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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy

yeah exactly, Pakistan is not a muslim version of the jewish state.

Pakistan

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Pakistan was created in 1947 as a homeland for Muslims of South Asia. With an estimated population of 150 million, it is the world's second largest Muslim country after Indonesia. Today it is an avowedly Islamic republic, wherein Islamic standards dominate national political discourse and influence discussions about democratization, economic reform, and state-society relations.

Pakistan was the culmination of the Muslim demand for separatism at the twilight of British rule in India. Many Muslims, including thinkers like Abul-Kalam Azad (d. 1958) and religious institutions such as the Jam'iat-i Ulama-i Hind (Society of Indian Ulama), remained involved in the independence movement under the leadership of the Indian Congress Party. Others followed intellectuals such as Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) and politicians such as Muhammad Ali Jinnah (d. 1948) in the Muslim League; they questioned the belief that the struggle against the British ought to be the paramount concern of Muslims. These Muslims were apprehensive about living as a minority in a predominantly Hindu state and sought to safeguard and further Muslim communal interests before an uncertain future.

For the leaders of the Pakistan movement, however, Muslim nationalism was not so much a religious notion as a communal one. Himself secular, Jinnah wanted to identify Muslims as a people belonging to a distinct cultural group and sharing a common identity separate from that of the majority population. The promise of Pakistan for Jinnah lay not in its religious potential, but in the fact that it would serve as a political arena in which a Muslim's aspirations would not be limited by his identity. But Jinnah was not able to keep Pakistan a secular ideal. The separatist struggle, especially during its last phase, was compelled to appeal to Islamic symbols to mobilize public support, opening the door to thinking of Pakistan as an Islamic ideal.