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...Mohsin Hamid is the author of the novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist...
...Turnout in the elections was low. Official estimates put it at less than 40% of Pakistan's 81 million eligible voters. But the resounding win for the opposition parties is seen as a repudiation of Musharraf's eight years in power. The other big losers were Pakistan's fundamentalist religious parties, who have lost control in the North West Frontier Province, which they had ruled since 2002. Frustrated with the religious parties' alliance with Musharraf and with their mismanagement of the NWFP economy, voters opted for secular opposition parties instead...
...call for a resurrection of ijtihad - the early tradition of challenge and inquiry that demanded a re-interpretation of the Koran relevant to the current era - is bold. Were she alive at the time of publication, she most certainly would have been charged with blasphemy by fundamentalist circles. Bhutto offers no new revelations - any close scholar of modern Islam will have made the same observations. But her reiteration of the Koran's message of peace and tolerance bears repeating; it is one that is often drowned out by the more headline-grabbing missives of those calling for death to America...
...foster further resentment against the government and its secular policies. The past generation has witnessed the ferocious backlash that can result against a blanket secularism imposed tactlessly, most notably in the streets of Tehran in 1979. Removing this prohibition would prevent the disintegration of the balance between secular and fundamentalist interests that has existed in Turkey since it became a republic...
...stated aim of advancing democracy around the world and its actual practice of backing friendly dictators like President Pervez Musharraf when it suits U.S. interests. The Bush Administration will retreat to its co-dependent relationship with the dictator, regarding him as the only remaining bulwark against a Taliban-style fundamentalist theocracy armed with nukes, and will probably flirt no more with any notion of a truly democratic Pakistan. These chickens will one day come home to roost. Mark C. Eades, Oakland, Calif...