Radical Islam always seems to be a problematic topic to discuss, as Muslims are usually seen as a minority. ... Christians slaughtered Muslims in great numbers, and Muslims slaughtered Christians in great numbers. ... But all of these problems come from the past what is the problem with radical Islam now. ... Radical Islam has so many problems and issues under its belt. ... The rest of the world shouldn't have to answer for Islam's mistakes Islam should....

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He toured India preaching Islamic renewal and jihad, and built a highly developed network of personal friends and partisans spread across northern India organized to recruit and dispatch men and financial aid. ... He toured India preaching Islamic renewal and jihad, and built a highly developed network of personal friends and partisans spread across northern India organized to recruit and dispatch men and financial aid. In 1826 he provided an Islamic challenge to an expanding Sikh empire when he and numerous disciples, supported by his network, arrived in Peshawar, (now in Pakistan), to estab...

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(Metcalf) This is when the Muslim League enacted the 'Pakistan Resolution' and demanded independent Muslim states. ... The Muslim League won 442 of the 500 Muslim seats in the provincial assemblies, and won all thirty reserved Muslim seats in the central legislature(Metcalf). ... The rural voters were rallied under the idea of "Islam in danger." ... In fact, voting became a ritual act of incorporation in the body of Islam and if one did not participate in voting, they were considered an "infidel." ... But with the Muslim League's personal commitment towards Islam, there seemed t...

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She then reasserts that Muslim countries are still fundamentally different than that of western states in the practice of democracy due to the core role that Islamic law plays in public affairs and government. This antithesis that she promotes outlines that either a Muslim government is a "secular" (means atheist in Urdu) Islamic state, or a religiously ideological one. ... She sees the Mujahedeen as an example of a deeper problem: Islamic extremists flock to wherever violence and unrest is brewing in Muslim countries to install another orthodox Muslim caliphate. ... The mean score f...

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A predominantly Muslim country like Pakistan owes a lot of its political identity to the religion of Islam. ... Secondly he established and advisory council on Islamic ideology and an Islamic research institute. He also brought reforms to the Muslim family law ordinance. ... Firstly the constitution erased the word "Islamic" form the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. ... The primary duty and function of the Advisory Council was to make recommendations to the government regarding ways in which Muslims residing within the country to lead their lives in accordance to the Islamic way of life. ...

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Pakistani's are deeply religious people and it is very easy to offend someone if the Islamic religion is talked about in even a slightly derogatory manner. ... It is a serious crime to talk against Islam in Pakistan. ... Most of the national heroes are from the early Muslim and Arab history. ... The majority of Pakistanis are descendants of Muslim conquerors who invaded the Central Asia and Indian Subcontinent. They spread Islam in this part of the world and take pride in their heroes and what they did for the religion. ...

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Likewise, when a news firm in Denmark published satirical cartoons of the founder of Islamic religion in 2008, majority of Muslim countries strongly condemned Denmark for not censoring provoking material. ... Terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, Taliban and Boko Haram are its blunt examples. ... Likewise, as terrorist organizations are multiplying with majority of them claiming to be struggling to advance what they assume to be pure Islamic ideology, the cause of terrorism is assumed to be Islam. Resultantly, Muslims face retaliation in majority of the countries as is evident ...

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Pakistan came into being on 14 august 1947 on the basis of Islamic Ideology under the leadership of Quad-e-As am Muhammad Ali Jinnah. ... Jinnah combined modern intellect with basic principles if Islam and gave concept of international peace and literary enlightenment. ... Moreover, Jinnah called Pakistan a "liberal Muslim democratic state". ... He believed that Islam is depicted through one`s deeds, there is no need to make it a national religion. ... Moreover, during bifurcation speech of All-India Muslim league, he said to Indian Muslims that, "Indian Muslims will now be gove...

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An Indian Muslim reader of my weekly column in Dawn, who has become a friend after months of correspondence by email, is bitter about the assumption by Pakistanis that they are the only Muslims in the subcontinent. ... Jinnah's two-nation theory has come back to haunt Indian Muslims: nationalist Hindus cite it when they say Muslims should go to Pakistan. ... (Go to the graveyard or go to Pakistan) has become a facile slogan to mock Muslims. ... This adherence to archaic traditions has deepened the divide between Hindus and Muslims. ... Zakaria says that Mahmood of Ghazni's depredati...

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Schooling On 4th July, 1882 when he was six, he was admitted to Sindh Madreesah-ul-Islam, Karachi. ... After one year he again left for Karachi and was admitted to the Sindh Madreesah-tul-Islam in First Standard. ... The Sindh Madreesah-tul-Islam school register records: Muhammad Ali Jinnah left the school for cutch for marriage, on 30th January , 1892when he was in standard 5. ... Member of the Muslim League (1913) He joined the all India Muslim League in 1913 and did not leave the Congress. ... The Muslim's took him to be a pro-Hindu. ...

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History The call for establishing an independent Islamic state on the Indian subcontinent can be traced to a 1930 speech by Sir Muhammad Iqbal, a poet-philosopher and, at the time, president of the All India Muslim League (after Pakistan's independence, shortened to Muslim League). ... Iqbal's Pakistan included only those Muslims residing in the Muslim-majority areas in the northwestern quadrant of the subcontinent. It ignored the millions of other Muslims living throughout the subcontinent, and it certainly did not take into account the Muslim majority of Bengal in the east. Mor...

