Thank you for sharing this story with me !

Kid D, are you actin’ stupid or jist stupid?

We’ve known for a very long time that Galloway is a man who tolerates anti-Western violence - his long and passionate support for mass-murderer, Saddam Hussein, proves it. But what does it say about the state of Islam that one of its young believers believes that the best way of “standing up for his community” is not to make arguments, or proselytize, or campaign - but to murder innocent civilians he has never met. There is something terribly sick within the Muslim mind at this moment in history. It is Nietzsche’s ressentiment, but with God re-attached. We should indeed fear these people for the hideous carnage they can wreak for the sake of their God. But we should never let our fear overwhelm our contempt for them - their sickness, their evil, their petty insecurities, their inability to live meaningful lives and their attempt to assuage this by murdering others in God’s name. Yes, they evil. But they are also pathetic, miserable excuses for human beings.

hmmm…

And that´s the point were many people take the wrong mental track. From what I´ve seen and read so far Sharia law hasn´t anything to do with government in the sense of a republic, democracy or theocracy, it´s intended as a guidebook, a way of life that goes beyond statehood.

You can´t base a government on a way life, in that sense all Islamic states that claim to be based on Islamic (read Sharia) law suffer from a structural contradiction the same way you can´t base a state with a government on the learnings of pure vegetarianism. Such a state would simply collapse under its own contradictions, duties and obligations towards its citizenry. In that sense it is ironic that Islamic fundamentalist continue to strive for it nonetheless.

Please note, i´m not saying Sharia law is flawed itself. It can work under a functioning government (whether one wants to life under sharia law is another question) but make no illusion that you can base a government on it. That way lies only ruin even if it is only halfway. Iran is not a pure Islamic state, it´s a persian semi-theocracy that continues to struggle to keep it a “pure” Islamic state even if it is a dangerous illusion.

Ultimately, something has to give. The question is: how and when?

Personally I believe that if 9/11 had never happened and if we had ignored and let Afghanistan run its course without intervention it would have socially imploded at some point. No matter how hard Pakistan would have tried to prop it up. The trouble is that sometimes we don´t have the luxury to wait things out.

anyway Sharia law as a threat is vastly overrated if it does what it says on the tin, which is govern.
i imagine the residents of morgidishu are glad that they can experiance it, i certainly think it beats lawlessness. personally i’d not like it cause it is too curtailing of what i regard as my personal rights. however when you never really had those personal rights that i did, then how bad is it?
certainly aint the worst form of goverment imo, theres so many bad ones out there, especially if you examine goverments from the point of view of all its citizens including minorities and such.

but then its a black and white world for you KD i imagine, which is ok, after a while on the web you see so many left/right, liberal/conservative arguments and debates that have left me jaded and with the impression that this debate is a stalemate, both sets of opinions have hardned and it appears that there is no middle ground.

but in the real world goes on, sh!t happens and people get on with their lives. so long as we aint trying to kill eachother its good. not so with the middle east, but hey, im always hopefull.

And mass deportation is fascist - see Hitler, sweetie.