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Pakistan: Chinese engineer arrested for ‘insulting Islam’ after
he asked his Pakistani subordinates to work faster during Ramzan
OpIndia, April 17, 2023:
On Sunday, April 16, Pakistan police arrested a Chinese engineer working at a hydropower project in Kohistan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the country on accusations of blasphemy. The Chinese national working in China Gezhouba Group Company was accused of ‘insulting’ Allah.
He had allegedly commented about the slow pace of work during the Islamic holy month of Ramzan during an argument with his Pakistani subordinates at his workplace.
The accused, identified in a formal complaint to the police by two Pakistani dumpster drivers as “Mr Tian, in charge of heavy machinery,” was detained by police late on Sunday from a residential camp for Chinese workers near Dasu, about 350 km north of Islamabad ‘to avert a serious situation.’
Remember Muslims are easily provoked to hysteria.
Dasu Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam under construction in Kohistan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan. China’s Gezhouba Group Company Limited has undertaken main civil works.
According to South China Morning Post, Tian had allegedly commented about the slow pace of work during the Islamic holy month of Ramzan, which infuriated the Pakistani employees of the company. As the news of the argument and alleged blasphemy spread, a charged mob of several hundred people, chanting death threats against Tian, gathered outside the residential camp and began pelting it with stones.
Hundreds of people from nearby villages also gathered to block the Karakoram Highway connecting Pakistan to China to protest against the Chinese citizen.
The police intervened and fired aerial warning shots at the mob to prevent a riot. The mob kept creating a ruckus for almost four hours and only dispersed after the police assured that the Chinese engineer would face legal repercussions.
Meanwhile, after the aforementioned incident, the security of the Chinese nationals working on the World Bank-financed Dasu hydropower project has been tightened….
Kohistan, Pakistan
Mali: Islamic State jihadis take Tidermene, distribute Qur’ans to population
APR 17, 2023 9:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
Meanwhile, witless politicians in the West insist that this group has nothing to do with Islam, thereby depriving themselves a priori of any ability to understand its appeal to the populace and ability to persevere.
State terrorists extend control over northeastern Mali
Africa News, April 14, 2023
Jihadists affiliated to Islamic State group have taken Tidermene in Mali, further isolating the regional capital Menaka.
This is according to officials and witnesses who spoke Wednesday (Apr.12) to AFP journalists.
Tidermene’s fall follows months of fighting by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) to seize the northeastern village of a few thousand inhabitants some 75 kilometres (47 miles) north of Menaka.
All the region’s main administrative subdivisions are now under the group’s control.
The village was captured Monday night (Apr.10).
“Tidermene has fallen into the hands of Daesh,” an elected official from the town, who has retreated to Menaka, told AFP, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State organisation.
“They are distributing Korans to the population (and) moving around town with weapons,” he said.
He and others spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Another elected official said the jihadists had instructed the village’s residents to continue with business as usual, but to be prepared to begin paying the “zakat”, an Islamic tax….
Experts believe the jihadists stepped into a vacuum left when French forces departed last year….
The UN and human rights organisations say jihadists have carried out punitive attacks against communities they accuse of helping the state or refusing to join their ranks….
Tidermene, Mali
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