Presented By

• RUBNAWAZ (2015-UET-CCET-CIVL-02)

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN PAKISTAN

THE PROBLEMSRELEGIOUS EXTREMISM IN PAKISTAN

• DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEMS

• A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism. More formally, it is the act of taking an extreme view regarding a specific religion.

• In Holy Quran: “And hold fast all together by the rope of Allah, and be not divided among themselves.”

• The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said: “Beware of extremism in religion, for extremism destroyed those who went before you.”

Background

• Religious extremism begun when some Muslims started to follow Imam-e-Aazam Hazrat Imam Abu Hanifa (R.A) and others to Hazrat Imam Shaafi (R.A). They teach people according to Holy Quran but with different way of teaching. They had same subject but people followed them as two different leaders.

Reasons

• There is no difference between religion and culture in present.• We demand basic education for Engineers & Doctors but unfortunately, there is no basic

education for Relegious scholars.• Some people have no clear difference between “Farz” and “Sunnah”.• In some areas, children are send to Madrasa where they can be easily brain-washed.• Terrorist acts across the country, improper security situation and faulty political system.• Lack of law enforcement also leads to religious extremism.

External factors

• Drones/ presence of NATO “Ethnic cleansing policy” against Muslim states (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine etc.) causes frustration and revolt in the masses.

• No step is taken by authorities when foreign countries violate the laws. Example: Afia Siddiqi case, Raymond Davis case etc.

• Allowing domestic interference of USA is also one of the many reasons of religious extremism in Pakistan.

External factors

• Back in 1979, million of Jihadis were trained in Pakistan to achieve US interests of containing Soviet Union in Afghanistan. These Mujahedeen were tagged as “terrorists” soon after the 9/11 incident. They felt used and deprived of their rights and showed their reaction in the form of extremism.

Consequence of the problem

• Religious extremism threatens the faith and life of other people. It does not allow them to practice their religious rituals freely & openly.

• It threatens and harms the peace and internal security of the country/nation.• Religious extremism results in clashes between social groups and religious sectors

causing domestic war.• It weakens national solidarity and allow other countries to invade.• It gives rise to terrorism and people miss understand the difference between Jihad

and terrorism.

Solutions

• Educating the society about the contents of the Qurán and Sunnah of Prophet without any furnishing or censoring, and reforming the actions to match the Qurán and Sunnah.

• Increasing the awareness of the principles of moderation in Islam.• Scholars who lecturer in the Mosques should give their lecturers addressing

these issues.• There should be basic education for becoming religious scholar.• Government should take measureable steps to stop religious extremism,

hanged up Extremists.

Solutions

• Teaching and practicing religion within family from childhood.• Youth must be provided with facilities to engage themselves in something constructive

during the free time.• Radio and TV stations can play a prominent role in overcoming extremism by airing

program about these issues• Increasing religious publications in newspapers to raise the awareness.

Best Solution

• I think the best solution of this type of extremism is that the government should take the serious measures to educate the population of the country, as religious extremism has its base in the fact that Pakistan has a high rate of ignorance and illiteracy.

• It is easy to brain-wash a dull mind, but it is impossible to convince an educated person about thing that has no rotational justification.

Conclusion

• My point of view is that religious extremism is basically a state in which a person goes far beyond certain limits. The person or group of people hold rigid beliefs and are not ready to bring any sort of change in it. They cannot even rationalize their rigidty and their point of view. They belief that they are always right and other should adopt themselves according to their belief like in case of terrorist.