Islam, democracy and violence

Islam, democracy and violence

By Asghar Ali Engineer

31 December 2008

In a Asia Calling talk show, where a number of prominent public figures and diplomats were present, these questions were raised by many. Also I spoke at Wahid Institute, founded by the former president of Indonesia and leading scholar of Islam Abdur Rachman Wahid, on the experiences of the Muslim minority in secular India. Indonesia, though the largest Muslim country in the world is still not an Islamic country but a Pancasila State. The doctrine of Pancasila was adopted during president Sukarno’s time.

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