Friendship plane Ganga of Indian Airlines with 26 passengers on board, to take the plane to Lahore airport. R&AW allowed him to carry a grenade and a toy pistol inside the plane. Pakisani authorities at Lahore airport allowed the plane to land when they were informed that it had been hijacked by National Liberation Front activist militants of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. All India Radio soon made broadcast of this hijacking and the whole world was informed that the Pakistan Government was behind this hijacking. Qureshi, as directed by R&AW, demanded the release of 36 Al-Fatah members in custody of Indian Government....The incident overtly gave India the right opportunity which was planned by R.N. Kao, to cancel the flights of Pakistan over its territory which hampered the plans of Yahya Khan to send its troops by air o curb the political movement of Mujib in East Pakistan. <br /><br /><br /><br />Mukti Bahini: <br /><br />Page 231<br /><br />Mukti Bahinin-Brain Child of R.N. Kao<br /><br />Since the Indian Army was not prepared and well-equipped to r an immediate army actio at that point (March 1971), it was planned to raise and train a guerrilla outfit of the Bengali refugees of East Pakistan by R&AW which would harass the Pakistan Army till the Indian Army would be ready for the final assault to the liberation of East Pakistan. She (Indira Gandhi) then asked R.N. Kao, Chief of R&AW, to prepare all possible grounds for the army for its final assault when the clearance from General Maneckshaw was received for its readiness for the war. <br /><br />Page 242<br /><br />"..He (Kader Siddiqui) was the main operative of R&AW in the most vital areas of strategic operation around Dacca. He was serving Pakistani Army when his brother brought him back to East Pakistan to complete his interrupted education just prior to the crackdown of the Pakistan Army. Kader...." <br /><br />http://www.scribd.com/doc/232097939/Mission-R-AW-Scanned-Book#scribd Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-75433995606910568072015-05-21T16:56:15.099-07:002015-05-21T16:56:15.099-07:00"Have you heard about plausible deniability?&..."Have you heard about plausible deniability?"<br /><br />Profound logic. So plausible deniability from India should prevent Pakistan from supplying proof? Here is what Pak can do to start with<br /><br />1. show the link between the terrorist and India.<br />2. If (1) is not possible, follow the money and prove how india is sponsoring it.<br /><br />Have you read Dr. Hoodhboy, Raza Rumi's comment on this so called RAW connection.<br /><br />While we are at it, has the #Axact scandal force you to revise opinion about the so called 1 billion dollar IT industry of Pakistan. ha.<br /><br />Tambi Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288496189296384896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-5909428558723224452015-05-21T12:35:31.966-07:002015-05-21T12:35:31.966-07:00Ravi: "Hmm, I thought all militants are from ...Ravi: "Hmm, I thought all militants are from RAW. what happened to that theory?"<br /><br />Have you heard about plausible deniability?<br /><br />Did you watch Ajit Doval talk about India using Jihadis to hurt Pakistan?<br /><br />Do you know US created and used the Taliban against the Russians before they turned on the West?<br /><br />And Israel created Hamas to fight the PLO before the Hamas decided to attack its creators? <br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-75157060080571346792015-05-21T12:08:48.959-07:002015-05-21T12:08:48.959-07:00Hmm, I thought all militants are from RAW. what ha...Hmm, I thought all militants are from RAW. what happened to that theory?Tambi Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288496189296384896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-14017172593766825372015-05-20T08:23:25.441-07:002015-05-20T08:23:25.441-07:00#Pakistan imam jailed for five years for anti-#Shi...#Pakistan imam jailed for five years for anti-#Shia sermons #hatespeech <br /><br />http://tribune.com.pk/story/889374/pakistani-imam-jailed-for-five-years-for-hate-speech/ …<br /><br />LAHORE: A court in Pakistan has jailed an Imam or prayer leader for five years for inciting hate against a rival sect, officials said Wednesday.<br /><br />Maulana Abubakar a prayer leader was arrested in February in Kasur district, Punjab, some 50 kilometres south of Lahore, for making a speech against the rival minority Shia sect, a prosecutor told AFP.<br /><br />“The judge of an anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sentenced the Imam to serve five years in prison for [giving a] hate speech,” the prosecutor said on condition of anonymity.<br /><br />“The Imam was found guilty of inciting hatred against Shia [people] and raised slogans during his sermon that Shias were infidels,” he said.<br /><br />The official said that under Pakistan’s National Action Plan against terrorism, authorities have arrested many prayer leaders and courts have sent them to prison over hate speech charges.<br /><br />The official said he could not give the number of convictions as data was still being compiled about the cases.<br /><br />Shaikh Saeed Ahmed, a Lahore district prosecutor, confirmed the conviction and sentence awarded to the Imam.<br /><br />Sectarian violence has claimed thousands of lives in the country over the past decade.<br /><br />In the latest bloodshed, 44 Shias were massacred in Karachi last week, in the first attack claimed by the Islamic State group in the country.<br /><br />The National Action Plan against terrorism, which involved the outlawing of militant groups, registration of seminaries and crackdown on hate speech, was announced in the wake of a Taliban massacre that killed 154 people, mostly schoolchildren, in December.<br /><br />Pakistan also lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty and announced the establishment of military courts in the case of terrorist offences.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-87253612836291895132015-05-17T21:55:32.551-07:002015-05-17T21:55:32.551-07:00Mayraj: "Can you share these pics:
"Jibr...Mayraj: "Can you share these pics:<br />"Jibran shared with the audience the details of the duplicity of the leaders of all major political parties. He showed pictures of PMLN, PPP, PTI and MQM politicians posing with the sectarian leaders"<br /><br /><br />I personally don't have them but you can search Google images of various major party leaders with Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi or Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqui, both of SSP aka LeJ aska ASWJ<br /><br />For example: Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi with Nawaz Sharif <br /><br />https://www.google.com/search?q=Ahmed+Ludhianvi+with+Nawaz+Sharif&biw=1419&bih=694&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=PG5ZVY7ZIYinyATXm4DoCg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=Maulana+Ahmed+Ludhianvi+with+Nawaz+Sharif+Samiul+Haq&imgrc=S2VyIxZm7zrBGM%253A%3BFU_ZhJSsz2-WCM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmn37f51mvh00alp9.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2013%252F11%252F215.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fnawazsharifexposed.blogspot.com%252F%3B549%3B320Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-49999179395100933582015-05-17T21:42:03.463-07:002015-05-17T21:42:03.463-07:00Can you share these pics:
"Jibran shared with...Can you share these pics:<br />"Jibran shared with the audience the details of the duplicity of the leaders of all major political parties. He showed pictures of PMLN, PPP, PTI and MQM politicians posing with the sectarian leaders"Mayrajnoreply@blogger.com