Democracy can ensure equality

Democracy can ensure equality only when aided by secularism

In these days, when religious intolerance and conflict is increasing, neutrality of the state in religious matters is all the more necessary. If religion of the majority is given the status of state religion it will not only be discriminatory against religious minority but within the majority religious community also it will encourage the forces of orthodoxy, priestcraft and extremism and inter-sect hostility based on misinterpretation of the scriptures, ...........................

writes Zakeria Shirazi