23 March 2014

“There is no political will for reforms in Islamic law”

.... A more crucial question is whether there is a serious political will for moderation and containing extremism. My experience is that there is no political will for reforms in Islamic law. Islamic modernism as a school of thought has lost its relevance today.

The choice is not between moderates and extremists; it is between Islamists (that includes Jamaát-e-Islami and all religious parties) and secularists. [TheNews on Sunday] Read more