Since I agree with the ICLA mission, and know that ‘they know better’, I’ll give Meer Khan some leeway here. Those who follow this blog closely, already know that Islam does in fact force its ideology upon the unbeliever, through intimidation, coercion and even to the point of death. His warning against the spread of sharia however, is very much welcomed.
Pakistan’s Walk towards Sharia
By Meer Khan
Negotiators representing Pakistani Taliban insurgents said that there could be no peace until Pakistan embraces Islamic Sharia Law and US-led forces withdraw completely from the neighboring Afghanistan. Sami ul Haq, founder of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and the head of the TTP’s three man talks team, said that there could be no peace in the region while there is NO SHARIA but democracy. The tough conditions appear to deal a blow to hopes that peace talks with the Pakistani government could end the TTP insurgency that has rocked the country since 2007.
Religion is not meant to be – and never was – forced upon an individual against his or her own will. Unfortunately, Pakistan is facing terrorism and some Islamic fundamentalists want to impose their rigid rituals and rights on non-Muslims. The Pakistani government is in a state of confusion about whether to confront them, which could lead to even more rabid mobs in the short-term, or allow the terrorizing of innocents to continue. Amidst all of this turmoil, government is again wasting time in attempting to negotiate, all the while knowing that this process will bring no solid result.
Taliban peacekeeping troops and Pakistani government negotiators are meeting to devise a strategy for formally kick-starting a much-awaited dialogue process. The Taliban had nominated five prominent figures – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf; PTI Chairman, Imran Khan, Jamiat Ullma-e-Islam JUI-S; Chief Maulana Sami ul Haq, Jamaat-e-Islamai JI leader; Prof. Mohammad Ibrahim, JUI-F politician Mufti Kifayat ullah; and Lal Masjid prayer leader Maulana Abdul Aziz – to act as intermediaries between them and the government’s negotiating team. Imran Khan strongly opposes the military operation in North Waziristan. He is also leading the campaign in Pakistan against US Drone attacks of terrorist outfits.
Pakistan is a state that should not be. It only became independent from India because whinging cry-baby Muslims were worried about living under Hindu rule. It was originally meant to be a secular state but it took less than fifteen years for the majority Muslims to bully everybody else into submission.
It, and its partner-in-crime, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) are the unwashed bowels of the Sub-continent.
The name Pakistan means land of the pure, an oxymoron if ever there was one, and since its inception it has proven itself to be a rogue nation, a thorn in the side of the West, untrustworthy, corrupt, barbaric and a tumour fit only for intensive radiotherapy.
Of course, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis make up most of the Muslims in Britain. They should never have been let in. They should have stayed in their ‘pure’ land. I am hoping that someday Pakistan gets nuked. It won’t be missed.
The destabilization of Pakistan is the final result of Zia Ul-Haq’s re-islamization campaign of the late seventies and the subsequent tightening of relations with Saudi Arabia, thus colluding to fill the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) membership with a disproportionate amount of Salafist – inclined officials.
This shit hole country’s duplicity has been going on for at least since Afghan Communist ex-president Najibullah’s 1992 flight to Kabul’s UN compound and the further disintegration of Afghanistan from that point onwards.
About two years ago, I had read ‘The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers’ by Peter Tomsen, who documents this concisely and absolutely NOTHING has changed since, it seems !
All the issues involved today were already in place since the 90′s : ISI’s cooperation with the Saudi intelligence agencies, its logistic and financial backing of terrorist groups (Lashkar e Taiba, Lashkar e Jhangvi, Haqqani Network, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Al Qaeda, Taliban) and affiliated political parties (Jamaat e Ulema e Islam, Jamaat e Islami), Saudi backing of specific warlords via ISI (Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf), the organization of Deobandi and Naqshbandi – affiliated mosque and madrassa networks on the Af-Pak border, Pervez Musharraf’s involvement in Kashmir insurgencies, and the like…
Mind-boggling elements that defy any explanation as to why the US seems to be so desperate to keep elevating these duplicitous assholes to the status of privileged allies in the region.
You have to wonder what’s going on. At least three consecutive US administrations have been willfully blind of what’s going on right in front of their noses. It never stops, and consecutive US governments will never see the light for some reason only known to the highest cenacles of power.
Thanks to the scheming of their own security agencies, Pakistani citizens will have to live with the further terrorist disruption of their day to day lives, and the scope of groups like Tehreek e Taliban will probably widen to include all Sunnis they consider heretics one way or another, not just politicians, members of NGO’s or journalists, but most ordinary citizens, too. A Taliban realm is gradually establishing itself in Pakistan, Afghanistan 2.0 !
Placing this a post by itself Anushirvan, your insight is very much appreciated.