Spreading vulgarity in society
The Taliban in Swat work on building a better world.
In an announcement made in mosques and broadcast on radio, the militant group set a deadline of January 15 for its order to be obeyed or it would blow up school buildings and attack [meaning kill] schoolgirls. It also told women not to set foot outside their homes without being fully covered. “Female education is against Islamic teachings and spreads vulgarity in society,” Shah Dauran, leader of a group that has established control over a large part of Swat district in the North West Frontier Province, declared this week…The militants have also prohibited immunisation for children against polio – claiming that the UN-sponsored vaccination drive is aimed at causing sexual impotence – causing a sharp rise in cases of the disease…In many areas hardliners have established Sharia, or Islamic law, setting up their own courts and introducing public executions for those who break it. This month militants killed a pro-government cleric and hung his body up in Mingora, the main town of Swat, in full view of the Pakistani military and the local administration.
Allah the merciful.
Absolute bastards. There’s really not much else to be said apart from showing this to the misguided “liberals” that seem to think that these people are some kind of freedom fighters.
Does Pakistan not want to do anything to stop these people? Or is it just incapable of doing anything?
Oh, the government wants to, I believe, but it’s not easy. For one thing it has an army and a security service riddled with people sympathetic to the Taliban, and of course a history of military takeovers and assassinations.
In short it’s all a complete nightmare, and getting steadily worse.
And it all takes place in the Northwest Frontier Province which is as lawless now – probably more so – as it was when the British ruled India.
It’s this bit, “claiming that the UN-sponsored vaccination drive is aimed at causing sexual impotence” which elevates it to the level of truly black humour. Clearly all that is needed to get on in the world today is an AK47 and a dick. Really, there should be some way of depriving them of both…
Yeah…so many ways to deconstruct that occurred to me that I simply ignored the whole thing.
The anti polio vaccine really gets me. A friend was born just one year too early to get the vaccine. He and his sister got polio, and he was partially crippled, and has a twisted, hunch back. It was one of the absolute unambiguous gains of humanity that there should be a vaccine against that crippling disease.
Ah but if Allah the merciful wanted humanity to be free of polio Allah would have seen to it that Mo discovered the vaccine. That’s not what happened, so……..