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Iraq
Shiite leader in Baghdad warns women, alcohol sellers, cinemas
2003-05-16
Shiite religious leader Mohammed al-Fartusi on Friday threatened "sinful women," alcohol sellers and cinemas of grave consequences if they did not stop their practices within a week.
The perhaps unfortunately named al-Fart is one of Muqtada al-Sadr's capos...
"The cinemas in Al-Saadun Street show indecent films. I warn them: if in a week they do not change, we will act differently with them," he said in a sermon at Muslim weekly prayers at Al-Mohsen mosque in Baghdad's Shiite suburb of Sadr City. "We warn women and the pimps who take them to the Americans: If in a week from now they do not change their attitude, the murder of these women is sanctioned (by Islam)," Fartussi added. "This warning also goes out to sellers of alcohol, radios and televisions," the imam, or prayer leader, told a crowd of several thousand faithful. "The torching of cinemas would be permitted" by Islam unless they changed their behavior, Fartussi said.
Yup, he's got the standard islamofasist lingo down pat.
The Shiite cleric was detained for three days last month by US forces controlling Baghdad, and thousands of Shiites demonstrated in the Iraqi capital to demand his release.
Time to pick him up again, I think.
"We will not brook any government that does not represent public opinion," he added, saying Iraq should be governed by religious leaders, not "secular parties."
I think he wants the job.
"We urge all residents of Baghdad to demonstrate peacefully on Monday, to go to mosques, churches and other religious sites," Imam Khaled al-Kadami told thousands of faithful at the main mosque of the predominantly Shiite district of Kazimiya.
"The violent demonstration will be scheduled at a later date."
Kadami too said religious leaders were well placed to govern Iraq. "All Iraqis are devout. Iraq is by nature a religious country, and we reject secular parties," he said.
"I'm very, very religious. I should be in charge."
Fartussi, meanwhile, announced that a special religious committee had been set up to collect items stolen during the wave of looting that swept Baghdad after it fell to US forces on April 9 and Saddam Hussein's regime collapsed. He warned that looters who did not return their booty would be publicly named during Friday prayers and prosecuted.
I'm sure that the special religious committee will take real good care of any valuable items.
Posted by:Steve

#12  yeap,this guy had his chance.He should quitly and"covertly" disapear.
Posted by: w_r_manues@yahoo.com   2003-05-17 07:59:29  

#11  "We will not brook any government that does not represent public opinion," he added, saying Iraq should be governed by religious leaders, not "secular parties."

Translation: "We want to replace Saddam-style dictatorship with an Iranian-style mullah dictatorship"
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-05-16 20:12:15  

#10  Cigarettes are a blight on the whole human race
A man is a monkey with one in his face;
Take warning dear friend
take warning dear brother
A fire's on one end
And a fools on the t'other.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-05-16 15:49:00  

#9  Anybody here from a farm? Remember those old cattle chutes that keep the cattle going straight, all the way to the loading dock? Let's dismantle one and take it to Iraq. Rebuild it, add some barbed wire to the inside, stapled along the boards. put a top on it. Start these idiots into it, and start a half-dozen gunnies shooting between the boards. When (IF!) the guy comes out the other end, paint his wounds with iodine, and tell him he has a week to improve his behavior, or he gets a second trip.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-05-16 15:32:39  

#8  Cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women

I once was happy and I had a good life
I had enough money to last me for life
I met with a gal and we went on a spree
She taught me to smoke and to drink whiskey

Cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane
Cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane

Cigarettes is a blot on the whole human race
A man is a monkey with one in his face
That's my definition, believe me dear brother
A fire on one end and a fool on the t'other

Cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane
Cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane

Write on the cross at the head of my grave
To women and whiskey here lies a poor slave
Take warning dear stranger, take warning dear friend
They'll write in big letters these words at my end

Cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane
Cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane
They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane
Hallelujah brother.
Posted by: Penguin   2003-05-16 15:25:44  

#7  Hey i aint doin anything this weekend, somebody fly me over there, i'll have a little chat with Al fartsmoker or whoever he is.
Posted by: Vinny   2003-05-16 14:28:30  

#6  The women will be murdered, but the pimps can just relax. And their customers should get their money refunded, of course.

--by proclamation of Farfaleh Fartussi, who knows"fair" from wayback.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-05-16 13:36:58  

#5  Time for "The Magic Cellphone" perhaps?
Posted by: tu3031   2003-05-16 12:57:27  

#4  tu3031 -- Maybe we should start referring to it as "the religion of pieces".
Posted by: Dar   2003-05-16 12:41:24  

#3  Time to arrange a little "accident" for Mr. Fartussi...
Posted by: Dar   2003-05-16 12:26:25  

#2  Okay. So this guy isn't on board with "Democracy ! Whiskey! Sexy!"
Posted by: Matt   2003-05-16 12:13:47  

#1  For a religion of peace, they sure do like their murder and arson. Not to mention blowing shit up.
Wait, that actually combines them both.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-05-16 12:13:05  

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