tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post6772337373229418436..comments2024-03-27T15:36:44.737-07:00Comments on Haq's Musings: Did Pakistan's Founder Envision an Islamic Republic?Riaz Haqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-16519830234181805942020-09-07T17:57:56.334-07:002020-09-07T17:57:56.334-07:00How Pakistan was envisaged -
Quaid e Azam M.A Ji...How Pakistan was envisaged -<br /><br /><br />Quaid e Azam M.A Jinnah quotes:<br /><br />These are gems plz Circulate widely, folks!<br /><br />1. “No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men... It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”<br /><br />2. “You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state.”<br /><br />3. “Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.”<br /><br />4.“ Corruption and bribery are like poison and a horrible disease which need to be put down with an iron hand “<br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-904293730461948092020-04-24T22:10:03.580-07:002020-04-24T22:10:03.580-07:00Excerpt of Prophet Muhammad's last sermon:
...Excerpt of Prophet Muhammad's last sermon: <br /><br />"All mankind is from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab; a white has no superiority over a black, nor does a black have any superiority over a white; [none have superiority over another] except by piety and good action". <br /><br />https://youtu.be/iRHMvnPrhaoRiaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-86286380694926270382020-01-25T22:27:35.811-08:002020-01-25T22:27:35.811-08:00SMOKERS’ CORNER: CREATING PSEUDOHISTORY
Nadeem F. ...SMOKERS’ CORNER: CREATING PSEUDOHISTORY<br />Nadeem F. ParachaUpdated January 26, 2020Facebook Count<br /><br /><br />https://www.dawn.com/news/1530114/smokers-corner-creating-pseudohistory<br /><br />“...historian and author Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash argues in his essay for the June 5, 2016 issue of Political Economy, that latter-day ‘leftists’ who censure the resolution are largely unfamiliar with the idea of Islam held by the founders of Pakistan.<br /><br />He writes that this idea was radically different from the one held by ‘Islamists’ from the 1970s onward. He gave the example of how Mian Iftikharuddin, a staunch secularist and socialist, defended the Objectives Resolution when it came under attack in the assembly by non-Muslim members.<br /><br />Like Jinnah, Iftikharuddin described Islam as a ‘progressive and democratic faith’ which, when applied politically, would benefit Pakistan’s ‘Muslim and Hindu have-nots.’<br />...<br />PM Liaquat Ali Khan insisted that the resolution was opposed to theocratic rule and was greatly mindful of minority rights, Islamic scholar Abul Ala Maududi was not amused.<br /><br />The Objectives Resolution was a preamble of Pakistan’s first constitution passed in 1956 and then again of the 1973 constitution. But Burki points out that the 1956 constitution was not even half as ‘Islamic’ as the 1973 one. This is because, as some commentators have noted, the meaning of Islam in the political context began to dramatically mutate from the mid-1970s, becoming more populist and then stringent (compared to what it was in the 1950s and 1960s).”Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-67155958078827052772017-05-21T18:58:09.023-07:002017-05-21T18:58:09.023-07:00Global Center for Combating Extremism in #Riyadh u...Global Center for Combating Extremism in #Riyadh uses new ways. #moderation #terrorism #Trump http://ara.tv/2rhre via @AlArabiya_Eng<br /><br />- The center is established as a result of the international cooperation in facing the extreme ideology leading to terrorism, the world’s first common enemy.<br /><br />- It was founded by a number of countries who chose Riyadh as its headquarters in confronting extreme ideologies by monitoring and analyzing it, to confront and prevent it, cooperate with the governments and organizations to prevail and promote a culture of moderation.<br /><br />- The center was established on three basic pillars: confronting extremism by the latest intellectual, media and numerical methods and means<br /><br />- The center has developed innovative techniques that can monitor, process and analyze extremists’ speeches with high accuracy, all phases of data processing and analysis are done in no more than six seconds once the data or comments are posted on the Internet, allowing unprecedented levels of facing extremist activities in the digital world.<br /><br />- The Center works to refute the hate and extremist speech and promote concepts of moderation, accepting the other, and the production of media content that confront the content of the radical thoughts in order to defy it, and reveal its promotional propaganda.