VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Mona Siddiqui, professor of Islamic studies, New College, University of Edinburgh |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130515.html][img=images/2013/05/pic130515.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Pakistan has just [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22502733]had some elections[/url]. My family's from Pakistan you know. Pakistan is a Muslim country. That's probably why my family and myself turned out to be Muslims.

You would think that, being a Muslim country, Pakistan would enjoy that same happy-go-lucky, carefree, enlightened attitudes that most other Muslim countries do. Yet despite Islam being such a perfect religion, Pakistan has not always been a happy place. The Partition of India, followed by decades of poverty, limited educational and commercial opportunities, political corruption, military dictatorships, wars, civil wars, ethnic unrest, inter tribal rivalry and millions of religious nutters, have all contributed to this less than happy state of affairs.

In one of the nice bits of the Koran, the Invisible Magic Friend says, "Oh, grow up mankind!"

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