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BTTT ~ as I was saying about NYC cops, they got too many guns on the street eh! (?s)
New assignment: MUCH more range time.
Well, gee, everybody had to get in on the action because the cops don't get much action in a place with strict gun laws. Yes, that is sarcasm.
I'll be the SWAT boys were really hacked off because they didn't have time to put on their black ninja outfits and join the action.
Are we going to have a new term "going coastal?"
Does anyone know what cal they carry? .40cal or 9mm? 16 shots from just 2 LEOs, is a lot of misses.
Crowded street. The "victims" should consider themselves lucky.
Probably tea party types unhappy about Obamacare.
Is Obama going to say the police acted stupidly?
Can't wait to hear Nanny Bloomberg's spin on this one.
Misses? I thought they shot nine people?
You've got to speak to people in NYC in their language, so tell them "There is this new GREEN ammo called hollowpoint that reduces carbon footprints and causes fewer thrushots that risk innocent civilian casualties. Ditto for frangible ammo."
If you don't say "green" and "carbon" then whatever you mention to them just gets ignored.
The closest I've ever come to passing a police firing range test was qualifying with an M-14 (and M-16) during BCT.Unlike qualifying in BCT,I would think taking the police test would involve movement of the police recruit and/or the target.Add to that the fact that you're talking handgun vs rifle and I would think that the police test would be tougher.Then,out "in the field",you have the stress of a situation.Can't be easy...even at close range.I just hope that no slimey lawyer seeks punitive damages or "pain and suffering" for a client rather than just reimbursement for medical expenses.Although in NYC,you *know* that the lawyers are going to go for serious $$$!
I used to work 'up the road' at Rock Center, for many years. IIRC, there's a lot of concrete, steel and brick ricochet material in those NYC 'canyons'.
Never miss a chance to throw a dig at a former military even if it was forty years ago.
"Police: All Empire State shooting victims were wounded by officers"
except of coarse for the guy the perp killed. Stupid headline
And no dogs were shot either
You got that right!
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"Police said an investigation is under way after one officer shot nine rounds while another shot seven. Three victims suffered gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments."
"Kelly had said the bystanders were not hit directly by police, but rather the officers' struck "flowerpots and other objects around, so ... their bullets fragmented and, in essence, that's what caused the wounds."
WTF has that got to do with anything?
That there was funny . . .snort.
If the citizens were armed, some of the 'cops' would not have fired on them.
The *ambulance chasers* are already lining-up with fistfuls/bucketfuls of lawsuits. Count on it.
I know for a fact if someone was in the process of bringing a gun up to shoot me I would slowly draw my weapon, carefully aim at center mass, check my backstop, and SQUEEZE the trigger. These cops have no discipline.
Every. Damned. Chance. They. Get.
Since you brought it up, do you feel police should be subjected to the same gun laws as legitimate law abiding citizens?
About a year ago there was a story out of Detroit about a guy who killed a home invader and accidentally shot his wife in the process. She forgave him.
Think 1999 Amadou Diallo
NYC Cops are barely trained. Thanks again blooomers
If some of them were CCW/CHL, it would have been over before the cops arrived. And probably with a lot less carnage.
Maybe so, but the media may be adding that item because the perp was a loony-tune who apparently told his co-workers all kinds of conflicting stories about serving in the Army, the Marines, doing tours in Vietnam, etc. The statement about the Coast Guard may be there to provide a definitive answer to some questions that had been swirling around the story yesterday.
seen some of the NY cops on the video when the shooting happened, and boy there was one black woman cop who must have weighed 250 pound another looked like they were raised on donuts.
Having been to that city numnerous times I can honestly say the NY Cops are not the most professional lot I've ever come across, most seem miserable, can't be bothred to do their job etc.
Not sure how they do their recruiting but maybe that needs to be addressed.
Likely .40 cal Glocks...spray and pray...empty the magazine in the direction of the perp.....
Not calling for disarming them, but perhaps equipping them with revolvers might improve their accuracy..
I had a girlfriend who was accidentally shot by her father.
Nothing serious just some small shot ricochet caught her in the leg. She wasn't where she was supposed to be.
Like the current commander-in-chief, the MSM loathes the US Armed Forces.
You forgot the balaclava's and armored knee pads.
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Well, at least the officers were unharmed, and afterall, that is the priority. You have to expect a little collateral damage in the process of performing heroic deeds. What I don't hear is a "thank you" from the people on the street who were protected by the NYPD.
All — that's not good. More of that and they will be back to carrying batons.
except of coarse for the guy the perp killed. Stupid headline
Just a wild guess, but I think there is a difference between the wounded and the murdered dead guy.
Oh I couldn't be more opposed to your thinking on this.
ONE perp, NINE wounded villians with a total of 16 shots fired? And, it seems the perp even didn't get a shot off? Come on! This is horribly inept shooting.
Medical expenses only? What about disability afterwards? You think getting shot by a 9mm or 40 cal is a cakewalk easily recovered from? I'd sue their damned asses off.
Why is the president being briefed on this at all? How many innocent people get killed in Chicago nearly every night of the week by hoodie wearing thugs?
Getting in a shoot out on a congested downtown street sounds like a bad idea. Sometimes reacting without thinking is a bad idea. Unless the man was actively shooting at civvies, the cops should have taken cover and cleared the streets before engaging the gunman. Just my opinion based on the story so far, reserve the right to change it based on new evidence.
I don't blame the cops for bad shooting in a crisis situation, just bad judgement.
Too 'jumpy' for me. That's also why I put my G32 .357sig away, and switched.
