05.09.09
Pakistan is Already an Islamic State
by Ali Eteraz – Dissent Magazine
Reposted from Dawkins site
http://dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=235
A recent sharia-for-peace deal between militant groups and the civilian government in Pakistan’s quasi-autonomous Swat region has ignited interest in the status of Islamic law in Pakistan. The U.S. State Department, concerned about terrorist safe-havens, called the deal a “negative development.” Meanwhile, Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek, trying to look at the bright side of things, argued that the deal might drive a wedge between “violent” radicals and those that are “merely extreme.”