Pol Islam - Wirsing

political Islam to bolster Pakistan’s prospects for sustaining a pluralist political community? It will be argued that Islamic identity is unquestionably undergoing massive politicization virtually everywhere in Asia, and certainly in Pakistan, but less because of any inherent radical or jihadist— holy war-driven—tendencies that may be inherent to Islam itself than because of the particular geopolitical circumstances in which Asian, and Pakistani, Muslims currently find themselves.