Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 20, 2011, 9:25 am
A demonstrator against the Pope's visit shouts at a praying pilgrim BeliefNet has a very good comment on the subject: “Over a hundred of these fringe protest groups coalesced, as they so often do, into a confused mêlée of conflicting special interests,” reported Yiannopoulos. “They were un...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 15, 2011, 7:56 am
This week there will be no posts here at T&P. At home, we are preparing for Pope Benedict’s arrival in Madrid for the WYD 2011. More than 1 million and a half are to arrive this week to celebrate this great event for all the Catholics. There are people from India, Yemen, Ethiopia, Poland, USA, Un...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 14, 2011, 3:11 pm
Lal Masjid or Red Mosque (Pakistan)Image by varunshiv via Flickr Because what the country needs is really more Islamism, more religious extremism and more persecution against non-Muslims: The imam of Islamabad’s famous Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) has accused the government of “corrupting the count...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 14, 2011, 12:51 pm
He didn’t really believe in the Alliance of Civilizations: German-Turk flag (¡!). Image via Wikipedia A 26-year-old German-Turkish citizen charged with plotting an attack with explosives on U.S. installations in Germany and attempting to recruit al-Qaida supporters over the Internet is standing...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 14, 2011, 10:47 am
Strasbourg Cathedral at sunset. Image by Giant Ginkgo via Flickr Great. Have they actually considered this guy could be lying? London, Aug 13 (ANI): A suspected terrorist has been granted bail in Britain after he claimed in black and white that he had changed his mind on terrorism. The Algerian, ...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 14, 2011, 7:41 am
Carunculate seed of Ricinus Communis. Image via Wikipedia Well, I am anxious to know what Obamamessiah has said about this: The New York Times, citing classified intelligence documents and unnamed officials, reports that terrorist operatives have been making efforts to buy large quantities of cas...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 14, 2011, 6:58 am
The Alamgiri Gate of the Lahore Fort. Image via Wikipedia Twelve heavily armed suspected Taliban militants barged into the residence of an American national and kidnapped him in the wee hours today after overpowering his guards in Pakistan”s Punjab provincial capital. About a dozen armed men ent...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 13, 2011, 10:06 am
Just consider what would have been the international reaction if a Christian-majority country would have shown on TV ads aimed at non-Christians telling them what they should or shouldn’t do during religious celebrations. I guess even Ban Ki-Moon would have protested: “While the station retract...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 12, 2011, 3:49 pm
Edgar Hoover building - headquarters. Image via Wikipedia The attorney for a Florida Muslim cleric accused of supporting terrorists wants to learn the identity of a key FBI informant in the case. Evidence shows the informant recorded numerous conversations with the cleric, 76-year-old Hafiz Khan. ...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 12, 2011, 1:56 pm
As they can’t deny the fact that Mr Bhatti was murdered, they are lying about why he was killed: because of his opposition to the Pakistani “blasphemy law”. But of course, that wouldn’t be convenient for Pakistani stablishment, would it? The media in Pakistan are trying to explain the murde...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 12, 2011, 9:29 am

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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 12, 2011, 6:00 am
The announcement that the mission will finish by Sept 2012, has been probably the cause of this boom in their use: US IED detonator. Image via Wikipedia The devices have been the insurgents’ preferred weapon for several years, but their use rose 14 per cent year-on-year, in the second quarter of...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 11, 2011, 3:59 pm
Map of India, showing region of West Bengal. Image via Wikipedia Alliance of Civilizations? A gang of 50 Muslim extremists disrupted a prayer meeting at a Christian woman’s home in West Bengal, an Indian state that borders Bangladesh. Threatening to burn down the home, the group told Selina Bibi...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 11, 2011, 1:57 pm
Map of the Philippines with Cotabato highlighted. Image via Wikipedia A bomb exploded yesterday evening at the residence of a gun store owner in the southern Philippines, where a homemade bomb killed two people and wounded 10 others four days ago, officials said today. Lawyer Cynthia Guani-Sayadi,...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 11, 2011, 1:56 pm
Image via Wikipedia Umar Patek, 40, who has a US bounty of $1 million on his head and is Indonesia‘s most wanted fugitive, was arrested by Pakistani security agencies who have said they are investigating him for links to militant groups in Pakistan. A Pakistani official said: “Right now he is ...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 11, 2011, 10:23 am
Image via Wikipedia Well, I wonder: has he seen the 72 virgins yet? Coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed the Taliban insurgents involved with the recent downing of the CH-47 helicopter, which killed 22 Navy SEALs, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan announced Wednesday. The strike ...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 11, 2011, 6:15 am
She is expecting her second baby and oh, ah, goes to church: A family of albino Muslims are being terrorised by bigots because their daughter married a man from another religion. The so-called ‘honour’ retribution has included smashed windows at their Coventry home, vandalised cars and death t...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 9, 2011, 9:45 am