I carry a full size Kimber 1911 .45cal ACP w/ 230gr HPs. Very accurate and precise, like a Rolex.
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Its not that I am finding bugs, but as being new to sencha it is hard to find how things work. Yes you have api documentation but it is very brief explanation of class and its method/properties, no direction as to what,when, why, how to use it except trying to figure it out on your own. There should be more explanations in the classes, more real examples in the classes/widgets ect. In addition when getting starting there are the breif guides but they are so basic that it does not really help you put an application together.
Sencha is a large framework but there needs to be more end to end examples of best practices for building small apps and then for large apps. Pandora gives an example of a small app and thats good, but none for large apps. No explanation of common scenerios like switching views in the center pane of border layout.
For example for me I get confused with best way to use MVC, example you can put Stores/Controllers in your app.js ok so what does this mean, what does it do, does this mean that the stores/controllers are just referenced or are they fired, then you can put Stores in controller or Stores in views, again hard to find docs that explain the difference and when and why to use each approach, this when, why, and how beyond just showing a component, is the problem with the docs, not the bugs at least I haven't gotten far enough to even see if that is a problem.
In my opinion if Sencha would take some time and maybe pick 3 or 4 common application designs and create best practice guides for small and large applications, they could cut down on support costs and increase sales. The guides should be something easy to read with explanations for everything. Maybe a top to bottom flow but can be broken down into parts for Data,Navigation,Layout, ect.
I bought ExtJs in Action 2nd edition meap and it has helped alot to explain things, the author did a nice job of explaining the basics and not to take away from him but the book is just the basics and exactly what I would expect Sencha to provide in their getting started docs. If I could find more EtJs 4.x good books I would buy them to. But Sencha should provide good end to end getting started guided not just the simple piece by piece guides they have now.
This is why people say it is hard to learn because so many ways to do the same thing with no way of telling which is best to use or which to use in a given scenario leaving the newbie no resource besides scouring the internet, forums, and going through the api piece by piece taking a best guess approach hoping they guessed right. Which is a daunting task considering the frameworks size and ability. We just want Sencha to give us more direction with good guides.
Sorry for the rant, but I have spent hours upon hours just trying to figure out how to get the basic application design flow working, still having probs not knowing best way to do it.
If you had guides like
For an application that looks and works like x here are the steps with complete working example with complete explanation of example so a newbie can just run the example online and go yes that is the type app design I want, great now I can just follow these steps and focus on my business needs.
For application designed like y do this.
Do 3 or 4 or the more the better of these type guides and all is much much better.
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Paper presented at Pakistan Summit Conference organized by International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 6 July 2015
Honorable Prime Minister Bob Hawke,
Professor Riaz Hassan,
Mr. Shahid Javed Burki,
Professor Subrata Mitra,
Dr. Iftikhar Chaudhri.
Respected Asia Scholars, Students, Ladies and Gentlemen
Al-salamu Alaikim, a very Good morning to you all.
Let me begin by thanking Professor Riaz Hassan and organizers of this summit for this opportunity to share my thought on the Islamization of laws in Pakistan. The increasing number of books that have been recently published on Islamic law, Shari'a and Islamization suggest a growing interest in the subject.
This is my first visit to Australia and I am continuously overwhelmed by this wonderful experience. I am indeed overwhelmed this morning by the impressive presentations by Mr Burki and Mr Chaudhari, the two giants in the field. Lest I am completely overtaken also by the restraint of time, let me state my conclusions first.
Whenever we talk about Pakistan, the conversation begins and end with the statement that it is a country that came into existence in the name of Islam. We should not forget that Pakistan was movement for the protection of the rights of minorities in India. We should not forget that this movement was led by modernists. They were inspired by reformist leaders like Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Iqbal. The movement and its leaders were denounced by majority of the Ulama in India. Either the Ulama did not believe that Pakistan was not really for Islam, or they believed that it was impossible to have an Islamic state or that it was not possible for a modern state to enforce Sharia or Islamic law. It is a fact that majority of the Ulama supported Indian National Congress against Muslim League. It is after the independence, that they raised the slogan that Pakistan was established for Islam. It is these religious groups who have been calling for Islamic state, enforcement of Shari'a. Iqbal and Sir Syed did not call for the restoration of caliphate; they pleaded for reconstruction of Islamic religious thought; Sir Syed invited to a reconstruction of Islamic theology ('ilm al-kalam jadid) and Iqbal invited to a reconstruction of Islamic law. Both stressed on the need for Ijtihad.
My presentation this morning will focus on Council of Islamic Ideology established as a constitutional body fist of August in 1962 to advise legislative assemblies and parliament on Islamization of laws in Pakistan. I have chaired the council for six years from 2004 to 2010. Sharing my experience during this period I will present my views about the Islamization of laws in Pakistan. During the first part of this presentation I will arise and answer some important questions about the role of the Council of Islamic Ideology. In the second part, I will speak about how the politics of Islamic law and Islamic state in Pakistan and elsewhere has affected the role of the Council.
Article 227 of the 1973 Constitution defines the objectives of the Council of Islamic Ideology in the following words:
All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the Injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah, in this Part referred to as the Injunctions of Islam, and no law shall be enacted which is repugnant to such Injunctions.
The Article clarified that nothing shall affect the personal laws of non-Muslims and their status as citizens.
The Council began reviewing the laws existing since 1726. It completed its review and submitted its Final report in 1996. It has forwarded so far more than 90 annual reports.
