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Key to Islamabad Tourism Less Brutality

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VEILED THREAT Burqa brigade
Good news for ladies headed to Islamabad for a little summer fun: You may not get swarmed and savagely beaten by a roving band of burqa-covered, baton-wielding women after all!

Thank Pakistani forces, who are finally confronting the wily Ghazi brothers, heads of the radical Red Mosque. The two mullahs have been bumping bellies with Pakistani authorities for months and have frequently used young women educated/brainwashed at their mosque to do their dirty work.

The brothers unleashed the so-called "Burqa Brigade" on the city earlier this year after announcing that the Red Mosque would finally do what the government would not—cleanse Islamabad of un-Islamic behavior. What followed was months of stick-wielding women rampaging through the city, destroying sinful merchandise at music stores, beating up women for driving cars, threatening to cut the legs off of females wearing jeans, and in one case, dragging masseuses thought to be providing "un-Islamic services" out of their parlors.

But those were the old days. Womanly wilding seems to be waning now that Pakistani forces are surrounding the Red Mosque. Many of its thousands of students have already surrendered. What's more, the elder Abdul-Aziz brother is already in custody following the failure of his courageous plan to escape the encircled mosque wearing a burqa and high heels. The young Ghazi brother remains holed up in the mosque, claiming he would rather die than surrender.

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