But the new group is striving to reform.
Another, longer-term, challenge increasingly looms for US policymakers striving to reform America for the age of globalization that of educational standards.
This enmity between a government striving to reform the state and a bureaucracy it believes is resistant to change, and not very good at running things, has begun to seep into the media.
But since the judiciary cannot directly influence the punishment for a ghesas case, the option of mercy and forgiveness, enshrined as it is in Sharia law, presents a unique opportunity for all groups striving to reform the system from within.
In "The Limping Bride" a widowed father, Hiralal, strives to reform his son's rebellious heavy drinking by finding him a wife, concealing from him that the candidate he finds is imperfect, that she walks with a limp, a humiliating loss of face for the son.
It identifies ways in which dominant conceptions and practices of knowledge attribution, acquisition, and justification systematically disadvantage women and other subordinated groups, and strives to reform these conceptions and practices so that they serve the interests of these groups.
Particularly, we should support the efforts of advocacy campaigns striving to reform juvenile sex assault statutes so that legal victories like Audrie's Law in California can become the standard in every state.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, there is only one feasible solution left to us short of fleeing the country for parts unknown: grassroots activism that strives to reform the government locally and trickles up.
The obvious answer is that we should strive so to reform them that they can be in practice justified, and that answer is certainly available to consequentialists, on the plausible assumption that maintaining our present practices, whilst also seeking their reform, is likely to do more good or less harm than abandoning them.
