The basic planks in an Islamist political platform, it seems to me, should include a few unchanging fundamentals, regardless of time or place. The mechanisms for implementing these fundamentals can be subject to circumstances and conditions, but these should always be present in any Islamist political program:
• A monthly or yearly stipend for all citizens equivalent to the poverty rate. In other words, a stipend sufficient for covering basic subsistence needs
• Homes for all citizens
• Free education
• Free healthcare
• A cap on executive salaries that cannot exceed 12 times the wages of the lowest paid worker in a company
• A social impact assessment of corporations every 10 years to determine if incorporation can be renewed
• Public ownership and control of natural resources, including water, oil and gas
Obviously, implementation of these policies would require tremendous research and study, and reform of the prevailing system, but if we are serious about Political Islam, that is the kind of work we need to be doing. We need to draw up policies reflect our principles and values, and policies that will contribute to the creation of a society in which those values are manifest; and we have to figure out how these policies can be implemented in reality.
If you say, “these policies are impossible to achieve”, then you need to identify the practical barriers which make them impossible, so we can work on dismantling them; because nothing in society is ever “impossible” in an absolute sense, but only “impossible” under current conditions. Addressing these conditions, then, is the beginning of making what is impossible now, possible in the future.
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