All western countries including UK are actually either constitutionaly secular like France or by practice are secular like UK. There are varying degrees within the conception of secularism but rest assured not one of them remotely comes anywhere close to a Islamic republic.
And? I never denied any of that. No point bringing it up.
My point here is simple, millions on millions of Muslims are quite happy to live in, swim in, drink in, born in, marry in, brought up in secular west but the moment secularism is mentioned in context of Pakistan arms go flinging up in disgust.
No, arms don't go flinging up in disgust. Not my arms. My mouth simply moves to express, in words, my disagreement with the proposition.
Millions upon millions of Pakistani Muslims who
do not want to go to the west
also exist and make up
the majority of Pakistan. A few expats can not dictate how a nation-state runs itself.
Living in non Islamic secular states seems acceptable but same thing becomes radioctive corrosive in context of Pakistan.
Because
Pakistan is a majority Muslim nation - secularizing it means forcing that majority to accept secularism, whereas currently they have the option of
not living in non-Islamic secular states.
The entire point of Pakistan, or any nation-state, is that the people can be governed however they like. If you do not like the way other Pakistanis want themselves to be governed, you are free to leave - but
the entire nation will not change at the demands of a minority; that's how nation-states and democracies work.
Is it just me that sees the schizophrenic thinking and beguiling hypocracy in this ?
And here's where the borderline fascistic pseudo-liberalism comes into play; something as bad as religious extremism, only less prevalent.
There is no ''schizophrenic thinking'' and no ''beguiling hypocrisy'' in this. We are fine with other nations being non-Islamic as long as we have the option to return to our own and find it being governed in the way we want it to, which means with religion.
I reiterate: my opposition to secularism (in Pakistan) is based on two, perfectly rational factors.
The first being that disassociating religion from law, for example legalizing drugs and alcohol, would not be viewed favorably by the majority.
The second being that abandoning religion would mean surrendering it to terrorists; it means we accept that religion is wrong and violent. We do not want to do that, since we do not accept that religion is wrong and violent, because it isn't.
If you still believe this reasoning to be 'schizophrenic', too bad because that is just your opinion.