Just this weekend, Pakistan and the Taliban agreed to a 10 day cease-fire under the condition that Pakistan would abandon its laws and use the Sharia (Islamic Law) in Swat Valley (a region in Pakistan controlled by Taliban). I cannot think of a bigger step back for progress in recent memory.
Islamic Sharia is really only enforced by the strictest of Muslims extremists, because it supports radical ideas like it pushes against women education and for the amputation of the hands of thieves (under certain circumstances). That is precisely why only a handful of countries actually follow the Sharia like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Libya and Sudan (Three of whom are American Allies).
So here we are in 2009 and instead of pushing our cultures and societies to adapt real progressive ideas on how to govern a truly liberal nation, we are giving in to extremists and allowing them to dictate the law of a country that possess nuclear weapons. I think disappointment is an under-reaction to this situation that begs the question: Is religion's stranglehold on humanity ever going to be broken?
According to the Pakistani government that this move was the will of the people, which I find absurd. Sometimes the government must know when the people are just being ignorant. When the people ask for more freedoms and changes in government, fine do as they say, but when the people ask for a 14 century old law to be implemented in today's society, the government should simply say no.
Hey Pakistani government: want to learn how to force the bigotry out of your country, see Abraham Lincoln.
Monday, February 16, 2009
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there is islamic sharia in all the islamic world!! its not just the government .. islam is a way of life.. and islamic especially arabic countries have sharia laws in the courts!! and in your opinion the people are ignorant but in their opinion you're the ignorant one for not following the islamic law!!!!
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