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Stop uploading songs on mobile phones, warns Taliban pamphlet
Those associated with the mobile phone business are committing "un-Islamic acts", say Taliban.
Those associated with the mobile phone business are committing "un-Islamic acts", say Taliban. DESIGN: JAHANZAIB HAQUE
LANDI KOTAL: Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) issued a pamphlet to owners of mobile phone shops in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency, warning them to stop uploading songs, movies and pictures to mobile phones.
The pamphlet stated that those associated with mobile phone business should wind up and start another business as they are committing “un-Islamic acts” by uploading songs and movies to mobile phones.
Political administration official for the area Amjid Shinwari confirmed that the pamphlet was issued by unidentified TTP militants on August 12 and added that these pamphlets were distributed and pasted on the shutters of various mobile phone shops.
The shop and market owners are also threatened of dire consequences if the instructions are not followed.
“The owner of this market along with the businessmen would be targeted,” the pamphlet stated.
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Sons of Zia!
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Your future — get used to it.
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Haven’t anything in Quran or Hadith commanding the we should abstain from songs/moving pictures or anything along the lines however I DO KNOW that Quran and Hadith teaches us tolerance, humanity, love and peace. Several times have be been asked to not harm others around us. The neighbours and ‘haqooq-ul-ibaad’ (the rights of people around) take top priority. None of which can be seen through the conduct of TTP and their cronies.
Such a pity that these extremists don’t know the basics of very religion that they stand so proudly to protect with violence.
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Talibaans get a life. Were u meant to hurt muslims or non-muslims?
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@Naveed Javed:
agreed 100% . . .!!!
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Taliban are know against Television and Music. I wonder what are their views on cell phones. cell phones with large color displays are like televisions and therefor should be as un-Islamic as television. Will Talibn like to give up using cell phones with large color displays?
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Taliban against illegal (pirate) music from YouTube !!! Listen mate ur guns and bombs are counterfeit too. you go and try kill some official but end up killing 10z of innocent civilians
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@Naveed Javed: What about Bhutto who claimed to make Pakistan An Islamic Fortress and arranged Islamic Confress and gave our constitution to declare someone Muslim and non Muslim and also he stripped off the Minorities ( Christians, Hindus, Ahmedis and Parsis) to get elected on normal seats and to become a President and a Prime Minister. Blaming one person is easy and painting another one as secular is also easy but reality is different. Every leader after Quaid a Azam did play his part in every aspect so stop painting someone as fake secular and someone as extremists. All were same and hypocrites.Recommend
Where are these hypocrites when we die in attacks, firings and bomb blasts? Where are they when women are harassed and/or raped? They are as guilty as the mad scientists that created them.
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but $$$$ are not HARAAM . . . ????
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A gift for Independence day from Taliban….keep going Pakistan
‘Yahan Saans ka lena b guzr jana hai jee say’
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@RUA so Taliban were created to hurt someone? It’s ok to hurt non Muslims? The momeen scientists haven’t yet invented a bullet that hits only the kaffir. As you sow so shall you reap. You breed snakes they will bite you. The Taliban are Rottweilers, they just want to violence, victims be damned! I do hope they get you and your likes.
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AQ Khan please give us a bomb to eliminate Taleban for ever, we can live with India but not with these animals.
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@Acorn Guts:
Were there any moving pictures around when Quran and Hadith were compiled? Certainly not. So, how could Quran and Hadith have any injunctions against moving pictures, as you have claimed. Thus, here goes your entire thesis down the drain.
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There we go again. “Live your life according to what I say, or you will die”
The same thought process that has got Muslims all over the world in trouble in the first place. Seems they never learn from mistakes.
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@Acorn Guts:
u r Absolutely right SIR.They abuse ISLAM.
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Taliban forgot TV.. Watching TV also Haraam..
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Don’t worry, JI would take this to SC and give more ammunition to PCO judges to implement Gen Zia and Taliban’s agenda. For common people, get used to living in Talibanistan, this is just the beginning.
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Pakistan…wake up to reality, and wake up fast. Otherwise you will live like animals waiting to be devoured.
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@Anonymous!!! but $$$$ are not HARAAM . . . ????
Haraam is like cholesterol. There are two kinds of it. The ‘Good Haraam’ and the ‘Bad Haraam’.
