Katmandu
15-04-07, 11:04 PM
Charity parachute jump lands minister a fatwa
ISLAMABAD: A group of radical clerics has issued a religious decree against Pakistan's tourism minister after some local newspapers printed photographs showing her holding onto a man after landing from a parachute jump in France.
The fatwa was issued by a religious court set up last week by a group of activist clerics in Lal Mosque, in Islamabad. The clerics have also demanded that the Government enact Islamic law.
The decree issued on Sunday accuses the minister, Nilofer Bakhtiar, of un-Islamic behaviour. The clerics urged the Government of President Pervez Musharraf to "punish and fire her from the Government".
This **** is just ****ING RIDICULOUS. What is ****ing WRONG with these people? Thankfully this bull**** appears to be being pretty roundly denounced as COMPLETELY INSANE, but it clearly highlights the deeply troubling inability of very religious people to pull their heads out and join the rest of us in the enlightened present where women aren't precious flowers that have to be alternately shielded from the world and punished for :gasp: living.
http://www.upsizethis.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=31502&st=0
ISLAMABAD: A group of radical clerics has issued a religious decree against Pakistan's tourism minister after some local newspapers printed photographs showing her holding onto a man after landing from a parachute jump in France.
The fatwa was issued by a religious court set up last week by a group of activist clerics in Lal Mosque, in Islamabad. The clerics have also demanded that the Government enact Islamic law.
The decree issued on Sunday accuses the minister, Nilofer Bakhtiar, of un-Islamic behaviour. The clerics urged the Government of President Pervez Musharraf to "punish and fire her from the Government".
This **** is just ****ING RIDICULOUS. What is ****ing WRONG with these people? Thankfully this bull**** appears to be being pretty roundly denounced as COMPLETELY INSANE, but it clearly highlights the deeply troubling inability of very religious people to pull their heads out and join the rest of us in the enlightened present where women aren't precious flowers that have to be alternately shielded from the world and punished for :gasp: living.
http://www.upsizethis.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=31502&st=0