The pastor of that rebellious Lutheran Church in Madison, Wisconsin was caught trying to sneak out of the besieged compound wearing a nice summer frock with flats, white gloves, a necklace of cultured pearls and one of those go-to-meetin’ hats the older ladies still wear, sometimes.
Oops.
Got it wrong again:
The leader of a radical mosque besieged by Pakistani security forces in Islamabad has been caught trying to escape wearing a woman’s burqa.
Security forces seized Maulana Abdul Aziz as he tried to leave the Red Mosque amid a crowd of women.
The mosque has been besieged by Pakistani troops after gun battles with armed students killed 16 Tuesday. They have been told to give themselves up.
Clerics at the mosque are campaigning for Islamic Sharia law to be enforced.
The deputy commissioner of police in Islamabad, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, described how the cleric tried to escape wearing the all-enveloping dress worn by Muslim women.
“The maulana came out of the mosque with a group of girls wearing a burqa and carrying a handbag. The girls protested when he was stopped. But officers were suspicious and after a search, Maulana Abdul Aziz was identified and arrested,” he told the BBC.
Another security official told AFP that the cleric had been picked out because of his “unusual demeanour”.
“The rest of the girls looked like girls, but he was taller and had a pot belly,” the official said.
Prolly he just has sensitive skin and was fresh out of SPF30.
Chump.
good post, Lex — hee-hee. I still remember one of your commenters saying, during the Paris-has-to-go-to-jail kerfuffle, “beautiful women shouldn’t have to go to jail. Send them to my house…” I’m still giggling about that. Have a happy Fourth of July.
Marianne Matthews
What is it with these Muslims dressing up as women? Is there something else about this “religion” we don’t know? Maybe a prediliction for women’s clothes, and other men?
Jim C
Maybe that would explain why they treat women the way they do…
Jim C
Oh, the ever courageous warriors of Islam.
Hide in sanctuaries of worship, dress like girls, and the end-game is to get lucky with 72 girls that never have before.
I now know why the left has taken up suport for the Islamists.
Happy Fourth!
-SJBill
Didn’t fool me!
Now if you had said Episcopal Priest (or better yet Bishop) was sneaking around in a frock and fine ladies hat, it might have been more believeable.
Nice try.
Nose
Hmmm – definitely sounds like there was profiling taking place, but there are no Diversity
Gestapomonitors to contend with either…-SJS
Update: The coffee pot exploded during their after-church supper and all the Lutherans had to be evacuated to the local bingo hall, hats askew!
Cap’n,
Here in the People’s Socialist Republic of Madison (PRSM), there are many supporters of ‘alternative lifestyles’. Indeed, we even have female ministers in many local Lutheran churches. So, finding a Lutheran minister running around in a summer frock is not news.
Finding a Lutheran minister that supported our country? THAT would be news!
Case in point found on Fox News Web site:
‘The openly gay pastor of Atlanta’s oldest Lutheran church has been removed from his denomination’s clergy roster.
But the Rev. Bradley Schmeling said Thursday he will not leave the pulpit of St. John’s Lutheran Church, a decision that could open the 350-member congregation to disciplinary action from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Schmeling told St. John’s and his bishop that he is gay before he was chosen as pastor in 2000. But last year, when Schmeling announced he had found a lifelong companion, Bishop Ronald Warren of the ELCA’s Southeastern Synod asked the 44-year-old pastor to resign.
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When Schmeling refused, Warren started disciplinary proceedings against him, leading to a closed-door January trial in which a disciplinary hearing committee dealt with the case. In their decision, seven members of the 12-member disciplinary committee said they felt the church rule left them no choice but to defrock Schmeling, effective Aug. 15. But the committee also wrote that, if not bound by the rule, it “would find almost unanimously that Pastor Schmeling is not engaged in conduct that is incompatible with the ministerial office” and would order no discipline.’
The obvious course of action is to change the rule. Can’t have that out-dated theology stand in the way of progressive thought now can we?