Anything that comes from US is good Haraam. eg. US$, drones, F16 etc. The bad haraam includes televeision, mobile phone, automobiles, computer etc. anything that comes from India is bad haraam too. like onions, tomatoes and wheat.
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Should not pictures of sowrds, bombs and guns haram too?
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We we start calling Taliban the Jahils – they have nothing to do be being Talib and learning or educating themselves. They are a dark spot on being learned. Castigate them as Jahils so people think twice about supporting Jahils.
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I am not sure if ET will post this but Taliban are animals. Recommend
Thank you Zia, and thank you Gen Hamid Gul. Now we know who to blame for all the international artists refusing POINT BLANK on performing in Pakistan.
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Spring has come and gone, Wake me when the dark time ends!!!
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@RUA: “Talibaans get a life. Were u meant to hurt muslims or non-muslims?”
Ah, so if they restricted themselves to only hurting non-Muslims you would be okay with it?
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@Cautious: for your information landi tokal is not in pakistan ,you can buy drugs guns any thing you want ,plz googl it and find out.it is border town of afgan and indepentd tribs area.
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@H Chaudhry:
“I am not sure if ET will post this but Taliban are animals”.
We need to coin some new words to describe Taliban, animals are million times better than these non-humans in the guise of humans.
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Does anyone else get a voice in their head says “Shut up” whenever such proclamations are issued? No to extremism, yes to a “normal” Pakistan!
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TTP may justify its latest dictum to promote Islamic values but does Islam allows them to kill innocent men, women and children in public places and even in Mosques to promote Sharia ? If not, they should eliminated mercilessly before whole of Pakistan is engulfed in anarchy.
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It seems that Pakistan is going into the lap of Taliban in due course of time as the government could not eliminate Taliban from the areas where Taliban are dominating.
The need of the hour is that government should take swift action to take Pakistan into 21st century instead of that Taliban take Pakistan into the stone age.
If the influence of Taliban will not come to end that there is a possibility that there might be a civil war between the Taliban and non-Taliban forces.
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Everyone get their 3310′s ready. Taliban are here to save Nokia’s day atlast.
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I am pretty sure recording companies are behind this move. ;)
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if i am not wrong, Guns, vehicles , rockets, AK-47, radio communication and much more used by Taliban were invented by non-Muslims… oh ooohh.. Taliban doing an un-Islamic act by using all these things…
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Isn’t it easier to ban that was invented after 600 AD. lets have a blanket ban instead of painstakingly selecting banning individual items.
lets live an Amish type arabic life.
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@Magus:
Ironical. hurting doesn’t mean brutalizing or murdering someone. It signifies negating or opposing someone who is wrong In short I mean Jehad.
My friend u shouldd atleast have the decency to to google the agenda talibaan came into existance. they were backed by USA against Russians, and when Russia reign fall in Afghanisation, USA alleged Talibaan as terrorist in-order to pursue their so-called peace rule in Afghanistan.
Summing up:
I am ok if they talibans hurt the kufaars (non muslims) and not muslims.
and u keep on hoping they get mye n my likes.. I don’t care about it; it’s my opinion n I stick to it.Recommend
Most of the songs from Bollywood these days are pathetic anyway.
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@gp65:
Man If all the Muslim Ummah is okay with mass killing of muslims in Iraq, Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanisation and now Burma by non muslims.
I say with no hesitation that I am okay with Talibaans hurting non muslims and not muslims. Atleast it will mitigate the miseries of Pakistani people.
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@RUA: You said:”*I say with no hesitation that I am okay with Talibaans hurting non muslims and not muslims. Atleast it will mitigate the miseries of Pakistani people”.
How is that going to mitigate the miseries of Pakistani people??.Learn to be good human first; You can not be a muslim without beoming a good human first.
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All Talibans are GAY people… there’s no such term as good taliban or moderate taliban… they’re all screwed up in their heads… these people are a disgrace to Islam and themselves… these hypocrites present the worst form of humans on this planet, even worse than roaches… they embrace technology for their evil use but forbids other people… these are all illiterate jahil people who don’t even understand the basics of civilization – the good vs the bad.
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@Sajid Iqbal:
You mean to say that Taliban are innocent and is used by recording companies.. Do not put forward excuses to protect Taliban. Silent supporters like you are also responsible for the killings of innocent people. Please ponder over it.
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What a waste,
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Stop killing human beings as it is also an un-islamic act! Also stop using drug money as that too comes from unislamic act! Else STFU
Pakistan Zindabad and music too.
