I take it these are not the ones...
Posted on 05/22/2007 10:21:04 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly
The Pakistani Tourism Minister resigned yesterday after hardline Islamic clerics accused her of obscenity for hugging her instructor after a charity parachute jump.
Nilofer Bakhtiar was photographed in brightly coloured jumpsuit and hugging her instructor after a tandem jump to raise money for child victims of the earthquake that struck Pakistan in October 2005.
The images provoked the wrath of clerics in Islamabad, who accused Ms Bakhtiar of posing in an obscene manner and violating the Islamic moral norms.
A religious court set up by the clerics at a radical mosque in Islamabad issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against Ms Bakhtiar when the photographs appeared in local newspapers last month. They urged the Government to punish her and dismiss her from the Cabinet. Ms Bakhtiar failed to win the support of Cabinet colleagues and the Government appeared to cave in to the demands of the militants. Related Links
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As she announced her intention to resign yesterday, Ms Bakhtiar complained of a campaign of intimidation against her. This month she was sacked as head of the women’s wing of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League.
Ms Bakhtiar denounced the fatwa against her, saying that it had no legal, religious or moral authority. The photographs showed her being congratulated for making the jump at a charity event in France and that the allegations of immoral behaviour were baseless, she said. She had no regrets and would do it again happily if it helped the people of Pakistan.
Ms Bakhtiar told a Senate standing committee that her life was under threat. Human rights and political activists and many other Pakistanis had condemned the campaign against her and expressed support. But the Government did not take any action against the clerics, who are campaigning for the establishment of Taleban-style conservative Islamic rule in the capital, and instead urged her to resign. The clerics have already set up a parallel justice system and openly promote vigilantes in the city.
In a newspaper interview published yesterday Ms Bakhtiar said that she was disappointed that her Cabinet colleagues had not stood by her and hurt by the way that her jump had been sensationalised.
Her resignation was the latest blow to female politicians in Pakistan. Less than two months ago a Punjab provincial minister was shot dead in the eastern city of Gujranwala because she was not wearing a veil.
Maulana Abdul Aziz, the chief cleric of the Lal Mosque in Islamabad, and his brother, Abdur Rashid Gazi, are leading a campaign to establish hardline Sharia. They have openly challenged the Government and encouraged vigilantes to patrol the streets.
The mosque’s baton-wielding devotees have set up so-called morality patrols telling local shops not to sell “unIslamic” music and films. Followers have become a common sight at traffic lights, where they warn women to stop driving as it is a “sin” against Islam.
Shrouded from head to toe in black burkas, female students of a seminary known as Madrassa Hafza attached to the mosque regularly raid houses that they claim are being used as brothels.
Holy orders
— Aishah Azmi, the Bradford classroom assistant who refused to remove her veil in school last year, said she was obeying a fatwa issued by a local cleric
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a writer and politician, and the director Theo van Gogh were the subject of fatwas for Submission, their short film about Islam's treatment of women. Van Gogh was murdered in 2004
— Last month the Pakistani cleric Maulana Fazal Ullah pronounced a fatwa against polio vaccinations, causing some 4,000 children to go without them. He argued they were a Western plot to cause infertility
— Sania Mirza, a Top 100 tennis player and the highest-ranked female player in Indian history, was put under a fatwa in 2005 demanding that she play in Islamic dress. She has yet to comply with it
Resign? The tramp should have been stoned to death!
Muslims invented zero and have contributed the same to civilization ever since.
Just makes a person wonder why in Hades would any woman want to believe in Islam.
The more p0wer these people get the crazier they become.
These Islamics make mountains out of molehills so they push their fanatic religion.
The terrorists have brought out the fundamentalist in all the Mullah Mullah’s. Now they have gotten aay with inches they wil go for miles. Its a never ending outpouring of more and more restrictive rulings from the Mullah Mullah’s.
There is but one way to stop them and that is to stand up to them,and it better be fast ,before they become strong enough to actually force their nutty religion on us all.
Pakastani Tourism Minister. Sounds like a lonely job.
Were Neanderthals this backwards too?
Uh, yeah. Because you can really see the curves of a woman wearing a zillion pounds of parachute gear and a big billowy poofy skydiving jumpsuit. Hooo, hold me back.
There’s a big difference between the Christian statement of “be in the world, not of it” and these guys. Those Muslim nutbars aren’t even in this world. They’re back in the world 1300 years ago.
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There can be no doubt that fundamentalist Muslims have the dirtiest minds on earth. Next to them, Larry Flynt’s mind is pure as an newborn infant’s.
More from the faith of hate and the cult of insanity.
“Resign? The tramp should have been stoned to death!”
I wouldn’t joke about this — unfortunately, it is a real and disturbing possibility after she resigns. I hope this poor woman is safe.
How can NOW be against America & on the side of these bastards????
Phrase of the day.
Their treatment of women is Islam's Achilles heel. But then, I see so many Mohammedan women walking around here with the full hajib. You have to wonder. Maybe the second generation will smarten up.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99535.htm
Hindus invented it...but I agree with the idea...
I wonder if I can issue Fatwas???
I’m not a Muslim, but I can think of people I’d like to Fatwah like Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell.
Obviously you miss the distinction between a "fatwah" and a "fat wad".
I take it these are not the ones...
HAHAHAHA!!!
They have invaded the Bay State?
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