<br /><br />- The center includes a number of international experts specialized and prominent in confronting extremist speech on all the traditional media means and electronic world.<br /><br />- The center operates in the extremists’ most widely used languages and dialects. Advanced analytical models are being developed to locate digital media platforms, highlight extremist focal point, and secret sources of polarization and acquiring activities.<br /><br />- The importance of establishing the center lies in that it is the first time that the world countries seriously come together to face the threat of extremism, which poses a threat to the communities and endanger them, therefore it is the center’s duty to fight together to win and to be able to protect people from its danger.<br /><br />- The selection of the (12) representatives of the Board of Directors from states and organizations; reflects the independence of the center's work, which is characterized by a governance system that applies international management best practices of major international organizations, which allows neutrality, flexibility, efficiency and transparency to fulfill the Center's functions and achieve its objectives.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-44829712603766780792016-12-25T22:11:23.992-08:002016-12-25T22:11:23.992-08:00No Improvement in Condition of #Muslims in #India ...No Improvement in Condition of #Muslims in #India Ten years after Sachar Report. #Modi #BJP http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/ten-years-after-sachar-report-no-major-change-in-the-condition-of-indias-muslims-4444809/ … via @IndianExpress<br /><br />On November 30, 2006, the 403-page report of the Sachar Committee, on the social, economic and educational condition of Muslims in India, was tabled in Parliament. The Committee, headed by former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Rajinder Sachar, was set up soon after the UPA 1 government took over, and it submitted its findings in less than 2 years.<br />The Report highlighted a range of disabilities faced by the community, and made a slew of recommendations to address the situation. It placed Indian Muslims below Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in backwardness. Among the many issues it highlighted were the huge mismatch between the percentage of Muslims in the population and in decision making positions such as the IAS and IPS, and the general poor representation of the community in the police.<br /><br />An analysis of government data show that most indicators have not seen significant improvement in the years since the Report was submitted. In some cases things seem to have, in fact, deteriorated — in 2005, for example, the share of Muslims among India’s police forces was 7.63%; in 2013, it fell to 6.27%. The government subsequently stopped releasing data on police personnel broken down by religion.<br />In the years both preceding and following Sachar, Muslims continued to have the lowest average monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) among all communities. The work participation rate for Muslim men increased only slightly to 49.5% in 2011 from 47.5% in 2001; for Muslim women, the increase was even smaller, from 14.1% in 2001 to 14.8% in 2011.<br /><br />Perhaps the most telling figures are in the IAS and IPS, the country’s top officialdom. The Sachar Committee recorded the percentage of Muslims in the IAS and IPS as 3% and 4% respectively. These numbers were 3.32% and 3.19% respectively on January 1, 2016, Home Ministry data show. The fall in Muslim representation in the IPS was due primarily to a steep fall in the share of Muslim promotee officers in the IPS — from 7.1% in the Sachar Report to merely 3.82% at the beginning of 2016.<br />As per the Census of 2001, Muslims were 13.43% of India’s population; in 2011, they were 14.2%. The increase of 24.69% in the population of Muslims between the two Censuses was the smallest ever recorded for the community.<br />The sex ratio among Muslims remained better than that of India overall in both 2001 and 2011, and the percentage of Muslims living in urban centres too remained higher than the national average in both Censuses.<br /><br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-23689769943695311162016-12-22T10:18:32.432-08:002016-12-22T10:18:32.432-08:00Excellently written. You seem to be one of the few...Excellently written. You seem to be one of the few people, at least online, who understand what the great Quaid really wanted.<br /><br />Thank youSarmadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07816090794319970767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-17101924203751363402016-08-12T15:26:12.860-07:002016-08-12T15:26:12.860-07:00"Even India's reputation as "golden ..."Even India's reputation as "golden bird" was built under Muslim rule."<br />What does that mean? Even the Muslim rulers were product of intermarriage. Muslims of all ethnicities from Bengali to hydrebadi and in addition to Marathas and Rajput elite are responsible for the golden period. Even then the masses were ignored or heavily taxed.<br />Kalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-36774913553898729232016-08-12T07:33:44.739-07:002016-08-12T07:33:44.739-07:00Riaz:
