I guess this was predictable.
It’s like a damned cult. Is any other country facing this kind of resistance to health measures?
Pakistan. Afghanistan. Iran.
So, we’re in good company. Right?
Stranger
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Common thread: a wannabe theocracy hanging with real theocracies.
… Am I the only one actually kinda more fascinated by the “unwelcome communications from fervent admirers”…?
Maybe Doc Fauci should open a kissing booth, to raise funds.
Exactly how you want to raise funds during a plague.
“Yes, I caught Covid-19, but I caught it from DR. ANTHONY FAUCI! How cool is that?”
Pakistan is a theocracy? I must have missed it in the years I have lived here.
:rolleyes:
Ostensibly, no; it has an elected federal government and secular laws However, the nation does have Federal Shariat courts that interpret and enforce Islamic (Sharia) laws to a significant degree, and in the tribal regions where the federal government has essentially ceded control to tribal leaders it is an Islamic-governed state for all intents and purposes. This, along with the belief that polio immunization campaigns are really an effort to spy upon and influence the public has lead to attacks on program workers.
Stranger
Belarus: vodka and sauna will keep that coronavirus away.
That is interesting although not really a threat.
Although at the moment anyone suggesting physical contact could be kind of threatening, if unintentially.
:smack:
Federal Shariat Court. The place where retired Judges go to earn some extra pocket money. I have been a lawyer for 11 years. Guess how many times I have cited a FSC case. Once. In probably several hundred appearances.
The tribal areas were abolished 2 years ago.
Smack your forehead all you want but your legal experience aside, the federal government maintains an explicitly religious system for interpreting and applying Sharia law, which is a pretty explicit embrace of theocratic principles. We have our own nutjobs in the US, too, like Judge Roy Moore, but they tend to be marginalized when it comes to trying to project their beliefs on their official pulpit.
And while the tribal areas of Pakistan may be abolished it doesn’t change the fact that government control of those areas is weak at best. There is a reason that the US snuck into Pakistan to snatch bin Laden, and it isn’t because we didn’t want to bother with the paperwork.
Stranger
Stranger, with the greatest of respect and not to furtfet the hijack, but i) No they don’t, since FSC has limited jurisdiction and need SC confirmation (for instance they have declared interest unIslamic several times and have been told to sit down, plus only Parliament can being in laws not the Court, as is well settled) and ii) This not 2009 anymore. There are over a hundred thousand troops in the former FATA
On topic. I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that he (Fauci) has suddenly become a public figure and the inherent threat to such figures by nut jobs?
This is the exact reason.
And he publicly disagrees with the Manchurian Cantaloupe, right in front of him on live television, no less.
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Isn’t that because we did in fact do that, in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden?
This is maybe one of the biggest disgraces in our nations history. This fucking guy is trying to save lives, and is getting threatened for it. If America allows this guy to step down, and Trump is re-elected, then the United States can go to fucking hell. I hope we are destroyed by nuclear war.
I guess he’s getting too popular. Apparently there’s a real and growing movement to name him 2020’s Sexiest Man Alive.
IMO, he’s the most deserving candidate ever considered for this honor.