Worrying spate of attacks for perceived sacrilege or disrespect to religion

[MenInG]

Sialkot and now 2 killings in India.

Seems not a religion but a people issue.

What's to be done and will it get worse?

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Would mob law be tolerated in Saudi Arabia or Malaysia? It really is a simple case of enforcing law and order.

 

[PakLFC]

No faith allows any mob to take the law in to their hands. At this rate we will soon have a religious and cultural war all over the world.

 

[MenInG]

No faith allows any mob to take the law in to their hands. At this rate we will soon have a religious and cultural war all over the world.

Also within different sects too!

 

[Saj]

I look at the police and the judiciary and the politicians.

Are they being too soft with the punishments that the perpetrators recieve?

 

[MenInG]

The general answer seems to be that religious elements are not happy with the soft handling of similar cases resulting in people acting on these themselves

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How can you justify taking the law and order into your own hands?

I cannot justify the incident but we have to pay attention that over 300 cases of sacrilege have been reported in the past six years and the police have tried to investigate it but due to lack of evidence the charges were often dropped and when a person is charged with blasphemy, he/she can be booked only under section 295A of Indian Penal Code, which doesn’t offer strict punishment as blasphemy can vary person to person but sacrilege is the biggest sin in Sikhism. Three days back, a person was accused of ‘beadbi’ of Shri Gutka Sahib, we handed him over to the police... he’s in police remand. We trust the law and order but here in Golden Temple, the situation became volatile as it was done during the Rehraas sahib and there were thousands of angry pilgrims.

How do you think the government can help in this situation?

First of all, the government can help us identify the culprit by DNA testing so that we can investigate why he tried to hurt our religious sentiments. Second, we need strict punishment for sacrilege. There are over 300 cases and it is high time we addressed this issue because this is not just any crime...sacrilege is sin.

So, I demand that the government should introduce life imprisonment for sacrilege.

 

[mustang]

I concur with one of the questions raised above - Why are we not seeing mob violence in Saudi Arabia or Malaysia? Very curious to see more opinions about that. Perhaps religious fundamentalism is not the only factor and perhaps there are other variables in the equation.

 

[Itachi]

People are always afraid of losing their identity and any attack on what symbolizes their identity will aggrevate them. The so called "sin" in religion pushes people more towards the chaos in my opinion.

People don't do it FOR religion. Otherwise they would have had implemented the scriptures perfectly in their day to day life.

People are insecure by nature and as said above, any circumstances that can lead to attack on their identity multi folds this fear.

Fear and it's consequences has no bounds. It doesn't follow logics.

 

[Giannis]

Mob violence is pervasive in south asia cause we're hot headed, although not as much the middle easterners but their goverments/regimes have better control over their people.

 

[street cricketer]

It's a cultural issue. South asians are religious yes, but they use religion as a "political tool" rather than a "spiritual tool" to enhance their lives.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

I look at the police and the judiciary and the politicians.

Are they being too soft with the punishments that the perpetrators recieve?

1 - Many of these so called “religious leaders” are the cause of this issue.
2 - Police is corrupt and toothless.
3 - Politicians don’t want to put an end to their political careers by stirring up this human excrement.

The solution ?

Each and everyone of these fasaadi Mullahs should be identified and be “disappeared” by secret services and intelligence agencies. And be never to be heard or seen again.

A strict mandate should be imposed on religious sermons - the perps should be tried in a fair court of law, and if found guilty of offense based on undeniable evidence, should face capital punishment.

Religious intolerance should be an intolerant offense by law.

 

[sweep_shot]

These things mostly happen in subcontinent.

I don't see these things happening much in Africa or Middle East.

So, definitely a cultural issue and not a religious issue.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

These things mostly happen in subcontinent.

I don't see these things happening much in Africa or Middle East.

So, definitely a cultural issue and not a religious issue.

I don't think it's cultural, especially if we talk about the Islamic code of life taught in Pakistan.

It's the indoctrination of wrong Islamic theology into masses by JahiI and/or cunning Mullahs for their personal benefits.

The two major issues are, the Islamic priorities are taught totally in the opposite order. Things that should be the HIGHEST priority are depicted as if they don't even exist. And things that are the LEAST priority are portrayed as if, this what Islam is all about.

