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Akram Durraniâs Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal government in the Frontier province has constituted a 21-member committee, Nifaaz-e-Shariat Council, to draft proposals for the Islamisation of the province. The committee is burning the midnight oil in order to crank out a draft of the soon-to-be ordinance. The Council of Islamic Ideology is to vet all the proposals. Sources in the know shared with TFT some of the proposals that the committee has reportedly decided on.
And they are quite 'ambitious'
Under the proposed law women will not be allowed to come out of their homes unless they are wearing the Hijab and are chaperoned by a kinsman. They will be encouraged to use traditional methods of hair removal and the sale of hair-removing creams and lotions will be banned. Shops shall not advertise sale of sanitary pads or undergarments and women will not be allowed to purchase such products. Kinsmen, however, may make necessary purchases on their behalf. All use of perfume and makeup will be banned. Husbands are encouraged to physically abuse their wives if these rules are flouted.
I guess there isn't much point when noone is allowed to see what women look like anyway
Women will not be allowed to use male tailors. Female tailors alone must measure and stitch clothes for women. Also, no male doctors or nurses will be allowed to treat women patients. Of course, women will not be allowed to model or appear on television. No printed image of women will be allowed. Women guests at hotels will not be allowed to use the swimming pool. And beauty parlours, accused of spreading obscenity in the proposal, shall be banned. Coeducation will also be banned because it promotes Zina (adultery).
| Sounds exactly like Talibanland. Naturally, once it's written into law, they expect it to remain in law, even if the MMA is eventually too much for the locals and they get thrown out... |
Rajim (stoning to death) will be the punishment for adultery and will be executed in public. Amputation of limbs will be punishment for stealing. Family planning will be declared un-Islamic and sale of contraceptives banned. People would be encouraged to produce more children in order to âstrengthen Islamâ.
| Translate that to read: "Women are breeding stock, nothing else. Children are cannon fodder in training, unless they manage to memorize the Koran by age 10, in which case they can become mullahs." |
Sale of medicines that can be used for sexual recreation, like Viagra used for erectile dysfunction, will be banned. Internet cafés will be banned as well as kite flying, cinemas, music, photography and all other forms of artistic expression, sources relayed.
Who needs that stuff when you can pray?
MMA has the numbers to pass any such bill into law and police would be asked to implement the draconian laws under a new ministry for vice and virtue. However, and this is the slim ray of hope piercing through the dark clouds, these laws will no teeth unless they are backed by punishment. The federal government alone has the right to change the penal code and is unlikely to accept MMAâs Taliban-esque demands
| NWFP got the government it deserves. I sure hope all the devout Pashtuns enjoy it. They'll be in power for awhile, after all. |
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