Islam and Peace
Religion and Politics
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This struggle culminated in Pakistan in April 1979
with Bhutto’s execution, which was termed judicial
murder by Bhutto himself. Pakistan’s religious class
felt that Bhutto’s existence presented the greatest
obstacle to, introducing Nizam-e-Mustafa. He had,
therefore, to be eliminated. But the experiment
revealed that Nizam-e Mustafa could not find a
place in the life of the nation even after the removal
of Bhutto. The hold of the secular group persisted.
The Ram Rajya movement in India culminated in
December 1992 with the demolition of the Babari
Masjid at Ayodhya. Even after a period of two
years, subsequent, to the demolition, the Ram Rajya
movement has not been able to move even one step
ahead. The secular group continues to dominate the
political arena.
Whether it be right or wrong, from the ideological
point of view, to subordinate politics to religion, the
experiment of the last fifty years tells us that our
present
course
is certainly not the right one. It would
be more true to say that the present course, in terms
of non-achievement of goals, has been counter-
productive. What has come into being, and what is
