Re: Not an Islamic Republic…What if?
That is not true. In India, state do interferes with religion and people generally interfere with religion, both interfere forcefully regardless of laws. Hindu-Muslim riots, Hindu-Christian riots, Hindu-Sikh riots, ‘upper cast’-‘lower cast’ Hindu riots, and bias attitude of state police in those riots, all speaks volume about how much religious freedom is there in India. Bias attitude of State towards recruitment of non-Hindus is also other facts that expose Indian freedom of religion.
From non-interfering state in religious matter is not a state that says it does not interfere, but state that takes crime against other humans equally, just like any other crime, even when it is done in the name of religion.
I bet you could not criticise Hindu beliefs demanding answers in India without someone becoming physical and state preferring to look other way, and in same way I believe you would not be able to criticise Muslim beliefs in India demanding answers without someone becoming physical.
Quaid-e-Azam was once in Congress, but after seeing them and their attitudes, he thought that if Muslims would be living in India they would suffer in the hands of Hindu majority in various ways, even when those suffering would not be officially condoned. He also feared that Hindu majority government would impose Hindu bias laws in the name of Nationalism, as that is what congress was doing in Congress controlled provinces before independence, and later in India after independence. Unfortunately, Quaid-e-Azam did not realise that many Muslims had same evil extremist faces rather worse than what Hindus had, and to show that ugly faces Muslim needed a chance of domination that they got in Pakistan, so now they are doing the same in Pakistan. Faces of these Muslim extremist were so evil and ugly that even Muslims in Pakistan are not safe from their fitna.