Take for example, the 5 major lessons from the life our prophet (saw), PATIENCE, TOLERANCE, FORGIVENESS, GOOD ETIQUETTES and LIVING THE OF LIFE HONESTY - notice that hardly any Mullah focusses on these distinctions.

Now look the opposite spectrum. Growing a long beard, having your shalwar placed above your ankles, various wazeefas, high emphasis on "tilawat" (without knowing the meaning), and various other "short cuts" etc is heavily focused on.

The combination of two has resulted in the creation of a big chunk of people who are Munafiqs (look all Muslims from appearance but corrupt, and dishonest to the core from inside) that are divided into blood thirsty intolerant groups of Shia, Sunni, Wahabi, Ahle hadeeth, Deobandi, Brailvi, Qadri, Chisti, Sabri, harri pagri, kaali pagri, labaik, Ashiq, Gustaakh, etc.

Our Mullah in the subcontinent has absolutely no control of any sort by anyone as whatever the HECK he wants to preach to the masses.
And the result is front of you.

Some idiot makes post on Facebook that reciting surah kosar and blowing the air on the electricity meter, will result in lower monthly bills no matter how much of an electricity you use.
Such a post gets over a 100K likes.

An idiot says, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani met Allah and stopped him from throwing a man from being thrown into hell fire. The listeners start dancing in joy with Qadir Jilani slogans going through the roof.

The guy is singing Qawali on Nori Bori wala's mazaar and starts cussing mom/sister of those who won't dance on his music tunes. The crowd enjoys a huge laughter and indulge deeper into "dhamaal".

100 and millions of Rs were collected in a matter of a few days to secure the potential bail money for Mumtaz Qadri while a huge chunk of the nation is under the poverty line and genuinely struck hard by the financial squeeze and inflation)


There is hardly any good Islamic scholars are left in Pakistan, as we are the mercy of these munafiqs who are calling each other kafirs and worried about the length of beard.

In Arab world has lots of problem of their own, but perhaps they are not as deeply divided into bloody thirsty group as we are. They don't have armies of these unleashed Mullahs that get the general public astray.

In subcontinent, especially in Pakistan,
We need to upgrade our Islamic teaching and Islamic Guidance to be a uniform mandate for the entire country - especially for the younger generation and to our kids.

And that is,

To prove your Muslimness and your Islamic faith to God and his prophet, you must start with two things.

1 - You MUST live the life of honesty of a law abiding citizen where you must avoid, haram khori, rishwat khori, jhoot, dhoka, zulm and intolerance towards other faiths. You must have good etiquettes and you should be patient, tolerant, generous and a forgiving and merciful person.

2 - You should be someone who tries his best to offer 5 daily salah on time with congregation, during the entire course of your life. If you can't do it, then yes, it's a matter between you and your Lord; however, don't preach your brand of Islam to others.


If you can't meet the above two conditions, where you can't live a peaceful and morally cautious life with honesty to begin with, don't consider yourself to be a "PROUD MUSLIM".

 

[sweep_shot]

I don't think it's cultural, especially if we talk about the Islamic code of life taught in Pakistan.

It's the indoctrination of wrong Islamic theology into masses by JahiI and/or cunning Mullahs for their personal benefits.

The two major issues are, the Islamic priorities are taught totally in the opposite order. Things that should be the HIGHEST priority are depicted as if they don't even exist. And things that are the LEAST priority are portrayed as if, this what Islam is all about.

Take for example, the 5 major lessons from the life our prophet (saw), PATIENCE, TOLERANCE, FORGIVENESS, GOOD ETIQUETTES and LIVING THE OF LIFE HONESTY - notice that hardly any Mullah focusses on these distinctions.

Now look the opposite spectrum. Growing a long beard, having your shalwar placed above your ankles, various wazeefas, high emphasis on "tilawat" (without knowing the meaning), and various other "short cuts" etc is heavily focused on.

The combination of two has resulted in the creation of a big chunk of people who are Munafiqs (look all Muslims from appearance but corrupt, and dishonest to the core from inside) that are divided into blood thirsty intolerant groups of Shia, Sunni, Wahabi, Ahle hadeeth, Deobandi, Brailvi, Qadri, Chisti, Sabri, harri pagri, kaali pagri, labaik, Ashiq, Gustaakh, etc.

Our Mullah in the subcontinent has absolutely no control of any sort by anyone as whatever the HECK he wants to preach to the masses.
And the result is front of you.

