THE TRUTH UNDER THE BURKHA

Once again, what's wrong with the islamic demands for us to bow to their demands and accept islamic sharia and codes becomes apparent in the apparel (couldn't resist). Rather, in the repeated misuse of Islamic tenets (and tents?) to abuse the Western culture and laws - then scream discrimination when Islamic women are not allowed to wear an all hiding burkha for their driving permit photos. They create the problem then blame us. Typical. Also, talk about hiding behind mummy's skirt! ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Security forces besieging a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital captured its top cleric Wednesday as he tried to sneak out of the complex in a woman's burqa, and more than 1,000 of his followers surrendered. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf deployed the army to subdue the remaining militants holed up in Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, whose clerics have defied the government for months with a drive to impose a Taliban-style version of Islamic law in the city. The tensions had exploded into a daylong battle Tuesday between security forces and students — some of whom were heavily armed and masked. Sixteen people were killed, officials said. The government ordered the militants to lay down their arms and surrender by Wednesday morning, as it positioned armored vehicles and helicopters around the mosque in a show of strength. A security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said authorities captured the mosque's top cleric, Maulana Abdul Aziz, after a female police officer tried to search his body, which was concealed by a full-length black burqa. The officer began shouting "This is not a woman," the official said, prompting male officers to seize him. "The suspect later turned out to be the mosque's chief cleric," the official said. An AP Television News cameraman saw plainclothes police bundling the gray-bearded cleric into the back of a car, which sped away. "They have no options but to surrender," said Javed Iqbal Cheema, a government spokesman. "The government is not into dialogue with these clerics." MEANWHILE ELSEWHERE: Two armed men disguised as Muslim women in burqas held up a bank in Sarajevo and got away with some $40,000, Bosnian police said on Tuesday. They said the pair entered a Union bank branch in the capital wearing head-to-toe black dresses and veils typical of women adhering to the orthodox Islamic code and trained guns on customers. They then made customers lie on the floor while the emptied the tills, police added. "Everything happened in a moment. Two persons in black niqabs (burqas) came into the bank. I thought they were ladies," the Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje quoted bank customer Mehmedalija Komarac as saying. Women in burqas and men with long beards have become a common sight in the Bosnian capital in recent years. (Yes, they are the white Al Qaeda from which new, less easily spotted terrorists are being recruited, trained and spread around Europe and the USA. Light skinned, once shaved and dressed like the rest of us, they can look like you or me. Deception of the infidel, you and me, is perfectly legitimate in Islam even if it contradicts religious codes and tenets of Allah).