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PAKISTAN PRESIDENT MAMNOON Hussain has urged the nation to refrain from celebrating Valentine’s Day, while other officials blasted it as “vulgar and indecent” as they moved to outlaw festivities.
The president made the remarks to a crowd of students yesterday, saying the day – traditionally celebrated in the West by lovers – had no place in the Muslim-majority nation.
“Valentine’s Day has no connection with our culture and it should be avoided,” the president told students at a gathering held to honour one of the country’s heroes of independence.
Hussain urged the young people to focus on their studies instead.
In Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, members of the district assembly yesterday unanimously passed a resolution to ban Valentine’s Day celebrations.
“A particular segment of our society wants to impose Western values and culture on our youth by celebrating Valentine’s Day,” said the resolution, which was presented by a member of Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the largest Islamist parties in Pakistan.
“There is no place in our culture and in our civilisation for such an unnecessary and rude day, which aims to spread vulgarity and indecency amongst the youth,” it said.
Authorities in the conservative northwestern Kohat district also instructed police to halt any celebrations of Valentine’s Day.
Despite the ban, an AFP reporter in Peshawar witnessed shops openly selling red balloons, toys and chocolates.
A conservative Urdu language newspaper ran an industry-funded advertisement which called the day “a festival of obscenity”.
“Just ponder…tomorrow our children will start celebrating Diwali of Hindus, Christmas of Christians and who knows what other un-Islamic festivals so let’s kick out this festival of obscenity from our lives for the sake of Allah,” the last lines of the advertisement said.
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Someone didn’t get a Valentines card last year!…
Valentines effigies for sale in Islamabad for later tonight after prayers
Wonder if the offended brigade will be up in arms about this, calling him a racist and all that jazz.
Nah,just conservative Christian bigots judging by the volume of them commenting on this article,always get their knickers in a twist over any story like this,gas,angry lads!
Religion eh? Who needs it.
Jeez we better clean up our act for our cultured guests.
http://www.infowars.com/elementary-school-bans-valentines-day-thanksgiving-christmas-to-avoid-offending-minorities/
I suppose what’s the point in bringing the wife out for the night.
When she’d only get stoned.
This seems fair enough to me. They want to protect their culture in their own land. Keeping outside influence out helps. Of course that cuts both ways if you are Pakistani and live in the west you should abide by western culture and norms.
There are Atheist bigots too tricky dicky, i think you are one of them.
Ah yes. Tolerant, multicultural Islam is alive and well.
“Here are some flowers and chocolate, honey. Happy Valentine’s Day.”
The vulgarity of it all.
Disgusting
You mean like this chap in Germany this week http://www.infowars.com/algerian-sex-attacker-shouted-inshallah-if-allah-wills-it-as-he-raped-a-25-year-old-german-student/
Vulgar and indecent??? But rape and murder of women is acceptable. What a f****d up country, muslims are definitely deranged no doubt about it. Stay at home in your mad country!
Stop it! You’re insulting Allah and his child raping prophet.
The Bible Daisy ? , surely you mean the Koran
Worshipping a dead paedo and terrorist ok. Valentines day not ok. Go figure muslims
Doesn’t like western values but embraces western inventions. Internet, printing press and oh yeah nuclear weapons…
Nothing to do with Islam!
It’s because Valentine’s Day is literally a pagan holiday that was adopted by the Papacy to make people more comfortable about converting.
“The organizers of these events are misleading people, exercising a propaganda of the worst kind when they fail to note that the people who participate in these events have nothing to do with the Greek Orthodox Christian Church, stated the announcement.
“Many of our fellow citizens, have stated to the members of our association, their frustration towards our local elected authorities, for not participating in any Greek Orthodox ceremonies, but instead participating in the celebrations for Valentine’s Day, they add.”
One mans pagan is another mans …..er pagan too, seeing as there’s no gods and all that.
Whatever you want to believe. That doesn’t change the fact that no one can force anyone to believe in something they don’t want to. It would perhaps be more principled for you to stick to your guns and not celebrate any religiously-inspired holidays if that’s how you feel.
“In India, young couples need to be on their toes this Valentine’s Day. Merely expressing their love in public could lead to unintended marriage.
Right-wing Hindu groups, continuing an annual campaign against what they see as an indecent “Western festival,” have vowed to force marriage on couples attempting to celebrate the holiday on Saturday.
‘If you are in love, you should get married,’ said Ashok Sharma, vice president of Hindu Mahasabha, a conservative Hindu religious organization with branches across the country. ‘Roaming around in public without marriage does not fit in Indian culture. If we find such young couples, we will get them married off.’
