Could we predict it before it happened?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq

Was military ruler in Pakistan in 1979, because of a coup. Led with an iron hand, creating martial law, suspending civl rights, inacting Sharia law. He was funded by the US Government, so that he could funnel it to the Muhjahadeen, so that they could fight the Soviets in the same year. The Muhjahadeen later became Al Qaeda. Osama 'thanked' the west for helping them defeat the 'atheists, the Communists.' Reagan supported Haq, even when he was at his most brutal, in effect Reagan allowed terrorism, the same terrorism that later came to bite us on 9/11--history down the memory hole. Here is Reagan 'palling around' with Haq:
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Without our support, Islamic extremism would not exist.

realm said:

OMG. I am speechless at this comment. I am done. I will stick the the general thread.

Huq invented Sharia law, the basis for radical Islamic hate.

2freaky4church1 said:

He did not invent Sharia law . . . ..



Following a period of revolts and civil war, the Umayyads were overthrown in 750 and replaced by the Abbasid dynasty. During the 500-year rule of the Abbasids, the Sharia reached its full development.

Under their absolute rule, the Abbasids transferred substantial areas of criminal law from the kadis to the government. The kadis continued to handle cases involving religious, family, property, and commercial law.

The Abbasids encouraged legal scholars to debate the Sharia vigorously. One group held that only the divinely inspired Koran and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad should make up the Sharia. A rival group, however, argued that the Sharia should also include the reasoned opinions of qualified legal scholars. Different legal systems began to develop in different provinces.

In an attempt to reconcile the rival groups, a brilliant legal scholar named Shafii systematized and developed what were called the "roots of the law." Shafii argued that in solving a legal question, the kadi or government judge should first consult the Koran. If the answer were not clear there, the judge should refer to the authentic sayings and decisions of Muhammad. If the answer continued to elude the judge, he should then look to the consensus of Muslim legal scholars on the matter. Still failing to find a solution, the judge could form his own answer by analogy from "the precedent nearest in resemblance and most appropriate" to the case at hand.

Shafii provoked controversy. He constantly criticized what he called "people of reason" and "people of tradition." While speaking in Egypt in 820, he was physically attacked by enraged opponents and died a few days later. Nevertheless, Shafii's approach was later widely adopted throughout the Islamic world.

By around the year 900, the classic Sharia had taken shape. Islamic specialists in the law assembled handbooks for judges to use in making their decisions.

The classic Sharia was not a code of laws, but a body of religious and legal scholarship that continued to develop for the next 1,000 years. The following sections illustrate some basic features of Islamic law as it was traditionally applied.

http://www.crf-usa.org/am...c-law.html