PAKISTANI CONSTITUTION

Whereas sovereignty over the entire Universe belongs to Almighty Allah alone, and the authority to be exercised by the people of Pakistan within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust;

And whereas it is the will of the people of Pakistan to establish an order; Wherein the State shall exercise its powers and authority through the chosen representatives of the people; Wherein the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam, shall be fully observed; Wherein the Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings and requirements of Islam as set out in the Holy Quran and Sunnah; ... we, the people of Pakistan, Cognisant of our responsibility before Almighty Allah and men; Faithful to the declaration made by the Founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, that Pakistan would be a democratic State based on Islamic principles of social justice; ... Do hereby, through our representatives in the National Assembly, adopt, enact and give to ourselves, this Constitution.

2. Islam to be State religion: Islam shall be the State religion of Pakistan.

31.Islamic way of life: (1) Steps shall be taken to enable the Muslims of Pakistan, individually and collectively, to order their lives in accordance with the fundamental principles and basic concepts of Islam and to provide facilities whereby they may be enabled to understand the meaning of life according to the Holy Quran and Sunnah. (2) The state shall endeavour, as respects the Muslims of Pakistan, : (a) to make the teaching of the Holy Quran and Islamiat compulsory, to encourage and facilitate the learning of Arabic language and to secure correct and exact printing and publishing of the Holy Quran; (b) to promote unity and the observance of the Islamic moral standards; and (c) to secure the proper organisation of zakat, ushr, auqaf and mosques.

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Now, having identified the source of the problem, it is clear that there are two very simple solutions.

(a) The constitution could be re-written, removing all references to the Koran and all of the other evil Mohammadan nonsense; which would make Pakistan culturally Indian again, and would mean that they could just get back together again, like in the good old days.

or

(b) The Koran could be re-written to be more like the New Testament. In fact, it would be easier just to replace the Koranic text with the Christian text.

As soon as I can figure out who's in charge in Islamabad [that name will have to be changed too, of course], I intend to write to them with my self-evident solution. I expect a positive response.

Re: "The Musharraf Government was excellent."

Does that mean that you would have helped them fight against the US?

QUOTE:

In a memoir released on Monday, President Pervez Musharraf recounted how he decided it would have been suicidal to confront a U.S. attack after being threatened by Washington a day after al Qaeda’s strikes on September 11, 2001.
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Elaborating on how he decided to take a foreign policy U-turn by dumping support for the Taliban, Musharraf described how he first weighed the option of fighting the United States.

"I war-gamed the United States as an adversary," he wrote, saying he assessed whether Pakistan could withstand the onslaught.

"The answer was no, we could not, on three counts."

Pakistan’s military would have been wiped out, its economy couldn’t be sustained, and the nation lacked the unity needed for such a confrontation, Musharraf wrote.

Furthermore, Musharraf was worried that if Pakistan did not accede to Washington’s demands, the United States would take up an Indian offer to provide bases.
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He also expected the United States would seek to destroy Pakistan’s newly developed nuclear weapons. And he feared the infrastructure built since Pakistan’s formation in 1947 would be decimated.

Finally, Musharraf said he had to answer whether it was worth Pakistan destroying itself for the sake of the Taliban, though Pakistan had supported the Islamist militia’s government.

"The answer was a resounding no," Musharraf concluded.

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http://sweetness-light.com/archive/musharraf-claims-he-considered-fighting-us-after-911

Is that why you admire Musharraf? Because even though he hates America and all of the non-Muslim world with a passion, and even though he'd love to see Washington nuked, he was sensible enough to pretend to support his enemy in order to rip off American tax-payers? Yes, very admirable.

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MATT,

Re: "The source of the problems in Pakistan is that...Saudi Arabia required Pakistan to adopt the Sharia Law. ... Saudi Arabia...also required the same of the Sudan."

That's strange.

I wonder what those three countries have in common.

Saudi Arabia is Arab.

Sudan is mostly black African, with Christians kept out of power.

And Pakistan is mostly Indo-European.

I can't figure out what possible connection there could be between Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, and Pakistan [and Kosovo, and Iraq, and Iran, and Afghanistan, and al-Qaeda, and the Taliban, and Hezzbollah, and Hamas, and Syria, and Idi Amin, and ...]. It's a mystery.

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45030-the-onion-volatile-india-pakistan-standoff-in-11-680th-day

The USA and the UK, two countries that are in the van of the war - in Iraq and Afghanistan, are also the two countries that have not just failed to secure the Home front, but have actively encouraged Muslim immigration.

"Blast hits Pakistan Arms Factory--60 killed"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/7574267.stm

Leaders in the west are not delusional, they cannot confront Pakistan w/o an all out ground war, just like we see happening with the Russia/Georgia conflict.

Do you foresee any confrontations with Pakistan and the tribal powers by the West or the usual rhetoric, Dr. Trifkovic?

Neoconservatism 101 - Freedom is everyone's human right, including religious freedom - all religions express the "universal" truths of brotherhood. Or so the stupid, culturally illiterate, hubristic, arrogant, semi-communist NEOCONS like to believe.