 Poster: A snowHead
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A Swedish man on a ski holiday in Kashmir (India) caused angry demonstrations, and demands that he be punished for putting a sticker with a verse from the Koran on his skis. The man was nearly beaten by angry protesters on Saturday in the Gulmarg, with several protesters calling for all foreigners to leave the resort. Police intervened, and took him in for questioning, where he explained that the sticker had been given to him for good luck by his wife, who is Muslim...
The offending sticker quoted the first verse of the Koran, which states, “In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, most merciful.”
Calm was returned to the area after a prominent Muslim cleric instructed locals to pardon the man, after he offered an apology for what he deemed an “unintentional” act.
Source: http://www.thelocal.se/17496/20090211/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Madness, complete and utter madness 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The world or part of it has not gone mad ....... Yet!
Or has it?
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Mentalists
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Lechbob, it seems unlikely that all all those protesting are practitioners of ESP, although some may well be.
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Calm has been restored to Gulmarg, following the Swedish skier's apology:
This report from The Hindu.
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| A day after Gulmarg observed a total shutdown demanding action against a Swede for carrying a ski slider with verses of holy Quran inscribed on it, the tourist on Monday tendered an apology. |
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| On Saturday, locals handed over Patrin to police after they found inscriptions of Quran on the slider he was carrying after a day out on the slopes of Gulmarg. |
This report is not the first to refer to the equipment as a "ski slider" or simply "slider". Is it the consensus view that there is anything significant in this?
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London also is having some crazy protests.
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