Re: Khawarijees: The biggest threat to Pakistan and Islam
Not so fast. Almost let this one slide. You’d kindly not attribtue your thoughts or thoughts of others to me.
i’d say that first and foremost these countries are inept, and never mind anyone else, can’t even provide for those who constitute their *support base. *Second, things like freedom of expression, electoral process, etc. That’s idelogical clap trap and something most Muslim nations probably wouldn’t want to aspire to. Equating that with success, as most muslims would define it, is a bit disengenious. You value those things…good for you. I think muslims would just be happy in a place where they could live with dignity, and affords dignity to others. A place that they can grow, engage in commerce, and live an honest life. Just for starters…
And no, I’m not going to fall into the trap of purity or authenticity. It’s abundantly apparent that ideology and the laws written on the books don’t mean sqaut if the people are simply not socialized to live according to the principles enshrined in them.
I, unlike you, am content with the idea of Pakistan as it is. I do not belive in the faux origins of Pakistan as some bizzaro kind of haven for Muslims, devoid of Islam. It’s not flawed laws, or a harsh judiciary that’s causing Pakistan grief. But it’s those people who spit on the idea of Pakistan as it is written. And it’s not juts the militants. It’s the political parties who are deafiningly silent when their fellow Muslims and country men are blown to bits in a suburb in karachi, and busy selling if nor whoring the nation out to foreign interests. It’s the clerics who stay mum when defenseless minorities are ethnically cleansed from their lands by barbarian hoardes. It’s the a-holes who bleeb on about idelogical theories while mum about the feudal lords who rape,maime and exploit. Everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else. Nobody has anything to offer each other but grief. That’s why I ask you…again…what does your “nice idea” have to bring to the table but more grief? Go ahead, write your nice ideas down to supplant the nice ideas already there. They’ll just get ignored like all the other nice ideas.
So no, I’m not going down that path. I’m too old for it. I’ve heard it all by now. I’m not interested in utopian Islamic models. I for one, would simply be content if the writ of the state - as it is, in all it’s imperfect glory, should for once be enforced with vigor. Taught with vigor. And defended with vigor. We don’t need another bloody “ism” for that.