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This is a cross post by Effendi of The Spittoon
The business writer Khurram Husain delivers a fine piece called ‘Cheer the Assassin’, a fierce polemic criticising Pakistan’s popular support for the assassination of Salman Taseer and canonisation of his killer Malik Qadri:
Kiss the pages of the document where the ‘holy’ laws are written. Don’t read them, don’t think [...]

As Julian Assange (not pictured above) considers lighting Egypt’s blue torch paper and not much as retiring as never going near the danger, a suicide-terror attack at a Coptic church shows just how much further Egyptian society could fall.

At a recent London Labour Mayoral hustings, Ken brought up the Iraq war:
Ken, mincing none of his words, noted that: “that invasion [into Iraq] took the lives of 52 Londoners” – referring to the 7/7 bombings.
It needs to be emphasized, again and again it appears, that Mohammad Siddique Khan was radicalised before Iraq, and before [...]

More than two dozen people have been killed and hundreds injured in a staggered attack by two suicide bombers – men dressed as women, according to reports – in Iran. The tactic, which is becoming increasingly common for such attacks, was for the first bomber to detonate outside a mosque and the second to wait until [...]

Another suicide bombing in Kabul. Eighteen people dead. Fifty injured.
Why would people do this?
Well, if the suicide bombing was in Israel, Ken Livingstone has the answer:
Livingstone explains that although al-Qaradawi denounced 9/11 and the 7/7 bombings, he makes the exception for suicide bombings inside Israel because the Palestinians’ land is occupied and they have no [...]

According to the BBC live coverage, Moscow has suffered a terrible suicide-bomber attack on its subway system similar to the July 7th attacks in London in 2005:
Two bombs at the height of rush hour on Moscow’s Metro system have killed at least 37 people. Russian officials say female suicide bombers set off the [...]

Asscociated Press: Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 13
Pakistan — A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 13 people, injuring 52 and underscoring the nation’s relentless security threat.
The blast in the small town of Saidu Sharif in Pakistan’s [...]

BBC: Two suicide bombers have killed at least 20 people in the Pakistani city of Lahore, officials say.
REUTERS: Suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 39 people in the city of Lahore on Friday, officials said, despite government assertions that crackdowns had weakened Taliban insurgents.

The enemies of democracy in Iraq produce the predictable headlines as polls open:
Deadly Attacks Mar First Day of Voting in Iraqi Elections
Suicide bomber kills 3 soldiers outside Baghdad polling center
20 die as Iraq election begins
Iraq polling stations hit by string of bomb attacks
Attacks Kill 14 as Iraqis Vote in General Elections
Suicide bombers kill 30 in [...]