Now this is what I call
fighting the war on terror:Militant Mullah Meets Match in Comic at Norway Nightclub
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: April 30, 2004
PARIS, April 29 - How much weight does a bearded mullah carry in a freewheeling liberal society like Norway's?
The country's well-known Muslim comic, Shabana Rehman, decided to find out Tuesday when she lifted the founder of Iraq's Ansar al-Islam terrorist group off the ground before a startled audience.
"If a small woman like me can lift him up, he can't be dangerous," Ms. Rehman said Thursday by telephone from northern Norway.
The cleric, known as Mullah Krekar, did not find the stunt funny. He went up smiling but was sputtering with rage by the time Ms. Rehman set him back down.
"I do not have the right to carry her like that and she has no right to carry or touch me," he exclaimed into his microphone. He vowed to sue and demanded that photographs of the stunt be destroyed. ...
― spittle (spittle), Friday, 30 April 2004 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)