[DAWN] As Moslems worldwide have just performed another Haj and are now celebrating Eidul Azha, it is perhaps an opportune moment to reflect on the current state of that abstract construct -- the ’Moslem world’.
While, indeed, the world as a whole is facing myriad challenges to the global order -- political, financial, security etc -- these problems are magnified manifold in most Moslem-majority states, Pakistain included.
While external players have had a role in destabilising Moslem states and regions, arguably, the greatest challenge is internal, most notably from decrepit and repressive political systems that stifle dissent, as well as from holy warrior movements that thrive in suffocating environments and use Islamic imagery to promote a thoroughly savage agenda. |