Taliban Warn Locals: Full Beards In Two Months, Or Else
May 5, 2008
KHAR, Pakistan (AFP) — A Pakistani Taliban leader has warned local tribesmen to grow beards within the next two months in accordance with Islamic teachings or face harsh punishment, residents said Monday.
The threat came amid an apparent increase in incidents of militants trying to enforce Islamic Sharia law in Pakistan’s tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, where the new government is trying to make peace with hardliners.
“Men must grow beards and stop shaving within the next two months,” residents quoted senior Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir Mohammad as telling dozens of people at a mosque in Khar, the main town in Bajaur tribal district.
Beards were mandatory under the harsh Taliban regime which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 as part of a strict morality code that also made women wear the all-encompassing burka and outlawed music and other entertainment.
“It is un-Islamic to shave beards. Harsh punishments will be awarded to all violators,” added Mohammad, the central vice chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistan Taliban Movement) and also a Muslim cleric.
The group is an umbrella organisation of Taliban factions in Pakistan’s tribal belt. Its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, has been accused of masterminding the slaying of former premier Benazir Bhutto in December.
Mohammad told a rally in March that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and fugitive Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar were not enemies of Pakistan.
Suspected Islamic militants have been meting out vigilante justice in the tribal belt and targeting “un-Islamic” hair salons, music and video shops with explosive devices for the past few years.
But activities have increased in recent weeks amid a lull in military operations and fighting since a new government took power after defeating President Pervez Musharraf’s allies in elections.
Last week Pakistani Taliban militants publicly executed an alleged criminal involved in kidnappings for ransom in Mohmand, another of the seven semi-autonomous tribal areas.
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You’ve all got just two months! We want to see a flea infestation in every male, or else!
“Suspected Islamic militants have been meting out vigilante justice in the tribal belt and targeting “un-Islamic” hair salons…”
Now, they’re at war with hair salons? Nobody is safe anymore.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:22 pmGonna be a hell of a lot of Taliban wives sporting shaved beavers, pits and legs under their burkas as husbands use the hair to Super Glue to their faces …
May 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pmScrew this 7th century mentality…
I can imagine some kind of conversation between these twisted goons here…
Tali #1 We must all live by the ways of the Koran and what was in that holy book…music is not allowed because it was not in the Koran…Beards are needed for modesty as written in the Koran…
Tali #2 Yes yes…All Koran Ackabar…
Tali #3 Ok then, why do we use AK-47s…since they are not in the Koran?
Tali #2 Uhhhhh…..well…. you see it’s like this…and…
Tali #1 What? How dare you question my logic….and ….uh….all of Mecca….and ….DIE INFIDEL!!!
May 5th, 2008 at 12:29 pmdrill
yeah gross! beavers glued their faces lol where showers arent easily accessible. yaaack!
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what kind of religion makes people wear a big giant goofy ass beard anyways. no need to explain, im just saying
May 5th, 2008 at 12:29 pmI thnk them ugly fucks should grow as much hair as possible.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:17 pmThis is why we fight. A senseless radical ideology that seeks to consolidate it’s power by denying others their basic freedoms. I hope the next time they demand this of someone they’re met with a hail of gunfire.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:01 pm