In a bold challenge to the government, a firebrand cleric said Friday he had formed an Islamic court to enforce a Taliban-style vice campaign in the Pakistani capital, threatening suicide attacks if authorities try to stop him.WOW!!!!
Thousands of followers of Maulana Abdul Aziz underlined their defiance by chanting "Our way is jihad!" and setting fire to hundreds of mainly Western DVDs and video cassettes outside Islamabad's Red Mosque.
Friday's events deepen a dilemma for President Gen. Pervez Musharraf: endure growing criticism for creeping "Talibanization" in Pakistan despite his alliance with the U.S., or force a potentially bloody showdown with fanatics who have grown under his rule.
Students from a seminary adjoining the mosque launched a morality crackdown earlier this month by threatening shopkeepers selling films and music. They even kidnapped an alleged brothel owner and held her for two days until she made a public confession.
[ cf Cleric Sets Up Islamic Court in Pakistan ]
That has so gotta just stick in the Craw of the True True Believers, the one's who are not those Evil RINO types of leftist liberal kapitulationist appeaser cut and runners who are not willing to Bask In The Ever Radiant Glow of the Divinity Of Dubya....
Now MORE than EVER all TRUE Americans support the Need to like Totally Replace those Black Robed Judicial Activist Tyrannts Who HAVE NOT accepted the Peace And Bliss That Can Only COME from Accepting the Divinty of Dubya and that Only Dubya Can Save!!!
{ subtle subtext - dude, why ever are we not getting their like totally baked baked good's??? }