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2008-01-09 India-Pakistan

Militants tonsure 3 women for selling tobacco

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Posted by john frum 2008-01-09 05:27|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 definition of tonsure

Posted by gorb 2008-01-09 06:44|| 2008-01-09 06:44|| Front Page Top

#2 At first glance I thought the headline said "torture". While tonsure can be unpleasant, at least the hair will grow back.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2008-01-09 13:13|| 2008-01-09 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Militants had even shot dead wholesale and retail traders. Police do not take notice of such parading of business people.

Doesn't sound like boony cops over in that part of the world aren't really good for much of anything...

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-09 13:17|| 2008-01-09 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 This is probably a major social humiliation, as was shaving a woman's hair in liberated France, for having slept with a german.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-01-09 13:19|| 2008-01-09 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Many of the tonsurers were post D-DAY resistants.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-01-09 13:33|| 2008-01-09 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, the IIUC, liberation was marked by a quasi-civil war, during which the commies "dealt" with many of their opposition, in addition to the basic brutalities from local bullies. I've been told, and think it's probably right, that this trauma is one of the reasons (the other being the gaullist poison) why there is no real conservative movement in France since WWII, because the actual right has been traumatized by this and the imposed guilt of being forcefully associated with hitlerism (while hitler was a leftist, in final analysis) and collaboration (while many collabos were socialists or commies, and the french communist party was a collaborator and TRAITOR party even before war broke out, and until the Motherlan was invaded in 1941) by the allied gaullists & commies.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-01-09 13:38|| 2008-01-09 13:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Do we really need another Brittany story? At least we'll still have Paris.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-01-09 13:47|| 2008-01-09 13:47|| Front Page Top

#8 LOL, NS!

Posted by twobyfour 2008-01-09 15:34|| 2008-01-09 15:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Internet dictionary - sign of the times. As for me, I still much prefer my Webster's.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-09 17:54|| 2008-01-09 17:54|| Front Page Top

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