Mustardism at it’s very finest.
Telegraph:
Rob Crilly
Rob Crilly is Pakistan correspondent of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. Before that he spent five years writing about Africa for The Times, The Irish Times, The Daily Mail, The Scotsman and The Christian Science Monitor from his base in Nairobi.
In Pakistan: your moustache or your life
By Rob Crilly World Last updated: April 9th, 2012
Amir Muhammad Afridi has braved Islamist death threats and given up his home in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas, all for the sake of his giant moustache
There is no finer mark of a Pakistani man than a fully oiled, waxed and twirled moustache. For 18 years, Amir Muhammad Afridi’s vast handlebar moustache, curling as high as his forehead, made him a celebrity throughout the rugged, tribal lands that border Afghanistan.
But that was until his luxuriant facial hair came to the attention of Lashkar-i-Islam, extremists who are fighting to impose hardline Sharia in the Khyber agency where Mr Afridi lived.
And God created man… then he decided on some rules. Let’s see, be nice to each other, er… thou shalt not kill….. no wait… for he was a stupid, petty god and the people he created were completely stupid and inbred , so he created some stupid rules:
Thou must wipe thine arse with an odd number of stones, not an even number.
On wakening, thou must blow water through your nose because Satan sleeps in it.
Thou must not fart whilst praying.
Thou must not grow a stupid moustache!
How can anyone call this stupid, stupid junk ideology a religion is beyond any sane comprehension? This is the 21st Century and anyone who believes in this tripe, never mind lives by it, must be either a complete idiot or mentally ill and that goes for the morons that pamper to it or defend it. I sincerely despair for the human race!
Were not it not so tragic, were it not an inherent part of a nation succumbed to the madness of a fanatical political ideology…it would be funny….screamingly hilarious in fact….like Monty Python on crack……
Regards, Don Laird
Edson,Alberta, Canada
I am with Don, if it weren’t for the seriousness of the threats this would be a ROLFMA moment.