|Islam and Tolerance| |06 Jan 2010, NewAgeIslam.Com| |RELIGIOUS
DIVERSITY AND TOLERANCE IN ISLAM| Certain Muslim countries who
swear by Qur’an as their constitution also flagrantly violate
Qur’anic provisions. Qur’an … says diversity is Allah’s creation
and must be respected and celebrated. And this diversity
includes linguistic, racial and religious and human beings,
whatever religion, race or linguistic group they belong to, must
be accorded equal dignity and which means all of them should
enjoy equal rights. However, you will not find any Muslim
country swearing by Qur’an as book of Allah implementing these
ideals. You find discrimination on the basis of religion, even
sects, language and ethnicity. You very much find discrimination
for example in Saudi Arabia, against non-Arabs, against non-
Wahabi Muslims and against other ethnic and racial groups. One
finds discrimination in Iran against Sunni Muslims, against
Arabs, against Bahais and against non-Persians. In Pakistan one
finds discrimination against ce