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They're hardline: They declared shari'a to be the only law in Pakistan, and only their Allah-in-the-flesh, their mullah, as the only one with the divine right to be worshipped ... shit, I mean to repeat what Allah tells him over breakfast. Allah's treat, of course.
They've beaten women that didn't dress as Muhammed instructed, they threatened to kill shop owners who sold videos and CDs that weren't all about the righteous, peaceful, tolerant soldiers of Allah beheading folks as a blood sacrifice and killing not only the infidel, but the apostate "moderate" Muslims.
They took over a children's library--they eventually released the children--and patrolled it until the government caved, and said that the mosques that the mullahs had built on public land and without permits were, of course, wrongly torn down and offered to rebuilt them at state expense. But then the demands changed--instate shari'a and bow down and give the mullah bjs, or else. And if any action were taken against them, they'd bless Pakistan with Allah's gift of thousands of suicide bombers wiping out stores, police, school kids, and everybody else whose blood Muhammed demanded. Because, of course, because the dead deserved it.
They're students. Tulub, singular Talib. In seminaries, as the Pakistani press often calls them. Madaris is another word often used; notice the Arab broken plural, we'd say "madrassehs". They enter the modern world by becoming fluent in Classical Arabic and memorizing the Qur'aan and Ahadith. Their height of scientific and mathematical genius is subtraction, and they teach Qur'aanic science, often making Creationism seem meek and mild by comparison. Their politicians speak to the Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and Balochi masses in Arabic, God's language--and when the public doesn't inderstand it nonetheless swoons at how educated and brilliant the speaker is, telling them to kill their wives and daughters if they dishonor the men, to make sure their daughters are married off to jihadniks by age 15 and, of course, they must keep their womb-bearers illiterate lest they think. Allah says democracy is Satanic. They tell the masses how stupid they are, and how they need mullahs to preside over them, taking upon themselves the issues of food, miracle, and conscience. Their education makes them better at building bridges than engineers, and better mathematicians than Gauss or Li. But they graduate around age 18 or 19. That far from the Afghanistan border they have trouble going to fight the infidel, so they decide, instead, that their mission is making Pakistan a Deobandi state. (Deobandism is S. Asia's answer to Wahhabism.) And many millions believe them, sometimes simply out of fear.
"Hardline religious students" seems to cover the ground for these odious vermin quite well, I think.
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