We eliminate Musharraf, and we'll have a real Islamic bomb.

The Pakistani public has been encouraged to consider its nuclear weapons "Islamic bombs."

"Why do people talk about an Islamic bomb?"

One reason is the utterances of Muslims themselves, who over the years have publicly declared the need for an Islamic bomb.

The tension over the prospect of an Islamic bomb continues today.

Bomb the living daylights out of all these lunatic countries that are sitting right next to each other with their Islamic bomb.

"We now have an Islamic bomb," he said.

"As far as the Arabs are concerned, the 'Islamic bomb' is not a strategic asset, but rather a psychological one," he said.

These worries about an Islamic bomb raise the question of why we trust any nation with the power that a nuclear capacity confers.

But the 'free world', the rumbling voice had explained, wouldn't tolerate an Islamic bomb.