StoopidFly

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Dhimmi Watch has disturbing news today about something occurring in Baghdad. The Taliban is giving some businesses an ultimatum to pack up and leave or be killed. They have been giving the reason that none of these businesses were around in the time of Mohammed, so they shouldn’t exist today. So far ice vendors and Falafel sellers have been targeted. They aren’t just empty threats either.

The ultimatum seemed so odd that, at first, most laughed it off – until two of them were shot dead as they plied their trade.

Akram al Zidawi, 19, and ice seller from al Dora, thought the threats were too ludicrous to be true – until it was too late. “Two weeks ago he came back home saying that he had been threatened by the terrorists,” said his brother Gassan. “My mother begged him to quit the job, but he laughed, he thought it was impossible they would kill him. But they came back two days later and shot him dead, along with three other ice sellers nearby.”