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The right’s future
[DAWN] ISLAM is in danger, yet again. The call by religious parties and the Council of Islamic Ideology to force a government retreat on the recently promulgated women’s protection act follows hot on the heels of the countrywide mobilisations that followed the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri. One wonders what will come next.The recent spate of activity follows a period during which the religious right was in something resembling hibernation mode. Political correctness both in Pakistain and globally demands overt rejection of religious radicalism, and when our own military establishment is going through great pains to sustain an image of zero tolerance towards bully boy Islam it is to be expected that the mainstream right will follow suit. Yet seasoned observers know better than to assume the murky links between the establishment and the bully boy right are a fact of the past. Indeed, while Pak officialdom insists that it is committed to abolishing the threat of religious militancy, it also clearly acknowledges that it is the primary interlocutor between the so-called Afghan Taliban and the government in Kabul Posted by: Fred 2016-03-25 |
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