Pakistan’s Death Industry

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World • Tue Dec 2, 2008 at 9:14 am PST • Views: 205

An opinion piece in Germany’s Der Spiegel has some clear insight into the Mumbai atrocities: India Is Pointing in the Right Direction.

For years a kind of death industry has been taking hold in Pakistan’s tribal areas. There are hundreds of Koranic schools which could better be described as cadet schools for Islamists. Boys as young as five are sent here by their impoverished parents. The state provides hardly any free education; the schools that exist are poorly equipped. Children learn the Koran by heart in Arabic, often without understanding a word. After all they speak Pashtun, not Arabic.

The idea is to condition or brainwash them. The goal is jihad. As young men these warriors are given military training which underscores their so-called spiritual training.

Anyone who doubts the existence of this death-machinery can visit the hundreds of schools just a few hours’ drive from Quetta, near Afghanistan’s border. To get there one has to pass checkpoints and roadblocks erected by the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence agency. The ISI carefully protects this region, which might be described as an extended barracks for jihad, interspersed with rural villages. Why? No one in Islamabad seems willing to answer that question.

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1 Shug  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:16:00am

Hitler Youth on Steroids

2 Ojoe  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:16:21am

How.Very.Sad.

3 Occasional Reader  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:16:35am

I'm beginning to suspect that it's not really a Religion of Peace.

(And oldie but a goodie)

4 rabidsquirrel  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:16:42am

Makes our education system seem downright stellar, in comparison.

5 Spiny Norman  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:16:57am

Who would have ever thought such a thing could go on right under the Pakistani governments nose... ?

/

6 Walter L. Newton  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:17:01am

German racism again. How dare they talk about Islam like this.
/

7 Czarny_Smok  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:17:15am

Seems that it's just a matter of time before this jihad reaches our shores again. Now, the "security team" that the Messiah has gathered about him really scares me!

8 maddogg  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:17:16am
Children learn the Koran by heart in Arabic, often without understanding a word. After all they speak Pashtun, not Arabic.

Well, how much do you need to understand beyond pulling a pin for Allah?

9 Ojoe  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:17:25am

beefiftytoo

10 rawmuse  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:17:33am

Death to the Infidel, coming soon to a population center near you, financed by your friendly Wahhabis!

11 Occasional Reader  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:18:26am
After all they speak Pashtun, not Arabic.

Not according to the President-Elect!

We need more Arabic translators in Waziristan, ASAP!

12 tfc3rid  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:18:28am

So we acknowledge the problem and know where the problem lies... What do we do? Either way, it seems the options are not very palatable...

13 tfc3rid  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:19:13am

re: #11 Occasional Reader

Not according to the President-Elect!

We need more Arabic translators in Waziristan, ASAP!

Not to worry, once President BO invades Pakistan, we'll have them speaking English!

14 Nevergiveup  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:19:16am

re: #7 Czarny_Smok

Seems that it's just a matter of time before this jihad reaches our shores again. Now, the "security team" that the Messiah has gathered about him really scares me!

There are Islamic schools here already all over the place! no need to wait.

15 maddogg  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:19:45am

re: #12 tfc3rid

So we acknowledge the problem and know where the problem lies... What do we do? Either way, it seems the options are not very palatable...

Well, according to our very warlike empty suit President infect, we invade!

16 experiencedtraveller  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:19:49am

There are more muslims living in India than living in Pakistan.

/uh oh

17 mean Gene  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:19:56am

Interesting read.
Makes me wonder how many of those tsunami orphans ended up radicalized in such places.

18 WitchDoctor  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:20:31am

re: #13 tfc3rid

Wait, I thought we were all (The One excepted of course) supposed to learn Spanish?

19 rabidsquirrel  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:20:46am

The Pakistani state is economically - and morally - bankrupt.

20 unreconstructed rebel  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:21:15am

Didn't the Turks do something like this?

Except that he Turks brainwashed kidnapped or orphaned Christian kids. They became the dreaded janissaries.

21 Occasional Reader  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:21:16am
The next American president seems to understand the reality of power relations in Pakistan.

Ummm, I'll believe it when I see it.

22 Kragar  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:21:18am

So if Obama actually does invade Pakistan, how long before the Left turns on him, or will this be a "good war"?

