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India-Pakistan
New outbreak of seething in Pakistan
2006-01-21
Eye-rolling and face-making noted, women and minorities affected most.
PESHAWAR - Thousands of Pakistanis on Friday protested against a US air strike targeting Al-Qaeda leaders, burning effigies of US President George Bush and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

Around 2,000 demonstrators marched through the troubled tribal town of Wana and more than 1,000 led by hardliners in the northwestern city of Peshawar chanted “We are ready to support Osama and Zawahiri”, police and witnesses said. “Musharraf cannot protect the country because he is protecting American interests,” Abdul Ghaffar, a leader of the Muttahid Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) religious alliance, told the rally. Another MMA leader asked protestors to raise their hands if they were ready for jihad (holy war), and most members of the crowd raised their hands, witnesses said.
Great! Dan, Fred, Pappy, get their names.
Protest leaders signed a petition calling on the government to shut down the US consulate in Peshawar as activists torched dummies of Bush and Musharraf. “The demonstration was peaceful. Between 900 to 1,000 people participated,” Peshawar police chief Habib-ur Rehman told AFP. Witnesses also put turnout at around 1,000.

In Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan tribal area, around 2,000 tribesmen marched through a main marketplace chanting ”Death to America”, “Allah is great” and “Stop killing innocent Muslims.” “The US action in Bajur shows our government’s failure. It has got atom bombs and jets but it cannot stop foreign forces intruding into its territory,” tribal elder Maulana Abdul Aziz told the crowd, referring to the Bajur tribal agency where the attack took place.
Maybe because Perv secretly wants us to bomb Osama. He gave us your name too.
About 1,500 tribesmen in Mohamand tribal district bordering Afghanistan held another rally against the airstrike. Hundreds of people also held demonstrations outside mosques in the eastern city of Lahore, near the border with India, after regular Friday prayers.

Earlier some 200 lawyers rallied outside the High Court building in Lahore while protesters gathered outside the headquarters of Pakistan’s largest religious party, Jamaat-i-Islami. “We condemn the US airstrike in Bajur and we also condemn the government for its pro-American policies,” party leader Amirul Azeem said in a speech.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Problem: Pigistan, like anywhere Muslims pollute, is burdened with a parasitic class of clerics. Example: almost 80% of Malaysians of Chinese origin work. Barely 50% of native Malay carpet-humpers raise a sweat. Solution: support the productive forces in those pig-pens, and work for regime change in the interests of the West. Until the leisure class of gutter entities like Pigistan, Yemen, Egypt, etc develop a work ethic, we should cut off all aid and let them eat jihad.
Posted by: CaziFarkus   2006-01-21 08:59  

#3  Lol, OP... Well, at Aramco they don't do diddley-squat, lol. They had, in the "bad old days" when time cards were required, a column for prayer-time. It counted as work - heh - and, of course, no one ever checked to see if they actually went to one of the moskkks scattered all around Aramco. Now they don't even have to lie about it - no time cards, at least among the office-worker types. Mebbe they're still lying about it out in the field, lol.

Add to this the facts that:
1) They are 1/2 day ahead of the US (GMT+3)
2) They call Thurs & Fri the weekend

When you think about it, there are only a couple of hours, 3 days per week, when they overlap with the East coast of the US, none with the West coast, yet they do tons and tons of business here, buying shit, training, you name it. The answer? Junkets. Lots and lots of junkets to the US. Hard to believe, lol, but they're far less efficient than US oil companies - and man that's really saying something, lol.
Posted by: .com   2006-01-21 17:12  

#2  Geez, wen do they ever have time to werk?
Posted by: Besoeker 2006-01-21 12:20

You just scored the $1000 prize! The demands of their religion impede their ability to be productive. Praying five times a day, in a certain direction, all that attending Mosque services, all those restrictions telling them what to do and how to do it, stifle productivity and ingenuity. It was ok for tribal nomads, but totally impossible for industrial productivity. It's an anchor that holds them down and keeps them from competing on a national scale, much less a worldwide one. I'm sure .com has more to say.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-01-21 16:10  

#1  About 1,500 tribesmen in Mohamand tribal district bordering Afghanistan held another rally against the airstrike. Hundreds of people also held demonstrations outside mosques in the eastern city of Lahore, near the border with India, after regular Friday prayers.

Geez, wen do they ever have time to werk?
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-21 12:20  

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