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FM -- no static at all. Tiny Minority of Extremists Alert: why is there an audience for these stations? Why don't they wither on the vine as the Vast Majority of Peaceful, Law-Abiding Muslims tunes in instead to blues and Elvis and somebody else’s favorite song?
From the Telegraph, with thanks to JE:
Pakistan's North West Frontier Province is always hard to control, but it now poses a new challenge, with scores of illegal radio stations transmitting a message of jihad and sectarian hatred.This has so alarmed the central government in Islamabad that it is has closed 40 stations in the mountainous region along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Mullah Mohammed Hashim who has set up a pirate radio station
Charsadda is a town bristling with the antennae of pirate radios. Mullah Mohammed Hashim, 45, keeps his "radio station" - a car battery, radiator-shaped transmitter and amplifier - in a cupboard. "We are not aggressors, but if we are attacked, then we tell our listeners to be ready for jihad," he declares.His radio station condemns the actions of Pakistan and US armed forces continuing antial-Qa'eda and Taliban operations in the tribal areas, where Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar are believed to be hiding, describing the operations as "part of a wider conspiracy to shed the blood of innocent Muslims". Mullah Hashim uses basic equipment and setting up a radio station costs less than £100.
The radicalising effect of unlicensed stations has been keenly felt in Bara village in the Khyber tribal agency. There, two "FM mullahs", as they were dubbed by the local press, one who followed a Sufic tradition and another, a newcomer who is a disciple of a more austere form of Islam, waged a turf war via their private channels.
After inciting their followers to bloody riots, a jirga (tribal council) ruled last week that both should be expelled from the area. Now the government is under pressure from secular-minded local leaders who doubt the commitment of President Pervez Musharraf's government to crack down on the stations.
Posted by Robert at March 6, 2006 7:09 AM
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I'd suggest that we provide a few Shrike missles, tuned to the FM frequency. One of those suckers will put them off the air, permanently.
Posted by: kenprice![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 6, 2006 8:27 AM
I undersdtand Mohammed al-Howard Stern is a big hit in the tribal areas. Those girls with the big burkas are an asset.
Posted by: JanuaryMan at March 6, 2006 8:30 AM
FM? "Somebody else's favorite song"? Not only does our Glorious Leader fight the good fight, but he can drop in obscure Steely Dan references. My hero!
at March 6, 2006 8:48 AM
If anyone was in Europe before 1990, you know that if you turned an AM, FM or shortwave turner to certain spots on the dial you came across unmistakable Soviet jamming signals... LOUD revolving static whirlpools... used to overwhelm freespeech stations in Eastern Europe and Russia.
The same can be aimed at these jihadi broadcasts to drown out the "Allahu Akbars" (with 120 dB reversed loops of old Frank Zappa -and the Mothers of Invention- tunes, perhaps) if no one wants to provoke our Pakistani allies with literal missiles.
I would recommend backwards samples of "What's The Ugliest Part of Your Body?"; "Sheik Yerbouti";
and "Trouble Comin' Every Day".
(I'll gladly man the jamming station. The non-existent requisite agency can contact me through this site, I'm sure.)
Posted by: profitsbeard at March 6, 2006 9:02 AM
The radicalising effect of unlicensed stations has been keenly felt in Bara village in the Khyber tribal agency. There, two "FM mullahs", as they were dubbed by the local press, one who followed a Sufic tradition and another, a newcomer who is a disciple of a more austere form of Islam, waged a turf war via their private channels.
If this ain't funny nothing is. Forget that Brokeback crap, can't Hollywood do something with this?
Posted by: dennisw
at March 6, 2006 9:17 AM
profitsbeard
No way to delay! Zap 'em with "Trouble Comin' Every Day" on a continuous loop. That's got my vote
at March 6, 2006 9:21 AM
dennisw-
There was an (amazingly) Iranian film-maker who came up with a movie in 2004 called "Lizard".... which was banned, of course... about something roughly similar to this theme of "competing mullahs". Your suggestion to Hollywood is apt as an asp.
The Iranian flick was something like the classic Italian comiedy "Johnny Stecchino" by Roberto Benigni, where he is mistaken for a visiting mafia boss. In the Iran movie, an escaped political prisoner shows up in a small town where they are expecting a new imam, so he plays along, pretending to be be cleric, liberalizes the teachings as goof on the gullible, and utterly changes the community for the better. ("Lizard" being a local slang for the ayatolllahs.)
See:
http://www.hadeseh.com/english/archives/001993.php
I'd love to see a sleeper comedy made of "the Pakistani FM mullahs", both in the same little village in the Hindu Kush, battling for the ears and souls of the shepherding audience, with spiritual pratfalls galore.
Posted by: profitsbeard at March 6, 2006 9:44 AM
Since we're talking about mullahs... wouldn't it be a safe bet to say that they inspire the biggest percentage of muslim terror attacks?
Posted by: fireangel at March 6, 2006 10:36 AM
Profitsbeard
I see sheep as a common denominator between the Brokeback sleeping sack sharers and the competing Mullahs. Does competition make Islam stronger? No, it makes it crazier and more violent because those are the ones who come out on top. Intimidation, bullying, assassination are what Muhammad excelled in and what his brain damaged copycat adherents strive to do 14 centuries later
Posted by: dennisw at March 6, 2006 11:19 AM
Show em where they're going...my vote is jam them with ACDC, Highway to Hell.
Posted by: Siciliano at March 6, 2006 1:28 PM
'Thanks for tuning in listeners to Rant Radio H-A-T-E ! All Koran -- All the time! Twenty Four Seven Three Six Five! "
Posted by: jsla at March 6, 2006 2:02 PM
These little crazy mullahs need to be bitch slapped.
Posted by: Denver at March 6, 2006 2:19 PM
DJ Abdullah and Radio Free Jihad. Mr. Marconi must be spinning like a dynamo.
Posted by: Eisenhund at March 6, 2006 6:56 PM
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