Re: Bangladesh amends war crimes law, mulls banning Islamists
Well, the law stands as it is. The real question is, is Pakistani participation in the global economy unconstitutional?
A learned person will probably answer that question differently than a street Mullah.
Never mind the fact that it’s a poor example (how do you get paid, where do you keep your money, does your place of employment take out loans, how about yourself…do you own currency…shouldn’t you fix yourself before you try to fix the state, if this is such an imperative problem)? Would we fault a sick man for taking a medicine where the active ingredient is alcohol, with no other alternatives available? I’m not saying your wrong, but that it’s crazy to think Pakistan can snap it’s fingers and do away with interest…every nation on earth deals with it…even the Taliban had too. They were just too ignorant to know.
This must neccessarily fall into the cateogry of “TODO” on the fixit list. It’s a hard problem, and if anyone tells you differently a) They don’t understand how economics work, or b) They’re probaby selling snake oil, or c) They have no problem if the Ummah is weakened to a state of powerlessness. We have more pressing problems.
Again, the real question is, is this constitutional?
Laws are words and phrases written down. If they are implemented or not is not really the fault of the laws themselves.
Are they non-enforcable, or simply ignored?
This is all besides the point. The fact is, Pakistan is markedly not secular. Is it Islamic? In a very flawed way. But that’s because we’re all very flawed, isn’t it?