"Creeping" Islamabad Coup Now Galloping
A couple of days ago the Pakistani paper Dawn ran a piece titled "The Creeping Coup", about how the Lal Masjid movement is taking over the city of Islamabad and acting like the Taliban, which they openly support.
Well, it looks like they've gathered a bit of steam:
“We will start our Islamic revolution in Islamabad on Friday by launching a crackdown on CDs, DVDs and other secular activities in the G-6 sector. The exercise will be extended to the NWFP and other areas at later stages. We have full support of madressahs in various cities,” Jamia Faridia and Jamia Hafsa in-charge Maulana Abdul Aziz told Dawn on Monday.Who funds this revolutionary movement? Well, you're not going to believe this:“Ten thousand students of the two seminaries are ready to sacrifice their lives for Shariat and we are determined to enforce the Islamic law in Islamabad in order to make it example for people,” said Maulana Aziz, elder brother of Ghazi Abdul Rashid.
Asked what the funding source of the two seminaries and the Lal Masjid was, Maulana Aziz said: “Whenever we are short of essential items we close our eyes and demand the goods from Allah. Within a few minutes, we find the desired things in our kitchens.”I told you you wouldn't believe it.
Cross-posted at Patterico's Pontifications.