The War within Islam
Prospects of Pakistan's Islamist Resurgence
by Praveen Swami
Even though Islamists have enjoyed only limited electoral support, they have shaped the state's destiny. The country's liberal democratic politicians must confront them or prepare to see them take power. Faith, Maududi insisted, was more than a "hotchpotch of beliefs, prayers and rituals.” Islam was, in fact, “a revolutionary ideology which seeks to alter the social order of the entire world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals.”...
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