| The War within Islam | |
| 23 Jul 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Rediscovering Pakistan’s Values of Enlightenment Articulated by the Founding Fathers | |
By Dr Akmal Hussain
June 28, 2011
Pakistan today is perceived to be characterised by bigotry, violent extremism and modes of thought that are in conflict with science, rationality and respect for human rights — the defining features of much of the modern world. Many Pakistanis as well as the world community believe that al Qaeda and some of its affiliates not only find safe havens here but have actually penetrated the state apparatus itself. At the same time, an economic structure has emerged in which mass poverty is endemic and where the majority of the people are deprived of the minimum material conditions of a civilised life. Pakistan today is a far cry from the conception of its founding fathers. It is a moment of reckoning when it may be helpful to review the principles on which the idea of Muslim nationhood in the subcontinent was founded. Three elements constituted the basis of the freedom struggle of a large part of the Muslim community in northern India
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