ஆதாம் ஏவாள் படத்தை பிரசுரித்த பாகிஸ்தான் பத்திரிக்கைக்கு பத்வா

ஆக்டேன் என்ற பத்திரிக்கை ஆதாம் ஏவாள் படத்தை அரை நிர்வாணமாக வரைந்திருந்ததை ஆட்சேபித்து அந்த பத்திரிக்கை சொந்தக்காரர்களுக்கும், படம் வரைந்த்வருக்கும் மரண் தண்டனை என்று பாகிஸ்தானிய முஸ்லீம் இமாம்கள் பட்வா விதித்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

அதே போல பெண்களுக்கான உடைகள் அலங்கார பொருட்கள் விற்கும் கடைகள் உடனே மூடப்பட வேண்டும் என்று இமாம்கள் கட்டளை பிறப்பித்துள்ளார்கள்.

Adam-Eve pictures attract Islamists' ire in Pakistan
Posted June 17th, 2007 by TariqueMuslim World News By IANS

Islamabad : Publication of "half-naked" photographs of Hazrat Adam and Amma Hawwa, considered the first creations of the god, by a Pakistani magazine has attracted the ire of a section of the clergy who has demanded death to its owners and publishers.

A fatwa was issued against the publication by Maulana Abdul Aziz of the Lal Masjid here who has in the recent past hit headlines for the capture of a girls' seminary run in his complex for several weeks and an edict against the country's Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar.

Aziz alleged in his Friday sermon said the owners and publishers of the monthly magazine Octane had committed blasphemy of the first prophet of Allah Almighty - Hazrat Adam and Amma Hawwa - by publishing their half naked images in its latest issue.

The edict was latest in a series of measures from a section of the clergy against liberal mores.

Earlier, Bakhtiar was forced to resign after clerics raised hue and cry over a photograph showing her allegedly hugging her male coach at the end of a para-jump in France that she carried out for collecting funds for the victims of the October 2005 earthquake.

Meanwhile, at Lakki Marwat in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), shopkeepers selling garments and cosmetics for women have received letters in which they have been warned of dire consequences if they don't close down their businesses immediately.

A shopkeeper said he had received the letter Saturday morning containing "a word from the Taliban".

The province has been home to sypmathisers of the Taliban fugitives from neighbouring Afghanistan who too espouse extremist ideas against art, music and want women confined to their homes.

"The visit of women to the cloth market and other business centres is harmful and against the norms and principles of Sharia. This practice is one of the main causes promoting obscenity and vulgarity in the society," the letter said.

It alleged that shops had been turned into brothels where women were being sexually abused, Dawn reported Sunday.

The letter asked shopkeepers to refrain from selling such items to women and warned that failure to comply with the advice could result in loss of their lives and businesses.