Pakistan: 5 Killed in Religious School Bombing

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1842777,00.html

The current conflict in Pakistan, which has essentially been waged prior since the nation's inception in 1947 is a manifestation of the Mawdudi versus Jimah debates over what it type of system of governance shall be enacted in the Indian sub-continent .

Jimah used the Muslim identity almost identically to that of the Jewish identity in Israel. That there can be a state for Muslims in South Asia, a Muslim homeland, remaining secular. The notion of being a Muslim becomes a cultural identity with religious underpinnings. Jimah has basically manufactured a nationalist cause for Muslims. He created the idea that a people who share a religious philosophy can too form a unique nation.

Mawdudi rejects this notion, Mawdudi claims that the very notion of nationalism is to be essentially "haram" since we as Muslims shall not subject ourselves to a cause greater than Allah, and this cause is driven through the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) which forms the foundations of Islam. Therefore, the idea of creating a homeland for Muslims was at first rejected by Mawdudi since it corresponds with the manufacturing of "Muslim Nationalism" (now Pakistani Nationalism) through a Muslim identity as a nation. However, since a state was created, the Pure Land, Pakistan, it was vital that this state subject itself to the teachings of Islam, and it be essentially an Islamic State, not simply a state for Muslims.

The September 19 bombings of a religious school in the outskirts of the city Quetta is simply another materialization of the inability to come to a consensus of how the state shall be governed, not to mention the general existence of geo-politics, a government being forced to enact America's demands on the War on Terror or it will experience the loss of grants, and military aid to keep Pakistan competitive with its fellow nuclear neighbor India. The school was run by Jamiaat Ulama -e Islam which is the far offshoot of Mawdudi's Jamaait Islami. Interesting enough, the bombing was a suicide bomb, which raises many suspicions and questions as to why a suicide bomber would bomb an Islamic school in support of Islamic cause in Pakistan.