Pakistan Surrender to Taliban in Swat: Implications for India and Islamic Shariat, Radical Islamism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Radical Islamism and Jihad

Pakistan Surrender to Taliban in Swat: Implications for India and Islamic Shariat

What Pakistan does or does not do with regard to terrorists operating within its national boundaries is not going to affect Pakistan alone, it will hurt the whole world particularly its neighborhood. It is clear that Pakistan lacks both capability and moral authority to rein in the terrorists whom it has bred and reared. Now it is for the world community to intervene to contain the scourge of Pakistani Taliban who are no less dangerous than the Afghan Taliban. -- Arif Mohammed Khan

Confusion over basic facts

The history of ‘Islamisation’ of Pakistan must be understood before forming an opinion on the contours of the Swat deal . General Yahya Khan, the military dictator of Pakistan of the late 1960s-early 1970s, reformed family Laws in Pakistan. He made it extremely difficult for a Pakistani man to have a second wife. They had to take the Court’s permission and the application had to include the first wife’s written permission along with the compelling reasons for marrying a second time. This encouraged Pakistani feminists and they soon became a strong force to contend with. They even resisted General Zia’s attempt to scuttle the gains extracted under Yahya Khan. -- Irfan Ali Engineer

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Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, an American Muslim martyr honoured by General Powell, Islamic World News,

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Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, an American Muslim martyr honoured by General Powell

“He was an American soldier first,” said his father, Feroze Khan. “But he also looked at fighting in this war as fighting for his faith. He was fighting radicalism.”

Khan was killed by an improvised explosive device in August 2007 along with four other soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter while searching a house in Baqouba, Iraq. He’s one of four Muslims who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and are buried in Arlington National Cemetery, where 512 troops from those wars now rest.

About 3,700 of the U.S. military’s 1.4 million troops are Muslims, according to Defence Department estimates.

Khan, a child of immigrant parents from Trinidad, was 14 when the Sept. 11 attacks happened. Feroze Khan said he remembered his son watching in stunned silence: “I could tell that inside a lot of things were going through his head.”

Three years later, Feroze honoured his son’s request and allowed him to enlist him in the Army. “I told him: ‘You are going to the Army.’ I never said there is a war going on in a Muslim country. I didn’t want him to get any ideas that he was fighting (against) his religion.” Feroze kept his fears for his son’s safety to himself.

His son was assigned to the Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Lewis, Wash., deployed to Iraq in 2006 and fought on Baghdad’s Haifa Street, a Sunni insurgent stronghold.

His tour was extended as part of the surge of additional U.S. forces to Iraq , and he called or messaged home often until he was deployed to restive Diyala province, where he was under fire too often to contact home regularly.

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