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The past glories of Islamic civilization show that it was once able
to progress. That progress was based upon a different set of ideas,
antithetical to those of the Islamists, who would have been considered
heretical then.
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― The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
― The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
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Islamists also pushed back on Ayub’s efforts at controlling what he saw as the ‘menace of over-population’ through a comprehensive family planning programme. ‘I cannot believe that any religion can object to population control’, Ayub declared, adding that ‘no good religion can object to anything aimed at the betterment of human lot, because all religions, after all, come for the good of the human race and human beings do not come into the world for the religions.’75 But once Ayub’s hold over pow
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― Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
― Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
