Picture of the Day

Veiled students of an Islamic seminary 'Jamia Hafsa' hold bamboo sticks as they chant anti-government slogans during a protest demanding the release of their teachers in Islamabad March 28, 2007. (Mian Khursheed/Reuters) (Associated Reuters article.)

I haven't seen too much about this group in the US press. It's from a giant Islamic school in central Islamabad. Over the past month, the women pictured above have raided a brothel, holding the madam and two other inside their school for days. The women have also seized and occupied a local library since January.

The men in the group have been roaming the adjacent neighborhoods raiding video stores destroying videos and threatening other neighborhood businesses in an effort to enforce sharia law.

This is a big mosque with adjacent schools for men and women. The leader of the mosque has threatened suicide bombers if there's a raid, and there are students with guns positioned on the roof.

This is not a giant threat to Pakistan, but it does represent the extension of extreme Islam into Pakistan's capital.