According to the Article 230 (4) these reports should have been laid for discussion before both Houses and each Provincial Assembly within six months of the receipt, and after considering them Parliament and the Assembly should have enacted laws within a period of two years of the final report. Sadly, however, neither of the reports of the Council has ever been placed before the House. The Council of Islamic Ideology has been submitting its annual reports since 1977. Having examined several thousands of laws, the Council found less than five percent of them repugnant to Islam and has recommended relevant amendments. Had the parliament deliberated the contents and approved these reports the main objection that most laws in Pakistan are un-Islamic would have been removed.
During my tenure as Chairman of the Council from 2004 to 2010, only two recommendations reached the Parliament while the third was blocked by the government. First recommendation related to a Hasba Bill that the alliance of six religious political parties (MMA) proposed in 2005 to ensure the implementation of Sharia in the North West Frontier Province, now KPK. The Governor of the province referred the Bill to the Council for its advice. The Council observed that the Bill proposed a huge organization employing hundreds of religious scholars for most of the matters for which laws and authorities already existed. Furthermore, the institutions of Ombudsmen were functioning with lesser budgets in other provinces. More significantly, some provisions of the Bill were contrary to the fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Eventually, the Bill was referred to the Supreme Court that declared it unconstitutional.[1]
The second recommendation was about the Hudood Ordinance 1979. Hudud is an Islamic legal term referring to crimes for which fixed penalties have been prescribed in the Qur'an and Sunna. Islamic law distinguishes Hudud from Tazir penalties which are not fixed and left to the discretion of the judges and law makers. Hudood Ordinances pertained to four offences, namely Zina (extramarital sex), qazf (false accusation of zina), theft, and consumption of alcohol. Several Court judgments, analytical reviews, reports by commissions appointed by the Government of Pakistan had pointed out flaws in this Ordinance. The most controversial was the law about rape. It was distinguished from Adultery but still considered fornication. No legal distinction was provided in the criminal procedure. Consequently, a victim of rape was treated as accuser and she had to produce four bona fide witnesses to prove her case. She usually ended up as an offender of Zina because her complaint turned into a confession.
Continuing its review of existing laws, the Council began examining Hudood Ordinances 1979 in 2005 and found most of its provisions repugnant to the teachings of the Qur'an and Sunna.[2] The Council proposed a thorough review. This proposal was vigorously opposed by religious groups in media debates and street demonstrations. A number of groups who condemned Hudood Ordinance as unjust law supported the Council. While discussing the Council's recommendations, some members of the Cabinet proposed a Committee of the Ulama to examine Council's recommendations. The Council clarified that it was the only constitutional body to advise the government and declared that all of its members would resign if its recommendations were placed before the Ulama Committee instead of the parliament. Government of Pakistan finally proposed Women Protection bill that was passed by the Parliament in 2006. The Women Protection Act moved all the offences of Tazir category in the Hudood Ordinances to Penal Code so that regular criminal procedure could be applied. Rape was also moved to the Penal Code shifting the burden of proof from the victim to the state and allowing evidence other than four witnesses as required by the Hudud laws.[3]
The third recommendation pertained to wife's right of divorce. The Council recommended that a wife should be allowed the right of divorce equal to that of a husband. Divorce initiated by the wife should come into effect after three months unless there are other disputes between husband and wife. Recommendation generated a heated debate in public and media. The conservative religious argument was that Sharia gave only the husband the right to divorce; women had no such rights. She could ask for Khul' divorce but only on payment of compensation and provided the husband consented to it. She could go to the court for judicial divorce on the grounds specified in Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939. No such restrictions applied to the husband. The Government blocked Council's recommendations and promised the religious groups to change the composition of the Council.[4]
It is significant to understand the issues behind this debate. Apart from the politics of Islamic law on which I shall comment later, difference of opinion arose from at least three perspectives. First, from the perspective of validity: who has the authority to make laws? The state or the Ulama? Second, from the perspective of change and reform: is Sharia as divine law mutable or immutable? Third was the difference in the method of interpretation: from the perspective of authenticity should the interpretation of scriptures be literal or contextual?
To answer these questions briefly, I would like to suggest that theoretically Muslim jurists have never allowed the ruler or state to make Sharia laws since the early Abbasid caliphate who tried to introduce their own theology through their courts. It was mainly in case of controversy among the jurists that the ruler or state had the right to choose one of the opinions. Historically, however, Islamic penalties were rarely enforced in south Asia. Since Mughal emperor Akbar's failed attempt to claim the right of legislation or interpretation, the Ulama had been opposed to state interference in Sharia. It was under colonial rule that state began legislating in Sharia matters, personal and criminal laws. The Ulama accepted it as an exception under non-Muslim ruler. But it was not possible after independence. There was, however, one big difference. The Ulama recognized the role of state in enforcing Sharia.
Regarding the perspective of immutability of Islamic law, emphasis on continuity and perception of change as imperfection has stressed on Islamic law being perfect, complete and comprehensive. It denies any change in this law. The modern concept of tradition also reinforces this perception. However, the fact that the jurists have always differed with each other, the fact that there have been and are several schools of law, and the fact that the doctrine of Taqlid adherence to one of these schools protects the right to differ demonstrates change, diversity and plurality in Islamic legal thought.
As to the method of contextual interpretation, the Hanafi and Maliki schools are good examples as they recognize role of social practices and local customs in Mecca, Medina, Kufa and Yemen in the formative period of Islamic law. They also recognize the rule that laws based on custom change when the customs change. The question has arisen more pointedly in the periods of sea change. It in this situation that a trend called Islamic modernism has been suggesting historicizing Islamic law. They argue that slavery, patriarchy, polygamy, legal sexism were not introduced by Islam. The jurists treated them as natural principles of social organization and cohesion. It is only in modern times that weakness, discrimination and injustice inherent in these principles have come to be recognized. The jurists insisted on these principles to protect social order.
