PESHAWAR - Hundreds of religious hardliners allied with the ruling parties in the North-West Frontier Province yesterday tore down billboards depicting women and Western products deemed as insulting to Islam.
| Ahhh... Tales of the Easily Offended... |
A group of some 200 people, mostly young men, attacked the billboards, shredding them with their hands, sticks and knives. The men, activists of the hardline Jamaat e-Islami mob political party, had given a one-week deadline for the billboards to be removed from Peshawar.
| They're offended by billboards, but they don't seem to turn a hair at poor old Aunt Fatimah, dissolved in a vat of acid... |
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