The Quaid was forced to consider the two nat...Riaz:<br />The Quaid was forced to consider the two nation theory when the Hindu nationalists, in retaliation for the 'Hindu Code Bill' that was initiated by a British Viceroy,in 1880s, who forbade and outlawed 'Satee' and 'Kanya Daan' - which had remained a part of the Hindu traditions for ages. Then the task of putting these into law was assigned to Dr. Ambedkar who worked, with Congress Party support, on changing the archaic Hindu laws more in line with natural laws. The Congress party government passed the Hindu Code Bill into law in 1953.<br />The Hindu nationalists had started to oppose any change in their traditional Hindu laws and when they felt they can not win the battle they asked to do similar realignment into the Islamic jurisprudence to be at par with the forthcoming change in the Hindu religion. <br />This issue came to head about early 1930s - when the Muslims of India stood up to oppose all anticipated change of Islamic laws in free India. The RSS types then indicated they would force the change because Hindus would be in a majority in a free India and can force a change in Islamic law because of their plurality. That was when many Muslims including the Quaid decided to ask for a separate nation, Pakistan, to preserve the Islamic laws.<br />Though, it was nowhere the Quaid wanted to create a theocratic Islamic nation. The purpose of Pakistan was only to insulate the Indian Muslims from the changes in Muslim laws the Hindu majority wanted to impose on Muslims in a free India.<br /><br />ThanksSyed S.S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-87510704837883218842016-08-12T07:18:39.985-07:002016-08-12T07:18:39.985-07:00Majumdar: "Within a few years of the Holy Pro...Majumdar: "Within a few years of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) misaq-e-Madina, 3 of the first 4 rightly guided Caliphs got bumped off by fellow faithfuls. And within a generation, his family was massacred at Karbala by fellow faithfuls. Hopefully, Bakkkiland would have a different fate."<br /><br />It's easy to criticize them for their actions in the 6th century by judging them by today's standards. Even their extreme actions were mild compared to the norms in that period. <br /><br />The fact is that they rose fro the barren Arabian desert to great heights of human civilization within a short period of time and remained at the peak for centuries. <br /><br />Arts, literature and sciences flourished under Muslim rulers for several centuries as they made great contributions in every sphere of life. <br /><br />http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/06/obama-islam-and-science.html<br /><br />http://www.riazhaq.com/2015/05/rise-and-fall-of-islamic-civilization.html<br /><br />Even India's reputation as "golden bird" was built under Muslim rule. <br /><br />Here's an except of a recent Pankaj Mishra piece published in NY Times:<br /><br />Mr. Modi doesn’t seem to know that India’s reputation as a “golden bird” flourished during the long centuries when it was allegedly enslaved by Muslims. A range of esteemed scholars — from Sheldon Pollock to Jonardon Ganeri — have demonstrated beyond doubt that this period before British rule witnessed some of the greatest achievements in Indian philosophy, literature, music, painting and architecture. The psychic wounds Mr. Naipaul noticed among semi-Westernized upper-caste Hindus actually date to the Indian elite’s humiliating encounter with the geopolitical and cultural dominance first of Europe and then of America.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/opinion/pankaj-mishra-nirandra-modis-idea-of-india.html?_r=0 <br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-16227701961738087302016-08-12T04:45:51.384-07:002016-08-12T04:45:51.384-07:00Prof sb,
Within a few years of the Holy Prophet (...Prof sb,<br /><br />Within a few years of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) misaq-e-Madina, 3 of the first 4 rightly guided Caliphs got bumped off by fellow faithfuls. And within a generation, his family was massacred at Karbala by fellow faithfuls. Hopefully, Bakkkiland would have a different fate.<br /><br />RegardsMajumdarnoreply@blogger.com