Digging deeper into the historical contexts of pre-Islamic Arab society we learn more about the formative period and origins of Islamic law. One finds reference to such social practices in the Qur'an. We can appreciate this information only if we take the Qur'an as discourse on reform, not if we take it as a code of law. For instance, the Qur'an mentions that an adulterous male can marry only an adulterous female (24:3). Quite obviously, it cannot be a law because the Qur'an would not promote extra-marital sexual relations. Reading along with other verses and the information found in the Hadith and tafsir literature, we find that sexual relations that the Qur'an proscribed as Zina not only existed in Mecca, Medina and elsewhere but were also recognized as valid forms of social organization.[5] There were several forms of these relations including the houses that hoisted flags. It created disputes about children born out of these relations. One solution was the profession of qiyafa (physiognomy) experts who decided to who the child belonged. The other method was to allow marriages among such children. Some families were known for offering their slave girls for such relations and earned money.[6] There were disputes about such practices as well. Sometimes slave girls complained and the Qur'an admonished the families (24: 23) sometimes families accused them for such relations because of the status of child bearing slave girl.
The Qur'an introduced reforms by providing clear rules about marriage and divorce. Zina was considered immoral in pre-Islamic Arab society; but only for women, not for men. The Qur'an required four witnesses to prove the accusation of Zina against women, especially those who refused to commit this immorality (24: 23). This rule was more to protect the institution of marriage because if a married woman was accused, the accuser had to provide four witnesses. Muslim jurists took it as a general rule and required it in case of rape as well. The Qur'an also required Muslim women to cover themselves so as to be distinguished from those who were engaged in such practices. The Qur'an called it the tabarruj (immoral exposure) and meant to attract people for such relations. The Qur'an prescribed covering the body so that Muslim women are identified differently and not harmed (33:33).
The Qur'an also explained in length the procedure of divorce introducing reforms in the existing practices. It was in principle a process of mutual decision that defined marriage as "holding on equitable terms" and divorce as "separation with kindness" (2: 229). Muslim jurists understood and interpreted these verses in the existing social context. The Islamic legal construction of women's right of divorce is a good example. The Qur'an prescribed that when a husband and wife feared that they could not fulfil the obligations of marriage they can separate with kindness. Husband must not force her to stay and should not demand compensation. How can husband do that after such intimate relations? The Qur'an does not mention the term Khul' but since there was a pre-Islamic form of divorce called Khul' in which husband divorced the wife on her demand but demanded return of gifts and property, the jurists interpreted the verse in that meaning and adopted the pre-Islamic terms and conditions; even though the Qur'an clearly discouraged husband to take any part of property back (2: 229, 4:21). In modern debates, Khul' is usually regarded as a form of divorce allowed to a Muslim woman to initiate divorce.
I dwelt longer on this point to explain the issues in debate between the Council and the religious groups and also to illustrate the social construction of Islamic. What I am suggesting is that we need to historicize Islamic law in order to reconstruct it for the present needs.
To my knowledge, except for a few of such recommendations that I had mentioned no report of the Council has been ever officially placed before the Parliament. It is sad but no explanation for this remiss exists. In view of my experience I can suggest three reasons why the Council's reports were not discussed in the Parliament. First relates to the composition of the Council that has increasingly shifted its image from a law reform institution to a body of religious clerics. Second pertains to the method of Islamization of laws and the Council's role in it. The third reason relates to the global debate over Sharia and Islamic State.
Regarding the first reason about the composition of the Council, members in the beginning mostly belonged to judiciary and legal professions. Since 1970s, however, members have been selected largely from religious groups. Recent constitutional amendments have reduced the number of members from judiciary, stressed on sectarian representation and raised the number of religious scholars. The impact of such changes has introduced a dominant religious stance in its composition and function. The present image of the Council is largely that of Ulama Council. It illustrates how the various governments found reform of laws politically risky and have therefore avoided this agenda.
The second reason has to do with the growth of religious opposition to reforms in traditional Islamic laws. It has also brought a paradigm shift in the method of Islamization of laws. Let me explain this point.
Opinions about the method of Islamization of laws in Pakistan have remained divided. The apparent intent of the framers of the Constitution has been to count a law as Islamic if it is not contradictory to Islamic teachings. Clause (2) and (3) of the Article 230 that require the Council "to advise whether a proposed law is repugnant to the Injunctions of Islam", and "To recommend measures for bringing existing laws into conformity with the Injunctions of Islam" are understood to mean that an existing law is Islamic if it is not repugnant to Islam. It also confines the scope of injunction of Islam to the Qur'an and Sunnah. It is popularly known as repugnancy clause. The religious groups, on the other hand disagree with this method. They define Islamization as conformity with the opinion of the jurists or Fiqh of the sects. They took this position against the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance in 1961 that departed from Fiqh on several points.
It was All Pakistan Women Association's campaign against polygamy that successfully produced Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961. Pakistani society has remained divided since the promulgation of this legislation. While the reformist groups supported these reforms the religious groups opposed them. Reformists were known as Islamic modernists who distinguished between Fiqh and Sharia. To them Sharia means the Qur'an and Sunna and Fiqh refers to the jurists opinions. Islamic modernism goes back to Sayyid Ahmad Khan in the nineteenth and Muhammad Iqbal in the twentieth century. They called respectively for new Muslim theology and new Islamic Jurisprudence. Sayyid and Iqbal denied contradiction between reason and revelation, between science and religion, and between modernity and Islam. Iqbal stressed on need for collective Ijtihad and recommended parliament as a modern institution Ijtihad and Ijma' are combined. He also recommended Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi's Maqasid al-Sharia as an inductive method of legal reasoning that invoked higher objectives of Islamic law. Reforms in Islamic law in Pakistan, particularly Muslim Family Law 1961 employed the methodology of Islamic modernism. In reinterpreting the Qur'an and Sunna they recommended registration of marriages, restrictions on polygamy, child marriage and triple divorce and so on.
