In Reply to: Re: Taliban judges posted by MO quote on March 26, 2006 at 19:16:04:
but here's a quote from Nina Shea director of Freedom Houses' Center for Religious Freedom:
"...the drafts were criticized for containing provisions that ushered in sharia or otherwise negated or clouded individual rights. (For example, the so-called “repugnancy clause,” found in both the Afghanistan and Iraq constitutions, which asserts that no law can contradict Islam.) At that time, our criticism found no echo. In fact, it was drowned out with near universal acclaim from law professors involved in the drafting and from the media. The New York Times editorial page on January 6, 2004, called the new Afghanistan constitution “one of the most enlightened constitutions in the Islamic world” and applauded it on the basis that it “balances the goal of an Islamic state with the promise to abide by the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Seems to me it's pretty unrealistic to think they could balance Sharia Law with basic human rights. Sometimes I think it's true, that people can be educated beyond their intelligence.