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Afghanistan's clerics plan to launch 'Mullah TV' | ||
2005-05-04 | ||
Radical Afghan clerics Tuesday unveiled plans to launch the country's first Islamic television channel since the fall of the fundamentalist Taliban regime more than three years ago. A group of hard-line religious scholars, or mullahs, based in the capital Kabul said the station would counter what they say are immoral and un-Islamic programs being broadcast by other channels. "We plan to launch our own TV channel and through this channel we will broadcast Islamic programs," said Qyamuddin Kashaf, a spokesman for the Ulema Council, the group behind the plans.
In addition to state-run TV, four television channels run by local warlords and private companies are operating in Afghanistan, and there are also several cable providers. Most private stations run Western music videos and movies and have come under criticism from conservatives who call the programs un-Islamic. | ||
Posted by:Fred |
#22 hehe great thread > just got back from work (2.00am) > needed something to free the stress , so to speak , and this thread has done that :) Cant wait to see their version of Dallas , Dynasty and gawd forbid .... Songs of Praise :p |
Posted by: MacNails 2005-05-04 21:03 |
#21 Mullah TV? Will they do the Hyperactive UPS Driver bit? That was fairly funny. And the one with the overgrown kid who sez ''Look what I can do!'' |
Posted by: eLarson 2005-05-04 19:23 |
#20 I'm with Dan. Every episode ending with crossfire would be a hell of a show. |
Posted by: phil_b 2005-05-04 18:25 |
#19 Actually, I'd be kind of interesting in seeing a show based on CSI: Bangladesh ... This week's episode: ''Cross-fire at 4 am!'' |
Posted by: Steve White 2005-05-04 18:18 |
#18 The Streets of Kandahar... |
Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2005-05-04 17:17 |
#17 Afghanistan has witnessed a rapid growth in television stations since the fall of the hard-line Taliban in late 2001, which banned all cinemas and television during its 1994-96 rule. If they were overthrown in 1996, who was it our 100 or so Special Forces (w/ credit to the Northern Alliance) overthrew? Looks like this ''newssite'' is in par w/ Mullah TV! |
Posted by: BA 2005-05-04 15:19 |
#16 Or ISI: Lahore |
Posted by: Seafarious 2005-05-04 14:34 |
#15 Actually, I'd be kind of interesting in seeing a show based on CSI: Bangladesh ... |
Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-05-04 14:19 |
#14 ''Today'' with Katie Couric. Except that Katie gets that colonoscopy everyday... and can't flash those ''not bad for an old broad'' wheels anymore. |
Posted by: tu3031 2005-05-04 13:16 |
#13 To the Classics with this one, Fred! |
Posted by: Raj 2005-05-04 12:57 |
#12 Let's call it: Air Afghanistan |
Posted by: badanov 2005-05-04 12:36 |
#11 Desperate Harem Girls Trading Burkas CSI: Panjashir Valley Law & Order: Vice and Virtue Unit All in the Taliban |
Posted by: Mike 2005-05-04 12:15 |
#10 The madrassa soap opera ''Mullahs in Love''. |
Posted by: ed 2005-05-04 12:14 |
#9 My Mullah the Cair |
Posted by: Shipman 2005-05-04 12:10 |
#8 LOL |
Posted by: Matt 2005-05-04 11:22 |
#7 ''Everybody loves Ramadi'' followed by ''The Wahabbi Years'' |
Posted by: shellback 2005-05-04 11:13 |
#6 new Islamic BBC - they'll be wanting a subsidizing tax and tuners that only get their channel |
Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-04 11:03 |
#5 I want my MTVeeeeee! Now look at those turbans! That's the way you do it. Fatwa for nothing and your guns for free! |
Posted by: Dreadnought 2005-05-04 10:38 |
#4 Mullah News - "We report, you submit!" |
Posted by: Steve 2005-05-04 10:18:33 AM |
#3 ''All Fatwa, All The Time!'' |
Posted by: mojo 2005-05-04 10:12 |
#2 Can't wait for the perky A.M. mullahs on ''Good Morning, Caliphate!'' |
Posted by: Seafarious 2005-05-04 09:45 |
#1 PTMG (praise the moon god) The people who will watch this crap don't have much brain left. |
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-05-04 12:52:04 AM |