Some idiot makes post on Facebook that reciting surah kosar and blowing the air on the electricity meter, will result in lower monthly bills no matter how much of an electricity you use.
Such a post gets over a 100K likes.

An idiot says, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani met Allah and stopped him from throwing a man from being thrown into hell fire. The listeners start dancing in joy with Qadir Jilani slogans going through the roof.

The guy is singing Qawali on Nori Bori wala's mazaar and starts cussing mom/sister of those who won't dance on his music tunes. The crowd enjoys a huge laughter and indulge deeper into "dhamaal".

100 and millions of Rs were collected in a matter of a few days to secure the potential bail money for Mumtaz Qadri while a huge chunk of the nation is under the poverty line and genuinely struck hard by the financial squeeze and inflation)


There is hardly any good Islamic scholars are left in Pakistan, as we are the mercy of these munafiqs who are calling each other kafirs and worried about the length of beard.

In Arab world has lots of problem of their own, but perhaps they are not as deeply divided into bloody thirsty group as we are. They don't have armies of these unleashed Mullahs that get the general public astray.

In subcontinent, especially in Pakistan,
We need to upgrade our Islamic teaching and Islamic Guidance to be a uniform mandate for the entire country - especially for the younger generation and to our kids.

And that is,

To prove your Muslimness and your Islamic faith to God and his prophet, you must start with two things.

1 - You MUST live the life of honesty of a law abiding citizen where you must avoid, haram khori, rishwat khori, jhoot, dhoka, zulm and intolerance towards other faiths. You must have good etiquettes and you should be patient, tolerant, generous and a forgiving and merciful person.

2 - You should be someone who tries his best to offer 5 daily salah on time with congregation, during the entire course of your life. If you can't do it, then yes, it's a matter between you and your Lord; however, don't preach your brand of Islam to others.


If you can't meet the above two conditions, where you can't live a peaceful and morally cautious life with honesty to begin with, don't consider yourself to be a "PROUD MUSLIM".

Good post. This post sums up some of the problems in subcontinent.

Well said.

 

[mustang]

I don't think it's cultural, especially if we talk about the Islamic code of life taught in Pakistan.

It's the indoctrination of wrong Islamic theology into masses by JahiI and/or cunning Mullahs for their personal benefits.

The two major issues are, the Islamic priorities are taught totally in the opposite order. Things that should be the HIGHEST priority are depicted as if they don't even exist. And things that are the LEAST priority are portrayed as if, this what Islam is all about.

Take for example, the 5 major lessons from the life our prophet (saw), PATIENCE, TOLERANCE, FORGIVENESS, GOOD ETIQUETTES and LIVING THE OF LIFE HONESTY - notice that hardly any Mullah focusses on these distinctions.

Now look the opposite spectrum. Growing a long beard, having your shalwar placed above your ankles, various wazeefas, high emphasis on "tilawat" (without knowing the meaning), and various other "short cuts" etc is heavily focused on.

The combination of two has resulted in the creation of a big chunk of people who are Munafiqs (look all Muslims from appearance but corrupt, and dishonest to the core from inside) that are divided into blood thirsty intolerant groups of Shia, Sunni, Wahabi, Ahle hadeeth, Deobandi, Brailvi, Qadri, Chisti, Sabri, harri pagri, kaali pagri, labaik, Ashiq, Gustaakh, etc.

Our Mullah in the subcontinent has absolutely no control of any sort by anyone as whatever the HECK he wants to preach to the masses.
And the result is front of you.

Some idiot makes post on Facebook that reciting surah kosar and blowing the air on the electricity meter, will result in lower monthly bills no matter how much of an electricity you use.
Such a post gets over a 100K likes.

An idiot says, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani met Allah and stopped him from throwing a man from being thrown into hell fire. The listeners start dancing in joy with Qadir Jilani slogans going through the roof.

The guy is singing Qawali on Nori Bori wala's mazaar and starts cussing mom/sister of those who won't dance on his music tunes. The crowd enjoys a huge laughter and indulge deeper into "dhamaal".

100 and millions of Rs were collected in a matter of a few days to secure the potential bail money for Mumtaz Qadri while a huge chunk of the nation is under the poverty line and genuinely struck hard by the financial squeeze and inflation)


There is hardly any good Islamic scholars are left in Pakistan, as we are the mercy of these munafiqs who are calling each other kafirs and worried about the length of beard.

