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| 2004-02-20 |
| Family planning and Punjab assembly According to Khabrain, women blushed when men members of Punjab assembly asked embarrassing questions about contraception from welfare minister Nasim Lodhi. The hall went up with shouts of "shame, shame" as one member said his children watched ads on TV about family planning and asked what was said in them. Well done Bangladesh! Daily Insaf editorialised that Bangladesh government of Khaleda Zia had done a great service to Islam by banning all products by companies owned by Ahmedis. It did not matter that the government had given in to the pressure of the mullahs, what mattered was that it had closed the door on the sources of strength of a sect that was an enemy of Islam. Hameed Gul’s wealth According to Khabrain, a representative of the PPP and adviser to Ms Benazir Bhutto, Dr Israr Shah said in Islamabad that the charge made by ex-ISI chief Hameed Gul that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had taken $6 million from Libya to make the Islamic atom bomb was completely bogus. He said Gul should give account of the millions of dollars he made from the Afghan jihad which he ran as a commercial enterprise for ten years. He said Osama bin Laden was the ‘baby’ of the ISI which he headed. Jinn takes over maulvi’s house According to Khabrain, a jinn occupied the house of a maulvi in Tank in South Waziristan and was creating a lot of racket including throwing around copies of the Holy Quran. In the house of Abdur Rashid Burki the jinn takes over in the morning and starts fires all over the place. The jinn throws rubbish in the food the inhabitants of the house prepare for themselves. The jinn-breakers who were called in said the jinn was actually a deo (jinns are Muslims) and was a non-Muslim and therefore was not listening to the jinn-breakers. Three months earlier a maulvi was forced to leave the village by a group of jinns. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #7 Jinns are what we call genies. Perhaps they should put them back in their bottles? |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-2-20 10:33:09 PM |
| #6 Hmph. Amateurs. Stuff like this doesn't happen in America, because there are too many bible thumpin' pentecostals that would take to Jinn thumpin'. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-2-20 8:22:04 PM |
| #5 Damn... excellent questions... Would a Jinn fling a holy kram? Or would a deo be more like to make a quram sail? Hard questions. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-20 5:11:51 PM |
| #4 A jinn is probably a pissed-off slave, spooky, but there's a reason for everything. And how do you ID a deo? All look the same to me. |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2004-2-20 3:30:25 PM |
| #3 Excellent idea Mike. Per the article jinns are moslem.... many of our trolls are in fact deos |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-20 10:35:59 AM |
| #2 The jinn throws rubbish in the food the inhabitants of the house prepare for themselves. I suggest that we Rantburgers use the word "jinn" instead of "troll" to describe the visitors who throw rubbish into our comments. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-2-20 9:43:47 AM |
| #1 In the house of Abdur Rashid Burki the jinn takes over in the morning and starts fires all over the place Hell I'd consider packing up and moving to Tony Clifton. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-20 7:24:37 AM |