The traditional and conservative groups opposed these reforms as un-Islamic because it was deviation from the views of the religious schools. These groups insisted on the implementation of Fiqh or traditional views as the true enforcement of Sharia. This method of Islamization of laws in Pakistan triumphed in 1979. It introduced state collection of Zakat, reform of banking laws, and introduction of Hudood criminal laws. These legislations were mainly based on this method of implementation of Fiqh. The Council had a pivotal role in this process, especially in drafting most of the laws.
In order to accommodate these laws into the existing legal and judicial system, amendments were made in the Constitution, new judicial institutions like Federal Shariat Court and Shariat Appellate Benche were constituted and new judicial procedures like Qanun-e Shahadat Order1984 were introduced. This complicated the matter further and controversy over these issues gave religious groups an opportunity to declare existing laws and institutions un-Islamic and to call for full the enforcement of Sharia.
The third reason pertains to the global trend known presently as the new paradigm of law and Empire that stands for absolutely powerful state with restricted rule of law. It coincided with the political Islam theory of Islamic State. The period since 1979 has seen Islamization acquiring several new meanings. Important events in 1979 like Iranian revolution and Islamization of laws in Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria and elsewhere raised high expectations among Muslims, whereas siege of Mecca, and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) brought anxieties. Establishment of Islamic Universities in 1980 in Pakistan and other countries in Asia and Africa initiated by the movement for Islamization of knowledge stressed upon differences between Muslims and others but also clash of values. Unipolar global politics defined Islamization of laws also in terms of political Islam.
Traditional religious groups emerged as powerful political parties joined hands with movements for Islamic state based on the concepts of sovereignty of God and supremacy of Sharia.
In Pakistan, Sufi Muhammad's movement for the enforcement of Sharia arose in 1992 and turned into an armed struggle in 1994. It confronted Pakistan Army closing roads for three days. The movement was suppressed with much difficulty by conceding to Sufi's demands and signing an agreement introducing Qadi system in specific areas. In the meanwhile in 1995, Taliban had established an Emirate or Islamic state under the leadership of Mulla Umar in Afghanistan. Sufi Muhammad supported this state and sent thousands of volunteers across borders to join Mulla Umar. Mulla Umar declined them and these volunteers were stranded on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Sufi Muhammad was jailed in 2001. During Sufi's imprisonment his nephew Mulla Fazlullah assumed leadership of the movement. Sufi Muhammad's organization was banned in 2001 as a terrorist outfit. Fazlullah is the present Amir of Taliban in Pakistan. Sufi Muhammad was eventually released in 2008 when he renounced violence. The Provincial government in the Northern areas of Pakistan resumed dialogue with the Taliban in 2009 and agreed to revise existing Nizam Adl regulations. Negotiations with Sufi Muhammad, however, failed. In one of the Press interviews Sufi Muhammad condemned Democracy, Constitution, and Parliament as un-Islamic and infidel.
Earlier in 2012, Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaeda had denounced the Constitution of Pakistan in his book al-Subh wa'l Qindil[7], as un-Islamic and justified this violence:
Pakistan is an un-Islamic country whose Constitution is also un-Islamic and has some fundamental and dangerous conflicts with Islamic Shariah. It has revealed upon me that Pakistan's Constitution is a product of the same Western mindset that believes in people's right to rule and make laws and no doubt this ideology is clearly conflicting with the faith ordained by Islam.
Addressing the Ulama in Pakistan, Al-Zawahiri urges them to refute the 'Islamic illusion of Pakistan':
I am astonished at how Pakistan's leading and learned Islamic scholars became victim of this deception and supported and commended this Constitution that led to its approval. … But I am extremely amazed by the behavior of our learned friends who have not been able so far to come out of 'Islamic illusion' of Pakistan's Constitution and continue to harp on the same string of possibility of enforcement of Shariah based on false constitutional and political promises.
Refuting al-Zawahiri, Mawlana Ammar Nasir argues that the book was written to assure the rebels fighting against the government of Pakistan that they were on the right path:
Zawahiri's objective in writing it [this book] is not to present an alternative strategy to enforce Shariah or to convince the Pakistani people to adopt options other than democracy; he has simply tried to gather public support for the tribal militants fighting against the state.[8]
While Sufi Muhammad and Mulla Umar renewed their condemnation of violence, terrorism and militancy in Pakistan in 2014, they continue to call for the enforcement of Sharia. A recent letter written in April 2014 to Mawlana Sirajul Haq, the newly elected Amir of Jama'at Islami, the Taliban leader Umar Khalid Khurasani justifies this violent path, "Shariat could not be enforced in the past 66 years in Pakistan by means of constitutional struggle. Now, there is no other way than armed struggle to achieve this this objective."
