1) Why not, it's always very hard to understand Quran while reading.. Unless you don't read is different thing
2) Sure, if you believe Mullah's give one.. But for us, it's "Aqeedah" which implies you are muslim or something else
3) Sure, its better then putting naked women on the posters, at the beach, or in text books.
4) Why not, beard is sunnah and Our prophet had one. Whats wrong with beard?
5) yeah, sure religious education is necessary and can live without writing some dumb thesis, around 99.9% people in the world are not scientists anyways (Ps I belong to .01% people
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6) no, without schools how point number 5 will be possible?
Idea here is just, to show you there are two extremes, following Islam doesn't always implies TTP extreme. And Zia didn't gave birth to them.
Lastly Islam is complete social system, which include social laws as well as personal laws And no, lash people for not having beard or not covering up or blowing up the school are not belong of these laws.