Sharia Law is open to interpretations and that is how Moslems have so many schools of thought/practice.
I will always guard my God given/gifted freedom from Sharia teaching of Maulana Fazlur Rahman that now prevails in Swat at gunpoint. Where/when, I cannot challenge laws and when laws suppress personal freedom, I will oppose or stay away from such laws/places/people.
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Subject: FW: Barbaric Sharia
“You (Allah) have made them (The Muslims) indifferent to the riches of the world---Except for the love of Jehad and the joy of martyrdom, the kingdom of the earth holds no attraction for them”. Allama Iqbal
Dear Open your Eyes, your Senses and your God-Given-Common-Sense and you will see why Sharia is the most barbaric and unfair Law in this Universe. Here are few points for your kind Consideration.
1. Sharia courts treat men and women very unequally. For example, Quran awards twice as much money to sons as they do daughters in inheritance cases.
2. Under Quranic Law—a woman who has an affair outside her marriage would be buried in the ground upto her neck while the Men would pelt her head with Rocks. (It happened to Somalia Woman—Ayahs Ibrahim---on October 27, 2008) What’s wrong with us? Why we are not asking this most important question?
3. Quran deems a woman's testimony to be worth half that of a man's. Therefore, two women are required to testify in situations where one man would be sufficient.
4. Quran makes decision of the husband to divorce much more easily than a woman's decision. There is no equality in marriage. Additionally, a husband can have several wives.
Brother---Do you seriously mean to live in a separate incompatible American culture? Not all Cultures are mutually compatible. Not all Religions are Compatible. According to your own Holly Book Quran---by dint of their acceptance of Jesus Christ as Son of God---the Christians are committing the unpardonable, the unforgivable, and the gravest sin worthy of harshest treatment both here and there. Loyalty to a culture can and does often mean disloyalty to the larger society. Why live in a Society, so Sinful, so Un-Islamic, so divided and Distrustful? Americans are fedup with the pace of Muslim Assimilation into the Mainstream. Let me again give you a simple example of Sharia. What happens with disputes or crimes between Christians, Jews, Hindus and Muslims who reside in this great melting pot called America? Will non-Muslims be sentenced with Sharia laws? In a petty theft case under American Penal Code, the thief will be given probation. But in Sharia—his or her hands will be chopped off! Why can’t you all see the barbarism of Sharia? Why can’t you all see the Cruelty of Allah? Don’t you all see the violation of Geneva Convention? Don’t you at all see the murderous imputations of your unfair, unequal, unjust and cruel Sharia Law? How long, how blindly, how foolishly you will stick to this Antiquated, Anti-Woman, Anti-Rational, Anti-Gay, Anti-Reason and Barbaric doctrine---I ask you O’ Muslims? By definition---Folks who cannot look at the incontrovertible evidence---cannot be logical, because to do so would force them to conclusions that for them would be too painful to accept—meaning end of their belief system.
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Subject: *~history**Islam~*** Re: [spam] [khabor.com] Will Sharia law bring order to Swat?
Sharia law is Laws set by Allah.
Duty to follow and adhere to them is the responsibility of all muslims.
Why only in SWAT? Should apply to whole of Pakistan which needs Islamic reconnaisance all over,
Adopting this for the mere sake of peace with Talaiban etc., is not good, but the real purpose should be to restore Islam
in its purity.
May Allah direct Pakistan on the straightpath.
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Subject: [spam] [khabor.com] Will Sharia law bring order to Swat?
Will Sharia law bring order to Swat?
Residents in Mingora, Swat, distribute sweets in celebration of the deal
By M Ilyas Khan
BBC News, Islamabad
The announcement that Islamic Sharia law will be imposed in a part of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) as part of a peace deal with the Taleban has inspired both jubilation and widespread concern.
The province says the new judicial system will apply in its Malakand division - located on its northern fringe. Human rights groups fear that parallel systems of justice lead to social fragmentation and will hurt civil society in the long run.
And many in Western circles are concerned that the NWFP government, which is controlled by the secular ANP party, is helping the militants revive a Taleban-style system of tribal justice based on inhumane punishments.
But many people in Swat, part of the Malakand division and the scene of a bloody insurgency in recent months, are jubilant at the news.
Public needs
On the eve of the announcement, the militants called a 10-day truce and the army lifted a curfew that in some areas had continued for several weeks.
There is considerable war fatigue in Swat, and people would be happy to live under any system provided there is peace
"The sun is out after weeks of winter rains, and the people are celebrating on the streets, because there are no soldiers on the streets and no mullahs in the back alleys," one acquaintance from Swat wrote to me.
This indeed is a sea change from just two days ago, when civilians continued to be beheaded by the militants or indiscriminately killed by military fire. Does this mean the people of Swat are welcoming a Taleban-like system of justice with open arms while the world looks on with horror?
Quick and simple
These reactions are two extremes that need to be tempered with a touch of reality. For one, this is not the first time the NWFP government has introduced Sharia in Malakand. In fact, some form of Islamic justice has been in force in the region since 1994.
In 1999, the system was amended to make it more responsive to public needs.
It is now being re-enacted with further amendments, along with a provision for an appeal court that was not there earlier.
Malakand division once comprised the princely states of Swat, Dir and Chitral, where life was governed by customary law, or rivaj, which many people also described as Sharia.
Since 1969, when the states were annexed by Pakistan, the people have been up against the British legal system with its complex procedures, its preference for documented evidence over oral, and the costs it incurs.
Many believe it was the people's craving for simple and quick justice that motivated them to support the radical cleric Sufi Mohammad's cry for Sharia in 1994. That movement led to the introduction of the first Sharia law in the region.
Sharia has also been the central plank of the Taleban's war ideology in Swat - unlike in the more egalitarian tribal regions called the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), where disputes over Sharia have not been central to the military-militant conflict.
Now the NWFP government has proposed a Sharia-based system that would make justice quick, and perhaps slightly less expensive, without allowing it to end up into an anarchic Taleban version. The system, as the NWFP chief minister pointed out in a news conference, would be run by the same judicial officers, under the same procedural laws as elsewhere in the country.
But he said the government had developed mechanisms to put a time limit on the adjudication of cases, something which does not exist elsewhere.
In addition, disputes can be settled under a larger body of customary law than is the case elsewhere in the country. The only Islamic content is the nomenclature - the government has substituted English titles for courts and officials with Arabic ones.
Shaky path
The question is, does the government have the administrative capacity to work the system even though it has failed to do so twice already?
And will the militants agree to give up their space and let the government rehabilitate its administrative institutions in areas they control?
Thousands of residents have fled the conflict in Swat
NWFP officials have been wary of the army's intentions, and have been blaming it for promoting instead of curbing militancy in Swat.
They have now indicated they will be asking Sufi Mohammad to persuade the militants, led by his renegade son-in-law, Maulana Fazlullah, to disarm..
This is a shaky path.
Sufi Mohammad is still the symbol of the Sharia movement in Malakand division, but he has been away from the region too long, having spent several years in a Pakistani jail.
Besides, his repeated denunciation of armed violence has had little effect on militants, who draw influence from several groups of foreigners and militants from other areas of Pakistan who have infiltrated Swat.
These militants are in the forefront of violence in Swat and are known to have sabotaged an earlier peace deal with the government.
But there is considerable war fatigue in Swat, and people would be happy to live under any system provided there is peace.
NWFP hopes that if the Taleban persist with violence despite the introduction of Sharia, it will be easy to isolate them in areas they control.
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