In Arab world has lots of problem of their own, but perhaps they are not as deeply divided into bloody thirsty group as we are. They don't have armies of these unleashed Mullahs that get the general public astray.

In subcontinent, especially in Pakistan,
We need to upgrade our Islamic teaching and Islamic Guidance to be a uniform mandate for the entire country - especially for the younger generation and to our kids.

And that is,

To prove your Muslimness and your Islamic faith to God and his prophet, you must start with two things.

1 - You MUST live the life of honesty of a law abiding citizen where you must avoid, haram khori, rishwat khori, jhoot, dhoka, zulm and intolerance towards other faiths. You must have good etiquettes and you should be patient, tolerant, generous and a forgiving and merciful person.

2 - You should be someone who tries his best to offer 5 daily salah on time with congregation, during the entire course of your life. If you can't do it, then yes, it's a matter between you and your Lord; however, don't preach your brand of Islam to others.


If you can't meet the above two conditions, where you can't live a peaceful and morally cautious life with honesty to begin with, don't consider yourself to be a "PROUD MUSLIM".

This is a good post and lots of interesting points here. In all fairness almost all religions in the world are evolved this way - start out with very good teachings on paper but over time these codes of conduct either become irrelevant with time or they get corrupted into something hideous due to bad stakeholders. There is a set percentage of such bad stakeholders in every religious group and it becomes inevitable that they take over after a certain time as a form of evolution because they play by no rules.

Now even among good average Joe people (not those swindlers), a proponent of a specific religious group will view their religion per the original good on paper teachings/scriptures. In their mind, they will view their opponent's religion per the standards of the current corrupted state (not the original good teachings of the opponent's religion). A few will even take specific out of context or outdated verses of their opponent's religion and point it as a flaw while conveniently overlooking the fact that their own religion has something similar too.

You replace the proponent and opponent in the above scenario with any two religions, this becomes true. IMO this is also one of the reasons you have people even in this forum attacking the original tenets of another faith or measuring the other faith through current corrupted standards while holding their own faith in its idealistic form in their minds.

Question for you on the bolded part - Why isn't the Arab world which is equally religious in Islam (if not more) relative to Pakistan have such divisions of blood thirsty groups or armies of mullahs like Pakistan? What is unique to those societies that is not present in Pakistan? Is it just a question of them being more rich?

 

[Colorblind Genius]

This is a good post and lots of interesting points here. In all fairness almost all religions in the world are evolved this way - start out with very good teachings on paper but over time these codes of conduct either become irrelevant with time or they get corrupted into something hideous due to bad stakeholders. There is a set percentage of such bad stakeholders in every religious group and it becomes inevitable that they take over after a certain time as a form of evolution because they play by no rules.

Now even among good average Joe people (not those swindlers), a proponent of a specific religious group will view their religion per the original good on paper teachings/scriptures. In their mind, they will view their opponent's religion per the standards of the current corrupted state (not the original good teachings of the opponent's religion). A few will even take specific out of context or outdated verses of their opponent's religion and point it as a flaw while conveniently overlooking the fact that their own religion has something similar too.

You replace the proponent and opponent in the above scenario with any two religions, this becomes true. IMO this is also one of the reasons you have people even in this forum attacking the original tenets of another faith or measuring the other faith through current corrupted standards while holding their own faith in its idealistic form in their minds.

Question for you on the bolded part - Why isn't the Arab world which is equally religious in Islam (if not more) relative to Pakistan have such divisions of blood thirsty groups or armies of mullahs like Pakistan? What is unique to those societies that is not present in Pakistan? Is it just a question of them being more rich?

Short answer, their Mullah is on the leash. There Islamic education is under control.
In Saudi, there is a mandate on every Islamic sermon and on every Mullah.
If he deviates from the state supported and state recommended religious guidelines, he faces the consequences.

There was an incident at the holy mosque of Madinah where the imam said two words that were not inline with the govt's mandate, yes just two words during his entire sermon, and he was immediately reprimanded, removed and faced the consequences.

 

[mustang]

Short answer, their Mullah is on the leash. There Islamic education is under control.
In Saudi, there is a mandate on every Islamic sermon and on every Mullah.
If he deviates from the state supported and state recommended religious guidelines, he faces the consequences.