23 Lizard by the Bay  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:21:30am

How much of this was going on under Musharraf, while he pretended to be our "ally"? Perhaps Obama is right. Pakistan might need some smart bomb enemas. But I'd rather just let India bulldoze these creeps.

24 tfc3rid  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:21:32am

re: #18 WitchDoctor

Wait, I thought we were all (The One excepted of course) supposed to learn Spanish?

No, we are supposed to know more than 1 language... Could be Russian...

25 Timbre  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:21:35am
"Anyone who doubts the existence of this death-machinery can visit the hundreds of schools just a few hours’ drive from Quetta, near Afghanistan’s border."

Somehow, I don't think a light-skinned blonde (OK, gray) who speaks "Americani", like me, would be welcome in these parts--except for the mandatory head-chopping.

26 Golem Akbar  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:22:03am

Pakistan's got some 'splainin' to do, Lucy...
No easy answers, but I pray Pakistan's leaders will do the right thing before war breaks out between them and India.

27 Sharmuta  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:22:12am

This is the area 0bama said he'd attack. And now India's going to do the work Americans didn't to do.

Talk about outsourcing! I thought 0bama was going to protect American jobs.

28 tfc3rid  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:22:12am

re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

So if Obama actually does invade Pakistan, how long before the Left turns on him, or will this be a "good war"?

It will turn out good because he'll probably 'catch' Bin Laden...

29 winston06  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:22:51am

Pakistan is the most dangerous nation in the world. Worse than Saudi Arabia and Somalia

30 maddogg  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:22:52am

re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

So if Obama actually does invade Pakistan, how long before the Left turns on him, or will this be a "good war"?

He didn't mean an invasion of American Troops, he meant an invasion of American tax dollars.

31 [deleted]  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:23:16am
32 Occasional Reader  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:23:17am
Naturally Obama will talk with the government in Islamabad. But the fact that he has emphasized military strength shows that he is soberly, if pessimistically, assessing the political power relations between the army and the Pakastani [sic] government.

Or, it means that he tried to sound tough by being in favor of whatever war was not actually being prosecuted, in time-honored "centrist" liberal tradition.

33 winston06  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:23:21am

re: #28 tfc3rid

fat chance...

34 Kragar  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:23:30am

re: #28 tfc3rid

It will turn out good because he'll probably 'catch' Bin Laden...

Well, he would almost catch him several times, but his "advisors" wouldn't give the go ahead to the troops on the ground in time.

35 Nevergiveup  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:23:47am

re: #29 winston06

Pakistan is the most dangerous nation in the world. Worse than Saudi Arabia and Somalia

One hell of a trifecta?

36 Golem Akbar  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:24:33am

re: #29 winston06

Pakistan is the most dangerous nation in the world. Worse than Saudi Arabia and Somalia


Let's add Pakistan to Iran and maybe (for the time being) North Korea, as the Axis of Evil.

37 billhedrick  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:24:37am

At the risk of being misunderstood:
"Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"

38 Jetpilot1101  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:24:38am

Any chance Obama approves Operation Linebacker 3?

39 Timbre  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:24:38am

re: #35 Nevergiveup

One hell of a trifecta?

Throw in Sudan and you have a fourfecta.

40 pat  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:24:56am

Pakistan is the edge of the Saudi sword.

41 Ward Cleaver  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:25:16am

Hugh Hewitt had plenty yesterday about Lashkar-e-Taiba, and how the Pakistani government has, at best, looked the other way.

42 harrylook  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:25:28am

So, you mean Bush didn't create terrorism? That's not what I read in the NYT...

43 karmic_inquisitor  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:25:33am

If you ask "why" you get a series of accusations thrown at you ranging from "Islamophobe" to "Meddler".

We have had our collective heads so far up our collective asses on Pakistan. The whole notion of "don't crack down on Pakistan - you might radicalize them" is a parallel to the famous line in Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles "Don't shoot Mongo - you'll only make him angry."

It is as absurd.

But we can expect the same policy to be continued, but coupled with "unconditional" acceptance of the legitimacy of the ISI and their activities along with trying to "reach out" to the "people of the region."

I say "shoot Mongo."

