Dr. Hamdok, Al-Hilu: It Is a State of Citizenship, and That Is Enough

A comment on the 2020 declaration by Hamdok and Al-Hilu. The author trusts the intentions of both sides and shares their aim of a state that stands at an equal distance from all religions, but he finds the phrase “separation of religion and state” loaded, and proposes “a state of citizenship” as a m