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| Sikh held in Afghanistan over porn movie business |
| 2002-09-16 |
| Security officials in the eastern Afghan city of Khost have arrested the Sikh owner of a video shop for selling pornographic movies, an Afghan news agency reported Sunday. Porn! Oh, horrors! Ethel, get me my pills! The Afghan Islamic Press said Jagjeet Singh was arrested on Friday in the Madina Market, where a bomb outside a video shop last week injured 12 people. The authorities raided the market, recovered objectionable cassettes from his shop and arrested him. The Pakistan-based news agency, quoting residents, said the officials told Singh to climb a tree and show his face to the crowd in the busy market. "Look at his face. He was dealing in pornographic movies," an official told the crowd before police took him into custody. "Lemme see that evidence!... Damn! Lookidat! You can see her face and... everything... Ummm... This might require more study..." Mohammad Khan Gurbuz, spokesman for the provincial governor, told the agency that authorities had repeatedly warned shopkeepers against dealing in pornographic films. "The detained Sikh will be tried by a court for the offence," he was quoted as saying. Asked why authorities were adopting an apparently similar policy to the ousted fundamentalist Taliban regime, Gurbuz said "the ousting of the Taliban did not mean that Islam has also gone. "Pornograhic films are against our religion, culture and tradition." "Yeah. The Prophet never watched porn flicks, so we can't, either... Except when we're reviewing evidence, but that's different..." Several shops were damaged in the September 8 blast outside a video shop in Khost, known as a deeply religious district. You can tell from the number of explosions and the amount of gunfire. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 I wonder what the "porn" was really like. Not that I"m into that kinda thing or whatever, but I wonder if it was really tame by our standards or a Jenna Jameson classic. |
| Posted by: Clark 2002-09-16 11:04:46 |