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| 2004-04-02 |
| Taslima should marry Rushdie Sarerahe in Nawa-e-Waqt stated that Bangladesh’s apostate writer Taslima Nasreen who had become a traitor to Pakistan by writing in favour of the Hindu community now wanted to end her exile in the West and buy a house in Calcutta in India where she thought that people loved her. Sarerahe thought that Indian Muslims in Calcutta would hate her as much as the Muslims of Bangladesh and she would not be safe there. The best thing for her to do would be to go back to the West and marry Salman Rushdie and live with him. Religious leaders are good! Writing in Jang, Saeed Siddiqi stated that politics could not be separated from religion or it will go wrong. He quoted the Quaid at Sibi darbar saying that that Pakistan’s democracy would be based on the golden principles of Islam. The writer added that most clerical leaders of India did not side with the Quaid although all of them – like Maulana Ataullah Shah Bukhari, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Hussain Ahmad Madni – were pious leaders of great integrity. After 1947, Pakistan accepted all the clerics who had sided with Congress and has given them the respect they deserved. Sectarian conflict in Gilgit According to daily Din, shops closed down in Gilgit city after preachers from both sides of the sectarian divide exhorted their followers to attack each other. One boy was shot dead while four men were wounded during a shootout that ensued. The incident was one of a series taking place in Gilgit. Paramilitary force was called out. Thirty-nine honour-killings in thirty days According to Jang, Sindh killed 39 people in one month under karo-kari (suspicion of dishonour). In the month February, rural Sindh saw 39 murders out of which 27 were women. Out of the 27 women done to death, 13 were killed by their husbands while the rest were killed by brothers and fathers. The murdered women were not given normal burial. Their corpses remained unwashed and they were buried in the desert sand without any trace of the grave. In one case a brother killed his sister and buried her in sand while she was still alive. Quranic verses in textbooks According to Nawa-e-Waqt, National Assembly saw the opposition walk out when the education minister said that certain Quranic verses were removed from an 11th class textbook of biology. Later it was said that the verses that were removed related to Jews and Christians as permanent enemies of the Muslims and the obligation of jihad on all Muslims. All the opposition parties including the PPP staged a walkout while the MMA ladies staged a protest in front of the Speaker’s chair. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #28 So! Steve (if that is your real name), you will admit to not being M4D. Is that correct? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-02 8:12:17 PM |
| #27 I swear on a case of Shiner Bock and my trusty M1911 that I am not now, or have I ever been M4D. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-04-02 6:59:12 PM |
| #26 LOL. M4D The list narrows. I want an RB townhall meeting where every poster is hauled in..... Are you now, or have your ever been Muck4Doo? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-02 5:26:56 PM |
| #25 In one case a brother killed his sister and buried her in sand while she was still alive. " You still don't understand. What's one dead sister when the tyrannts boot on all our neck? This site is op consol ugh. |
| Posted by: AntiGum 2004-04-02 5:22:51 PM |
| #24 "In one case a brother killed his sister and buried her in sand while she was still alive. " Huh? |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-04-02 5:03:25 PM |
| #23 Thirty-nine honour-killings in thirty days Is that like the new record or are they bitching that there's not enough? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-04-02 4:10:07 PM |
| #22 Heh, it was your " |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 4:05:17 PM |
| #21 how did you know! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-02 3:58:52 PM |
| #20 Extremist? On what topic, Mucky? This wouldn't be one of those "I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to..." guys, is it? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 3:46:43 PM |
| #19 im not antigum. i like gum. steve thanks for telling me what freeper is. im find some other sites and am make friends there and they say that a lot. some jack ass on one of them calling me extremist but i have friends that defend me. antiwar it good to see you again. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-02 3:43:26 PM |
| #18 I have hope that honor killings will stop soon. Other important traditions are already falling by the wayside in Ummah. How do I get to be a Freeper? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-04-02 3:04:52 PM |
| #17 CF, the problem is the far-left does not believe in 'good' and 'evil' or right/wrong.......only circumstances and shades of grey - the latter of which can be rationalized anyway they see fit. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-04-02 12:57:25 PM |
| #16 I happen to beleve in universal Right and Wrong which transends 'culture'. The taking of another life for 'convience' is wrong. I find it truely amazing that the Left, which claims to care for the environment, animal rights, against capital punishment, etc.. would condone the taking of another human life for 'convience'. I also beleve in 'Good' and 'Evil'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-04-02 12:54:24 PM |
| #15 It doesn't describe me at all dammit!! Where's the part about being a warmongering knuckle-dragger!? Where's the part about being a homophobic redneck!? What about the part about being against affirmative action makes you a damned biggoted racist!? I demand satisfaction!! This is obvious libel against my good name!!! |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-04-02 12:42:57 PM |
| #14 Isn't it convenient that any husband that's tired of his wife, for any reason, can simply kill her, declare it an "honor" killing, and go on with his life, with little possibility of prosecution. I've seen nothing written about having to produce evidence, or the need to convince anyone of such infidelity, just 'whack and stack'. Same for the killing of sisters and daughters. Of course, marrying outside the "faith" is automatically grounds for murder. "AntiGum" of course accepts this without question, simply because "it's another culture". MacArthur put an end to this sort of crap in Japan. It looks like the United States needs to change the culture of another group of 12th-Century retards as well. As for "freeper", it's grown to mean anyone who isn't a card-carrying, lobotomized, LLL nutcase. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-04-02 12:39:11 PM |
| #13 Thank you Steve for that. I suppose that does describe a lot of the people here. |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-04-02 12:26:08 PM |
| #12 Rantburg U! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-04-02 12:20:32 PM |
| #11 Dr Steve, your description brought tears to my eyes - 'tis perfect! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 11:58:27 AM |
| #10 A "freeper", as I understand it, is a person associated with "freerepublic.com", a group of very conservative folks who see the world a certain way. The term is used as a perjorative by bloggers on the Left to indicate their disdain for conservative values -- if you believe that Bush is right (about anything), or if you're against gay marriage, etc, you must be a freeper and therefore not worthy of further discussion or notice. Anyone who knows better, feel free to correct me. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-04-02 11:53:10 AM |
| #9 What is a freeper have never heard the term before. |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-04-02 11:40:35 AM |
| #8 I'm not sure, .com, I just can't believe even Antigumwar would be so idiotic as to make a comment like that. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-04-02 11:34:04 AM |
| #7 BD - So you're saying it's Mucky on Meds? To be honest, it was the CAPS screaming that made me respond. I truly despise entire sentences in caps. I'll go take my meds, now. ;-) |
| Posted by: .com (Abu Freeper Bastard) 2004-04-02 11:00:17 AM |
| #6 I think 'AntiGum' is channeling through someone, and pulling legs again... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-04-02 10:51:21 AM |
| #5 antigum what a freeper? say hi to antiwar for me cuz im miss her. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-02 10:15:26 AM |
| #4 What an ass you are,AG. I guess slavery in the Sudan,with the attendant 12 year-old sex slaves is ok(according to you).After all it is a different culture. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2004-04-02 8:56:07 AM |
| #3 AG - Neither do we. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 8:23:29 AM |
| #2 So was Nazi Germany. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-04-02 8:17:02 AM |
| #1 Out of the 27 women done to death, 13 were killed by their husbands while the rest were killed by brothers and fathers. The murdered women were not given normal burial. I know you Freeper bastards are going to make a big pitch out of this one small article. But IT'S A DIFFERENT CULTURE WITH A DIFFERENT SET OF VALUES! I don't know why I bother. |
| Posted by: AntiGum 2004-04-02 8:13:53 AM |