They are still trying to impose their brand of Islam on the nation:
Tehreek-e-Islami Taliban Pakistan (TITP) has distributed a fifteen-days notice to several “un-Islamic” businesses in Kot Addu to shut down or face dire consequences.
The TTIP wrote threatening letters to owners of CDs shops, Internet cafes and cable service providers urging them to close down their activities.
Similarly, the group warned that women must wear hijab to ensure their safety.
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Acid: The second paragraph said that within five days of the receipt of the letter, every woman not wearing Hijab would be disfigured with acid.
Very soon we would cleanse earth from the traitors of Allah, the third paragraph said.
While we’re praying for the Iranian Christians, we should pray for the women in Afghanistan as well, they are a particular target of the Taliban. Pray that the Lord will protect them and that any attempts to disfigure the women will lead to the arrest of Taliban members.
posted July 31, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Amen!
posted July 31, 2008 at 2:37 pm
This is one of the rare instances where I agree with your fully.
posted July 31, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Why only pray for the Iranian Christians? Why not also pray for the Iranian Jews, Iranian Bahai’s, Iranian Manichaens/Gnostics, and other Iranians who practice minority faiths and are persecuted by the Islamist government (including Christians, of course)?
posted July 31, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Long experience has been that those who say we should pray for a long list of folks instead of just those we are praying for usually don’t pray at all, but PhoenixOrion is right about what we should do. Might ask for different things, tho’.
posted July 31, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Unfortunately praying for those women who are forced to wear the hijab won’t do any good, folks. It is the way it is in those countries right now. The Taliban runs things. If the women don’t follow orders, they will pay the consequences.
posted August 1, 2008 at 8:54 am
Imagine that, a story about WOMEN being threatened with being DISFIGURED and what do SOME here come to be offended by? No, they aren’t offended at the disgusting reality of the practices of gross abuse and terrorizing disfigurement the Taliban threatens women with, no they are offended by a suggested prayer list. Grow up. Next Please!
posted August 1, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I’m hoping the women will carry guns and shoot any Taliban who come within a hundred feet of them.
posted August 1, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I do too. They used to do this sort of thing in other hardline Muslim countries. I’ve heard of using steel wool to clean makeup off.
posted August 1, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Unfortunately, this seems to be a common practice in that region of the world. It happens in India, too, and not only among Muslims.
Young Hindu women who refuse a particular suitor are often disfigured by acid in retaliation. I should add that it is often the case that their families support them in refusing a particular suitor, so it’s not simply an attempt at forced marriage. The practice will stop when these societies crack down hard on the perpetrators of these horrific crimes, or when young women start defending themselves with deadly force.
posted August 1, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Guy,
I never said that I wasn’t offended by the Taliban’s horrendous treatment of women. I am, and I will be keeping women (and everybody who is oppressed by the Taliban) in Afghanistan in my thoughts and prayers.
I never said Michele (or anyone else) should not pray for Iranian Chrsitians, but should also pray for every faith group that is persecuted in Iran, including Christians, Jews, Gnostics, and Muslims who aren’t sufficiently “Muslim” as determined by Ahmedinejad and his Islamofascist administration.
posted August 2, 2008 at 9:45 am
I never said Michele (or anyone else) should not pray for Iranian Chrsitians, but should also pray for every faith group that is persecuted in Iran, including Christians, Jews, Gnostics, and Muslims who aren’t sufficiently “Muslim” as determined by Ahmedinejad and his Islamofascist administration.
Posted by: PhoenixOrion | August 1, 2008 9:57 PM
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Yes I am sure that Michele meant by suggesting to pray for the Christians that one SHOULD NOT pray for anyone else and that she needs you to come and tell her WHO SHE should pray for. Yes, no doubt that is what she meant and needed to be told. Good Lord have mercy on your arrogance.
Next Please!