Re: Secular Pakistan
You are right let us keep the two seperate. Perhaps in an ideal world, such a system, which is purely Islamic may exist but we do not live in such a world. People will begin fighting among themselves, there will be those forcing others to obey their interpretation, there will be people being denied their rights because they dont believe in exactly what you believe or someone else believes. Its a slippery slope.
As I have argued before, as far as im concerned an Islamic system is one that espouses harmony, justice, and human dignity. Such a system can exist regardless of whther we call ourselves Islamic or not. There is little arguing that Western secular nations are actually far closer to the ideals of Islam that I mentioned then many countries that call themselves Muslim.
I recall what a famous Egyption scholor of Islam, whose name I forget, once said of his experience in Europe upon his return to Egypt. He said “In Europe, I saw Islam, but very few Muslims. Here, I have seen very many Muslims, and very little Islam.”
That pretty much sums up what I feel about the “Islamic Republic” of Pakistan.