Relationship between Religion and Politics in Islam — Page 6
The Relationship Between Religion & Politics 6 to all its population, then, by the same reasoning and the same logic, every other country with the majority of its population belonging to other religions would have exactly the same right to enact their laws. The entire world would become a world of not only political conflict but also of a politico-religious conflict, whereby all the laws would be attributed to God, yet they would contradict each other diametrically. There would be such a confusion that people would begin to lose faith in a God who speaks one thing to one people and another thing to another people, and who tells them to enforce this law on the people or ‘they will be untrue to Me’. As such, you can well imagine what would happen in India for instance, if the law of the Hindu majority is imposed on the Muslim minority. As a matter of fact, a large section of the Indian society is gradually being pushed towards this extremist demand by way of reaction—I suppose—to what is happening in some Islamic countries. What would happen to the Muslims and other minorities of India? Moreover, this is not a question of India alone. What if Israel enacts the law of Judaism—the law of the Talmud? I have read it and I know it will be impossible for any other non-Jew to live there normally and decently. In the same manner, Christianity has its own rights and so has Buddhism.