The Bush Doctrine succeeds in installing yet another religious (dis)order in the Middle East: "there has been a slide into puritan thuggery recently, epitomised by the flogging with electric cables of a pop group, the Mogadishu Stars, for playing at a wedding. Statements of intent are becoming bolder and uglier. A Mogadishu cleric openly insists that anyone not praying five times a day should be put to death."