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2004-05-30 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Fred 2004-05-30 1:36:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When I see the words mufti, Islamic education and gunplay, I assume he was one of the bad guys. But it is so hard to tell without a program.

Posted by ed 2004-05-30 1:49:22 AM|| 2004-05-30 1:49:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Shamzai was a very influential Bad Guy. This is a very significant departure from the gene pool.

Posted by Fred 2004-05-30 1:55:15 AM|| 2004-05-30 1:55:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Anyone else reminded of the Bruce Lee movies of the early 70's? Different factions from different temples setting traps and beating the hell out of each other? (And I in no way wish to disrespect the Shaolin monks by comparingthemto the heathen Islamic fascists...)

Posted by borgboy 2004-05-30 1:56:20 AM|| 2004-05-30 1:56:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like our "Dark Department" is handling matters nicely. Nice work Boys!!

Posted by smn 2004-05-30 2:01:11 AM|| 2004-05-30 2:01:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I can't help but notice that for something allegedly called the Religion of Peace, an awful lot of people are getting whacked.

Perhaps this is one of those confusions like the virgins/raisins thing caused by the lack of vowels in the old written language. Maybe someone made a typo awhile back and it was actually the Religion of Pieces, Praise be to Allan.

Posted by SteveS 2004-05-30 2:01:37 AM|| 2004-05-30 2:01:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Steve, would that be the Religion of Homophones?

Posted by ed 2004-05-30 2:05:21 AM|| 2004-05-30 2:05:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I can't help but notice that for something allegedly called the Religion of Peace, an awful lot of people are getting whacked.

I'm less than amused at how Islam's adherents continually murder each other with joyous abandon over petty internal divisions yet still manage to simultaneously proclaim their doctrine's supremacy.

Not a very convincing display of unanimity from within their own ranks, so to speak.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-30 2:17:20 AM|| 2004-05-30 2:17:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Fred is right, Shamzai was a very important bad guy. He served as one of the most influential and radical Pak Deobandi Mullahs. He was one of the spiritual leaders of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, Sipah-e-Sahaba, and even Mullah Omar.
It was in his madrassa that Mullah Omar was first introduced to Osama Bin Ladin.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-05-30 3:24:13 AM|| 2004-05-30 3:24:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm less than amused at how Islam's adherents continually murder each other with joyous abandon over petty internal divisions yet still manage to simultaneously proclaim their doctrine's supremacy.

If they'd just leave us the hell alone they could diddle with each other to their hearts' content. They won't, of course.

Posted by Steve White 2004-05-30 3:25:49 AM|| 2004-05-30 3:25:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Just heard the BBC correspondent saying 'It's not clear why anyone would want to kill him.'

Posted by Phil_B 2004-05-30 3:29:14 AM|| 2004-05-30 3:29:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Tell the BBC, cause the US likes seeing bad guys die.:)

Posted by djohn66 2004-05-30 3:34:43 AM|| 2004-05-30 3:34:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Shamzai will be replaced, what would really be useful is seizure and occupation of Binori Town Mosque, followed by raid after raid on its business contacts. Good description of Binori in Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl, enough to give one the shivers.

Posted by longtime lurker 2004-05-30 8:30:59 AM|| 2004-05-30 8:30:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 The rioting afterwards:
Supporters of Shamzai, who was from the majority Sunni community, went on the rampage at the news of the killing, attacking a police station in the Jamshed Quarters neighbourhood, torching vehicles and snatching rifles from constables.
Two protestors were injured when police opened fire. Eight policemen were hurt by stones thrown at them by the mob, while another three were injured in the attack on the police station, police said. "Three policemen were injured when an angry mob ransacked the police station and some two to four prisoners also managed to escape from the lock-up," local police official Shah Ibne Masih told AFP.
The rioters also fired at a nearby bank, he said.
Police said a mob tried to attack a Shiite mosque on M.A. Jinnah road, near the scene of killing, but turned away when police started shooting and released tear gas.
The rioters later ransacked shops outside the tomb of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and ransacked the nearby Quaid-i-Azam Academy which keeps documents of Jinnah's.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/87607/1/.html

Posted by TS(vice girl) 2004-05-30 9:56:46 AM|| 2004-05-30 9:56:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Ah, see? It is the Religion of Peace! Praise be to Allan, and welcome to hell, Mufti

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-30 10:57:28 AM|| 2004-05-30 10:57:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 I wonder if this is the work of Larry, Moe and Curly Joe, the "three guys wearing motorcycle helmets", who allegedly are responsible for like 1000 assassinations in Iraq?

Dang. Those guys be baaaad.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-05-30 12:01:36 PM|| 2004-05-30 12:01:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 If they'd just leave us the hell alone they could diddle with each other to their hearts' content. They won't, of course.

Steve, this is not a valid strategy. Even if "they'd just leave us the hell alone," they'd still be abusing and ~~honor killing~~ murdering their women. Political dissidents would still be tortured and nuclear weapons programs still conducted.

The world's Islamist theocracies must be rooted out like the moral cancers they are. Allowing them to metastasize whilst we merrily go about our business is all part of the past several decades' failed policy. There must be a sea change in how America and the world views these sort of stone-age b@stards taking up modern arms.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-30 1:36:31 PM|| 2004-05-30 1:36:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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