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Originally Posted by Agnostic Muslim
That a Muslim State can progress and evolve is now the issue,
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Explain HOW?
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since you seem to have given up on proving that there is "wide spread intolerance and dislike for interfaith dialog in the Muslim world", any more than in other religions.
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No, I have no problem,
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Going back to Pakistan, as imperfect a State as it is - bar the PM and President, minorities can be elected to any office they like, so far as I know. A Hindu was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after the dismissal of the CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry
We have Hindu and, until his recent conversion to Islam, Christian sports stars. The PPP has declared its intent to remove any discriminatory laws against minorities, such as the Hudood laws (which did not exist in the Pakistani constitution until a few decades ago until inserted by a dictator).
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From getting admission in a school or college of choosing, to development to of the neighbourhood of minorities, to have people pick a minority candidate for a job, we had the same problem we did reservation.
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So yes, I feel extremely happy about the future of Pakistan as a moderate Islamic State, where for all intents and purposes, minorities will have all the rights that Muslims do.
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Good luck to Pakistan, though I doubt it very much.
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They will be denied the two highest offices in the land, something I would like to see rectified as we mature as a democracy, but I am not going to get hung up over something that has almost no bearing on the lives of the minorities in Pakistan.
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That's something I just highlighted, thats not the only thing. And you know it.
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If there is a "White State", that then says that all laws and rights apply equally to every one regardless of color, I would not think of it as an "Apartheid State" - even if restricted the two highest offices of the land to the majority Whites. Like I indicated before, I would prefer that not be the case, but since it would have little practical effect on the lives of the non-Whites, I would not be particularly perturbed by it.
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Stop playing the 'two highest offices' comment I have made. You know very well that is not what I meant when I told you to imagine it is a 'White'. Stop your word play, Maybe you are ready to be a second-class citizen or being denied something(however small or menial) just because of your colour or religion. Sorry Human beings arent.
What about Zakat, do you want me to post who accident insurance is given in Saudi Arabia?