http://www.juancole.com/2006/01/great-justices-installed-by-bush-as.html
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Great Justices Installed by Bush
As the Alito confirmation hearings begin, it is worth considering some
of the judicial consquences of George W. Bush's various campaigns.
When the US overthrew the Taliban and installed the Northern Alliance
in Afghanistan, the Bush administration implied that everything had
changed.
What few observers seem to have noticed is that Hamid Karzai
immediately appointed as Afghanistan's chief justice, Fazal Hadi
Shinwari, whose philosophy of life was little different from that of
the Taliban!
One can only imagine that Bush, who kept thousands of troops in the
country and oversaw the evolution of the Afghanistan government, had
no objections to the man's judicial philosophy.
Among Shinwari's rulings:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020113/world.htm#3
Amputation of hands and stoning to death will continue to be the
punishment for thieves and adulterers in post-Taliban Afghanistan,
country's new Chief Justice Fazal Hadi Shinwari was reported today as
saying.
http://www.rawa.org/cable-tv.htm
Afghan Chief Justice Bans Cable TV.
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0203/256.html
Afghan chief justice wants co-ed schools to be shut
http://www.aidainternational.nl/agenda/diversen/Fatwa%20for%20Blasphemy%20Journalists.html
Fatwa for "Blasphemy" Journalists: The supreme court proposes the
death penalty for two journalists who criticised Islamic practice.
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