Taliban begin enforcing Islamic law in Bajaur (further encirclement, encroachment on Islamabad)

[Coventina]

Source: The Hindu

Islamabad (PTI): The Pakistani Taliban have begun enforcing Islamic law in the Bajaur tribal region even as scores of militants consolidated their hold on Buner district, located just 100 km from the federal capital.

Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, the militant commander in Bajaur Agency and a deputy of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud, announced the decision to enforce Shariah in the region during a broadcast on his illegal FM radio station on Friday.

Mohammad also barred women from stepping out of their homes without male relatives, banned shaving of beards and warned people against availing assistance from the Benazir Income Support Programme, a government project to provide financial aid to women.

During a 40-minute speech on radio, Mohammad said he and his fighters would spare no effort to strictly implement Islamic laws in the region.



Read more: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200904111453.htm

[Turborama]

1. "he and his fighters would spare no effort to strictly implement Islamic laws in the region"

Does this mean what I think it means?


http://www.rawa.org/murder-w.htm



The Taliban started forcibly cutting hair in their drive to turn Afghanistan into the world's purest Islamic state!

"We are cutting hair that hangs over the forehead because when you pray it gets in the way of your forehead touching the ground; the devil stands between you and God," Maulawi Abdul Rashid Darkasti of the Taliban's religious police told reporters.
http://www.rawa.org/photo16.htm

From Yakawlang where around 300 were massacred by Taliban in Jan 2001

Yakawlang a district in Bamiyan province of Hazarajat (Central Afghanistan) is the home of 60,000 people. Like other parts of Afghanistan, the people of Yakawlang have been victimized by fundamentalist groups even before the fall of the puppet regime in 1992. The stooges of Iranian regime in Hezb-e-Wahdat committed heinous crimes against these ill-fated people and rampaged their all belongings. In past many years these people were under the siege of Taliban and many people, mostly children, died of starvation.

In December 2000, the forces of the Northern Alliance captured this district which was subsequently recaptured by the Taliban militia in the first week of January.

UN, Amnesty International and especially Human Rights Watch confirmed that about 300 civilians, all men, including members of humanitarian groups, were rounded up and shot to death in various public areas by Taliban.

Taliban committed two massacres -- last May, and Jan. 8-11 in the central highlands of the country. The majority of victims in both attacks were members of the Hazaras, a Shiite Muslim sect.

"The bodies were lying on the ground face-down. All of their hands were bound behind their backs....The bullet wounds could not be made out on the backs, but there was blood on the ground beneath (their) chests....They were tied together in groups of three using their turbans, and scarves that had been wound together to make ropes. They were tied together, one to the other, using their own turbans" the witness reportedly said.

Go here to find out more: http://www.rawa.org/yakw.htm

[iamthebandfanman]

4. thats EXACTLY what they mean. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

8. "the devil stands between you and God,"

Wow, I didn't know hair was so powerful :rofl:

[Maestro]

2. Disgusting

Let's all return to the Middle Ages.

[Turborama]

3. This is what's been happening in the Swat Valley of late (viewer discretion advised)

Stuart Ramsay is the only foreign TV journalist to have entered the region since the takeover. There are scenes of a public flogging in his report.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N704fjRECKw

Original Sky News version:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/video/Taliban-take-control-of-Swat-Valley-Pakistan/Video/200903415247007?lpos=video_Article_Related_Content_Region_14&lid=VIDEO_15247007_Taliban_take_control_of_Swat_Valley,_Pakistan

[christx30]

12. But

You don't want to hate on other cultures! Where is your multiculturalism?! :sarcasm:

[Doctor_J]

5. Can't be. Billo the Clown said that Smirk defeated the Taliban

this must be a different Taliban :puke:

[robinlynne]

7. No Smirk sent millions of our taxdollars to Pakistan, wherre much of it was given to

al queda and the taliban, remember?

[MasonJar]

6. These are the evil doers. How can we rid the world of these fanatical

women-haters?

[aquart]

9. Translation: they're beating up more women.

Which is why I never shed a tear at the death of a Taliban man. A man who would lift a hand to hit a woman should lose the hand. And the arm. And the dick.

[ohio2007]

11. but it's what the women want . ( the 1:00 mark on the video explains )

revisit the recent ancient past when the al Jazeera reports on life during the summer of 2007 in Islamabad;

Pakistan's War: The Battle Within - 28 Dec 08 - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJZnESwcgo&feature=channel_page

Makes you wonder what it will look like in four months time ?


Maybe life at 'the red mosque' will beat again


oh

it's alive


and
it looks hungry

[Neo Atheist]

10. Great, people with boners for the apocalypse getting closer to controlling nukes

what a wonderful world...

[ohio2007]

13. from the mouth of babes

video;
He is a non-believer,a slave of America. He is making America happy. And those that are making America happy should come and face us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30tGS-xDJg0&feature=related

then the boy lobs off the soldiers melon.

ok,
he only cuts his throat but in a few years, he will be strong enough to weild allas sword .

They can't teach their children to use the nukes. Just ignorant in teaching them the ways of peace imo