I think it was meant to be satire with a Pakistani colonel called "Bom Zhalot"
shiv On Friday 28 Mar 2008 6:29:13 am Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > i thought that was brilliant, especially the bit about the rapture. i am > continuously disconcerted by seeing serious looking businessmen in suits > reading the rapture books, and that has had a real political impact, at > least as much as islamic "fundamentalists" have had in selecting the > government of pakistan! > > however, given that believers in the rapture are politically more > powerful today, i agree this was a rather unwise press conference to > give, in terms of the officers' own careers. > > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 06:37 +0530, ss wrote: > > http://www.thebulletin.org/columns/hugh-gusterson/20080205.html > > John G. Libb of the Washington Times asked if Americans were wrong to be > > concerned about Pakistan's nuclear stockpile given the rise of Islamic > > fundamentalism in Pakistan. Colonel Zhalot replied: "Millions of > > Americans believe that these are the last days and that they will be > > raptured to heaven at the end of the world. You have a president who > > describes Jesus as his favorite philosopher, and one of the last > > remaining candidates in your presidential primaries is a preacher who > > doesn't believe in evolution. Many Pakistanis worry that the United > > States is being taken over by religious extremists who believe that a > > nuclear holocaust will just put the true believers on a fast track to > > heaven. We worry about a nutcase U.S. president destroying the world to > > save it." > > > > U.S. diplomats in Pakistan declined comment.