Location of Karachi. Image via Wikipedia A 38-year-old layman has been gunned down in Pakistan’s largest city. Arnold Archie Dass was slain in front of dozens of onlookers in the oldest Christian neighborhood in Karachi. In the decades since property values have risen in the neighborhood, member...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 9, 2011, 6:46 am
Panorama of Khartoum. Image via Wikipedia Horrible bastards. Hiba Abdelfadil Anglo, 16, has escaped from a gang of Muslims who kidnapped her last year, but it may be a long time before she recovers from the trauma.As she told Compass how the kidnappers beat, raped and tried to force her to convert...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 8, 2011, 8:58 am
Respecting other people’s faiths, hein? You can’t miss the swastika either… via Blazing Cat Fur: Toronto has reached that Magic 5% – Synagogue defaced with “Islam will rule”. Filed under: Islamism, Religion Tagged: Islam, Synagogue, Toronto
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 8, 2011, 5:32 am
Image via Wikipedia A great loss: In the deadliest day for American forces in the nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan, insurgents shot down a Chinook transport helicopter on Saturday, killing 30 Americans, including some Navy Seal commandos from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden, as well as 8...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 7, 2011, 10:29 am
Image via Wikipedia Well, this is NOT a surprise for any of us who has been following the events in Egypt: Muslim radicals are making headway towards turning Egypt into an Islamic republic, according to Israeli Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh. The security situation in the Sinai Peninsula has d...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 7, 2011, 6:52 am
Again churches are the target of Islamists: Two roadside bombs, both of low power, exploded near Christian places of worship in the city of Jos, Nigeria, home to several Islamist sects’ leaders. The first exploded on the night of Saturday near a Baptist church which was no longer used, after bein...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 6, 2011, 9:59 am
Location in Riau province (Indonesia). Image via Wikipedia 700 churches have been attacked in the past decade in Indonesia. And the attacks continue: The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) today condemned arson attacks on three Christian churches earlier this week by mobs in Riau province in...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 6, 2011, 8:56 am
The documentary’s webpage is here. The Burqa Babes are surprisingly, refreshingly brash. They are not ashamed of what they have done. They are also funny; they see the comic dimension in their essentially Kafkaesque situations. They are clowns, ironic, as self-deprecating as they are aggressive. ...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 6, 2011, 7:41 am
Image via Wikipedia Again. And again. The military blamed al-Qaeda linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) for the powerful bomb blast today in the country\’s south that left two people dead and eight others wounded. Lt. Col. Prudencio Asto, a regional military spokesman, said the attack was carried out b...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Aug 6, 2011, 6:23 am
Considering the circumstances, I would tell Egyptians: “be careful what you ask for“. Many Egyptians never believed it possible. On Wednesday, ex-President Hosni Mubarak went on trial at the Cairo Police Academy which once bore his name. In the opening session, the former ruler pleaded “not g...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 14, 2011, 5:19 pm
A bomb exploded outside a Protestant church in the central Nigerian city of Suleija on July 10, killing three. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram–which means “Western education is sin”–is suspected. In the northeastern Nigerian city of Maidiguri, churches were closed on July 10 followin...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 14, 2011, 3:12 pm
Image via Wikipedia Islamic extremists in the Sahara desert have exploited the chaos in Libya to acquire weapons of the North African country said on Tuesday the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy Franco Frattini. “Extremists in the Sahel region of conflict have taken advantage of Libya to obt...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 14, 2011, 12:22 pm
Last month, Youcef Nardarkhani, an Iranian pastor convicted of apostasy for leaving Islam, had his death sentence for apostasy upheld and confirmed by the Iranian Supreme Court. On July 3, Pastor Youcef’s lawyer reported that his case was being returned to the Revolutionary Tribunal of Gilan Prov...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 14, 2011, 10:28 am
This is un update on this story: Indian police are looking into “every possible hostile group” in their search for the culprits behind the triple bombing in the heart of Mumbai that killed 17 people and wounded 131 others, the country’s top security official said Thursday. The attacks, which...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 14, 2011, 8:43 am
An arrogant Saudi woman made the mistake of her life when she retaliated to a heavy joke by her husband with a much heavier one. The husband simply turned his joke into reality and married another woman. The unnamed couple were visiting the wife’s family when her husband joked by telling her brot...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 14, 2011, 8:35 am
“Please, for the sake of our country, use birth control”. Sign put up by the Government. Image via Wikipedia According to a report in the Caixin Weekly magazine, population control officials in the Chinese province of Hunan have seized at least 16 babies born in violation of the one-child poli...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 14, 2011, 6:08 am