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@Awans:
“Muslim and non Muslim and also he stripped off the Minorities ( Christians, Hindus, Ahmedis and Parsis) to get elected on normal seats and to become a President and a Prime Minister. “
Good post, but just one correction. It was not Bhutto who stripped the minorities (non-Muslims) the right to become President or Prime Minister. Actually, the 1950′s Objective Resolutions in the constitution declared non-Muslims ineligible to hole top political spots.
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They didn’t said any thing about the using cars, xray machines , computers etc…… talibans are really funny
happy friendship pak citizens
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Music is not allowed in Islam, In Islamic Republic of Pakistan it should be banned, Great step taken by Taliban!
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shouldn’t it be loading instead of unloading?
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@elementary: Thank you for speaking up.
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they are rather more concerned about piracy :)
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@RUA:
so it’s ok if they hurt non-muslims?
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@RUA: Shame on your attitude. “It is ok to kill non-Muslims” ? Lack of humanity and morality in that statement is truly shocking.
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Music should be banned in Islamic Republic of Pakistan, great step taken by Taliban’s!
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Peoples!!!
Its all Money Game……
these illiterate & hungry young men with lot of energy are tools in the hand of warlords….
they don’t know the basic ABC’s of Religion Islam . . .
This backward Tribal areas needs proper education & real development . . .
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Ship them to Saudi Arabia.
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Uploading huh?
So I guess they got tired of people not meeting their media demands and wanted a freebie. Nothing was said about downloading.
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How insecure can they be.
@RUA.. you are fit to be the next Talib
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EP: Please post some important news in your section instead disgrading Islam and promoting more hatered. Be Professional please and not like the Talibans…Recommend
By the way who printed that pamphlet or photocopied it? Is the police sleeping? Is the intelligence sleeping too. How dare they go about freely in towns and cities? Arrest them and fine the printing press or photocopying outfit. Do something.
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This is a classic case of different interpretations.
There is a text A, written hundreds of years ago. Team X interprets it to suit their means, quotes regularly from it to justify their actions.
Now, Team Y also interprets it to suit their means, quotes regularly from it to justify their actions.
Now, both the Teams accuse each other of misinterpreting it. The interpretation seems to be so vague that no two sides(there are many many Teams here) appear to agree on a single interpretation.
If this were just the case there would have been deadlock. But, here much more is at stake. Team X exclusively uses violence. The Team Y, whose very idea is to shun violence, are at a disadvantage.
To quote Darwin, its the “Survival of the fittest”. Here, the Taliban have an edge.
This IS the future of Pakistan.
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@RUA
How disgusting. People like you are unfit to be muslims. I will never support the killing of innocent whether they are muslims or non-muslims.
And if you are so principled then u should also support all the non-muslims killing muslims for same reasons as taliban (e.g. in Israel the Palestenians are mainly opressed due to religious reasons.)
Go and read Islam and Quran. Open ur eyes this Ramadan. Instead of listening to masjid ka molvi do some research of your own.
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@Acorn Guts: On one side you say “Islam is deen e fithrath hai” on the other side you say do not sing etc. Entertainment is part of fithrath. So how come this dicotomy. Islam cannot be wrong the way we are understanding and interpreting is wrong.
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Talibanisation of Pakistan is the fault of zia and Bhutto. Their family assets should be sold and proceeds given to the victims of suicide bombings. We should sell everything they own including their family underwear
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Music and musical instruments are unlawful for Muslims. Only the wicked, the hypocrites and the brainwashed criticize of argue about divine laws.
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@Acorn Guts: Where did you learn about Islam: The American Consulate Junior School?
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@Sadia:
Where should I begin with? The only things that bothers me is that If massacre of Muslims by the hands of Non muslims is OKAY for everyone ( U all know the fate of Muslims countries Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma, Palestine etc)…
Then Y is that Hurting Non-muslims instead of muslims nuisance you??
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@elementary:
I guess you are in misery due to life threat given to muslims by Talibaans? Thats why u r sparing so much time commenting here. Isn’t it?
Well answer lies in the statement, ur miseries will be mitigated if Talibaans dont hurt the muslims.
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Oh come on people! Its all about piracy and intellectual property rights. Taliban are the front men for itunes store and the music industry!!
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TAliban zindabad. May Allah Grant Jannah to Sheikh Osama (Shaheed)
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