Re: Zia & Black September
now dont try to twist this into a shia-sunni thing ....zia despite his outward adherence to sunni islam was only concerned with making superficial changes to appease the ulema.
The shias as always interpreted this as a "threat " to their existence and thats why they launched their anti-zakat campaign.For once I wud agree though that in principal zia was right in asking for zakat from all citizens.
But neither shias nor Zia were motivated by religious reasons.This game was solely worldy and political.Zia wanted more influence from the saudis and gulf arab states while iran sought to counter it by encouraging the shias of pakistan.