There was an incident at the holy mosque of Madinah where the imam said two words that were not inline with the govt's mandate, yes just two words during his entire sermon, and he was immediately reprimanded, removed and faced the consequences.

Interesting to hear about the Madinah incident.

Obvious question from your post - Why isn't Pakistan bringing Islamic education under state control/regulation? I assume that should be a straightforward policy given that Pakistan is constitutionally Islamic so it is puzzling that it has not happened yet after all these decades.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

Interesting to hear about the Madinah incident.

Obvious question from your post - Why isn't Pakistan bringing Islamic education under state control/regulation? I assume that should be a straightforward policy given that Pakistan is constitutionally Islamic so it is puzzling that it has not happened yet after all these decades.

Should've been done right at the beginning when the country came into being.
Right now, it's an astronomical effort (almost impossible) to get it fixed as deep religious based divisions have been created and some facets of the followers in almost all groups are brainwashed to become savages.

As I previously stated, perhaps one of the solutions is, not to go after every citizen who has a beard and a Muslim attire because there are some very good Muslims in every group too - BUT - to identify the trouble making Mullahs and religious leaders at every level. From the tiny small mosques in the remote villages all the way to the biggest mosques in the country, to the political party levels, to the madrassa levels, to the Islamic teachers level in every school.

Once these trouble makers who give blood boiling sermons and encourage violence should be identified, slowly use intelligence agencies to "take care of them". Once these are out, their immediate students and pupils and heirs will take over and they will probably have the same mentality, you will need to take them out as well.

On the other hand, create and train Islamic education system that promotes what Islam is all about and discourages what Islamic guidance is not about.
Slowly mandate the sermons and keep a very strict check on anyone who encourages or instigates violence in the name of religion.
If he truly has too much fire in the belly, recruit him in the army as the front line foot soldier on minimum pay.

 

[KB]

Why isn't Pakistan bringing Islamic education under state control/regulation? I assume that should be a straightforward policy given that Pakistan is constitutionally Islamic so it is puzzling that it has not happened yet after all these decades.

I think there are a few points to note here. When it comes to the religious domain, the ulama treat this as very much their area of competence and are very sensitive to interference by the governing elite, whose religious commitments they tend to doubt. This is particularly the case in relation madrasa reform, with the ulama highly suspicious of reforming intent by the agents of the state which they perceive as undermining their own religious authority and their ability to refill and renew their ranks.

The religious groups, though in fact highly differentiated and divided amongst themselves, have also been adept at coming together to resist certain initiatives by the state and its modernist representatives when it has suited them to do so.

In addition, there is a decentralised structure when it comes to madrasas with often only loose connection to the parent organisations. The lack of a centralised structure has made it harder for the Pakistan state to control and influence the madrassas. This stands in contrast, for example, to the al-Azhar in Egypt.

All of this has made it difficult for the modernist governing elite. Matters have not been helped by the fact that the governing elite have seen their authority wane over the years due to poor governance. A reliance on top-down messaging and a failure to create institutions and resources that could educate and cultivate a constituency for modernists has also left them vulnerable. The lack of grounding in Islamic tradition has also left an aura of religious inauthenticity. Muhammad Qasim Zaman notes the irony: “in an apparent paradox for a state that has always foregrounded its Islamic commitments, the study of Islam has tended to be seen at universities as suited only to the least gifted.” When confronted by stiff opposition from the religious parties, the governing elite backs down as it lacks the grounding in religious thought to engage in moral argumentation.

This is not to say no efforts have been made, over the years. Indeed in the Ayub Khan years, which were the high watermark of Islamic modernism, control of religious institutions was seen as a priority. The academic Farhat Haq, as a small part of her excellent book Sharia and the State, has reviewed some declassified government files on this subject. The files in the 1960s referred to “undoing the monopoly of reactionary religious groups” as religion was too important to be left to “manipulative” and “self-serving” clerics. There was mention of the state training Imams so that they could deliver modern agricultural knowledge. “This can only be done if the religious hierarchy is controlled and gradually moulded into an educated, self-respecting and purposefully employed community.” Reports advocated registering all mosques, and issuing licenses to Imams once they had obtained government prescribed qualifications. Haq reveals that the cabinet even discussed the possibility of distributing the Qur’an in hotels, following the Western example of Bibles being available in hotels. This chimed with the modernist belief of authority ultimately vesting with the individual believer rather than the ulama. The files also acknowledged that the intelligentsia had thus far, “failed to explain the ideology of Islam, leaving the Mullah to fill the vacuum.” The authors of the report recommended that a paper be prepared by Dr. Fazlur Rahman, that dealt with:

“a) definition of the ideology of Islam; b) ways and means to make the mullah useful in the process of nation building; c) organization of mosques and the integration of mullah in the social life; and a paper by the education secretary on revision and improvement of the curricula and syllabi of religious education.”

