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April 15, 2007

Pakistani tourism minister fears for life after fatwa for hugging parachute jumping instructor

And with good reason, recalling the assassination of Zil-e-Huma Usman in February, for allegedly "un-Islamic" attire and behavior. More on this story. "Clerics issue edict over sinful hugging," by Sadaqat Jan for Associated Press:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's tourism minister says she fears for her life after clerics at a radical mosque issued an edict accusing her of sinning by hugging her French parachute jumping instructor, the state news agency reported.
Minister of Tourism Nilofar Bakhtiar told a parliamentary committee of her fear on Saturday following the Taliban-style edict against her by Islamic clerics at Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in Islamabad, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
The clerics said the hug was "an illegitimate and forbidden act" and "without any doubt, she has committed a great sin."
Two clerics at the mosque issued the edict against Bakhtiar last Sunday, demanding that she be sacked, her family punish her and she be made to ask for forgiveness after pictures in the Pakistani media showed Bakhtiar hugging her parachute jumping instructor at a fundraising jump in France.
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Bakhtiar rejected the edict last week, saying she had only received a pat from her instructor for her jump in France last month to raise money for victims of a devastating earthquake in Pakistan in 2005.
Bakhtiar was not immediately available for comment on Sunday.
"I have strengthened my security after the fatwa (edict) from the so-called Shariat court and the killing of Punjab provincial minister Zil-e-Huma," APP quoted Bakhtiar as saying, referring to the shooting death in February of a female provincial official by a man who told police he was opposed to women holding high offices.
Last month, an anti-terrorism court sentenced to death the man who attacked Zil-e-Huma Usman, who was minister for social welfare in Punjab province.

Posted by Marisol at April 15, 2007 6:53 PM
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Pakistan has a minister for tourism?

Posted by: Celsius [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 15, 2007 6:58 PM

The Mafia has the kiss of death.

Now Islam has devised the hug of homicide.

Have you hugged your suicide bomber today?

Posted by: profitsbeard [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 15, 2007 7:03 PM

"Pakistan has a minister for tourism?"
-- from a posting above

I don't think Tourism is doing too well in Pakistan. Save for the rich Gulf Arabs who come to go bustard-hunting, and for other birds whose hunting is forbidden because they are endangered species. And of course, as in Mumbai, where they rent whole floors of beachfront hotels to enjoy the weather during monsoon season (ah, that rain!), there are also, in Pakistan, as in India, as around the world, those girls, girls, girls, and every other sort of indulgence as well.

Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 15, 2007 8:22 PM

well she may well have hugged her instructor in thanks for getting her down safely and those two clerics need to get their minds out of the gutter and only problem being their minds are below the gutter rolling in the sewage that lose their minds and sees any contact between a man and a woman were not married or related as a prelude to screwing their brains out and for some reason probably their cult cannot distinguish between between sex and being friendly by giving someone a hug them sick minds

Posted by: godisnotallha [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 15, 2007 9:44 PM

Who in his right mind would be interested in vacationing in Pakistan? After the Palestinian territories, it's at the top of my list of worthless countries full of worthless "people", and I use the word "people" loosely to designate the vermin that populate this benighted replica of Hades.

So a hug is a "grave sin", but genocide, torture, beheading, rape, and slavery are sanctioned by the filthy qur'an, allah, and the demonic islamic clergy. Allah would be outraged at any expression of affection or friendship between two of his slaves; all devotion must be reserved for the unknowable, merciless master of the universe. What a greedy, envious, capricious god these people enslave themselves to, a god that hates love.

I almost pity this poor woman, but she has options, like seeking asylum in France. I have a feeling there is no future for her in her beloved homeland.

Posted by: Susanp [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 15, 2007 10:55 PM

The clerics that issued this fatwa should be forced to make the same jump...and I can find no mention of parachutes in the qur'an.

Posted by: USBeast [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 15, 2007 10:55 PM

Can anybody link to a picture of the forbidden hug?

Posted by: tvdog [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 16, 2007 3:50 AM

"Bakhtiar rejected the edict last week, saying she had only received a pat from her instructor for her jump in France last month to raise money for victims of a devastating earthquake in Pakistan in 2005."


...now, if she had been raising money to buy Centex, AK47s, or suicide belts...The Muslims may have looked the other way and would have not so foolishly complained...


...7th century morons....

Posted by: exsgtbrown [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 16, 2007 6:17 AM

What a differance sevral hundred miles make between india and pakistan. differance between and islamic hell hole and the land of freedom (for now). Here is a picture of jackie chan kissing his indian actresses co star. no fatwas , no edicts, just bollywood.

http://www.bollywoodworld.ca/bwgallery/displayimage.php?album=362&pos=1

Posted by: desidude [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 16, 2007 9:05 AM

Muslim clerics are the most vile scum of the earth. These are not religious leaders, they are ruthless gang leaders. If Arab countries truly want to get tough on Islamic extremism, then they need to simply take out these toxic, rabid old men and make it know that clerics need to preach kind and pleasant things to their zombie masses, or they too will disappear. I guarantee that they will shut their mouth once they start realizing that they will lose their positions of power. After all, how does one get to be old enough to become a cleric in Muslim societies? By being a chicken and having other muslims do the suicide bombing and Jihad fighting.

Posted by: hardliner [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 16, 2007 10:19 PM

"Pakistan has a minister for tourism?

Posted by: Celsius "

HA!...I thought that was funny too...and a woman at that.....

....I wonder just how many "tourists" go to Pakistan....

....I do know some American Muslim converts to to Pakistan...most likely to go to some "survival camp" or "sport shooting ranges" run by some crazed bearded finger pointing types....

.....the camp slogan is : allllaaaahhh aakkkkkbaarrr.....

.....they get to put on some funky looking clothes and have to run around with a towel wrapped around their faces....

.....you have seen films of these in camps, swinging on the bars, running on 2x4s, crawling under barbed wire, cascading down the sides of tall buildings with rope decending gear....goosestepping in formation.....

.....they probably get to learn neat things such as ambush tactics, mine laying, bomb placement, assault tactics, escape techniques and 50 ways to behead the infidel...

.....they also learn kidnapping, interrogation techniques and torture techniques....

.....they learn map reading, stalking techniques and learn secret code techniques....

.....they learn surveillance techniques, tailing techniques and bugging techniques...


all things considered this muslims have a fun time at camp....

Posted by: exsgtbrown [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 20, 2007 3:44 PM

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