Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The Good News keeps on comin'


"AFGHANISTAN’S notorious Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which was set up by the Taliban to enforce bans on women doing anything from working to wearing nail varnish or laughing out loud, is to be re-created by the government in Kabul.

President Hamid Karzai’s cabinet has approved the proposal to re-establish the department, and the measure will go to Afghanistan’s parliament when it reconvenes later this summer. The conservative complexion of the assembly makes it likely to be passed."

Hamid's our man. What would we do without him?

I hope somebody raises this issue with Steve in Question Period.

No laughing out loud? I mean, jeeeez.

3 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

laughing out loud???

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Since life is so grim in A'stan, there probably isn't a whole lot of laughing out loud taking place. I guess one can simply smile underneath one's burka.

I'll bet that crazy Ministry would even ban Executive Koala! harumph.

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