The founder -- Mohammad Ali Jinnah envisioned a secular Pakistan but like most muslim majority nations, it quickly devolved into an Islamic Republic and it was all downhill from there.

Except for the Tea Party, of course.

Thank you.

The religions that subjugate women need to eliminate that nasty sector of their religion too.

This is one mufti among thousands in a country that has seen minorities fall from 23% of the population during partition in 1947 to 3% in 2013!

That 3% is just non Muslims. Among Muslims, 25% are Shiites. And then there's Ahmadis, who the state has basically considered non-Muslim.

This article does a good job explaining our wonderful "ally" in South Asia. http://www.currenttrends.org/research/detail/cleansing-pakistan-of-minorities

"At the time of partition in 1947, almost 23 percent of Pakistan’s population was comprised of non-Muslim citizens. Today, the proportion of non-Muslims has declined to approximately 3 percent. The distinctions among Muslim denominations have also become far more accentuated over the years. Muslim groups such as the Shias who account for approximately 20-25 percent of Pakistan’s Muslim population, Ahmadis who have been declared non-Muslim by the writ of the state, and non-Muslim minorities such as Christians, Hindus and Sikhs have been the targets of suicide bomb attacks on their neighborhoods, had community members converted to Islam against their will, and had their houses of worship attacked and bombed even while they were inhabited by worshipers.
Even the graveyards of Christians and Ahmadis have not been spared. Regular reports of graves being excavated and vandalized appear in the press and via community reports. In Sindh and Balochistan provinces, well-to-do Hindus have been the primary targets of the ransom kidnappings. The numbers of minority Muslims and non-Muslims subjected to these purposeful attacks have increased significantly and the crimes committed have become more heinous. Those accused of “blasphemy” have sometimes been burnt alive outside police stations with no culprits identified or punished."

And no, these problems aren't the fault of our drone program as every other poster on this site likes to claim. These are problems of their own making.

a nefarious act by the Brits -- just as how they split the Ottoman empire or how they forged together Belgium, created Taiwan and, of course, Israel.

Each of these divisions were done without the consent of the whole population and has created festering issues.

In the case of India and Pakistan, the British fomented religious hatred and propped up a cigar smoking, whiskey drinking, womanizing, never-been-to-a-mosque "Muslim" Mohammad Ali Jinnah as the leader of the Muslims and when he was denied the post of prime minister of the whole country (he was low in the ranks of freedom fighters - nothing to do with religion), he decided to split India.

Then came the violent massacre of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan and looting of their property.

In reality, very few muslims from India went to Pakistan. Those who went were relegated to second class status as "Mohajirs"

The muslims that stayed in India are happier living under a secular democracy which has produced two muslim presidents of India.

On the other hand, Pakistan has become an Islamofascist Republic -- a government of the Sunnis, for the Sunnis, by the Sunnis and misery or death to everyone else.

There may even be one or two bits in there that are factual.

I hope and pray that in the future, even if I don't live to see it, we will have One World, One Blood

Nice to see people concerned with protecting other human beings.
Christians facing real persecution as opposed to the faux persecution trumped up by the fundie x-tian community in the US

I'm guessing this won't make headlines at Fox