It is like buying a car for the family and then refusing to drive it until it is decided what was it bought for: Taking the earning members to work? Driving children to school? Doing grocery or for visiting friends? The answer is clear, a car can serve all these groups but to do so, the owners first need to start driving it. Unfortunately, the religious right in Pakistan refuses to allow any one to start driving this car until it is decided Pakistan ka matlab kya. Pakistan, like most other countries, has a religious right, liberals, socialists and the seculars who want to separate state from religion. In democracy, no group or individual is in power forever. You can have a government led by the religious right, as it happened in India this year. It can then go to the liberals, the socialists or social conservatives, whoever the people vote for. Each group has the right to implement whatever system it wants, while in power, as others have the right to oppose that system. This is the purpose of the opposition in a democratic system. Although I disagree that its only the religious right. Its the combined confusion of the masses. Should they trust on the democratic system or a dictatorship? Then while they are thinking, the religious right tries to sell Khilafat as the utopian solution for all.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 08:04:02 +0000
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