Al-Qa’eda In Iraq Alienated By Cucumber Laws And Brutality
The whole “sexual connotation” of cukes aside … I was going to preface this one with something about the insanity of AQI … But for some reason the “Nanny-State” pushers in this country (and in like, you know, Great Britain) seemed to elbow their way into my thoughts …I’ll just leave that lay there … yeah.By the way … Do you suppose our guy standing there is telling the old Iraqi woman, “Hey, mine’s bi— …” Never mind. I won’t play into the AQI game.
Al-Qa’eda is losing support in Iraq because of a brutal crackdown on activities it regards as un-Islamic - including women buying cucumbers.
Besides the terrible killings inflicted by the fanatics on those who refuse to pledge allegiance to them, Al-Qa’eda has lost credibility for enforcing a series of rules imposing their way of thought on the most mundane aspects of everyday life.
They include a ban on women buying suggestively-shaped vegetables, according to one tribal leader in the western province of Anbar.
Sheikh Hameed al-Hayyes, a Sunni elder, told Reuters: “They even killed female goats because their private parts were not covered and their tails were pointed upward, which they said was haram.
“They regarded the cucumber as male and tomato as female. Women were not allowed to buy cucumbers, only men.”
Other farcical stipulations include an edict not to buy or sell ice-cream, because it did not exist in the time of the Prophet, while hair salons and shops selling cosmetics have also been bombed.
Most seriously, Sheikh al-Hayyes said: “I saw them slaughter a nine-year old boy like a sheep because his family didn’t pledge allegiance to them.”
Such tactics have triggered a backlash among Sunnis, whom Al-Q’aeda had claimed to be protecting, the sheikh and military leaders said.
Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Albers, an American intelligence officer, told the news agency: “Al-Qa’eda’s very heavy-handed killing of civilians backfired on them. The Sunnis just wouldn’t stand for it any more.
“The self-described protectors of the Sunni community now kill more Iraqi Sunnis than anyone else.”
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They are their own worst enemy. Evil has a way of destroying itself in the end.
“Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away: for they do not sleep, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall: for they feast on the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.” (Proverbs 4:14-17).
August 12th, 2008 at 3:43 pmPerhaps the most perfectly ironic sentence I ever read was in the longer version of this article:
“Al Qaeda took the homes of those it believed were enemies, and also used the pretext of fighting for Islam to extort and steal, often killing businessmen in areas it controlled.”
Uhhhhhhhhhhh…Pardon me, but isn’t that a nutshell summary of THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF ISLAM since Mohammed’s day??!!
August 12th, 2008 at 5:47 pmWhat about kumquats?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:15 amYou gotta be caught in the act of actually sucking the quat. Don´t you know nuthin´?¿?¿?¿
August 13th, 2008 at 2:29 am