[Reader-list] Islamic groups block shaving contest

[yasir ~يا سر]

oh this is very near where i am.
I also saw the local tv news on this.  the beards are making a laughing
stock of themselves...
obviously what the beards fear movst are razors :D

of course this particular group of beards is a brand in itself.
not all beards are equal or the same. mine keeps growing out too.

y


On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/pakistan/Islamic-groups-block-shaving-contest/Article1-525565.aspx
>
> The banned Jamaat-ut Dawah (JuD) organisation, along with other
> religious parties in Karachi, have prevented the holding of a
> promotion event organised by a leading multinational company for its
> shaving razors by ransacking the venue.
>
> The competition, organised by Gillette Pakistan, was supposed to
> create a local record of number of people shaving at the same time.
> Just as the event was about to get underway, JuD activists forcibly
> entered the Expo Centre and disrupted the proceedings. They then
> staged a protest outside the Expo Centre and shouted slogans against
> the company.
>
> “Anything contradictory to the principles of Islam would not be
> accepted in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,” Qari Muhammad Usman
> told men who started converging at the centre. “It is blasphemous and
> the criminals should be punished.”
>
> He also called on people to boycott the MNC and its products. The
> event was a follow up to a competition held in Mumbai in which 1,700
> people had participated, organisers said.
>
> According to the organisers more than 2,600 participants had entered
> the hall and the shaving kits had been distributed when some police
> officials and expo centre administration first switched off the lights
> of the hall and then informed the organisers that they could not be
> allowed to carry on with their work as the centres administrators had
> been constantly receiving threats from some unknown people.
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