Pakistan's sex scandals are totally weak sauce

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Clerics: Pakistan Official's Hug a 'Sin'
By SADAQAT JAN 04.09.07, 3:53 PM ET
Islamic clerics at a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital have demanded the tourism minister be fired for hugging a foreign man, saying she committed a "great sin."
Minister of Tourism Nilofar Bakhtiar rejected the Taliban-style edict Monday and said her family and friends were concerned for her safety.
Two clerics at Islamabad's Red Mosque demanded her dismissal Sunday, two days after setting up a court to deliver Islamic justice in a bold challenge to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a U.S. ally who has promised to promote moderate Islam.
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This was "an illegitimate and forbidden act," the clerics said in their edict, or fatwa.
"Without any doubt, she has committed a great sin," the fatwa said. It declared that Muslim women must stay at home and must not venture out uncovered.
The fatwa demanded that Bakhtiar be fired, given another unspecified punishment and that her family "force her to ask for forgiveness so that she does not repeat this un-Islamic act."
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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/09/ap3595059.html

The best sex scandals come from western Europe or South America - you have to do something truly outrageous for people to notice there. Pakistan sounds like it could be the most boring place on the planet.
 
I wonder what that "unspecified" punishment is.

It is also very interesting to see the forces Musharraf is competing against.
 
I look forward to a day when people don't fire machine guns into the air and burn effigies of everyone under the sun each time Islam is criticized, so we, as a global society, can begin to work out how nauseatingly fucking sexist this religion is.

Christianity ain't the most non-male friendly religion out there, but fuckin' hell, man, *hugging* someone? Are you shitting me? There's absolutely nothing "weak sauce" about this, as far as I'm concerned. It's a sickening outrage, to tell the truth.
 
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