Re: Buner falls to Swat Taliban
Just tell me one thing everyone: How can these rifle-toting, illiterate self-styled experts in Islamic law and stone-age jokers really impart justice to the common man? The locals would obviously never complain partly out of fear of Taliban and partly because they are (whether we are willing to admit it or not) deeply conservative themselves and have adhered to a rigid religious and cultural code for centuries.
True we have seen less bloodshed since the deal but the problem is this: As we have seen already, these people won't just stop in Swat. They want to expand their brand of intolerant, deeply conservative Islam to all parts of Pakistan. All these extremist groups in Southern Punjab (lashkar-e-Jhangavi), Kashmir (LET) etc. they all share the same Taliban mentality and want to take us back to the stone age.
About time we call Taliban murderers rather than Islamists (I totally agree with chicken biryani on this...)
The government was wrong all along to give in to their demands (at the point of a gun) because you simply cannot allow a state within a state.