Opposition, not Islamaphobia
March 16, 2009 by Peter Brietbart · 18 Comments
A Saudi Arabian criminal being flogged. A teenage girl was recently sentenced to 200 lashes and 6 months in prison for the crime of being a victim of gang-rape. Is criticism of these human rights violations imperialistic, or unfair? (Photo: Camera Press)
Last month, years of Taliban hostility finally ended when Pakistan’s government agreed to surrender control of the Swat district and allow Shari’ah law to operate there, less than 100 miles from Islamabad. To accomplish this, the Taliban bombed nearly two hundred schools (particularly girls’ schools – women’s education is now prohibited in Swat), set alight government buildings and carried out a string of assassinations, kidnappings and suicide bombings.
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