Take a look at this photograph. It appeared in The Toronto Star’s education section on Saturday: It’s the scene every Friday at the cafeteria of Valley Park Middle School in Toronto. That’s not a private academy, it’s a public school funded by taxpayers. And yet, oddly enough, what’s goin...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 13, 2011, 4:26 pm
Three coordinated bombings tore through the heart of India’s busy financial capital during rush hour Wednesday, killing 21 people in the worst terror attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege. The attacks came just months after peace talks resumed between India and Pakistan, which New Delh...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 13, 2011, 3:06 pm
Image via Wikipedia After gendercide, now they are changing sex on infant girls, because “boys are much more valued”: The Indian episcopal conference has “strongly condemned” sex-change operations performed on infant girls at the request of their parents. In Indore–a city of 1.5 million ...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 13, 2011, 1:42 pm
Pierre Vogel aka Abu Hamza This is an important proof of two things: firstly, of the real danger we face, that is mainly an ideological one and, secondly, of the race playing no important role in this. If you support Wahabbism/Salafism, it doesn’t matter your origins. What matters is that support...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 13, 2011, 9:35 am
So, first, there was a military war. Now there is an economic war: Image via Wikipedia South Sudanese citizens, international dignitaries and the world’s newest president celebrated as their war-wracked nation became the world’s newest country Saturday. Raucous street celebrations broke out�...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 13, 2011, 6:14 am
This undated photo provided by Adnkronos news agency shows Pakistani journalist and Adnkronos International correspondent Syed Saleem Shahzad. The Pakistani journalist who investigated al-Qaida's alleged infiltration of the navy and told a rights activist he'd been threatened by the country's intell...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 12, 2011, 5:51 am
Islamist/Islamic propaganda at its best: Western Political correctness refers to them as “extremists.” But their statements and points of view can only be considered as “extremist” because of their extreme brutality. Lately some of the higher clergymen of Iran express themselves in a more �...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 11, 2011, 10:32 am
Image by helen.2006 via Flickr According to Amnesty International, Iran has admitted executing 190 people between January and the end of June this year; an additional 130 reported executions have gone unacknowledged. These figures put Iran on course for a record year for capital punishment. In 2010...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 11, 2011, 7:01 am
Image by eli_chan via Flickr An immigrant from the Maghreb has entered the sanctuary of Saint Calogero and has destroyed the image of the patron saint, last July 9th. The church was open for the 7:30 mass, when the immigrant, of North African origins, has entered and gone directly into the sacrist...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 10, 2011, 4:15 pm
Absolutely disgusting and shameful: the West in a quite important economic crisis, and yet these guys are asking for more money. Image via Wikipedia The Palestinian Authority is facing a budget crisis. It has reached its borrowing limit and has a 585 million dollar deficit. So naturally its leader...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 10, 2011, 12:33 pm
Taliban in Herat. Image via Wikipedia Back to the future… in this case a very realistic film: The resurgence of Maulvi Faqir Mohammed — also one of the Pakistani Taliban’s top commanders — illustrates the resilience of militants fighting to topple the U.S.-allied Pakistani government and t...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 10, 2011, 9:15 am
Shabhaz Bhatti was murdered by Islamic fanatics, and the Pakistani government is now pursuing the killers, according to the brother of the slain Catholic leader. “The investigations into the murder of my brother Shabhaz are finally on the right track,” said Paul Bhatti, who is now a special adv...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 8, 2011, 9:20 am
More peaceful guys: Image via Wikipedia The Assyrian International News Agency reports a Coptic priest in the same region was threatened late last week by a mob of Muslims that surrounded the church of St. George. Father George Thabet was serving the morning mass when hundreds of Muslims, some a...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 8, 2011, 6:24 am
Image via Wikipedia Absolutely logical after this: Police will be given new powers to require motorists and others suspected of committing crimes to remove any head coverings so they can be identified.Mr O’Farrell said there should be no discrimination – in favour or against any race – when ...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jul 7, 2011, 1:38 pm
Image via Wikipedia Absolutely marvellous: A Muslim group tried to seize control of a hospital run by a Presbyterian missionary group in Pakistan, bringing charges that the hospital had been sold. The effort was foiled only after local police arrested hospital administrators at the prompting of th...
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jun 25, 2011, 2:37 pm
I’m going on a holiday trip for a fortnight, and I don’t think that I will be able to use Internet. So, I hope you’re there when I get back! Filed under: blog, blogging Tagged: holiday
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Tea And P. posted an article on Tea and Politics - Jun 25, 2011, 1:01 pm
Image via Wikipedia Somali al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabaab is recruiting scores of militants from Kenya, reports Nairobi TV (NTV). The media organization’s recent undercover investigation also indicates the terrorist group has infiltrated the Kenyan military. Al-Shabaab has waged war against Sheik...
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