雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第10章:太妃糖 網球與斯瓦特佛像(10)

The head of the madrasa was Umme Hassan, the wife of the elder brother, Abdul Aziz, and she even boasted that she had trained many of her girls to become suicide bombers.

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這所伊斯蘭學校的校長名叫阿媚•哈桑，是阿卜杜勒•阿齊茲的妻子，她甚至吹噓把自己手下的許多女孩都訓練成了自殺式炸彈襲擊者。

The mosque also set up its own courts to dispense Islamic justice, saying the state had failed.

紅色清真寺還設立了自己的法院來執行伊斯蘭律法，並表示這是因爲國家做不到。

Their militants kidnapped policemen and ransacked government buildings.

他們的武裝分子也綁架警察，還洗劫政府的辦公大樓。

The Musharraf government didn’t seem to know what to do.

看起來，穆沙拉夫政府並不知道該如何應對此事，

This was perhaps because the military had been so attached to the mosque.

這有可能是因爲國家的軍隊跟紅色清真寺的關係太過緊密。

But by the middle of 2007 the situation was so bad that people began to worry the militants could take over the capital.

到了2007年年中，形勢急轉而下，人們開始憂心首都會不會就此淪落到武裝分子手中。

It was almost unbelievable – Islamabad is usually a quiet, orderly place, very different to the rest of our country.

這是相當令人難以置信的——在正常情況下，伊斯蘭堡安靜、秩序井然，跟我們國家的其他地區截然不同。