Or what is known as just another day in the emerging caliphate.
Indian Politician Rapped for Veil Remark
LUCKNOW, India — Islamic leaders demanded the ruling coalition withdraw its candidate from India's presidential race on Tuesday after she said Muslim women should stop wearing their headscarves.
Several Muslim leaders called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to find a new candidate for the largely ceremonial post, accusing Pratibha Patil, a Hindu, of insulting Islam by suggesting the headscarf is primitive.
Addressing a conference in the northwestern city of Udaipur over the weekend, Patil said women started wearing the headscarves in India to save themselves from 16th century Muslim invaders, and that it was time to drop what the practice, Indian newspapers reported.
"Now that women are progressing in every field, we should morally support and encourage them by leaving such practices behind," she said.
[ed.- Too bad the womens rights groups in this country just don’t have the time or the energy to stand with these women. I guess defending Billy Boy Clinton from scurilous attacks by trailer trash women and working on the demasculation of the American male is keeping them pretty busy these days.]
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Maulana Khalid Rashid, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, said it was God who had asked women to wear a headscarf and that this was enshrined in the Quran, the Muslim holy book. The board is India's highest Muslim authority on personal matters.
"Any statement against the veil means an opinion against Allah and the Quran which no Muslim will tolerate," Rashid told The Associated Press.
[ed.- When asked to point to where in the Koran this particular bit of guidance was contained he had no comment. Of course the reporter really had no question because they are clueless about the subject.]
Muslims account for nearly 14 percent of India's nearly 1.1. billion people. Conservative Muslim women wear headscarves and face-covering veils.
[ed.- The tipping point for any country to start feeling the pressure from the Muslim world is once Muslims achieve 10% of the population. Look at any country in which the Muslim population exceeds 10% and you will find unrest and open aggression. Prior to that figure they just do a lot of seething and demand their rights. Ain’t that right Thailand?]
Maulana Hasanul Badr, a Muslim cleric, said it was the duty of Muslim women to cover their bodies.
Blasts Reported at Militant Hide-Out
Or Just another work place accident in the industrial region of Pakistan that is called Warzistan.
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan — Explosions were reported Tuesday at a suspected militant hide-out in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, and there were several casualties, the army said.
Three missiles fired from Afghanistan destroyed a training facility in Pakistan, killing 17 militants and wounding 10 others, according to an intelligence official in North Waziristan. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media.
But Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad said the explosions were caused when bombs that militants were making at an isolated compound accidentally exploded.
Somali Amnesty Offer to Former Fighters
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia on Tuesday offered amnesty to former members of a radical Islamic group that ruled much of the country's south for six months last year, saying it was a sign of goodwill ahead of a planned peace conference.
[ed.- Pretty decent thing to do huh? Well maybe not.]
The announcement came hours after the president's spokesman was shot and wounded in the neck while stuck in a traffic jam — the latest attempt on the life of a government official in the chaotic nation. He was later treated at a hospital in Kenya and released.
A leading member of the Islamic courts, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, said government officials are the true criminals.
"It is proper to first ask ourselves, 'Who pardons whom?' .... They have committed grave crimes against the Somali people, against God and against the country," Ahmed told the Islamic Web site qaadisiya.com.
[ed.- Guess that means no]
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