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...drumlike object called the ngoma lungundu. The ngoma, according to the Lemba, was near-divine, used to store ritual objects, and borne on poles inserted into rings. It was too holy to touch the ground or to be touched by non-priests, and it emitted a "Fire of God" that killed enemies and, occasionally, Lemba. A Lemba elder told Parfitt, "[It] came from the temple in Jerusalem. We carried it down here through Africa." (See pictures of John 3:16 in pop culture...
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Umma Aman said she wanted to die for her God. She was sitting on a pile of sandbags, pressing wet rags to her eyes in an attempt to ease the effects of the clouds of tear gas billowing through her madrasah. Outside, gunfire echoed through the deserted streets of Islamabad as the Pakistani military battled militants holed up in the mosque next door. Aman, just 22, had wanted to fight alongside her brothers, as she called them, in defense of the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa madrasah complex that had been the conservative heartbeat of Pakistan's capital for decades...
...contest culminated in the streets of Islamabad last spring when the female madrasah students launched their vigilante campaign against CD shops and massage parlors. "The government point of view is that we challenged the writ of the state, but we believe that the government is challenging the writ of God," says 16-year-old Asma Mazar, a classmate of Aman's who survived the siege. "Pakistan was born an Islamic state, so it is the duty of the government to stop these kind of illegal businesses. But if the government doesn't do its duty...
...installed, stacked with judges who signed an oath of loyalty to Musharraf. The court has little credibility with the Pakistani public, who see the whole episode as yet another confirmation of a corrupt justice system, where those in power make the rules. Shari'a, whose supreme authority is God, not a President, is increasingly seen as a solution to Pakistan's problems. In a recent survey, 60% of Pakistanis said they wanted Shari...