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| India-Pakistan |
| The Virtuous Mob |
| 2007-05-05 |
| It's not just in NWFP. All over Pakistan now, women fear the vice vigilantes Just the other day Tahera Abdullah was driving down the spiffy Margalla Road in Islamabad, the windows rolled down to enjoy the evening breeze. A development worker, her silvery hair could tell anyone she's 50 plus. Tahera stopped at the traffic signal; an eight-year-old boy accosted her: didn't she know Islam required her to cover her head? Tahera immediately rolled up the window. "How do you argue with an eight-year-old?" she asks. But the encounter with Pakistan's religious extremism, at once frightening and puerile, has prompted Tahera to choose sweating inside the car over letting in the breeze. "We women are feeling more threatened today," she says. The streets of Islamabad are menacing women, compelling them to be what they are not, what they have never been. Consultant Sara Javeed realised this when she lit a cigarette in her car recently. "I quickly stubbed it. I don't want strangers asking me why I'm smoking. This is the new me," she says dolefully. Sara feels the emerging extremism could Talibanise Pakistan. "I don't want to live in such a state," she declares. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #2 "We women are feeling more threatened today," she says. Get a clue. Sharia has always been a threat to women. It will continue to be one until the day Islam is finally recognized as the massive violation of human rights that it always has been. Pakistan's obsession with religious purity is emblematic of how dysfunctional Islam always has been. Churchill's desription of Islam as a "retrograde" force could not have been more accurate. The outside world must finally confront the fact that, unrestrained, Muslims will try and defeat nearly a millennia of civilized progress. Should stopping such a defeat require the loss of every Muslim life on earth, it would be a small price to pay for halting any such descent into barbarity. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-05 17:18 |
| #1 These are the leftards greatest allies. If they have their way, we will retreat into a new dark age with electrical power restricted to the homes of the Al Gore elite and a knife to the neck to anyone eating red meat or smoking cigarettes or "objectifying" women. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-05-05 12:53 |