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| 400 cases in Punjab for misuse of loudspeaker |
| 2005-07-26 |
| Interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said that the government has registered 400 cases against clerics in Punjab for misuse of loudspeakers after monitoring last Friday. Talking to reporters, the minister said that the government will enact a new law making seminary registration compulsory. He said that 200 people had been charged with misuse of loud speakers in Punjab, adding that 280 people had been arrested in the crackdown on banned extremist groups across the country. Sherpao said that the government would not allow any banned groups to operate under new names and vowed that the government would deal strictly with such elements. He added that the government had also charged 46 people with spreading hatred. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 At least in Germany, in our little village, all the various churchbells went off at precisely the same time. Of course, until the last one was done, there was no point trying to make oneself heard when we were sitting out in our little garden (my lawn was precisely 1 meter square -- I used to "mow" it with my kitchen scissors). And of course, the bells were all perfectly in tune. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-07-26 06:18 |
| #2 There's nothing quite like being in a place where you can hear 3 or 4 "calls to prayer" simultaneously - they're all on the same schedule, y'know - but since their watches are out of synch, so is the wailing. Fucking surreal. Absolutely hysterically funny when one drops his microphone in mid-wail, too. You get relief from the insanity where you can, heh. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-07-26 01:23 |
| #1 Now, go to Roxbury and Dorchester and get all the 200 watt car stereos pumping out neanderthal gruntings that you can feel from the bass kickers four blocks away, then I'll be impressed. |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-07-26 01:11 |