The creation of The Horrific New Sharia Mini-State is an advancement of the Islamist agenda inside Pakistan and (yet another) indication of a weak Islamabad government in disarray.
The official designation of such an enclave should be impossible in these times, but there it is. All primitive Islamists/fundamentalists are ecstatic at this turn of events and encouraged in their goal of talking over the entire region, Afghanistan, Pakistan and beyond.
There is a relationship between the semi-official approval of Shari’a law in Swat and an increase in devastating, suicide bombings, the latest, an attack on a Shi’a mosque. Presumably the pro Sunni/Taliban will feel no compunction in slaughtering Shi’a Muslims, just as was so for al Zarqawi in Iraq.
The US President’s paeans to Islam and Muslims are completely beside the point in this whole story, beyond providing some laughter to the sadistic floggers of this young girl.