44 Ford_Prefect  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:25:40am

re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

So if Obama actually does invade Pakistan, how long before the Left turns on him, or will this be a "good war"?

Silly Kragar, if a democrat POTUS does it of course it is good. //

45 Walter L. Newton  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:26:09am

re: #28 tfc3rid

It will turn out good because he'll probably 'catch' Bin Laden...

Personal opinion, Bin Laden is dead. There is no way a man, as connected to business and governments as he is, could keep this low of a profile for so long. No way.

If he tried to make any sort of contact with ANYONE in the last 7 years, we would find out about it. And we would have special ops all over him.

This guy is gone, and our government knows it. It's PR to keep his image alive. It works both for us and Islam to have this guy as a figurehead.

46 opinionated  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:26:27am

Compare the number of Mideast "peace negotiators" that have been appointed over the years from numerous countries, to the number of times any World leader has stated that all over the Muslim - AND NON MUSLIM-World there are schools brainwashing another generation of savage murderers.

47 tfc3rid  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:26:37am

re: #34 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Well, he would almost catch him several times, but his "advisors" wouldn't give the go ahead to the troops on the ground in time.

Well, ou have to go through the legal channels on it first... Come on man, you can't just lob missiles without full legal protection...

48 shanec99  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:26:41am

Hey we could send our Big Three CEO's from Detroit there... they could teach the Imans, Mullahs and various other clerics a thing or two about motivation and inspiration.

49 Dianna  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:26:45am

re: #20 unreconstructed rebel

Didn't the Turks do something like this?

Except that he Turks brainwashed kidnapped or orphaned Christian kids. They became the dreaded janissaries.

It was called "devshirme", one child in three from the Christian portions of the Ottoman Empire.

It actually started falling apart pretty quickly, after Suleiman the Magnificent's death. Selim was a the start of their endless decline.

50 tfc3rid  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:27:22am

re: #45 Walter L. Newton

Same here, which is why I had quotes around 'catch' Bin Laden...

51 yma o hyd  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:28:19am
52 Timbre  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:28:19am

re: #45 Walter L. Newton

I don't know, Walter. Salafist Muslims make a really, public, big deal about "martyrdom." I don't think they could keep UBL's death quiet for long.

53 Who Watches the Watchmen?  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:28:19am

re: #39 Timbre

Throw in Sudan and you have a fourfecta.

Add some pie and you have the Axis of Weebl.

54 harrylook  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:28:40am

re: #16 experiencedtraveller

There are more muslims living in India than living in Pakistan.

/uh oh

And yet the terrorists had to recruit Muslims from Pakistan. I think it's obvious that India's Muslims are considerably less "militant" than the Pakistanis.

55 experiencedtraveller  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:29:31am

re: #54 harrylook

And yet the terrorists had to recruit Muslims from Pakistan. I think it's obvious that India's Muslims are considerably less "militant" than the Pakistanis.

I sure do hope you are right.

56 mean Gene  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:30:19am

Pakistan's official lines are:
1. If Pakistan shuts down the relief groups fingered by Washington, it will risk a popular backlash.
2. Terrorist Islamist groups play an essential humanitarian role and will be monitored, but not shut down.
3. Islamic terrorist groups are faster and more organized than Pakistan's government and ruling army.
4. Pakistan's ruling army for years has backed the militant groups in Kashmir.
5. Islamic militants - mainly from the Jamiat-i-Islami party - have won goodwill for years in Kashmir with their charity work but have not been able to convert this into political power.
6. Non-militant Muslims can't seem to muster the capacity of the terrorist Islamists to aid such poor children.

57 Gordon Marock  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:30:26am

Look, all we need to do is parachute a crack team of cultural sensitivity trainers from the Chicago public school system into these 'tribal' regions and viola, problem solved.

58 mean Gene  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:33:27am

re: #51 yma o hyd

Father of Mumbai gunman, Azam Amir Kasab, 'paid by terrorists to hand him over' - from the spin-off links ...

I wonder how old the young man was when ''daddy'' sold him to the terrorists?

59 karmic_inquisitor  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:34:56am

re: #57 Gordon Marock

Look, all we need to do is parachute a crack team of cultural sensitivity trainers from the Chicago public school system into these 'tribal' regions and viola, problem solved.

