@ Floydian
You are right as far as Jinnah's Pakistan is concerned, it was not a state based on islamic theology and implementation of islamic extremism, it was rather a modern islamic state based on modern age of islamic views as percieved by allama iqbal where technology, education etc with equal rights to the non-muslims.
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Originally Posted by Viceroy
About the Author
Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss in July 1900 in what was then Austro-Hungarian Lwów in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv in Ukraine; died 1992) was a Jew who converted to Islam and later served as one of the first Pakistani ambassadors to the United Nations.
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Mohsin shah,
A very good account of Mohammad Asad aka Leopold Weiss. Mohsin I suggest you to see a documentary
A Road to Mecca –The Journey of Muhammad Asad
check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxjwH..._embedded#t=33