is there some kind of numerical system or scale from 1 to 10????
provide a rubric, Mr. Bin Qasim!
but you can give people a choice and let them decide whether they WANT to be Islamist
what I dont believe in is having religion shoved down your throat
it should come from within........and on one's own will.
AKP is a ''secular-friendly'' Islamist party. Does that suffice for you?
Guys (this is for everyone here)...
We should be careful when we label someone as something... The Islamist label is used quite often... ranging from groups like Al Qaedda to TTP to Taliban in Afghanistan, Iran and Saudis, Muslim Brotherhood, Jamaat e Islami...
So who is an Islamist and who is not... One needs to look beyond claims and accusations (labels) and look for one thing only... Its called the measuring yard stick...
It is not enough for someone to claim that they are Islamists... The Taliban were widely called Islamist in the media of the world... Were they? Do you seriously think that preventing girls from getting educated is some sort of Islamism?
What does our deen says... That education is an obligation on all Muslim men and women... when you see a force preventing such a thing no matter what excuse they may be using, it would be proper to call them anti Islam rather than Islamist...
Similarly groups like Al Qaeda who have resorted to armed struggle against everyone in the name of Islam... Are they Islamist? I dont think so... I cannot find ONE reference where our master Muhammad saw resorted to armed conflict in his initial attempts to establish the Islamic system and implementation of the Islamic doctrine and teachings... For thirteen years he used to call people to Islam and got insulted, bled by stones being thrown at him, despite the fact that he had the most fearsome warriors on his side i.e Hamza, Ali, Umar, Bilal, Abu Dhar Al Ghafari, Hudaifa RA... So to resort to armed struggle to establish an Islamic order is clashing with the method of the Prophet saw... At least in my book such groups are not Islamist because they are causing innocent blood of both Muslims and non Muslims to spill in this process... and most importantly they are bringing a bad name to Islam itself...
Lets talk about groups like AKP or JI or Muslim Brotherhood... who have been trying to get into power or actually get into power using Islam to gain support from voters... Firstly democracy is anti Islam for it gives power to legislate to the electorate of the people... For us Muslims Halal and Haram are decided by Allah swt and not what our candidate votes in a Parliament... You should pay attention to this point as this is very important... So when an elected member of Parliament (regardless of his claims of Islamism or not) thinks that he has the right to adopt or reject laws, I have a big problem with that... By using such measures what our "Islamists" have done is that they have accepted downright Haram and turned it into Halal... only ONE example will explain this to you...
God says in the Quran (translation of the meaning) that those who deal in Riba... give them a declaration of being at war with God and God's messenger... We have seen this sickness not just in Turkey but also in countries like Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia where Riba has been accepted by Parliaments or decrees of a self imposed King and some of these very people go around calling themselves Islamist... what? what happened to the measuring yard stick? It takes a bold man to sit in a parliament and start voting on issues such as these... not for a micro second these people realize that they are mocking the very legislation that Islam has given to Muslims... An Islamist is the one who accepts these laws without voting on it... the criteria is nt if the majority accepts it or not... by that criteria anything can be made halal and haram... the criteria is that the law giver has decided and our goal is only submission to the will of God Almighty... This issue is so sensitive that it has taken away all thinking from our masses... I was once a guest at the house of our MNA from NA1 who happened to be from Jamaat e Islami and when this issue was mentioned to him he could not even grasp what was being said... I think I m being clear enough for you on this... This is where these groups are placed...
There is no such thing as a "secular friendly Islamist group"... Can you imagine a "Communism friendly Capitalist group"? Certain things are opposites of each other in the realm of ideas and ideology... No one will understand you if you start talking about a black that is also white and the same goes for the statement that although we believe in Islam as a political ideology and we are Islamists but we also believe that there should be secularism... because it would then mean that you are not serious about one or the other... How on earth can you combine two opposites into a mix?
Then you have groups that advocate that Islam has nothing to do with politics... Such groups in my opinion, we should not be wasting time about at all... But they are obviously not Islamist either...
If you ever want to use the measuring yard stick for such issues... you should look at the economics... the state that adopts Islamic economics is the one which will be truly Islamist... This is the litmus test that you are asking for... There is no in between on this issue...
also... this is what our enemies fear the most... "In becharon kee jaan jaa rahi hay Islam kay iqtisadi nizam ki waja say"
One of the companies that has tested scenarios of the Caliphate btw is Shell...
This is also the reason that ideologies are basically named after their economic systems... Communism and Capitalism