Reading footnotes is a good habit to get into. The following quote is from Tariq Ali's 1970 book "Pakistan: Military rule or People's Power?"
"The debate on what exactly an Islamic state is continues to this very day and all the bourgeois parties in Pakistan take part. We shall touch on this debate in later chapters - but only briefly: we are nearing the twenty-first century,and man has reached the moon." p. 33, fn 14.
Mankind has not been on the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Islam meanwhile is thriving. Indeed, so important is it in the UK that there is now a working group, under the former Attorney General Dominic Grieve, to establish a definition of Islamophobia.
I am not sure anyone, writing in 1970 or 1972, thought that was the future.....
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