Pakistan Taliban Attack of Peshawar School Should Be the Final Straw | The New Republic:
While successive Pakistani governments supported terrorist
groups, so they also embarked on the politically expedient but morally
criminal mission of Islamizing the country, transforming Pakistan from a
state for Muslims into a Muslim state. Alcohol was banned, a parallel
Sharia system of justice was instituted, interest was abolished,
amputation became the punishment for theft, adulterers were stoned,
women who were raped were tried for
adultery, and blasphemy became punishable by death. Thousands of
madrassas were created to indoctrinate the youth while intolerant lies
made their way into official school textbooks. Even the country’s name
was changed to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1973.