Re: Islam in Pakistan
That leads to a bigger problem. For someone say to another that "that is not islam" requires an assumption that they know what it is. To know what it is not, presumes that.
That is why the concept of prescriptive, directive and ideological religion is simply a figment of imagination made up for mullahs imams maulvis islamics islamists jihadis whatever you call yourself, simply to make people give you money, sometimes worse.
When zawahri or bon aden say they're aganst amreeka, they call it their islam.
Whem you proclaim that this what quran says or that, that's simply no differen from zawahiri or laden saying that.
Since the distinction between various crooks has faded, islam to survive in any legal form has to:
1) define itself thru updated modern day ways, including language that ppl understand.
2) It has to give up untenable, silly and downright uncivilized practices such as polygamy, the concept of "allowed / not allowed' references and judgemental fatwas, the concept of kufir, the concept of "one single way to practice and yes, even the concept of religion over state. State law is unequivocallly superior to sharia. It has to proclaim that
3)No amount of change will enable survival unless thinking, freedom of speech and education (real, not rote recitation of quran) are stressed
I don't thinlk muslims really comprehend how bad it has become. Radical surgey required.