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

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

On the other, other, hand,

Just as the members of the non aligned movement, such as Egypt and  
India, while locking themselves into military alliances with  
superpowers, are so, so, so, non-aligned ?

And by the way, ask any arab christian what they call god, and the  
answer is likely to be Allah. At least that was what i heard in a  
syrian orthodox liturgy in a damascus church. So are we going to call  
arab christians, muslims now?

best

Shuddha
On 15-Aug-09, at 7:30 PM, Kshmendra Kaul wrote:

> 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
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> 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
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