Making sense of Pakistan: Imagining Pakistan sans the religious fixation

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Re: Making sense of Pakistan: Imagining Pakistan sans the religious fixation

@Archangel

Just because I give an answer you do not like does not mean I am running from the question. That is simply hyperbole.

The answer to your questions is obviously no. But that has nothing to do with the spirit of Islam. That is simply politics. And those issues you have listed also happen in the US and the EU. Sick and the poor die every day in the US and the EU. People are refused an education in France because of the Hijab issue. The poor are exploited by EU and US corporations all the time. The Apple factory in China is such an example. The handicapped and elderly are ignored in the US if they do not have medicare or insurance. Thanks to Obama they actually have the right to insurance now.

The answer to my question is an obvious no! I would think that a country that does just about everything that the Koran prescribes would be Islamic in nature, while a country that proclaims itself to be Islamic, while doing everything that Islam is opposed to, is not Islamic … Seems rather obvious to me. I dont understand why this is so difficult for you to grasp.

It is not Politics. Its doing what Islam teaches us. Putting into actual practice the values instilled in Koran and the Hadith.
Now the US system or the European model for that matter may not be perfect, but it certainly is a work in progress.. As oppsed to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, among other pseudo Islamic nations, where such things are ignored.
I have lived a considerable amount of time in the US, and have been intimately involved with the system here through my profession.
I can guarantee you, that while there are those sad cases of people who slip through the net, there is a net in place. Another words, there are programs in place to help the poor, the sick the elderly. Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, etc, among many many other laws that are more Islamic then anything I have ever seen in any so called Muslim country.

You know this. We have countless examples of the system working to help people in America and Europe. Countries that are secular and progressive.
Beyond this, a cursory glance at the rights guaranteed to all citizens in the Bill of Rights is eye opening.

Compare this to you Islamic Republic. What programs has this so called Islamic Republic ever introduced that were even remotely Islamic? Yes we banned alcohol, but thats it, and introduced punishments for those we deemed “UnIslamic,” but what good has Pakistan done for her citizens?

There isnt even an attempt in your Islamic republic at helping anyone other then the rich.

So why are you so content with have this fascade, this sham of Islam hoisted on this poor country? There are secular countries doing a much better job at doing what the koran teaches, and ironically, Muslims are flocking to them. Yet here you are, claiming that Pakistan is somehow Islamic? In what way!?!?!?