A very low percentage want an Islamic State in Turkey. Just recently the government wanted to add a new bill concerning the purchases of alcohol but the Turkish people came out on the streets with alcohol bottles protesting against the proposed bill.
Sort of like how Mullahs and extremists came out on the streets in Pakistan protesting to release the killer Mumtaz Qadri and keep blasphemy law so minorities can be continued to be persecuted.
Have you heard of Zakir Naik? He criticized Hindu beliefs, ridiculing them and insulting them. He continues to live a free and healthy life in Mumbai right now. India has blasphemy law too but that blasphemy law does not call for the death penalty. Its a fine and maybe a few days in jail. And it's for every religion, so if you insult Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism or any religion then you might be fined.
Muslims in India have their own Shariah law, the law in India forbids polygamy but special laws for Muslims allow them to have more than 1 wife.
Yes India is not perfect but they are doing a much better job then us when it comes to protecting the people, specially minorities. In India a person of any religion can become the head of state. In Pakistan the constitution demands a Muslim.
If Hindus and Sikhs respect Islam in India, why don't they convert to Islam?? Islam is the only peaceful religion in the world. Marrying more than one wife is okay as long as you can support all of them and treat them equally. Just implementing sharia for only the Indian muslims doesn't mean India is truly secular. All India should follow sharia and ban idol worshipping- then and ONLY then India will be called secular.
True, brother. No republic is an Islamic republic without Sharia(Nizam-e-Mustafa(saw)). We are not an Islamic republic. Truest Islamic republic is Saudi Arabia. Sharia should be the law and everything should be according to Islam. My head hangs in shame when I watch women reading news on TV or acting. A woman's role is inside the house, not outside.
Mashallah brother, jazakallah..
Thanks for determining:
1) Women's role in Pakistan.
2) Only male actors to perform in tv dramas/movies.. only male tv anchors/news readers.
3) Truest Islamic republic like SA. your personal sharia for everyone to be implemented by state by coercion.
Everything has been decided by my brother. No need for any further discussion. No need for this forum..
If Hindus and Sikhs respect Islam in India, why don't they convert to Islam?? Islam is the only peaceful religion in the world. Marrying more than one wife is okay as long as you can support all of them and treat them equally. Just implementing sharia for only the Indian muslims doesn't mean India is truly secular. All India should follow sharia and ban idol worshipping- then and ONLY then India will be called secular.
What a wonderful reason to convert to Islam my brother. I am sure the incentive of keeping multiple wives will bring a lot of people to the folds of Islam. JazakAllah.
Hindus and Sikhs are taught to respect and accept other religions. However, just because one respects a religion, does not mean he believes in it too. I do agree with your point that implementing Sharia for Indian Muslims does not mean India is secular. On the contrary, India should not implement Sharia - wholly or partly. India is a secular country and not a Muslim country, and there should to be a uniform civil & criminal code for all citizens irrespective of their religion like it is in the USA.
Pakistan would not be particularly different. It may be an Islamic republic, but aside from legalising persecution of Ahmadis , hudood, and blasphemy laws (which both affect only a small, non-disruptive fraction of society), the government involves itself no more, and often less, in religion than most secular governments in Muslim countries.
For example, in most "secular" Muslim countries, including Turkey, the government has an agency which writes khutbas for friday prayers. In Pakistan, this does not take place.
If you look at Pakistan's history, religious leaders have never held the reins of power. Even the wave of Islamism under Zia would probably not have been avoided if Pakistan was officially secular - because the easiest, cheapest way to prop up anti-Communism in the 80s would have still been religious schools along the border. The spread of extremist ideology was in the hands of the private sector, not the government.
Pakistan would have still continued to have the same crippling problems that it has today. Mass corruption, a legacy of the culture of entitlement that pervaded our concept of rulership since the earliest era of the Mughals.
