LOL, not on the list for anyone in my family either.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812932/posts
“Sharia gangs roam streets of capital city to enforce their law with threats”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1620554.ece ^
Posted on 04/05/2007 10:34:09 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Shiraz Ahmed was tending his music store in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, when a group of 15 bearded young men walked in bearing bamboo poles and a chilling message.
Politely but firmly, they instructed him to take down the colourful array of Bollywood and bhangradance tunes on display and to restrict his business to Islamic music.
“They told me I had to change my business,” said Mr Ahmed, 25, whose family has run the store for 15 years. “I am so confused. I don’t know what to do.”
Until last week he might not have worried about these men from Islamabad’s Lal Masjid (Red Mosque). After all, his shop is legal and within walking distance of Pervez Musharraf’s presidential palace.
But this was just one of several signs in the past ten days that a creeping campaign to “Talebanise” Pakistan has spread from tribal areas on the Afghan border right to the heart of the capital. And to judge from the Government’s response, even here it is reluctant to confront the radical clerics who openly preach jihad (holy war) and defy the writ of the state.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Creeping influence
— Leaflets distributed to barbers in the North of Pakistan last month said that growing a beard was an Islamic practice. Barbers no longer offer to shave patrons
— Militants destroyed CDs of Urdu, English and Indian films at a video shop in Bannu, northern Pakistan, in February
— Zil-e-Huma, a woman Punjabi minister, was killed in February by a vigilante because “she was leading an unIslamic life and spreading an evil influence over other women”
— A report by International Crisis Group this month said that madrassas were breeding religious militants
— In Tank, in the North West Frontier Province, the Taleban were discovered recruiting students at a boy’s school. The school head confronted them and was kidnapped the next day”