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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...threatening others. Women in the city of Rawalpindi complain that they are harassed if they don't wear headscarves. In Lahore, a prep school for girls has banned the wearing of blue jeans, for fear of a Taliban attack. In the capital, Islamabad, the Red Mosque's prayer leader, Abdul Aziz, sanctioned vigilante squads of baton-wielding women to go out and threaten video stores, barbershops and massage parlors for being un-Islamic. Two years ago, his followers kidnapped six Chinese masseuses, calling them prostitutes, and held them hostage. The army eventually cracked down, launching a siege and battle that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pakistan Failed Itself | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...Abdul, Paula •a fool is made of by Sacha Baron Cohen during filming of Bruno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...PAULA ABDUL claims she's never, ever been drunk. Was she drunk when she said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

Nearly two years after the arrest of Abdul Aziz on multiple charges of inciting violence against the state of Pakistan, the firebrand cleric of Islamabad's radical Red Mosque has returned to the pulpit with a promise that he will continue with his struggle to establish Shari'a, or Islamic law, throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Pakistan's Red Mosque, a Return of Islamic Militancy | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...Abdul-Basser] was speaking as a chaplain to a student in a private e-mail exchange. One of these e-mails was misinterpreted, misconstrued, and posted on the blogosphere,” said Harvard Islamic Society spokesperson Nafees A. Syed ’10, who praised Abdul-Basser for promoting diversity within HIS and the campus at large...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chaplain’s E-mail Sparks Controversy | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

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