More, though, was said than done. And if the Ayub era was the height of the modernist aspiration, it also marked the start of its decline. It was, after all, in 1968 that Fazlur Rahman, the the leading modernist intellectual of his day - and ours - was forced to resign as director of the Institute of Islamic Research following an outcry from the religious groups to Rahman’s book, Islam.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

I think there are a few points to note here. When it comes to the religious domain, the ulama treat this as very much their area of competence and are very sensitive to interference by the governing elite, whose religious commitments they tend to doubt. This is particularly the case in relation madrasa reform, with the ulama highly suspicious of reforming intent by the agents of the state which they perceive as undermining their own religious authority and their ability to refill and renew their ranks.

The religious groups, though in fact highly differentiated and divided amongst themselves, have also been adept at coming together to resist certain initiatives by the state and its modernist representatives when it has suited them to do so.

In addition, there is a decentralised structure when it comes to madrasas with often only loose connection to the parent organisations. The lack of a centralised structure has made it harder for the Pakistan state to control and influence the madrassas. This stands in contrast, for example, to the al-Azhar in Egypt.

All of this has made it difficult for the modernist governing elite. Matters have not been helped by the fact that the governing elite have seen their authority wane over the years due to poor governance. A reliance on top-down messaging and a failure to create institutions and resources that could educate and cultivate a constituency for modernists has also left them vulnerable. The lack of grounding in Islamic tradition has also left an aura of religious inauthenticity. Muhammad Qasim Zaman notes the irony: “in an apparent paradox for a state that has always foregrounded its Islamic commitments, the study of Islam has tended to be seen at universities as suited only to the least gifted.” When confronted by stiff opposition from the religious parties, the governing elite backs down as it lacks the grounding in religious thought to engage in moral argumentation.

This is not to say no efforts have been made, over the years. Indeed in the Ayub Khan years, which were the high watermark of Islamic modernism, control of religious institutions was seen as a priority. The academic Farhat Haq, as a small part of her excellent book Sharia and the State, has reviewed some declassified government files on this subject. The files in the 1960s referred to “undoing the monopoly of reactionary religious groups” as religion was too important to be left to “manipulative” and “self-serving” clerics. There was mention of the state training Imams so that they could deliver modern agricultural knowledge. “This can only be done if the religious hierarchy is controlled and gradually moulded into an educated, self-respecting and purposefully employed community.” Reports advocated registering all mosques, and issuing licenses to Imams once they had obtained government prescribed qualifications. Haq reveals that the cabinet even discussed the possibility of distributing the Qur’an in hotels, following the Western example of Bibles being available in hotels. This chimed with the modernist belief of authority ultimately vesting with the individual believer rather than the ulama. The files also acknowledged that the intelligentsia had thus far, “failed to explain the ideology of Islam, leaving the Mullah to fill the vacuum.” The authors of the report recommended that a paper be prepared by Dr. Fazlur Rahman, that dealt with:

“a) definition of the ideology of Islam; b) ways and means to make the mullah useful in the process of nation building; c) organization of mosques and the integration of mullah in the social life; and a paper by the education secretary on revision and improvement of the curricula and syllabi of religious education.”

More, though, was said than done. And if the Ayub era was the height of the modernist aspiration, it also marked the start of its decline. It was, after all, in 1968 that Fazlur Rahman, the the leading modernist intellectual of his day - and ours - was forced to resign as director of the Institute of Islamic Research following an outcry from the religious groups to Rahman’s book, Islam.

This is actually also true.
How could we expect the establishment of a strong centralize Islamic structure to be uniformly enforced in the entire country, from the kind of governments we have had in the last 30 odd years where they made sure that we continuously rank in the world's top most corrupt countries, and the leaders (looters) couldn't even recite Surah Fatiha and Surah Ikhlas.

 

[Major]

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