Jinnah believed that faith or belief of an individual was his personal matter with which state should have no concern.
NEW DELHI: This is with reference to your editorial “Church attack” (October 23). The recent attack on a church in Karachi is not the first time religious places of non-Muslims have been vandalised and their holy books desecrated. If something similar had been done to the Holy Quran by non-Muslims, it would have been called blasphemy and dealt with as such. But I doubt if anything of the kind will happen to those who threw Bibles on the ground apart from destroying the church building and its interior.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah believed that faith or belief of an individual was his personal matter with which the state should have no concern. Unfortunately, all leaders of Pakistan that came after him did exactly the opposite of what Jinnah had visualised. Not only non-Muslims, but even non-Sunni Muslims have been treated badly. If things go on like this, the country’s fundamentalists shall succeed in undermining the foundations of the state of Pakistan — without any helping hand from outside.
Dr VC Bhutani
Published in The Express Tribune, October 24th, 2012.
