{"id":1007,"date":"2013-03-25T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2013-03-25T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:47:59","slug":"what-is-an-islamist-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2013\/03\/25\/what-is-an-islamist-state\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is an Islamist State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is really no such thing as a specifically Islamic or \u201cPakistani\u201d blueprint for running a modern state. None. Nada. Nothing. There is no there there. Yet school textbooks, official propaganda and everyday political speech in Pakistan endlessly refer to some imaginary \u201cIslamic model\u201d of administration and statecraft. Since no such model exists, we are condemned to hypocritically mouthing meaningless and destructive Paknationalist and Islamist slogans while simultaneously (and almost surreptitiously) trying to operate modern Western constitutional, legal and economic models.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>This quote is from Omar Ali&#8217;s commentary on <a href=\"http:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">3quarksdaily.com<\/a> (&#8220;Pakistan and Its Stories&#8221;), but it references his longer article on <em>Pragati<\/em> &#8212; link, below).<\/p>\n<p>Read it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/pragati.nationalinterest.in\/2013\/03\/pakistan-myths-and-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan: Myths and consequences<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is really no such thing as a specifically Islamic or \u201cPakistani\u201d blueprint for running a modern state. None. Nada. Nothing. There is no there there. 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Since no such model exists, we are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,7,103,9,10],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century","category-20th-century","category-21st-century","category-shia","category-sunni","tag-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Is an Islamist State? - Islam In America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2013\/03\/25\/what-is-an-islamist-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Is an Islamist State? - Islam In America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;There is really no such thing as a specifically Islamic or \u201cPakistani\u201d blueprint for running a modern state. 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