Consequently, opinions continue to be divided about how to deal with the Taliban who challenged the writ of the state by continuous acts of terrorism, suicide bombing, destruction of schools, mosques, temples, churches and graveyards. Some religious groups and political parties still insisted on dialogue with the Taliban. The Government of Pakistan constituted a Committee to start these dialogues with the Taliban. These dialogues failed. Conflicting statements have been made explaining deadlock and failure of talks between the Taliban and the Government. In his recent book published in 2015, Samiul Haq, who claims to be the father of the Taliban and who was a member of the Dialogue Committee along with members of Jama'at Islami and Red Mosque group, links the failure of this dialogue to the end of Islamic State in Afghanistan as a War of Ideology between the US and Afghanistan. Samiul Haq describes Islamic State as a struggle for peace against hegemonic Western Ideology.
According to him, "The Islamic government in Afghanistan [in 1995] was a manifestation of the creator of the world and it offered the world an alternative better than the concepts of Western capitalism and democracy. There was no other option available to the US, but to work for the destruction of Afghanistan."[9]
Samiul Haq dismisses the notion of the need for reform in Islamic law. He believes that Muslim women enjoy more rights than others. The problem arises from the non-implementation of Sharia.
To restate today's presentation I would underscore the complexity of debates over Islamic laws. It began attracting academic attention in the early twentieth century. Orientalist approach treated Islamic law as rare species surviving in the era of nation states and international law. However, failure of its predictions about disappearance or marginalization of Sharia made scholars like Emile Tyan[10] and Joseph Schacht[11] look deeper into the nature, history and structure of this legal system. Although major theses of these scholars about the origin, history and nature of Islamic law have been questioned by the later generation of scholars like Wael Hallaq and Sherman Jackson, debates about whether Islamic state is a viable or an impossible system continue.
In his latest work, The Impossible State (2014), Wael Hallaq argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of pre-modern Islam and Euro America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims.[12] Hallaq builds his argument on an academic yet essentialist understanding of inherent contradiction between 'pre-modern' ("paradigmatic") Islamic law and the "modern state".
Like Samiul Haq, Hallaq argues that Islamic law and modern state are in an inevitable conflict with each other. Hallaq and Samiul Haq both overlook the change and continuity in the theories and practice of Islamic law and pragmatic Muslim approaches in political and legal theories. They also tend to ignore the overall recognition of the role of modern state in Muslim legal thought. They fail to notice compatibility of Islamic law with changing times and see it merely floating in a timeless space.
Hallaq's pessimism pertains more to modern state than to "paradigmatic Islamic governance" because he finds self-contradictions "primarily grounded in modernity's moral predicament". He describes his book as an essay in moral thought even more so than it is a commentary on politics or law. Accordingly, he finds modern Muslim state reflecting the crisis of modern Islam but also implicating the moral dimensions of modern project. He finds the form-perceptions of "sovereignty" and "rule of law" in Islamic governance different from the modern state and hence concludes that "Islamic governance is unsustainable, given the conditions prevailing in the modern world".
To conclude, Islamization of laws in Pakistan has been severally explained as revival of Islam, as implementation of the vision of Pakistan formulated as Objective Resolution in 1949 passed by the Constituent Assembly soon after its independence in1949. It is justified as requirement of Sovereignty of God and Supremacy of Sharia as principles of Islamic State laid down by the groups of religious scholars in 1952. It is described as Policy of the state in 1973 Constitution. Continuing controversy on all these points has problematized Islamization of laws in several different ways. On the one side, it is viewed as an issue of reformation in the religious history of Islam, an expression of Muslim nationalism, and a characteristic of Islamic State. On the other hand, it is considered a cause of the rise of fundamentalism and extremism, violation of the principles of democracy and secularism, and lately as Law and Empire project.
Problematization of Islamic law in these terms does not take into account the legal, political and social dynamism in the Muslim societies. Essentialized definitions of modernity, state and law are greater hindrance to our understanding of the continuous unfolding of the legal and political phenomena. Islamic modernist approach toward historicizing Islamic laws helped understanding modern dynamism. However, continued fascination of modern man with Empire paradigm of law and state is compelling Western political thought to ideas of State Exception.
Muslim political thought has also returned to the idea of global caliphate with nostalgic vigor. Advancement in political science, anthropology, social theories, social history, social psychology and other disciplines provide deeper understanding of law, state and society. Benefiting from these tools we can undertake some archeological research in the origins of legal theories and reconstruct laws that respond to present day needs.
[1] Makhdoom Ali Khan, "Legality of a Hisba Bill to introduce an Islamic Ombudsman in the North-West-frontier Province", Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Volume 11 (2004-2005).
[2] Council of Islamic Ideology, Hudood Ordinance 1979, an Interim Report, Islamabad, 2006.
[3] Martin Lau, "Twenty-Five Years of Hudood Ordinances- A Review". Washington and Lee Law Review 64 (4): 1 September 2007, 1292.
[4] See for details, see Muhammad Khalid Masud, "Interpreting Divorce laws in Pakistan: Debates on Shari'a and Gender Equality in 2008", in Rubya Mehdi, Werner Menski and Jørgen S. Nielsen, Interpreting Divorce laws in Islam (Copenhagen: DJØF publishing, 2012), 43-61.
[5] See for detail, Jawad Ali, al-Mufassal fi tarikh al'Arab qabl al-Islam (Beirut: Dar al-Saqi, 2001), 9: 133-40, 10: 224, 226, 240.
[6] Ibid. 9:133.
[7] Maulana Abd al Salad, trans., Sapeeda e Sehar aur Timtimata Charagh (Urdu translation of Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri's Arabic-language book Al-Subh wa' Al-Qindil), (Idara e Hitteen, 2009), 16-17, http://www.box. net/shared/1llz6ogyap (accessed October 4, 2012).