Hindu fundamentalists will be on the lookout for couples carrying roses or canoodling at malls and parks, news reports said. Another right-wing group, Bajrang Dal, reportedly plans to deploy priests in parks in the northern city of Lucknow to conduct shotgun wedding ceremonies as needed.
Sharma said Hindu Mahasabha’s campaign would not stop there. The group has formed teams to monitor social media for illicit professions of virtual ardor.
‘Anyone expressing their love on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp will be caught hold of,’ he said.”
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-india-valentines-20150213-story.html
Why do you you go iron your burka Lurach
And you your sash, Mr. Cantwell.
Pointing out international rejection of an originally Roman pagan holiday that has transformed itself into a consumer holiday implies I own a burka? There’s no reasoning with you it seems.
Don’t I meant
@Íurach – Could you kindly tell me what a ‘right wing Hindu’ is please? That’s a new one!
That “no one can force anyone to believe in something they don’t want to” is a very interesting (but totally wrong) perspective. Indoctrination from childhood is “forcing someone to believe in something”. This brainwashing prevents the child (later a man) from free thinking.
Mike this explains perfectly why some Muslims feel it’s their right to rape western women http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/635942/Islam-Scholar-Saud-Saleh-Cairo-Slavery-Muslim-Women-Pagan-ISIS-Al-Azhar-University-Egypt
Muslims tightarses
Have you tried lube??
I’d say his life is great craic /
And the Bible will tell the victim that her rapist paid her father reparations and now she has to marry the rapist because it’s god’s will.
Caveman
@Daisy – Please stop lying Daisy, making things up and twisting it to mean what it doesn’t. The bible does not say it’s God’s will.
Just because he wouldn’t be able to find a Mrs valentina with that mush
When India spilt in two it really left something vulgar in the bowl after them aka Pakistan.
@Daisy – …also Daisy you biblical ignoramus, a woman who was raped in that culture, would not be able to find a husband after being raped because no man would want her. This is why it may have been required for the perpetrator to marry the girl. So this requirement could be seen as God’s way of looking after such a victim in such circumstances.
@ Daisy, You should acquaint yourself with the story of the rape of Dinah to see that it was not ‘god’s will’ nor does the bible tell the victim she ‘has to’ marry her rapist! This story has significant meaning because she is the great granddaughter of Abraham and the 12 tribes of Israel were named after her brothers SPOILER ALERT who killed all the men from the town from where the man who raped their sister came from, even though he wanted to marry her)
On the cultural side he has a point, why would you want to import a hallmark holiday? Is there any real appeal in appropriating other culture’s holidays other than for marketing purposes?
Considering you’re told who to marry I don’t think it would have much of an impact anyway.
They should stop using I-phones, airplanes, motor cars and air-conditioning. After all, those devices and vehicles are products of western civilisation. To do anything else would be hypocritical. In fact everything that keeps that backward nation functioning is a western rather than Islamic invention.
Spot on Ellis the Islamic World should limit themselves to to their inventions and ignore all that stuff from the West , the list of creations from Islam over the last 500 years has to be extensive , just off to find a quill and some parchment and make a start
Perhaps you should stop using one simple invention that preceded all of these:
Algebra (from Arabic “al-jabr” meaning “reunion of broken parts”).
There are more, but this one is short and sweet.
Iurach, making up the word doesn’t mean one invented the method. Algebra was around well before Islam, when allah was just an unknown young fella with a serious chip on his shoulder.
It was codified by a scholar called Al-Khwarizmi (Latinised as “Algoritmi”, sound familiar?) who turned it into its own discipline of mathematics independent from geometry & arithmetic.
“His algebra was also no longer concerned ‘with a series of problems to be resolved, but an exposition which starts with primitive terms in which the combinations must give all possible prototypes for equations, which henceforward explicitly constitute the true object of study’. He also studied an equation for its own sake and ‘in a generic manner, insofar as it does not simply emerge in the course of solving a problem, but is specifically called on to define an infinite class of problems’ ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LDR1_Prveo
Don’t let your hate blind your reason, lest it should consume you.
I said holidays, not cultural benefits or innovations. Valentines day isn’t a foundation of society, it serves minimal beneficial purpose beyond boosting the lull in spring sales for retailers.
How can saying that Algebra was around before Islam be classified as “hate”.
Have a lie down or a long walk in the countryside. Do something to release all that tension.
And just to clarify for you, I’d hate for facts to get in the way…algebra was around before islam. It is not an islamic invention.
Lads, why do ye this bother with this idiot?