With that the name of "Gordon" at LGF is officially rehabilitated.

Nodrog, however, is forever preserved in self immolating ignominy.

60 jwpaine  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:36:46am

re: #57 Gordon Marock

Look, all we need to do is parachute a crack team of cultural sensitivity trainers from the Chicago public school system into these 'tribal' regions and viola, problem solved.

Well, it would certainly improve the quality of education in Chicago.

61 rabidsquirrel  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:37:05am

re: #57 Gordon Marock

Look, all we need to do is parachute a crack team of cultural sensitivity trainers from the Chicago public school system into these 'tribal' regions and viola, problem solved.

And throw in a few "community organizers" for good measure. Come to think of it, I recall one who mentioned "invading" Pakistan...

62 winston06  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:37:35am

re: #36 Golem Akbar
The Pakistani people are very emotional, identity-less and Islamicized and highly unstable mentally. The level of rage among some Pakistanis is seriously dangerous.

63 unreconstructed rebel  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:40:51am

re: #57 Gordon Marock

Look, all we need to do is parachute a crack team of cultural sensitivity trainers from the Chicago public school system into these 'tribal' regions and viola, problem solved.

Not to worry. This is where The One's experience as a community coordinator comes to the fore.

64 anti-looter  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:42:05am

re: #57 Gordon Marock

Look, all we need to do is parachute a crack team of cultural sensitivity trainers from the Chicago public school system into these 'tribal' regions and viola, problem solved.

I understand Ayers and his wife are available.

65 Lizard by the Bay  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:42:18am

re: #54 harrylook

I think it's obvious that India's Muslims are considerably less "militant" than the Pakistanis.

I don't know if "less militant" is the right phrase. I would say, "better behaved". This stems from the fact that, traditionally, large scale Muslim/Hindu violence in India nearly always ends with far more Muslim casualties. Lose enough lopsided battles and a light eventually goes off, even in a Muslim.

In any conflict with Muslims, anything less than an utterly humiliating and absolute defeat of them will result in their celebration of victory, no matter how pyrrhic. This is the lesson that Israel has evidently forgotten. It will lead to their own demise if they don't start crushing Muslim skulls when they're given a good reason to.

66 nyc redneck  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:45:26am

as we go merrily abt. our lives, doing what free people do, they are transforming children into killing machines and preparing to unleash them.
based on this article, these kids see nothing of the world they are conditioned to hate and inspired to destroy for allah.
and those who have created them would love to turn them loose on us everywhere.
this is a sick and dangerous society.
we need more honest reporting abt. what is really going on in islam.
no more p.c. platitudes and euphemisms.

67 SevoGuy  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:47:28am

MAYBE IT'S HIGH TIME TO HOLD THE CLERICS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ISLAMIC TERRORISM.

My advice to the Indian Nation. GO THE WAR. Start by visiting each mosque in India and running the Clerics or Imams out of your country.

Somebody please explain to me why Pakistan is so economically unsuccessful compared to the Western World, China and India. It must be the Jew's. Right?

Islam ask yourself this question. Why are you so far behind if you have the superior religion. The answer?

You don't have the superior religion or culture. You are an inferior being. It is you, Islam, who are the descendent's of Pigs and Apes.

The United States better stop letting muslims into their country or they will taste of bitter pill of islamic terrorism.

BAN THE KORAN.

68 SpringheelJack  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:54:02am

It all comes from the Islamic system.

It starts with the Islamic requirement to pay "zakat", usually (falsely) translated as "charity to the poor".

A Muslim's zakat obligation is 2.5% of wealth. If you have a million dollars in assets, your yearly assessment is $25K. This is a respectable chunk of change for wealthy Muslims.

Who is eligible to receive zakat? NOT just the poor. The imams, the collectors of zakat, and Muslims engaging in jihad are all eligible to receive zakat payments.

The bottom line is that Jihad is an integral part of Islam, and is explicitly supported by the Islamic financial system. Wealthy Muslims MUST support radical Islamic schools turning out Jihad fighters.

69 blangwort  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 9:57:40am

Pakistan practically created the Taliban. The Saudis probably had a hand in funding it. This probably happened with a wink and a nod from our intelligence agencies. And for a while, (while the Soviets occupied Afghanistan) they were a useful bunch of idiots.

