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Right now, the idea of Pakistan's nuclear weapons getting jeopardized is highly overrated. PNS Mehran incident indicated that there is some help to the extremists from inside the establishment but it cannot yet be that profound or that comprehensive to take over the nuclear command of the...

So it is no longer the prerogative of the aiding nation to decide where the aid would be spent?

I am at ease sir, you need not misjudge me. And my observations are not limited to this forum and its members. My observation is a reflection of the ground situation and of general psyche of the Muslim world. That be the good news. However, my reading a thing won't change ground realities. If...

I have expressed my observations, and I stand by it. And if that is untrue, you would try to reform your society and educate people that religion/faith is a personal matter.

And there lies the problem with Islam. Your situation is quite analogous to computer programming languages, which in their nascent stage were trying to do exactly the same thing that you are trying to say - that is to fit the "subject" around rigid processes unlike their evolved avatars, which...

The world is a very dangerous quagmire of political greed and belligerence. The ruling class of any Islamic society is heavily dependent on the mullahs and they cannot be expected to break their control over the masses by freeing them of the notion that faith is an individual matter. This has...

Don't worry I never lost you. Are you trying to take me onto a merry-go-round? I just replied to some members upon their proclamation that a particular verse is misinterpreted in the online version of Koran and another one suggesting that there is no real consensus on Islam in the Pakistani...

To put things "back" into perspective, yes there are! However, the greatest difference being Hinduism is not and cannot be used as an instructional manual to administrative affairs. Hinduism schools of thought are always only suggestive and not assertive. The philosophy calls for voluntary...

So the issue hangs back to misinterpretation, which to my mind clearly indicates the fact that Islam is yet to be understood wholly, because what to you is a misinterpretation may be the perfectly correct rendition of the Arabic verse to another Muslim. In that sense, the difference of opinion...

Don't tell me you have read another version of Koran that does not contain this verse (24:2). People standing up against the Blasphemy Laws? How is that it has remained one for so long and do you really see a chance that it would be removed anytime soon? Moreover, what about the Shia-Sunni divide?

And some members were suggesting that there are only minor differences. I still cannot construe whether the changing society of Pakistan would accept public flogging which is categorically affirmed in the Koran or keep stringent check on whether each individual is praying five times with...

I don't think you realize how puny your knowledge is regarding the incident. My intention in asking that question was exactly to put into focus this fact that you either consider the people on the other side of the argument so naive that they are going to rely upon such fiddling exhibitions or...

What is SOLID PROOF by your standards? The masterminds singing in public that we did it?

You don't need to be apologetic for asking about Hinduism.

Right then, I take your word that there are only minor differences.

Right. And that is what am trying to point to, that for whatever reasons, the people of Pakistan do not have a consensus on what constitutes Islam and how they become true followers of Islam. And when there is no such consensus how can they talk about Islamization of Pakistan, without first...

I never talked about sounding of the words, I said that this is how it is spelled in English language, that is the word in the English vocabulary used by everyone. And by that there is no intention to disrespect anything or anyone. P.S. Thanks for editing your post with such precise details.

Right. So now when it becomes apparent that there is no consensus on what constitutes Islam or who is a true follower and who is not, then how come people are talking about Islamization of Pakistan? Isn't it obvious that Muslims first need to have clarity on what constitutes true Islam, in words...

No I asked a specific question with respect to an example. Please care to explain that?

Quran/Qur'an gives spelling error. Koran is the word in English language.