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`Morality police' detains Ramadan fast-breakers in West Bank
2007-09-27
It's a sad day when a government has to prove they're more oppressive than the competition to win the loyalty of their people.
They're Paleos; they wouldn't understand a lack of oppression.
New "morality police" has begun detaining Palestinians who eat or drink in public during the fasting month of Ramadan, a first in the West Bank where Muslim custom was always widely observed, but never before imposed.

The 12-member squad with special red badges appears to be an attempt by PA President Mahmoud Abbas's West Bank government to challenge the claim of rival Hamas, the ruler of Gaza, to a monopoly on religious righteousness.

Islamic custom demands that believers fast and refrain from self-indulgence between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan, which this year began Sept. 13. Across the Muslim world, the fast is largely observed, though in some countries compliance is voluntary and in others, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, it's strictly enforced.
*sigh* this is some religion.
Posted by:PlanetDan

#7  RE: the picture of the Nazi rally in the article box. Wonder how long those rallies lasted, and what they did for sanitation for the legions.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-09-27 21:31  

#6  I think you're fantasizing!

The 9-11 atrocity's anniversary does that sort of thing to me.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-27 20:34  

#5  Imagine a time when . . . those grain shipments are cut off so that widespread famine begins a few months before Ramadan

Hey Zen: I don't think you're "imagining."

I think you're fantasizing!
Posted by: PlanetDan   2007-09-27 18:36  

#4  Whenever I hear something like this I get a picture of and ad for Mo-ham-head's PorKoranimal Bacon!

With a logo of a fat piggy wearing a Koran as a jacket with a Mohammed turban. on the label.
Posted by: AlanC   2007-09-27 18:19  

#3  Many MME (Muslim Middle East) nations divert so much domestic fresh water supply for drinking purposes that they're increasingly dependent upon the West for grain imports that they themselves do not have the irrigation resources to grow.

Imagine a time when—in response to yet another Islamic terrorist atrocity—those grain shipments are cut off so that widespread famine begins a few months before Ramadan.

Now, picture the wondrous spectacle of "morality police" arresting people who will surely starve to death and die over the course of a single day's imposed Ramadan fasting.

And you know they'd do it too.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-27 17:41  

#2  But of course in Islam there is no compulsion in religion. They clearly didn't get the memo.

Reminds me of an old Toyota commercial:

You asked for it,
You got it
Sharia!

Enjoy.
Posted by: Baba Tutu   2007-09-27 17:13  

#1  All I've got to say is...Bacon!
Posted by: SteveS   2007-09-27 17:08  

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