[Reader-list] India on a list of countries which have failed to protect its religious minorities adequately

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Shuddha
 
On the other hand ....
 
Countries that are members of the OIC could be seen as having declared themselves as "Islamic" even if there is no other such declaration in their 'official name' or 'laws'.
 
That would include all the countries you have mentioned with 2 exceptions..  Kosovo is not a member and Bosnia Herzegovina has Observer Status.
 
Any ambiguities in the recognition that I have proposed will be largely dealt with by studying the various aspects of the OIC http://www.oic-oci.org/home.asp
 
The Flag of OIC incidentally is said to declare "Allah u Akbar". Not much ambiguity in that. 
http://flagspot.net/flags/int-oic.html#desc
 
Kshmendra
 


 
Shuddhabrata Sengupta shuddha at sarai.net 
Sat Aug 15 17:49:34 IST 2009 
 
Murali,

Jeebesh is right, except that Indonesia is the worlds largest (by  
population) Muslim countriy. Not the second largest. And here is a  
list of 19 other Muslim majority countries that are not Islamic  
states, or do not have Islam listed as state religion.

Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Chad, Djibouti,  
Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan,  
Uzbekistan, Albania,  Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,  
Palestinian Authority and Turkey.

There are several other countries, which recognize Islam as a state  
religion, such as Egypt but are still not 'Islamic States', that is,  
they are not governed by Islamic law

Only a third category of states, which includes, Iran, Saudi Arabia,  
Pakistan, Afghanistan etc, can be strictly called Islamic States, in  
that they are partially or wholly governed by Islamic law and  
recognize the Sharia as a source of law and jurisprudence.

Please take the trouble to make credible and factual statements as  
far as possible when you seek to impose your opinions on this list.

Shuddha