Sufi Shrine 'blown up by Taleban' angered because women visited it

BurtWorm

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Thu Mar-05-09 12:07 PM
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Sufi Shrine 'blown up by Taleban' angered because women visited it

Assholes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7925867.stm

Sufi gathering in Lahore

Suspected Taleban militants in north-west Pakistan have blown up the shrine of a 17th Century Sufi poet of the Pashtun language, police say.

No casualties are reported but the poet Rahman Baba's grave has been destroyed and the shrine building badly damaged.

Rahman Baba is considered the most widely read and poet in Pashto speaking regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Taleban had warned they would blow up the shrine if women continued to visit it and pay their respects.

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ensho

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Thu Mar-05-09 12:10 PM
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1. the religiously insane are dangerous and wise societies remove

them from any powers.

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navarth

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Thu Mar-05-09 12:10 PM
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2. Someone wise once said that religion,

like sharp objects or medicine, should be kept away from idiots.

It's a damn shame that so many idiots have access to these.

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maxsolomon

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Thu Mar-05-09 12:12 PM
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3. will that piss off the pashtun enough to withdraw their hospitality?

Edited on Thu Mar-05-09 12:12 PM by maxsolomon

or does the misogyny trump the insult?

pakistan, you are rudderless.

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xchrom

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Thu Mar-05-09 12:14 PM
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4. everything pisses off the taliban -- sunshine in the morning pisses off the taliban. nt

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Arkansas Granny

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Thu Mar-05-09 12:21 PM
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5. The same group that blew up the giant statues of Buddha several years ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1214384.stm

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