Unfortunately, nobody gave much thought to what would happen after the Soviets left. A bunch of wide eyed religious nuts in a far-away land, with loads of weapons --what could possibly go wrong?

This is how we incubate cults. This is what happens when cults run unchecked. And this particular cult practically had their weapons handed to them on a silver platter. We helped create this monster too. And everyone hoped it would somehow evaporate and go away after the deed was done.

Well, WWII didn't abate the Soviet leadership's desire for empire; and clearly the end of occupation didn't somehow tame these guys either.

So, what do we do? I suspect that Pakistan is afraid of this monster because they know it will turn on them. There is probably more than just a bunch of Taliban sympathizers in the ISI. There is also the knowledge that they're not ready to defend themselves against this threat. This cult has been allowed to spread to such a degree that Pakistan probably risks civil war if they take extensive action against this festering problem.

The solution? I don't know. I'm not sure how the West can support Pakistan without risking India's rightful concerns over the security of their borders. The Pakistani nukes are no laughing matter either.

Once again, the West has to be the bad guy. We're probably going to have to attack these resources in Pakistan "without permission" so that the Pakistani regime can somehow stay in control of their nukes. It will be interesting to see if the Obama Presidency has the guts to do this.

Whether he acts upon this or not, he's going to make GWB look good. This is one problem I do not think diplomacy will be able to fix.

70 palladin  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:03:18am
-- and a US invasion under President Obama can't be ruled out.

Interesting... they throw out that option so...nonchalantly. (Kinda like "Let get the American's to take care of it for us, (Now that they have a good president)"

Somehow I see Obama and the Democrats growing up really quickly. (Maybe they will be more honest about calling Pakistan on their duplicity).

71 catttt  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:03:26am

One of my pizza delivery guys is from Pakistan. When I ordered a pizza yesterday, we talked about this a bit. He is a sharp cookie and a good guy, and you can pretty much count on that being the case with most immigrants. We are incredibly lucky to receive the cream of the crop from other countries, imho.

Anyway, he pretty much said what the article said, in an abbreviated form. He was really frustrated by the old country, let me tell you. The absolute key, he said (and I agree) is education.

72 snopercod  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:04:10am

Nah, it's probably just a convenience-store training school.

73 ~BfromTX  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:13:01am

re: #60 jwpaine

And BINGO was his name!

74 mfarmer1  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:13:07am

If only these poor kids would choose to be Islamic scholars after mastering such a magnificent task as rote memorization of the Koran. Instead of becoming martyrs, they could have all completed their studies and held doctorates in Islamic Studies. We need more of the latter, as the contributions to the world from the existing scholars is such a grand and enlightening example for all the universe. If only the Jews didn't thwart the advancement of these students and their true calling from Allah.

/Average Arab talk show captured by Memri.

75 mean Gene  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:20:39am

re: #74 mfarmer1

If only these poor kids would choose to be Islamic scholars after mastering such a magnificent task as rote memorization of the Koran. Instead of becoming martyrs, they could have all completed their studies and held doctorates in Islamic Studies. We need more of the latter, as the contributions to the world from the existing scholars is such a grand and enlightening example for all the universe. If only the Jews didn't thwart the advancement of these students and their true calling from Allah.

/Average Arab talk show captured by Memri.

Is he admitting that most ''Islamic scholars'' are merely rote memorizers of a book they don't understand?
And what about all those girls at the Red Mosque last year?
THEY thought they understood the Koran well enough to be dressing up as Muttuwa, (religious police) kidnapping and beating Chinese women on the streets of Pakistan for wearing those skin-tight silk sleeveless knee-length dresses.
I guess they missed the part about religious policemen being a 100% man-only job.

76 Serotonin  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:23:08am

I was wondering how much in foreign aid the United States sends to pakistan and this is what I found:

". . . . Pakistan received 643 million dollars in economic assistance and 299 million dollars in military assistance in 2006."

Almost a billion dollars to keep their nukes "safe." What does pakistan do with this money? I have no confidence in our government officials to effectively oversee this foreign aid. Why does our military not have more access to taliban hiding in pakistan?

