Zardari Details Swat Peace Terms--How Is Sharia Law Compatible With Peace?

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Source: BBC

Pakistani President Asif Zardari will sign an order implementing Sharia law in Swat valley only once peace there is fully restored, his office says.

President Zardari's spokesman said that this would require the laying down of arms by Islamic militants.

Meanwhile, pro-Taleban cleric Sufi Mohammad has arrived in the Swat valley to try to convince local Taleban leaders to agree to the deal.

Locals have largely welcomed it but critics say it is unacceptable.

Sufi Mohammad is the father-in-law of Maulana Fazlullah, the current head of the Taleban in Swat.

Mr Mohammad's TNSM party has already signed the deal to implement Sharia with the government of North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

The deal has been welcomed by locals in the region. Hundreds turned out to greet Sufi Mohammad as he arrived in Mingora, the largest town in the Swat valley.

But critics - especially in the US - have expressed concern over what they see as capitulation to the Taleban.

more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7894581.stm
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How can Sharia Law be a basis for peace? Ask any raped 13 year girl before she is stoned to death.

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1. You're speaking as a citizen of a country where cops electrocute kids to death for sass, you know.

Doesn't make Sharia law any better, but really, given that our nation tortures people for the crime of being accused of a crime, visits insane levels of violence against private drug users, and employs a large variety of lethal "nonlethal" weapons in concerted efforts to prove that cops are god, I'm not sure if we have much wriggle room.