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2003-05-09 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-05-09 06:00 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ahhhhhhh!!!!! Madness!!!! And they've got nukes. Or at least they live in a country with nukes and they've managed to get their own newspapers and after Afghanistan, one can never be confident that they will never gain power.

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2003-05-09 06:21:52|| 2003-05-09 06:21:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Madness indeed. Apparently the Pakistanis and North Koreans both have a lot of lead in their drinking water. Iran is looking rather civil in comparison.

Posted by Tom 2003-05-09 07:08:21|| 2003-05-09 07:08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 I got really confused by the first para. Were they objecting to the fact he was dead, or that someone said he was dead? Or that someone said the equivalent of "He's dead, God bless him."?

There's a drinking milk ritual? And it's against Islam? Moooooo.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-09 07:29:32|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-09 07:29:32|| Front Page Top

#4 So is a Pak "military genius" one step up from a Pak "expert?" This is going to be a long war.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-05-09 11:12:26|| 2003-05-09 11:12:26|| Front Page Top

#5 TT - all of them. Saudi money is about all that keeps the turbaneers going.

Posted by Sofia 2003-05-09 11:12:48|| 2003-05-09 11:12:48|| Front Page Top

#6 "Behind you Robin, More jihadies" POW.
"I see a lunatic fringe to all this Batman."
"Holy Koran Robin, It's the holy Koran."
"But why Batman?"
"Look out Robin, more jihadies"

Posted by Lucky 2003-05-09 11:34:48|| 2003-05-09 11:34:48|| Front Page Top

#7 they were objecting to the fact that the word mahoum was used, apparently a term that implies "he's dead, god bless him" Objected because hes ahmedi, some breakaway group thats not considered truely Islamic. Apparently this group was a big issue in Pakland at one time, and for the crazy turbans it still is.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-09 08:48:47|| 2003-05-09 08:48:47|| Front Page Top

#8 intersting also that Aslam beg thinks pakland should aling with axis of weasels - while it illustrates the way anti-americans see hope in the axis, it also makes no sense for Pakland. On the one hand Russia and Pakland have had clashing interests in afghan and central asia a long time. Also France and Germany would have trouble justifying to Eurolefties an alignment with Perv, not to mention a more islamic Pakland. And of course such a realignment would have them dancing a jig in New Delhi - clearly the axis doesnt have the military clout of US/UK.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-09 08:52:45|| 2003-05-09 08:52:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes but the weasels had to know that they would attract (the interest at least) this type of riff-raff ~~like flies to shit~~ with their alternative node of ~~ankle-bitting~~ power to balance against the U.S. They want to do business with these freaks in the belief that they'll be able to control them. Idiots.

By the way, how many of these people studied at Saudi funded madrassas, or worship at Saudi funded mosques, or get publishing money from the Sauds?

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2003-05-09 09:03:58|| 2003-05-09 09:03:58|| Front Page Top

#10 TT: I third that motion.

Posted by Michael 2003-05-09 12:34:56|| 2003-05-09 12:34:56|| Front Page Top

#11 "Qadiani" is a pejorative term for the Ahmadiyyah sect of Islam. After Wahabi clerics issued fatwah denouncements of the cult, Pakistan's Parliament altered the constitution of the "Islamic Republic" to declare the sect "non-Islamic." Freedom of religion doesn't exist in Bush Junior's two favored Muslim entities. Of course, he is thinking of the $60,000,000 in Wahabi booty that Cheney pocketed after the Gulf War 1. As for the "Urdu press" note, less than 10% of Pakis speak that proposed lingua franca. Most of the sources quoted are Punjabi.

Posted by Anonon 2003-05-09 14:05:15|| 2003-05-09 14:05:15|| Front Page Top

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