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The tendency to associate Islam with terrorism among the policy makers in the United States has challenged the tensions between the US and Islamic countries or Muslim-majority countries and it eventually affects the global political order. Judiciousness of the majority Muslim state countries in responding the problem of terrorism often raise suspicion by the US and it causes international political pressure for Muslim state countries. As a result, the local government in these Muslim majority countries often face a dilemma between "task" in combating terrorism on the one hand, and the nece...

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This is observed during the ninth month of the Islamic year and is ordained by the Koran, the Islam holy book. ... Muslims cannot eat, drink or smoke at all. ... The Islam driven culture of Pakistan shapes everyday life. Each day, all Muslims pray five times. ... No matter where a Muslim is, he will pause, face the East, and pray when it is time. ...

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The Taliban are a group of soldiers trained in Pakistani Islamic Schools who believe that they are the soldiers of pure, fundamentalist Islam and the saviors of all Muslims. According to Islam, women are allowed to work, to earn and control their own money, and to participate in public life. ... The Taliban gender apartheid has no basis in Islam. In the Islamic world, at the beginning of Islam, there were no restrictions or prohibitions toward women to seek knowledge and education. ... Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan, women were advised that it was their responsibility to bring up th...

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Muslims conquered the Fertile Crescent, Persia, Egypt, developed the Arabic written language, and took control of the Mediterranean Sea within a century of their rise. Islam was the dominant faith along trade lines, which helped spread the growth of the religion and spread their map systems. The Islamic people adopted Indian mathematic numerals, Egyptian geometry, and founded Algebra on their own. ... This is reflected in the cartography of Muslims in the eighth and ninth centuries. ... Jews, Islams, and Christians fought over control of this Holy Land, since it is sacred to all of them. ...

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A good example of religious corruption would be what is going on in the madirsas (Islamic school's where students are taught about Islam), here in Pakistan. ... Many of the Mullahs (teachers) are illiterate themselves and end up teaching these young and innocent students completely wrong things about Islam. ... The students are brainwashed and turned into radical fundamentalists that are later on sent into the Mujahideen (Groups of fighters that are meant to defend Islam). ... These Mullahs enrage me, because I know that they are being focused on by the rest of the world and are giving al...

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The narrator tells us: "a movement is going on for a separate Muslim state and they are strongly lobbying to the British" (188). ... Now he has become the leader of the Muslims. ... When a Muslim kills a son of Hindu mother and when a Hindu kills a son of a Muslim mother, it is very logical for her to doubt whether, "humans are beings of intellect or not," (196). ... Same blood of Hindus and Muslims. ... Rather she has understood: "none can convince me by saying that one is Muslims' country and this one is Hindus' country. ...

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We are required to study whether this pro-Islamic attitude of Gen Zia Ul Haq was politically motivated or whether he was a real lover of Islam. ... As such he had a soft corner for Islamic value. ... Islamic sentiments had always been fully alive in Pakistan. ... There exists no consensus amongst the several Muslims fractions on its various aspects and such interpretation. ... Then what was the purpose of Zia's Islamic program. ...

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The ethnicity of the Turkmen (the nationality) is made up of Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1%. 89% of Turkmenistan is Muslim (the branch is called Al-Fatiha. ... Turkmenistan feels great pressure from the Islam nation and is influenced by Russia....

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I also have many Muslim peers surrounding me at school and work, who reinforce my beliefs and collectively practice with me. ... I lived in Pakistan for a major chunk of my life, where I was exposed to a mostly Muslim population. ... Eating halal meat was never a concern, nor was having alcohol around (both dietary laws in Islam). ... I still had to continue going to school and function as a student even though I had other duties as a Muslim. ... We also have a Muslim Students' Association that unites the youth with the purpose of and Islamic community, and it helps me find a middle groun...

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Even though Islamic fundamentalists are widely and frequently criticized, some facts are true. The militant group Hamas, an Arabic acronym for The Islamic Resistance Movement, has been accredited with hundreds of suicide bombings and other related killings. ... That sounds like a good package to the militant Muslim, and why not go forth with it if it will only bring better things? ... India (Hindu majority) and Pakistan (Muslim majority) have been feuding ever since they gain independence during the Gandhi era. ... Including the patronized Muslims and the not-so criticized Christians. ...

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Even though Islamic fundamentalists are widely and frequently criticized, some facts are true. The militant group Hamas, an Arabic acronym for The Islamic Resistance Movement, has been accredited with hundreds of suicide bombings and other related killings. ... That sounds like a good package to the militant Muslim, and why not go forth with it if it will only bring better things? ... India (Hindu majority) and Pakistan (Muslim majority) have been feuding ever since they gain independence during the Gandhi era. ... Including the patronized Muslims and the not-so criticized Christians. ...

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Infact even at times religion crosses religion boundaries for example the practice of polygamy is allowed in Islam (up till 4 wives) but in our eastern culture the news of a person walking the isle the second time let alone fourth time always raises eyebrows. ... For example even when adopting the British and Indian culture the practice of rejoicing over alcohol had to be kept aside in Pakistani culture die to Islamic beliefs. ... Even though the Hinduism and Islam are so distinctly different religion yet the two countries being Muslim majority Pakistan and Hindu majori...

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The INC, composed mainly of Hindus with some Muslims continued to pressure the British into making significant political changes. ... India is home to Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and an infinite number of religious traditions. ... Muslims are the most prominent religious group and are an important part of Indian society. India also has the second largest population of Muslims in the world....

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The majority of the population is Sikh, the largest minority is Hindu, and a very small percentage is Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, or Jain. 59% of Punjab population is literate. ... Muslim Invasions Following the birth of Islam in Arabia in 6th century AD, Arabs rose to the eastern world to spread their rule all over asia. ...

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