The federal government of Pakistan obtained this fatwa in order to try to stave off the Taliban, which is demanding that Sharia be implemented. The ominous aspect of the fatwa is that it ratifies Pakistan’s existing legal system, including the blasphemy law that Islamic supremacists use to victimize so many non-Muslims. “Religious decree: ‘Constitution completely in line with Sharia,’” from the Express Tribune, February 15 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The federal government on Friday obtained a fatwa (religious decree) declaring the Constitution of Pakistan completely in accordance with Islam from one of the country’s most prominent clerics, preempting any demand for the enforcement of Sharia the Taliban may voice during peace talks.
“Our Constitution is a complete document. The presence of 22 clauses proposed by the then leading religious scholars in the 1973 Constitution make it a perfect Islamic document,” observed Rafi Usmani, President of Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi.
In the three-page document which contained his recommendations, Usmani, who claims to be Pakistan’s grand mufti, condemned any move to create doubts regarding the Constitution. A copy of the document is available with The Express Tribune.
“Yes, when we talk about the implementation of Sharia laws, the government did a culpable negligence by not implementing these [22] clauses in letter and spirit,” Usmani had said after meeting with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
However, those creating such confusions, he added, should know all sects had unanimously agreed to the 22 clauses.
The interior minister met senior clerics from Darul Uloom Karachi, Jamia Farooqia, Jamia Binoria and Jamia al Rashid, along with other leading clerics in Karachi on Thursday night.
To create confusion about sensitive documents and to damage national unity is a condemnable act, particularly at a time when Pakistan is facing worst kind of unrest, the clerics had said.
mortimer says
Dysfunctional. The Pakistan constitution is ‘perfect’ but dysfunctional.
All Pakistan’s Islamic sects agree, but even THAT amount of Sharia isn’t ‘enough’. There must be more, more, more Sharia until everyone lives in constant fear of heartless Sharia vigilantes who murder savagely without warning and no act is too small to be criticized by them! Eventually, without a functioning court (where judges and defending barristers are not constantly intimidated by Sharia vigilantes) all activities in Pakistan will go on behind closed doors for fear of discovery. The country will grind to a halt of permanent stagnation even greater than at present and the only hope is leave Pakistan and try to impose SHARIA on unsuspecting Westerners who have no idea how DYSFUNCTIONAL Pakistan is.
Transmaster says
What is so bad about all of this is India cannot understand why the West, and specially the US is sucking up to Pakistan they know all to well what Pakistan is. The best way to deal with Pakistan’s duplicity is have strong ties with India, which is Pakistan’s mortal enemy. We can tell Pakistan that we can deal with India’s Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ, but we are having real problems with your Allah Akbar!
Charli Main says
Sharia vigilantes AKA Nazi Brown Shirts
Kill-Kill -Kill freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom to choose how to live your life, freedom to choose your sexual orientation, freedom to choose your religious beliefs. Kill- Kill-Kill.
You must think as I think, do as I do, belive in what I believe in, behave as I behave—–OR ELSE I WILL KILL YOU.
Jay Boo says
Brown Shirt Nazi-Islamism — for sure
Notice how …
Islamists shout “God is greatest” like a “Heil Hitler” praise.
Their upturned hands display, are the same as a Nazi stiff arm parade.
Prayer rug thugs, like SA brown shirts try to impose untruth.
Exaggerated bows are just as pretentious as the steps of a goose.
Honor killing death squad,
Adolph would be so proud.
Islamic religious police are just Sharia’s godless Gestapo.
Lock-step bootlick lunatics: Ditto
Abdullah ibn Salam says
You really have a screwed view of evil!
Evil is not obeying God!
Evil is not obeying God!
Evil is not obeying God!
Only in Allah the true Freedom exists. Muslims, we are the nation of free, we are the best.
Only in Allah the true Love exists. Allah loves believers.
Defcon 4 says
Love and freedom have nothing to do w/islam, nothing at all.
Bettina says
Just testing…
Transmaster says
You know something I count 16 brain cells, that is assuming each person visible has one brain cell, which might not be the case.
