Here’s some news that affects the ummah. What’s that godawful smell? I know it, but can’t quite put my finger on what it is. Oh yeah, now I know: It’s the smell of sneering disdain and thoughtless insult of the modern world that passes for rationality in the Islamic psyche. You might even call it “real islam”.
The madness of threatening suicide / mass murder attacks of the innocent as per the backward social order of seventh century Arabia is showing up more and more here in the 21st century West.
Taliban demands end to music on Pakistan buses
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090121/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_no_music
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Bus drivers in northwest Pakistan have begun removing audio and video equipment from their vehicles after Taliban militants threatened suicide attacks against those who played music or movies for their passengers, an industry official said Tuesday.
Transport workers in Mardan town received letters this week from militants saying that buses offering such entertainment were guilty of spreading “vulgarity and obscenity,” Walid Mir, general secretary of the town’s transport union, told The Associated Press.
The militants said they would check the buses and that suicide attacks would be carried out against vehicles that still had audio and video equipment — prompting union members to act quickly, Mir said.
The Taliban letter complained that traveling in buses that provide audiovisual entertainment was a “source of mental agony for pious people,” according to a text obtained by AP.
“It is obligatory on us to stop such violations. We request you to remove the vulgar systems … otherwise suicide bombers are ready,” the letter said.
Mardan lies in the Northwest Frontier Province just outside Pakistan’s volatile tribal belt where extremists among the Taliban, al-Qaida and local groups are waging a violent campaign against authorities in a bid to impose their strict interpretation of Islam.
