Pakistan: its getting much worse

http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/03/pakistans_civil_war.php

"This week, members of the Lal Masjid militia kidnapped a woman, her daughter in law and her infant, and held them until the older woman admitted to running a brothel and denounced her crimes. Two police were held inside the Lal Masjid, and were later released. No arrests were made. The Lal Masjid is off limits to the Pakistani government.
On March 30, flush with success from the kidnapping standoff, Aziz has taken upon the government's weakness and has called for the implementation of universal Sharia law in Pakistan. Aziz even gave a deadline.
Maulana Abdul Aziz, the prayer leader at Lal Masjid and principal of Jamia Hafsa, on Friday gave the government a week’s deadline to “enforce Sharia” in the country, otherwise “clerics will Islamise society themselves”. “If the government does not impose Sharia within a week, we will do it,” Aziz told a gathering after Friday prayers. Similarly, he gave the Islamabad administration a week to shut down “brothels”, otherwise “seminary students will take action themselves”. “If we find a woman with loose morals, we will prosecute her in Lal Masjid,” he said. Sources told Daily Times that the Jamia Hafsa administration would compile a record of brothels and gambling dens over the week, and then launch a drive. They said the seminary believed these places were being run in collaboration with civil society organisations. “Jamia Hafsa will hold a conference on April 5-6 at Lal Masjid, where ulema will finalise a strategy against brothels and gambling dens,” said Aziz, adding that the drive would not be limited to Islamabad."

For those moonbats who think Islamo-fascism was dreamed up by Dick Cheney, George Blair and Tony Bush during a Texaco/Halliburton sleepover, here's a little dose of reality. Guess what? It looks like Pakistan is going to become a kind of Afghanistan x 50,000. If you thought a few technicals full of Taliban and a few little Al-Qaeda camps in the mountains were a tad dangerous, 170 million Nuclear-equipped Pakistanis pumped up on jihad videos and religious supremacism is much much scarier. Afghanistan would for all current purposes drop to page 41. Pakistan, although very much a third-world country, has enough wherewithal to create a bloody mess both in Britain and India.

The question for the non-moonbats is, are we going to tolerate the Islamic Republic of Al-Qaeda? And if not, how are we going to stop it?