Pakistan Islamic or Secular?

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Re: Pakistan Islamic or Secular?

@ravage

lets see. two things off the top of my head, blasphemy laws and zakat laws are explicitly rejected in theory and practice by shias.

consider the blasphemy laws. 298A states:

Now note that shias do have issues with a particular wife and several Caliphs and companions, with frequent desires and actual enactment of those desires to defile those sacred names. the very term ‘khulafa e rashidin’ is a sunni term, amongst shias there is no such thing as a khalifa e rashid.

Similarly the Zakat and Ushr laws have a sunnibackground on what the zakat will be applied to and how it will be taken and distributed, which ultimately resulted in shias getting an exemption from the mandatory deduction.

Another one is laws governing Talaq. The text described here describes the sunni procedure for talaq (bolded). shias have a more formal process for it.

Ths is hardly an argument that the laws are sunni based.

Both laws you quoted are “all inclusive laws” rather, nothing wrong with that. What you are thinking is that there has to be just one sect based laws, which cannot be done in Pakistan.

You yourself mentioned Shais are exempt from zakat rules, which is a good thing.