This is an absurd disagreement: the Pakistani Taliban is demanding that Sharia be implemented in Pakistan, or it will continue on the path of violent jihad. In response, the Pakistani government has obtained a fatwa declaring that the Pakistani constitution is a “perfect Islamic document,” fully Sharia-compliant. And a former Prime Minister has said that Pakistan already has Sharia. But the Taliban isn’t buying it — they apparently believe that Pakistan has more Sharia to implement. And so they fight on.
Note, in any case, that neither side is making the rather obvious argument, that Pakistan is implementing a different version of Sharia from the one Pakistan has in mind. Both sides seem to agree on what Sharia is — contrary to the claims of Islamic apologists in the U.S. who claim that Sharia is so multiform and amorphous as to defy characterization. Their disagreement is just over whether or not it is already fully implemented in Pakistan.
“Pakistani Taliban say government must embrace Islamic law,” by Saud Mehsud for Reuters, February 22:
UNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN WAZIRISTAN, Pakistan, Feb 22 (Reuters) – T he [sic] Pakistani Taliban told the government there was no chance of peace in the country unless Pakistan changed its political and legal system and officially embraced Islamic law.
The government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wants to find a negotiated settlement to years of fighting with the militants but talks broke down this month after a string of attacks.
In a rare face-to-face meeting with journalists on Friday in an undisclosed location in Waziristan, a lawless region on the Afghan border, main Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said there was still hope negotiations might resume.
“Despite recent bombings in North Waziristan and killing of our 74 men by the security forces during the peace talks, we are still serious about the talks,” he said, wearing an AK-47 bandolier across his chest.
“If talks are to be held it would be only under sharia (Islamic law). We have made this clear to the government committee. We are fighting for the enforcement of sharia and we are holding talks for the same purpose.”…
“Polio drops are not a vaccine against the disease,” Azam Tariq, another Taliban official, told reporters alongside Shahid as he clutched prayer beads in his hands. “It is a campaign to damage Islam.”
Of course. What isn’t?
Darlene Myers says
This just Boils my Red, White & Blue Blood… To think we sent our young men and women to this shit hole for nothing…. Gold Star Families I am sick in my soul, my heart is breaking… Operation “American Spring” set for May 16, 2014: Target Washington, D.C. We the People MUST end this now… Stand up, get in the streets, get on an overpass, get to your local media station, Walk like Americans and End this Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism Today….. you can see yesterday was too late…
jj says
there will be no peace with sharia law only child rap,FGM,honor killings,child marriages,wife acid burning,stoning.Islam is a declaration of war on each one of us,…You are directly or indirectly concerned whether you like it or not, whether you admit it or not…you are put in this war despite yourself , and you have to fight to survive, you have to fight to save your beloved ones….Staying passive means death, if it’s not your death now, it’ll be the death of your children and grand children after you…..Learn how to fight, learn how to defend yourself, your country, your people, and your future.
every patriotic American Britain and all of Europe need to make this post go virile! it’s your life and country at risk from theses low life bottom sub human bottom feeders!pedophiles are not welcome in the sane world GOD fearing world!
panther says
At the present rate of uncontrolled moslem immigration the day is not very far when these jihadists will run our nations. We, in the western world, are so obsessed with bringing in these savages to our civilized land as immigrants/refugees that we don’t even want to see the real face of islam, which these jihadist represent.
Dianne Tomaro Radford says
I need duct tape for my head.
Henry says
Pakistani Taliban: We’ll make them an offer they can’t refuse.
Beagle says
Nothing can harm Islam as much as Islam itself. Even when Islam wins, it loses.
Beagle says
With a name like Shahidullah Shahid, every day he wakes up in one piece is a betrayal and a failure. Get on with it already!
Wellington says
Ah, Muslims arguing with other Muslims about Islamic fine points. Good, because this makes things more likely that Muslims will maim or kill fellow Muslims rather than those filthy kuffaars like myself.
It’s always preferable, ALWAYS, when Muslims go after other Muslims instead of non-Muslims. Ideally, they will slaughter all of themselves and leave the world Islam-free. Now there’s a dream if ever there were one.
eib says
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”
“Give me those slippers, they’re of no use to you.”
gravenimage says
Pakistan Taliban says no peace unless government fully implements Sharia
This is an absurd disagreement: the Pakistani Taliban is demanding that Sharia be implemented in Pakistan, or it will continue on the path of violent jihad. In response, the Pakistani government has obtained a fatwa declaring that the Pakistani constitution is a “perfect Islamic document,” fully Sharia-compliant. And a former Prime Minister has said that Pakistan already has Sharia.
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Women imprisoned for running away from forced marriages and wife beating, organized oppression of Infidels, and the death penalty for “Blasphemy”—all laws we already find in the “Land of the Pure”—still not enough for the Taliban. Just goes to show that for pious Muslims, one can never have enough Shari’ah.
And as always, this is as much an internecine power struggle as anything else. Even if Pakistan starts stoning women in the streets, the Taliban will still claim they are “insufficiently Islamic” and want to seize power.
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“If talks are to be held it would be only under sharia (Islamic law). We have made this clear to the government committee. We are fighting for the enforcement of sharia and we are holding talks for the same purpose.”…
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Yup—this is what violent Jihad *is for*—the imposition of Shari’ah. Even many Westerners who oppose Jihad are unaware of its ultimate aims.
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“Polio drops are not a vaccine against the disease,” Azam Tariq, another Taliban official, told reporters alongside Shahid as he clutched prayer beads in his hands. “It is a campaign to damage Islam.”
Of course. What isn’t?
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The scourge of polio could have been wiped out long since were it not for pious Mohammedans like these Taliban.
God, I hate Islam.