[8] Maulana Muhammad Ammar Khan Nasir, "Is Pakistan's Constitution Based on Disbelief? A Critical Review of Ayman Al-Zawahiri's Book Al-Subh wa' Al-Qindil", in Safdar Sial (Ed.), Critical Ideologies: A Debate on Takfeer & Khurooj (Lahore: Narratives, 2012), 169-78.
[9] Samiul Haq, Afghan Taliban War of Ideology, Struggle for Peace (Islamabad: Emil, 2015), xv
[10] Emile Tyan, Histoire de l'organisation judiciaire en pays d'Islam (Paris: éd. Sirey, 1938).
[11] Joseph Schacht, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Oxford: Clarendon, 1964).
[12] Wael B. Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), back cover.


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A record-breaking stand of 159 between Claire Taylor and Charlotte Edwards provided the backbone to the England innings as they ended on 222 for seven - 68 runs ahead of Australia on day two.
Captain Edwards led the way with a magnificent 94, but eventually fell when she attempted to cut Ellyse Perry and succeeded in edging to wicketkeeper Leonie Coleman.
Her innings contained 11 boundaries and lasted just over three and a half hours before she succumbed shortly after tea to the new ball.
She and Taylor combined to break the record for the highest third-wicket partnership for England against Australia - previously 137, shared by Rachel Heyhoe-Flint and Edna Barker in Melbourne in 1968/69.
Taylor carried on from where Edwards left off and contributed 79 to the cause, in a shade over five hours, but fell with the score on 216 for four, giving Coleman a catch off Lisa Sthalekar.
It was Coleman's third catch of the innings and of her Test career as she and Perry had earlier combined to remove opener Caroline Atkins for 15 - giving them both their first Test dismissals.
Beth Morgan followed for 10 five balls later, when she was bowled by Emma Sampson, who was also making her debut.
But it was Sthalekar who took the bowling honours on day two, removing Claire Taylor, Sarah Taylor and Nicky Shaw en route to figures of 3-39.
Wicketkeeper Taylor shared a 31-run stand with Claire Taylor and looked well set for a valuable contribution, but was bowled two overs later as she tried to punch the ball square of the wicket.
That signalled the start of a mini collapse for England as they lost two further wickets without putting a run on the board.
Shaw was the first to go, bowled by Sthalekar for a duck, and she was followed by Lydia Greenway, who was caught close to the wicket by Kate Blackwell off Shelley Nitschke.
However, all-rounders Rosalie Birch and Laura Marsh saw England to the close in the three remaining overs, as they now look to build on the platform created by Edwards and Taylor.


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William Anderson has left his mark across the city, including the design for the renovation of the Greater Des Moines Partnership offices. Photo by Duane Tinkey
Business is slow, the winter days are dim, but at least one Iowa architectural firm is looking on the sunny side.
Neumann Monson Architects P.C. in Iowa City, one of the state's largest design firms, has teamed up with Greater Des Moines architect William Anderson to open a local office.
The partnership has been 15 years in the making, with Neumann Monson first trying to recruit Anderson when he was designing or planning some of Greater Des Moines' signature projects while working for Brooks Borg Skiles Architecture Engineering LLP, another design heavyweight.
"We needed a kindred spirit," said Kevin Monson, Neumann Monson president.
Anderson has left his mark from the Iowa Capitol Complex and East Village to Jordan Creek Town Center, with a prominent presence downtown. While with Brooks Borg Skiles, he was the partner in charge of design for the EMC Insurance Group Inc. building.
He is quick to note that when Neumann Monson first contacted him in the 1990s, Brooks Borg Skiles also was involved in high-profile projects in eastern Iowa, particularly in the company's back yard.
"I suspect (Monson) was interested in eliminating some of the competition," Anderson said. "We were getting a lot of work at the University of Iowa, and Kevin was trying to build his firm up."
A green home in Iowa City
Neumann Monson was founded in 1977 in Iowa City and now has 37 architects on staff. The company has designed a bulging portfolio of buildings that gained or are in the process of receiving the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, with 18 projects certified or in the process of gaining various levels of LEED certification.
Monson said the firm wants all of its designers to achieve the building council's LEED-accredited professional status, with 90 percent currently carrying the designation.
Neumann Monson's headquarters boasts the only LEED certification among the state's design firms, according to current green building council records, and it designed the first structure in the state to achieve the LEED platinum rating, the highest level of sustainable design under the LEED rating system. The LEED ratings recognize various levels of sustainable design, construction and maintenance and operation, with platinum being the highest certification, followed by gold, silver and certified.
Monson said his firm designed the state's first green roof, first green public school, first green municipal building and first green interior, part of its own LEED Gold certified headquarters in Iowa City. The Neumann Monson-designed ACT Operation Center in Iowa City was the first LEED platinum data center in the state and the country, Monson said.
"We're not promoting that every project should be LEED certified, but it does bring a lot of rigor to the design process," he said.
Anderson's commitment to designing sustainable structures was a quality that drew Neumann Monson's attention.
"He fits our goals and our vision for architecture," Monson said. "We're pretty simple. Our vision is to create innovate design solutions that provide for an exciting, productive and sustainable world."
All together now
Anderson said that he was attracted to Neumann Monson in part because of the collaborative approach it takes to design, assigning one team to follow a project from beginning to end and including builders and subcontractors in the process.
"Why not get everybody enthused? You have a much better project in the end, and going sustainable now it's even more important that the builder is involved in the process," Anderson said.
Not all firms, especially larger firms, take that approach, although it is something that Anderson said he has promoted throughout his 35-year career.
"I'd like to think that the majority of firms do it that way, but as you get bigger and bigger there are more challenges to control the quality of what you are doing," he said.