I did mention 500 years Lurach , just limit yourself to all the wonderful creations from Islam over those centuries
Because they want tolerance and acceptance and equal rights when they live in our lands, however when they call the shots, no ground is given. That’s why we bother.
@whereisspace…..More than likely Algebra developed out of Hindu math and astronomy that Al Kawazini studied.
In modern world Islamic scholars never won Nobel prize in science,medicine or chemistry.
Bill Warner of The Center for the Study of Political Islam said that Knowledge of Golden Age came from conquered Jews,Christians,Persians and Hindus.
should read ‘So-called Islamic Golden Age’
I wonder is he going to ban the mass gay orgies held in Pakistan? Men who do not have partners meet up for sex with each other haha they don’t think its ‘gay’ Google it, its crazy!
This is what fires them up in Pakistan.. Where’s the Neo Nazi BDS crowd when this happens?
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In Pakistan, “A mob accused of burning alive a Christian couple in an industrial kiln in Pakistan allegedly wrapped a
pregnant mother in cotton so she would catch fire more easily, according to family members who witnessed the attack,” reported NBC News:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5005/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2014
Get a load of this German government BS propaganda….. Link: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a3a_1455372846
@Rowe…..That one takes the cake Rowe..
Another one being that German ex Govt. PR chief admits that on directive from Merkel his dept. must not publish anything negative about refugees.
Makes me wonder if the Germans are not up to something more sinister in bringing in these Jew-hating refugees.
Daisy chainsaw
Why don’t your type Netflix and chill instead of reading the Bible if it offends you so much?
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Daisy laying down the facts! Sorry Daisy, Christians like to think it’s only all the other religions that are nuts. Their religion is perfectly wholesome and just.
@Bull – Fool!
Iran has made celebrating valentines day a crime . Meanwhile PAKISTAN PRESIDENT MAMNOON Hussain has beend it also . How does he feel about this lot then http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3445065/Twelve-rapists-13-year-old-girl-terrifying-truth-Britain-won-t-face.html
What a shower of evil sucmbags.. They should all be fitted for cement shoes.
@Daisy..Inshallah Link: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ed8_1455375719
I’m disappointed that this story was not about somewhere in Ireland.
Me too actually..Could they not gave gotten some Fr Jack like priest from the wilds of Donegal or somewhere to give us a quote…You’d kinda expect your typical Mohammadan to be against it…
I find myself agreeing with Mr Pakistan!
Saint Hallmark of Cadbury Day is getting so commercialised.
No sex! Definitely don’t do sex! Unless we want you to have the sex. Then definitely have the sex.
Suppose its better for pakistanis to stay in there own country and dare not head to the west..their culture being muslims would not intergrate
Which? His attack on valentines day or valentines day itself….?
Here here
Jaysus, is there no romance left in the world!
It’s a hallmark non holiday ffs. Same as mothers/fathers/brother/sister/(insert whatever you like day). How about they turn it into “don’t beat your wife day even though our main religion condones it. And get on with dragging Pakistan out of the 14th century.
i think it’s the seventh century. It would not be so bad if they were operating in the fourteenth.
All the angry atheists have nothing better to do …
Can’t blame him.
Anyone see the Late Late show last night.
Breaking news. Students in Ireland urged not to engage with the disgusting ideology of Islam. Or Pakistan for that matter
Outlaw festivities as it has no place in an islamic society. Truly laughable. How about an illiterate muslim rapist has no place in a modern secular/ Christian society? How about halal meat, it has no place in our culture right? So lets ban that too. Honour killings, let us wipe out those who import such a barbaric practice into our countries. Islamic madrassas and so called cultural centers, or should i say jihadi brainwashing schools, fine purveyors of intolerance and hatred, they’re not christian or secular either, so shut them down. Any muslim who does not understand the concept of gender equality and equal rights for all, well they can f@#k off as well.
I hate it when people who are complete dicks say something sensible and I find myself agreeing with them.. I hate it!
But he is not wrong.
So its an article about the Islamist’s of Pakistan banning Valentines day, and you relate that to a christian book? what happened to you? there is no logic or critical thinking there at all. Just a blind hatred for Christians. considering your age you really need to learn to relax. you are not getting any younger you know.
You do realize that abortion is not allowed in Islam? you do realize that gay marriage is a big no no. Do you understand all this?
People like you would not be tolerated in an Islamic state.
Christians and Muslims are like Lions and Tigers. Born to the same family but only thrive when kept continents apart.
@The Dude TheBull = The full of Bullsh*te
Liberals ask us. ..no demand,
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