They don’t hate our “freedoms”. They hate our guts.

The usual Sunday-Morning-talk-show explanation for this is that Pakistan is hedging its strategic bets: Pakistani military leaders doubt the United States military can tame Afghanistan before American combat forces’ scheduled exit in 2013. And rather than see the country degenerate into absolute chaos (as occurred in the early 1990s, in the wake of the Soviet departure), Pakistani military leaders want to be in position to turn Afghanistan into a semi-orderly Pashtun-dominated client state that provides Islamabad with “strategic depth” against India. And the only way for them to do this is to co-opt the Taliban.
This elaborate Great Game theorizing all makes sense. But there is another, simpler explanation: Most ordinary Pakistanis loathe America — indeed, not only America, but the whole of the non-Muslim world — and are only too happy to support jihad against the NATO forces next door in Afghanistan.

h/t Kevin

“The real threat is the sophisticated forces of Islamism, which have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy.”

Feb 15, 2012: The Toronto Star’s Haroon Siddiqui refers to Jason Kenney’s decision to cut $1 Million of annual subsidies to Mississauga’s Palestine House as “scandalous”.

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Jul 22, 2006: Elias Hazineh, a member of the board of directors of Palestine House, speaks at an anti-Israel rally in Toronto. The photos captured at that event are most interesting.
Jan 11, 2009: Nabil Nassar, a member of the board of directors of Palestine House, is interviewed by CTV News at an anti-Israel rally in Toronto, where this video was shot.
Feb 1, 2010: A 3-year investigation by the RCMP revealed that of 1,800 people who had submitted fraudulent immigrations applications to Canada 300 of them claimed the address of Palestine House as where they were living.
Apr 2, 2010: A young man related to Palestine House screams out “You need another Holocaust”.
Nov 16, 2010: Sobhi Salhia, the President of Palestine House, travels with his daughter, Yasmene, to the West Bank. In her blog entry about this trip, she posts a photo of her father and refers to the founding of Israel as “the catastrophe”.
Feb 16, 2012: Michael Coren & Brian Lilley disagree with the aforementioned Mr. Siddiqui.
Many thanks & praise are owed to Blazing Cat Fur & Mississauga Matt for their tremendous writing & videos over the years on this file.

With totalitarian kidnappers to vote for;

Egyptian judges have referred 16 Americans and 27 others linked to NGOs for trial, accusing them of using foreign funds to encourage disruptive protests. Among the targeted NGOs whose assets and funds have been seized are the U.S. government-funded International Republican Institute and National Democratic Institute.

Shocking! Appalling! Unprecedented!
Via Drudge

Guardian;

Police in Kuala Lumpur said Hamza Kashgari, 23, was detained at the airport “following a request made to us by Interpol” the international police cooperation agency, on behalf of the Saudi authorities.
Kashgari, a newspaper columnist, fled Saudi Arabia after posting a tweet on the prophet’s birthday that sparked more than 30,000 responses and several death threats. The posting, which was later deleted, read: “I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don’t understand about you … I will not pray for you.”
More than 13,000 people joined a Facebook page titled “The Saudi People Demand the Execution of Hamza Kashgari”.

For the crime of committing “prayer meeting”;

Saudi officials strip-searched all the women and subjected them to an abusive body-cavity search, and assaulted the men. In a remarkable prison interview with the Voice of America’s Amharic-language service, one of the women, who contracted an infection from the search, attested: “We are traumatized by the strip search. They treated us like dogs because of our Christian faith. While talking about me during a recent visit to the prison medical center, I overheard a nurse telling a doctor ‘if she dies, we will put her in a trash bin.’”

CTV;

Imams from across Canada and the U.S. have issued a moral ruling condemning honour killings, domestic violence and misogyny as “un-Islamic.”

Because “illegal” just didn’t carry enough weight.

The strangest poll question in the history of the CBC goes horribly wrong.
Update: Good question.

Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.

Muslim leaders issue fatwa against yoga position. (h/t BCF)

As Kate reported a year ago, the governor of the Pakistani Punjab province was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. That murderer has now become a hero of sorts to many in Pakistan (audio version).
What’s often left out of reporting on this case is what precisely lead to the murder. From the aforementioned article is this interesting snippet:

So why did his bodyguard kill him?
Taseer – who had a record of protecting minority communities in Pakistan – was campaigning on a blasphemy case, that of a Christian woman called Asia Bibi.
Some Muslim women in her Punjab village accused her of defiling their well by drinking out of it and they demanded that she convert.
She refused and they accused her of blasphemy.
When he heard about the case Taseer decided he would try to get her a presidential pardon. He called a few journalists and visited her in prison and there he criticised the blasphemy law.

Remember this the next time you read a story involving Radical Islamists petitioning for more special privileges in Western countries.

In Dushanbe, a young man, dressed as Santa Claus, was killed by a mob of young people, shouting accusations of “infidel,” as a senior source in the Tajik Interior Ministry disclosed.
“The young man had decided to congratulate his relatives dressed up in a Santa Claus outfit. When he approached the door of his house, he was attacked by a mob of about 30 young people, shouting, “Tu kofiri” (“Infidel”), who inflicted on Parviz numerous stab wounds from which he died in the hospital,” – said the source.
The authorities have admitted the fact that 24-year old Parviz Davlatbekov had been murdered, but deny that it was entirely motivated by religious hatred. “We acknowledge the fact of a murder having been committed, but we regard it as a domestic crime,” – Tajik Interior Ministry Chief of Staff, Gen. Tohir Normatov told journalists.

h/t Bemused

With a Jew hating, totalitarian party to vote for;

Mindful of its lopsided electoral triumph in Egypt, which has been so enthusiastically welcomed by the Obama administration and top Democratic emissary John Kerry, the Muslim Brotherhood has announced plans to submit the Camp David Accords — the treaty that has kept the peace between Egypt and Israel for over 30 years — to a popular vote.

One has to wonder how much longer it will be before Canadian municipal and provincial governments are petitioned in this manner.

Imam Suleiman Eniceri said it was suspicious that Santa Claus brings presents into a house by climbing down a chimney or through windows. “If he was an honest person he would come through the door as we do,” the imam said. The imam cited a passage in the Koran that calls on the faithful to enter houses through doors.

h/t Bemused

h/t EBD