Posted on 04/26/2009 1:22:47 AM PDT by Schnucki
TALIBAN militants in northwest Buner district shaved the heads and moustaches of four Pakistani men as punishment for listening to music, one of the men said.
Buner has been subject to huge US concern after hundreds of Taliban fighters advanced into the area from the neighbouring Swat, where the hardliners fought a brutal, nearly two-year insurgency to enforce Islamic law.
"I was with three other friends in my car, listening to music when armed Taliban stopped us and, after smashing cassettes and the cassette player, they shaved half our heads and moustaches,'' he said.
"The Taliban also beat us and asked us not to listen to music ever again,'' said the terrified man.
Local police said they had no information about the incident.
The victim said neither he nor his friends lodged a complaint with police, as this would have been "useless.''
"It might have annoyed the Taliban further and I fear for my life,'' the man said.
Residents in Mingora, the main town in Swat, said Taliban posters had been put up in streets and markets ordering women not to go shopping.
The posters had appeared after the Taliban's controversial agreement with the government to enforce Islamic law in the region.
"We will take action against women who go out shopping in the markets and any shopkeeper seen dealing with women shoppers will be dealt with severely,'' read the poster from the Swat branch of Tehreek-e-Taliban.
"The peace agreement does not mean that obscenity should be re-born,'' it added.
Hardline Islamists in the extremist Taliban consider it "obscene'' for women to leave their homes, and ban females from venturing out in public without an immediate male relative -- namely a father, brother, son or husband.
For years, Swat was a popular ski resort frequented by Westerners but the Pakistani
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Definitely a 9/10 world.
Shoulda shaved them where the sun don’t shine...
For all you know, they might have. I doubt anybody would tell.
shhhhhhhhhhhh I’ll never tell...
Don’t you know that Islam requires men to be bearded, but shaved from knee to navel, front and back?
And that’s MAINSTREAM Islam.
John, in a million years I wouldn’t have known about them shaving down there...very interesting...thank you for the info..
“Shoulda shaved them where the sun don’t shine...”
MUST READ:
http://leedeth.wordpress.com/2006/12/03/do-not-shave-your-ass-hair/
This is a religion that grows ever more bizarre the more one learns.
Islam attempts to have a Koranic answer for everything and so become preoccupied with the trivial and meaningless, while totally ignoring the true meaning of religion.
To me, that seems to pretty much lock it in as a destructive cult.
I know some Skinheads who would probably volunteer to get shaved by the Taliban for listening to their music.
Might make for an interesting time...
I notice they don’t call it torture. If Americans had done this they would be shouting “torture” from the rooftops.
Um, these are Obama’s long sought after MODERATE Taliban, right?
The barbarism of Islam marches on, in Pakistan.
Islam is a bloody, barbaric cult that seeks to enslave the world. It has been at war with civilization for over 1400 years. And, now, in Pakistan the Taliban are advancing their agenda with atrocities and terrorism far beyond any insignificant waterboarding, sleep deprivation, etc.
I am saddened, but not surprised, that the DhimmiRats can’t see this social philosophy for the black hole that it is. It is certainly NOT a religion.
When they get ahold of the Pak’s nukes, they won’t need to shave. The hair will simply fall off a lot of people.
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