77 ratherdashing  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:30:55am

A good book to read that offers insight into the myriad of security organizations inside Pakistan is "Who Killed Daniel Pearl" by Bernard-Henri Levy. Pakistan tops my list of most fouled up places on earth.

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

78 [deleted]  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:34:03am
79 itellu3times  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:37:02am

Follow the money.

... back to our friends, the Saudis.

80 [deleted]  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:38:49am
81 Buck  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:39:29am

These are camps... did you go to camp when you were a kid?

And we in America have the Boy Scouts, a clearly para military organization ... preparing the youth...

But preparing for what exactly?


/moonbat channel off

82 Mr Spiffy  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 10:39:41am

re: #29 winston06

Pakistan is the most dangerous nation in the world. Worse than Saudi Arabia and Somalia

You forgot China and Iran.

83 scott in east bay  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 11:31:53am

I work with a couple of guys from Pakistan. They're Punjabi.

Both of them came to this country to get AWAY from all this crap. They don't want their kids anywhere near it.

Robert Kagan had an article at Real Clear Politics today that said we may need to internationalize the cleaning out of the Paki tribal areas. Pakistan does not control the territory, and admits it does not. Kagan says that Pakistan can't claim sovereignty over territory that they do not control.

The world can no longer afford "tribal areas" in the 21st century. We are going to have to go in there and drag these people kicking and screaming into the 21st century whether they like it or not.

84 NelsFree  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 2:46:07pm

re: #49 Dianna

It was called "devshirme", one child in three from the Christian portions of the Ottoman Empire.

It actually started falling apart pretty quickly, after Suleiman the Magnificent's death. Selim was a the start of their endless decline.

If a Dhimmi family could not pay the Jizya for a given year, the Muslims could take their first-born Son instead. They often became Jannisaries.

85 lostlakehiker  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 4:13:17pm

re: #56 mean Gene

Pakistan's official lines are:
1. If Pakistan shuts down the relief groups fingered by Washington, it will risk a popular backlash.
2. Terrorist Islamist groups play an essential humanitarian role and will be monitored, but not shut down.
3. Islamic terrorist groups are faster and more organized than Pakistan's government and ruling army.
4. Pakistan's ruling army for years has backed the militant groups in Kashmir.
5. Islamic militants - mainly from the Jamiat-i-Islami party - have won goodwill for years in Kashmir with their charity work but have not been able to convert this into political power.
6. Non-militant Muslims can't seem to muster the capacity of the terrorist Islamists to aid such poor children.


7. We can no more disavow these terrorists than we can disavow our Mothers.
8. Holy Writ requires more of the same. Citing chapter and verse. (correctly, if cherry-picking verses is allowed. Somehow, it always is.)
9. What are you gonna do? Huh? Huh?

86 just another four-letter word  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 4:33:53pm

re: #85 lostlakehiker

7. We can no more disavow these terrorists than we can disavow our Mothers.
8. Holy Writ requires more of the same. Citing chapter and verse. (correctly, if cherry-picking verses is allowed. Somehow, it always is.)
9. What are you gonna do? Huh? Huh?

Say hello to my friend Mr. Reaper, followed shortly thereafter by Mr. BLU-84, followed up by Mr. W-80. They can be your new friends!

(Coming soon to your neighborhood, don'cha know...)

JAFLW

87 gogogodzilla  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 4:56:51pm

What is unmentioned is that this same phenomenon occurs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank... yet is given a free pass by nearly all of the western media.

88 theblakester  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 6:03:44pm

Sorry, I can't hear you. I currently have my head buried in the sand. So sorry!

89 Biff  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 6:41:47pm
Children learn the Koran by heart in Arabic, often without understanding a word.

Isn't this almost exactly the same as President-Elect Obama's experience in Indonesia?

90 FlagPony  Tue, Dec 2, 2008 6:43:38pm

I'm all for teaming up with India and heading into pakistan. It has become what Afganistan was in the 90's in regards to training camps etc. Any chance Nobama will carry through on this campaign promise?

91 nines09  Wed, Dec 3, 2008 2:05:40pm

You would only hope that at some point in time (hopefully before a few million people die) sanity will enter into all of this. Just like in...When...Uh oh.


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