Christian A. Beltram says
If Pakistan’s government is perfect, does that mean that Saudi Arabia’s government is imperfect? If that is the case, then Jihadists in the future will probably try to model the governments that they set up when coming to power on that of Pakistan.
Salah says
A useful pdf to download and share:
Sharia Law vs English Law.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/01/sharia-law-vs-english-law-pdf.html
boakai ngombu says
” … all sects had unanimously agreed to the 22 clauses ….”
did they, truly?
SHARIA law kills. it kills spirit. it kills individuality. and when dutifully enforced is destroys civilizations.
SHARIA law encourages a full expression of mankind’s fallen nature (displeasing to the One God) and does not produce righteousness. Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lust) is the ultimate example of SHARIA behavior. this phantom, it is believed, murdered, despoiled, raped, lied amidst a multitude of other acts in complete opposite of all that the One God gave to Moses.
following SHARIA will lead anyone to complete absence of the One God, a rather hellish state.
tpellow says
“Why Pakistan Produces Jihadists.
“Carved out of the Muslim-majority areas of British India in 1947, it was the world’s first modern nation based solely on Islam.”
By S. Dhume.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703866704575223832888768098
gravenimage says
Fatwa declares Pakistan constitution a “perfect Islamic document,” fully Sharia-compliant
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Something I’ve long noted, actually—Pakistan already *is* a Shari’ah state, with Blasphemy laws, “Hudud” laws oppressing women, and terrible persecution and violence towards Infidels.
So why are Jihadists like the Taliban targeting them?
Two things: you can never have *enough* Shari’ah—Pakistan is pretty bad, but they are not actually stoning rape victims to death in the streets yet, so they are regarded as still “insufficiently Islamic”.
The second is simply about power—since pious Muslims do not believe in any kind of democracy, power is *always* just violently seized. The Taliban want power, just as they do in neighboring Afghanistan.
Jihadists fighting Jihadists in jockeying for power is not unusual—it is the norm, in fact, in places like Somalia.
More:
The federal government of Pakistan obtained this fatwa in order to try to stave off the Taliban, which is demanding that Sharia be implemented. The ominous aspect of the fatwa is that it ratifies Pakistan’s existing legal system, including the blasphemy law that Islamic supremacists use to victimize so many non-Muslims.
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*Yes*. Pakistan—on paper, at least—has had vestiges of Western law that have kept it from tipping over completely into Shari’ah, although such safeguards have been increasingly eroding. After this, there may not even be a pretense of civilized law in the “Land of the Pure”.
More:
“Yes, when we talk about the implementation of Sharia laws, the government did a culpable negligence by not implementing these [22] clauses in letter and spirit,” Usmani had said after meeting with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
However, those creating such confusions, he added, should know all sects had unanimously agreed to the 22 clauses.
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This means that it is not just the Taliban that wants to see an even stricter application of Shari’ah in Pakistan. No surprise there…
gravenimage says
The vile “Abdullah ibn Salam” wrote:
You really have a screwed view of evil!
Evil is not obeying God!
Evil is not obeying God!
Evil is not obeying God!
Only in Allah the true Freedom exists. Muslims, we are the nation of free, we are the best.
Only in Allah the true Love exists. Allah loves believers.
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Not exactly the Christian view of “God is love”, note. Allah “loves believers”, and not much else.
And it is typical that he considers Muslims “the best”, even though every Muslim nation is a chaotic, stagnant mess, and the more Islamic, the worse it is.
Also typical is Muslim “slavery is freedom”—this pious Muslim’s very username has him self-identifying as a slave of Allah.
And he considers Shari’ah obeying “God”—Allah—and countering evil.
Consider what Shari’ah consists of: imprisoning or killing women who run away from forced marriage or an abusive husband; violence against non-Muslims; sacralized pedophilia in the form of child marriage, amputations for petty theft; stonings of rape victims, and the judicial murder of anyone who dares criticize or even question the horrific barbarism. *Ugh*.