Targeting textiles: Taliban make bonfire of ‘un-Islamic’ cloth

TTP claims that it is 'un-Islami­c' to wear clothe­s that don't proper­ly cover the human body.


Afp July 27, 2011

PESHAWAR:


A Taliban group in South Waziristan on Tuesday burned a huge quantity of cloth taken from shopkeepers, saying it was too thin to be made into suitably modest garments, officials said.


The extremists stormed shops in Wana and made a bonfire of the cloth in a public area near the bazaar.

Shopkeeper Rahimullah Khan said that at least eight armed men burst into his premises and took away bundles of raw cloth that they said was too thin to make respectable clothing.

“They said it was un-Islamic to wear clothes that don’t properly cover the human body,” Khan said.

A local official in Wana who declined to be named said the perpetrators were local Taliban, adding that shop owners calculated thousands of metres of material had been destroyed.

“The men confiscated big bundles of raw cloth which they declared was too thin to wear from dozens of shopkeepers in the main bazaar and burnt them,” he told AFP.

“They had warned shopkeepers almost a week ago to stop selling un-Islamic
cloth. Today, the militants stormed the shops and  confiscated the rolls.”

Published in The Express Tribune, July 27th,  2011.


COMMENTS (37)

Prometheus | 12 years ago | Reply

It is ironic that these people talk of Islam when they have no regard for human values. You might as well kill then for not being humans. Even if they feel that it is un-Islamic then they should not use it. Why impose your own desires upon others' if the do not share them?

Tauseef | 12 years ago | Reply

@Sabih Shad: Be wary Shadsaab. Pretty soon, you will be welcoming them to your premises. Which wont leave much room for you to reason, would it?

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