Anderson's handiwork can be seen in the overall design of Western Gateway Park, tenant remodels at Jordan Creek Town Center, as well as the EMC building downtown, a project that he talks about with enthusiasm because it allowed him and Brooks Borg Skiles to work with a client that was dedicated to building a sustainable structure.
"EMC wanted a 100-year building, and that presents some interesting challenges," Anderson said. "We did a lot of research in terms of what kinds of products do we use, what kinds of systems do we use that are not only sustainable but that last a long time."
In fact, Anderson speaks with a great deal of pride about his 17 years at Brooks Borg Skiles, even though he left the firm in 2001 to strike out on his own.
"I wanted to continue to focus on design excellence, and I thought I could do more of that on my own," Anderson said.
In 2005, he teamed up with other partners to form Substance Architecture LLC and left that company in 2008, again to look for new opportunities.
Neumann Monson can become a long-time player because of its approach to building client relationships and the quality of its work, Anderson said.
"With the economy the way it is, there's just not a lot of work out there right now," Anderson said. "It'll take some time for people to get to know the Neumann Monson name and when things break, we want the Neumann Monson name to be on everybody's lists."
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The Rock Assembly's gymnasium was filled with clothes, food and water for most of the summer. The gym also continues to house volunteer workers from around the country. Photo by Kyle Schwab, The Oklahoman
When John Gifford answered the phone an hour after the May 20 tornado, he had no idea what was in store for his southwest Oklahoma City church.
The call came from one of the deacons at The Rock Assembly. Gifford, 71, has been the Rock's interim pastor for the past eight months.
The deacon told him there were about 400 emergency workers wanting to set up a command center in front of the church, at 12500 S Pennsylvania Ave.
Without hesitation, Gifford approved.
"It was like I just knew that this is the right thing to do, and I saw it as an opportunity," Gifford said. "Somebody's got to do this stuff; we've got the perfect place."
For the next two weeks, the Rock's 20-acre property housed multiple mobile command units for Oklahoma City police and fire departments, as well as a Red Cross feeding station.
"We never locked the front door for two weeks," Gifford said.
All church facilities, inside and out, were utilized for tornado relief. Emergency workers were able to hold conferences, set up bulletin boards with maps, and coordinate resources.
Gifford canceled the church's Wednesday and Sunday night services to ensure emergency workers would continue having full access.
"I've been studying the Bible for over 40 years, and I haven't found anything about Wednesday services in there, but I found a lot about helping your neighbors," Gifford said.
It was, he said, "a no-brainer."
"It was more important for us to be a part of the community, helping them serve the community, than to be a church running its programs," Gifford said. "Programs have their place, but people always come ahead of programs, and they were helping a lot of hurting people."
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John Gifford poses with emergency relief workers at The Rock Assembly. Photo provided by The Rock Assembly
The Rock began collecting food, water and clothing in the gymnasium behind the church. Supplies were available for tornado victims through July.
"This is what we like to call the Rock General Store or Walmart for Jesus," Gifford said as he walked up and down the aisles of groceries.
Volunteers from across the country continue to use the gym as a place to sleep. Cots and air mattresses are strewn throughout its two floors.
"It was a terrible natural disaster, but it was a wonderful opportunity to put Christian principles into practice," Gifford said. "And we're ready to do it any time."


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Creative agency Cloud Factory has designed a bottle-shaped book for Dutch brewing company, Heineken.
Called the 'Heineken Bottle Book', it serves as the company's new global brand book that brings across the message: "Heineken is forward thinking, worldly and inventive".
According to Cloud Factory, it said that the book employs "folding and binding techniques" that are "unseen in book making"—and that it also features a new way to reveal a "message in a bottle" that will never disappear from the bookshelf.
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I followed the recipe to the end but didn't add cinnamon & nutmeg. I also topped it off with grilled shrimp. This recipe was a total hit with the family. The addition of yogurt was so tasty.
Curried Red Lentil Soup
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This soup is inspired by the Indian side dish dal; the Hindi word means "split" and refers to the split peas or lentils used in its preparation. Fragrant ginger, curry, cinnamon and cumin add lots of rich flavor.
29 Reviews for Curried Red Lentil Soup
I make this all the time. I leave out the chutney, it's just not for me. And I use 4-5 jalapenos because they're one of my favorite foods and one just wasn't enough!
The yogurt makes a brilliant garnish--a much, much healthier alternative to sour cream!
Also, I like to make this soup then leave the pot in the fridge for a day or two before eating (if I can resist) because the flavors meld together and it just tastes better and better.
Loved this soup. Such a great flavor. I added a cubed sweet potato just to give it a little more texture. Would add carrots as well next time. The chutney gave it a little sweetness that was addictive. Loved it. Did not need the yogurt.
I made this during a lunch break it was that easy - some chopping, but worth it. I didn't use the mango chutney & bought Italian Parsely by mistake. I think Cilantro would be better. Hearty, warming thick soup with just a bit of kick to it. Sending this one to the list of cooks I know.
Great soup! I ended up using fish (mussel) broth I had frozen in the freezer, which turned out great.
Next time I would cut the amount of cinnamon in half (I found it overpowered the other flavours) and add an extra half teaspoon of either the curry or cumin. Will make again for sure, but might add some carrots and celery for a more complete meal.


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The Browns had a limited amount of space to work with in their bathroom and were able to put these right above the toilet. That's one great thing about custom shelves — since they're custom, you can make them to fit! These shelves are little more than stained planks of wood sitting on top of spray-painted pieces of galvanized pipe, but the end result looks really fantastic.
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