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A Beautiful Dress and an Ugly Crowd
American Thinker ^ | 4 Mar, 2024 | John F. Di Leo

Posted on 03/04/2024 7:45:05 AM PST by MtnClimber

An incident in Lahore Pakistan stands as a damning indictment of modern Islamic society.

From distant Pakistan, an NBC news story surfaces that serves to remind us of everything we need to know about our current crisis.

A week ago, a female police officer in Lahore, Pakistan, patrolling a shopping district in the busy muslim city, saw a crowd gathering, to taunt, accuse, and threaten a young woman in a colorful Kurta (a long shirt-dress). Her dress was covered with bright and abstract calligraphy that the crowd assumed was an improper quoting of the Koran.

In Pakistan, when a crowd gathers to isolate and shout at a woman, it generally means one thing: they are accusing her of blasphemy or some other capital crime, and are preparing to beat, stone, or lynch the woman with the swift crowd justice that these people are raised to enforce.

Sheher Bano is the female police officer in the story. She recognized the situation that was unfolding, and rushed the young woman into a storefront, quickly getting a solid black wrap with which to cover her before escorting her somewhere safe.

One might not think this story was newsworthy, but everyone in Pakistan knows the implications. The woman was almost certain to be killed by the mob because of her dress, and when this female policeman -– an assistant superintendent of police in the big city of Lahore -– took the political and personal risk of quickly acting to save the girl, that was noteworthy, enough so that Officer Bano was rewarded for her bravery and service in a public ceremony in Rawalpindi on Wednesday.

It turned out, upon inspection of the dress, that the girl in question didn’t “deserve” the accusation of blasphemy at all.

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
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1 posted on 03/04/2024 7:45:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

What a brutal cult.


2 posted on 03/04/2024 7:45:17 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber
The Ooga-Boogas.
3 posted on 03/04/2024 7:47:34 AM PST by kiryandil
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To: MtnClimber

The angry mob probably couldn’t even read the alleged “blasphemy”, but exploded in anger just the same. This anger boils under the surface of ignorant emotional people. Being kept in ignorance is frustrating. Frustration causes anger. It doesn’t take much to boil it over.


4 posted on 03/04/2024 7:50:32 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder how they would react to that beautiful dress with vaginas all over it that Gillian Anderson wore to the Oscars or some event. LOL


5 posted on 03/04/2024 7:51:17 AM PST by dforest
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To: MtnClimber
I can see the problem. A kurta is WAY too revealing...
6 posted on 03/04/2024 7:51:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MtnClimber; jfd1776

Great article. Loved it!

Some people are really going places! ;)


7 posted on 03/04/2024 7:53:05 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: MtnClimber

Soooo many of them here in Raliegh, NC. I swear I’m the foreigner when I go to COSTCO. The men will absolutely glower at the American women. Especially the younger ones. I’m thinking they are thinking to themselves, “If only I had a brick.”


8 posted on 03/04/2024 7:53:49 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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"Officials then brought in local scholars and clerics, including some who had been in the angry crowd...They looked at the calligraphy on the dress and concluded it did not contain any Quranic verses, apologizing for their misunderstanding...Bano said the dress was instead printed with the Arabic word “helwa,” which means beautiful."

It didn't help that the crowd was apparently illiterate in their own written language.

9 posted on 03/04/2024 7:54:32 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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10 posted on 03/04/2024 7:56:58 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: bk1000
Sadly, this kind of puerile submissiveness spread to the US right after the Muslims destroyed the World Trade Center


11 posted on 03/04/2024 7:57:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Her wrists, ankles, and NECK are showing!!!

Her HAIR is uncovered!!!!


12 posted on 03/04/2024 7:57:35 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MtnClimber
stands as a damning indictment of modern Islamic society

Don’t think the “modern” modifier was needed. Islamic society, inasmuch as it can even be considered a society, hasn’t changed in 1400 years.

13 posted on 03/04/2024 8:00:52 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: NorthMountain
Her HAIR is uncovered!!!!

Sounds like a church I visited once years ago. LOL

14 posted on 03/04/2024 8:01:52 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

Islamicst Muslims are like fire ants. They drive out all others and kill anything in their way.

Fireants will quickly take over your whole yard. And they’re hard to wipe out. You can’t just kill a few nests. You must go Sherman on them.

And constantly watch for them to try to come back.


15 posted on 03/04/2024 8:03:35 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Vivek for VP!!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Moose limbs = Animals


16 posted on 03/04/2024 8:06:10 AM PST by albie
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To: bk1000

A mob is an example of pure democracy, something our founders
warned us about and tried to protect us from !!!


17 posted on 03/04/2024 8:06:16 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MtnClimber

The cult of peace.


18 posted on 03/04/2024 8:12:56 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: MtnClimber

I’m surprised they have female officers.


19 posted on 03/04/2024 8:14:04 AM PST by stylecouncilor ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MtnClimber

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20 posted on 03/04/2024 8:21:38 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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