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This 4-page paper discusses the influence of polical Islam in Pakistan, how it took hold under Zia's rule, and how influential it is today. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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political divisiveness. Although the bulk of the population is moderate, it is the smaller, more vocal fundamental Islam political groups that seem to be setting the agenda for this country,
despite what certain experts might believe. In the book, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, author Gilles Kepel explains that Islam has
actually been a failure of religion and society (Kepel). Part of the reason for the failure, he notes, is because of the religions tendency toward disunity (Kepel). One reason
for this was the reason that Islam grew in the first place - basically the philosophy promised everything for everyone, and this was important for a growing Arab nation that
had problems with everything from politics to poverty (Kepel). Kepel points out two theorists of Islam - Mawlana Mawdubi, the Pakistani scholar
whose views led to the so-called Muslim State and launched the Deobandi School in Pakistan (more about this later in the paper) and Sayyid Qutb, who founded the Muslim Brothers
in Egypt (Kepel). Interestingly enough, both men drew much inspiration from Western fascism and Soviet communism in setting up the fundamental tenants of Islam (Kepel). As such, notes Kepel, Islamists
only hold power in areas in which they can maintain political and economic support of the rich as well as the social mandate of the poor - with intellectuals being
deemed as necessary to hold it all together (Kepel). But is Kepel correct in his assertions? How then, has this manifested itself
in Pakistan under the rule of the late Zia ul-Haq? According to "Islam in Pakistan: Unity and Contradictions," a report issued in October 2002 by the CSIS, Islam was strong
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