Pakistan to ban teaching radical Islam

USA Today ^ | 6/21/02 | Jack Kelley

[kattracks]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan

[Rockitz]

I hope this is realized, but I have seen too many "tell them anything they want to hear" lines coming from this regime. It seems to be all about lining Musharraf's pockets with our tax dollars.

[marshmallow]

According to the Libertarians on this site, banning something is a sure-fire way to promote it. So they tell me.

Shouldn't they be legalizing radical Islam?

Or does this theory apply only to drugs and sex?

[Clink]

"No madrassas will be allowed to indulge in militancy," Mehmood Ghazi told reporters at a press conference.



And in other news, Yasser Arafat told the Palestinians to stop blowing people up.

Yeah, right.

[Post Toasties]

Now we need laws like this in Western countries.

[philosofy123]

Christianity and Judaism have reformed over the years. People moved on from the stone-age to current day way of life, and tolerance of others. Islam refused to graduate or reform. As a matter of fact most Moslem countries were more civilized 50 years ago then they are today. The backward movement coincided with the Iranian revolution, and the surge in the petrodollar profit in Saudi Arabia. The US and the Europeans must get together and impose reform on Islam. That can be done by reforming the clergy, and the media. This reform must be enforced under the threat of world sanction.

[ellery]

Oh heck, I'll bite: The argument behind legalizing drugs and consensual, adult sex is that government has no business telling people what they can put in their own bodies, as long as they don't hurt anyone else. There's a slightly different-but-related argument that says that the measures government must take to enforce drug and consensual, adult sex bans are more dangerous to society than the drugs and sex themselves.

Radical Islam falls into neither of these categories. If we don't fight it, we all die.

[irish guard]

Gee, I guess they don't have nearly the difficulty with "profiling" over there that we do here in the U.S.!

I am still ticked that the airport guards bothered to frisk Al Gore the last time he traveled. What a waste of time. Look for the real criminals, not guys who do it through the stealth of governmental abuse!

[marshmallow]

Fair enough. Those are real reasons advanced in support of your various causes.

None of that addresses the issue I raised, however. The issue of "forbidden fruit" is a real one, isn't it? Specifically, placing something off-limits, simply enhances the desire for it.

Isn't this also an oft-used argument in favor of making certain things freely available?

[swarthyguy]

OK fine but will the Saudis stop funding these murder factories?

[swarthyguy]

Careful - you might get accused of being a cynic and not believing in that great ally of America's, Musharrafat.

[Jaysin]

Lets all look at the bright side... If these news can make even 1% of these schools (about 80) change their views from teaching the Al-terrorist branch of Islam to the Non Al-Terrorist side of Islam, then we can perhaps prevent about 4000 younglings from becoming terrorists each semester!

But that leaves about 396,000 younglings as potential Al-Qaida operatives a semester! (assuming greaduating classes of 50!)

The future of Islam is saved!

[Jaysin]

Lets all look at the bright side... If these laws can make even 1% of these schools (about 80) change their views from teaching the Al-terrorist branch of Islam to the Non Al-Terrorist side of Islam, then we can perhaps prevent about 4000 younglings from becoming terrorists each semester!

But that leaves about 396,000 younglings as potential Al-Qaida operatives a semester! (assuming greaduating classes of 50!)

The future of Islam is saved!

[swarthyguy]

The Silent, Sinister $audi Lobby. The root of all our troubles. And if you buy that canard about Binladin being disowned......

The disownment of Osama by his family and the revocation of his passport are just figleaves put on by the Perverted, Perfumed Princes of the Tragic Kingdom to fool the West.
Family connections in that part of the world do not evaporate instantaneously; expecially when the pig in question, Osama, was both a (disputed, albeit) battlefield hero and a major Peshawar based financier in the Afghan Jihad against the Soviets; what the Saudis consider their finest hour.

Confidence gotten from taking on the Soviets and watching the USSR crumble has given them the confidence to take on the USA. Of course, they don't say so and we refuse to hear them.

[swarthyguy]

DoublePlusGood!

Radical Islam as a joint; NO, NO, NO more like a triple dosage of pure Heroin!

[mikeIII]

Like he rounded up extremist group leaders and shut down terror camps a few months ago? Musharraf is just the latest in a long line of dictators and generals with grandiose talk. This is Western consumption. He is neither willing nor capable.

[swarthyguy]

Also notice how no mention is made of the canard of providing only 'diplomatic and moral support' anymore. Like so many statements, that one doesn't apply anymore.
Now the Pakistani press is touting how courageous Musharrafat is in getting the terrorists to stop their attacks. Which they have, it seems, temporarily, IMO. But the jihadis aren't dead, they're just resting, and awaiting orders from Musharrafat.

In the meantime, pakistani nuke factories keep increasing thier arsenal.

[mikeIII]

Isn't it interesting though how the threat of an Indian attack and some tough talking from Rumsfeld checked the terrorists? The impression that we're being given that the jehadis are uncontrollable and a danger to Musharaf is a canard. It's working to the benefit of both quite nicely.

[swarthyguy]

Different heads of the multiHeaded IslamoborgHydra. Different faces springing from the same benighted body.