"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."
The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : Prospects of Pakistan's Islamist resurgence: The world has watched, with ever-growing concern, the growing momentum of the Difa-e-Pakistan (Defence of Pakistan) — a new Islamist coalition that represents the full flowering of Abdul Ala Maududi's vision - that 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."
Has the Pakistani Islamist movement's tryst with destiny finally come?
Pakistan's democratic politicians have shown no stomach for a frontal confrontation with the ideas of the religious-right — and without this rupture, the growth of Islamist influence will remain inexorable.
The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : Prospects of Pakistan's Islamist resurgence: The world has watched, with ever-growing concern, the growing momentum of the Difa-e-Pakistan (Defence of Pakistan) — a new Islamist coalition that represents the full flowering of Abdul Ala Maududi's vision - that 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."
Has the Pakistani Islamist movement's tryst with destiny finally come?
Pakistan's democratic politicians have shown no stomach for a frontal confrontation with the ideas of the religious-right — and without this rupture, the growth of Islamist influence will remain inexorable.
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