weekend updates
Iraqi athletes targeted for wearing shorts
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic extremists.
A U.S. Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter, meanwhile, crashed Saturday and its two crew members were missing in Anbar province, a volatile area west of the capital where insurgents are active. Hostile fire was not suspected as the cause of the crash, the U.S. military said.
In the Baghdad incident, gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni Arab coach and two Shiite players, asked them to step out and then shot them, said Manham Kubba secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis Union.
Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.
No one claimed responsibility for the slayings, which come amid worries that Islamic extremism is spreading in the war-torn country.
Sunni cleric Eid al-Zoubayi denounced the attack.
"Islamic religion is an easy religion and it allows wearing sport shorts as long as they don't show the forbidden parts of the body, so the acts that are targeting the sport are criminal," he said.
It was the second incident involving athletes in just over a week. Fifteen members of a taekwondo team were kidnapped in western Iraq while driving to a training camp in neighboring Jordan on May 17.
Haihhh.. how scary is that.one person could easily be shot to death just because he did not cover the forbidden parts of his body (aurat). I can understand that it is an obligation for a Muslim to abide by the Islamic teachings but can someone tell me if it is ever justified for that person to be killed just because of that. Haihh.. susah betol dgn extremist nih. They are like everywhere by now.
On a different note, while I am writing this stuff, my fellow floormates are playing tennis ball in the hallway and were also talking and laughing out loud like there's no tomorrow and they have been doing this for the past 2 hours ( when I get mad, i tend to exaggerate the facts, but they were there for quite sometime really). I pray to God that they will stop doing whatever they are doing right now A.s.A.p as they are really driving driving me crazy right now. Erkhh.. for goodness sake it's 1am larrr!! I don't care it's saturday nite but I really need to study and I have 4 more papers to go la moron!!
I pray even harder now as I can still hear the tennis ball banging on my door.Aiyaaaa...
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic extremists.
A U.S. Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter, meanwhile, crashed Saturday and its two crew members were missing in Anbar province, a volatile area west of the capital where insurgents are active. Hostile fire was not suspected as the cause of the crash, the U.S. military said.
In the Baghdad incident, gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni Arab coach and two Shiite players, asked them to step out and then shot them, said Manham Kubba secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis Union.
Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.
No one claimed responsibility for the slayings, which come amid worries that Islamic extremism is spreading in the war-torn country.
Sunni cleric Eid al-Zoubayi denounced the attack.
"Islamic religion is an easy religion and it allows wearing sport shorts as long as they don't show the forbidden parts of the body, so the acts that are targeting the sport are criminal," he said.
It was the second incident involving athletes in just over a week. Fifteen members of a taekwondo team were kidnapped in western Iraq while driving to a training camp in neighboring Jordan on May 17.
Haihhh.. how scary is that.one person could easily be shot to death just because he did not cover the forbidden parts of his body (aurat). I can understand that it is an obligation for a Muslim to abide by the Islamic teachings but can someone tell me if it is ever justified for that person to be killed just because of that. Haihh.. susah betol dgn extremist nih. They are like everywhere by now.
On a different note, while I am writing this stuff, my fellow floormates are playing tennis ball in the hallway and were also talking and laughing out loud like there's no tomorrow and they have been doing this for the past 2 hours ( when I get mad, i tend to exaggerate the facts, but they were there for quite sometime really). I pray to God that they will stop doing whatever they are doing right now A.s.A.p as they are really driving driving me crazy right now. Erkhh.. for goodness sake it's 1am larrr!! I don't care it's saturday nite but I really need to study and I have 4 more papers to go la moron!!
I pray even harder now as I can still hear the tennis ball banging on my door.Aiyaaaa...
posted by faisal at 1:12 AM
10 Comments:
now it's 330 am
=P
haha. send dann to iraq and we'll miss him deeply. haha.
P.S. in case you don't remember, dann is our pnb junior.
err...dann doesn't read your blog rite?
oi keste...so mean!
omg
keste evil gilerr
hahahha
:P
it's almost 11am now
and guess what
i was woken up by these stupid morons again!!!
they were making lots of noise in the kitchen.haihh..apersal la diorang ni hyper sangat..(*^&*^&*%&^%&^
join la derang. ape la. anti social sungguh :P
well
i don't feel like joining anyone right now
need to set my priority larr
study comes first
=)
patience grasshopper... patience....
tapi kalau tak tahan, you can always shoot them ala-Iraqi moral police.
"....meen erhabi?"
take care.. don't stress yourself too much
notes: i never hate my floormates
they are a bunch of nice people, it's just that sometimes they have too much fun and hence making too much noise. that's all that irritates me.
=)
hmphh... no wonder la tak reply msg tengah exam eh...
good luck mkay
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