Religious extremists burn five music shops

Posted by: Anonymous

Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/11/07 11:37 PM

From IFEX

Religious extremists burn five music shops for "promoting obscenity, destroying religious values"

(PPF/IFEX) - Five music shops were burnt on 4 July 2007 in the bazaar of Miramshah, the main town in the restive Pakistan's Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) that border Afghanistan.

Press reports, quoting local residents, said unidentified men set the shops ablaze with petrol.

The militants had earlier warned shop owners in the city to stop the business of selling music and video tapes and discs or be ready to face the consequences.

The Taliban and other religious extremists have been waging a campaign of threats, intimidation and violent attacks against video and music shops because they believe that movies and pop music promote obscenity and are aimed at destroying the religious values of the people.

In June 2007 alone, there were more than 20 bomb attacks on music and video shops in FATA and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan.

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Pakistan: Our "ally" in the war against extreme Islam.
Posted by: vanessa

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/12/07 01:01 AM

Pakistan also has THE BOMB. So many nations to invade, so little time.

Pakistan is also not a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Pakistan covertly developed nuclear weapons over many decades, beginning in the late 1970s. Pakistan first delved into nuclear power after the establishment of its first nuclear power plant near Karachi with equipment and materials supplied mainly by western nations in the early 1970s. Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto promised to build nuclear weapons "even if we have to eat grass for 1,000 years", in 1965. It is nearly certain that China proliferated an old Chinese (Lop Nor 3/4 vintage ) weapons design and critical ring magnets to Pakistan in the early 80s, and enabled Pakistan to have a rudimentary nuclear weapons capability by the end of the 1980s. The United States continued to certify that Pakistan did not possess nuclear weapons until 1990, when sanctions were imposed under the Pressler Amendment, requiring a cutoff of U.S. economic and military assistance to Pakistan.[25] In 1998, Pakistan conducted its first nuclear tests at the Chagai Hills, in response to the tests conducted by India a few weeks before. A.Q. Khan has also admitted having provided centrifuges and centrifuge designs to North Korea, a fact acknowledged in 2005 by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. He also proliferated uranium enrichment technology to Iran and Libya.[26]

Here's a LIST OF COUNTRIES that currently have, or at some point had nukelar weapons technology (and then forgot or erased knowledge from minds how to make bomb) or may still secretly pursue.


Posted by: Jeff Steward

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/13/07 08:34 AM

Religion rules.
Posted by: Sister Fister

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/13/07 08:45 AM

Religion, turning mass genocide of a people into socially except able killing since the beginning of time...
Posted by: Sergio T.

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/13/07 01:35 PM

These extremists take things too far and the only solution is to wipe them out, all of them.
Posted by: the unknown pervert

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/13/07 06:51 PM

I recommend an all star concert tour of Pakistan by K-Fed, Justin Timberlake, Clay Aiken, Nickelback, Fall Out Boy and anyone who has ever recorded for Disney.
Posted by: Uomo Grassissimo!!

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/14/07 02:27 AM

Quote:

These extremists take things too far and the only solution is to wipe them out, all of them.



So you're a "wipe out the extremists" extremist??
Posted by: Sergio T.

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/14/07 05:10 AM

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These extremists take things too far and the only solution is to wipe them out, all of them.



So you're a "wipe out the extremists" extremist??


Better them than me Fatty.
Posted by: Gunker

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/14/07 07:41 PM

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The Taliban and other religious extremists have been waging a campaign of threats, intimidation and violent attacks against video and music shops because they believe that movies and pop music promote obscenity and are aimed at destroying the religious values of the people.



Didn't we beat these guys down in 2002?

Did something stupid happen to draw our attention away from this part of the world?

"New Report Shows al-Qaeda Growing Stronger by the Day

July 12, 2007 05:32 PM

al-Qaeda is growing stronger by the day - and now the president and Homeland Security chief are explaining to America just how worried we should be about a possible new terror threat.

Six years and billions of dollars later, al-Qaeda may be just as strong as it was in the months before the 9/11 attacks - that is according to a new report. But both President Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff are downplaying that finding.

Sources say of chief concern is a terror cell that may have made its way from Pakistan over to Europe, or possibly across the ocean to the United States. That could indicate al-Qaeda is in the planning stages for another attack somewhere inside the U.S. But figuring those plans out will be hard, since Chertoff admits they know of no specifics.

NEWS10's Christina Arangio has more on Thursday's top meeting at the White House, about the heightened risk.

The five-page intelligence report about the renewed strength of al-Qaeda is being discussed as part of a multi-agency meeting at the White House. It is being called, "al-Qaeda, Better Positioned to Strike the West."

According to counter-terrorism officials, al-Qaeda has used its safe-haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border to build up its terror network. Multiple, credible intelligence reports indicate an al-Qaeda cell is on its way, or already in the U.S.

"We actually see the al-Qaeda central being resurgent in their role on planning operations," says Dr. Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence. "We see more training, we see more money, and we see more communications."

And yet President Bush told reporters Thursday, because of his actions, al-Qaeda is weaker than it otherwise would have been. He took the opportunity to reiterate his position on just how important it is to succeed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and anywhere else the terrorists are found to be.

And here at home, dozens of FBI agents have been given a two-week deadline to rundown some 700 new leads - 100 of them in New York, alone.

Chertoff tried to explain his gut-feeling about a potential attack.

"I was talking about the increased number of public statements by Zawahiri and others in al-Qaeda - I was talking about a history since 9/11 of attacks directed toward the west over the summer," Chertoff says.

The intelligence report indicates al-Qaeda has spent a lot of time training in the mountains of Pakistan. That is where many believe Osama bin Laden is still alive and waiting to see another attack, play out on U.S. soil."



Posted by: Uomo Grassissimo!!

Re: Religious extremists burn five music shops - 07/14/07 08:31 PM

Quote:

Quote:

Quote:

These extremists take things too far and the only solution is to wipe them out, all of them.



So you're a "wipe out the extremists" extremist??


Better them than me Fatty.



I think that we have to rid ourselves of every and anyone who believes it is their right to inflict their religion on anyone else through laws and actions.

If they just want to rant, let 'em rant.