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Its amazing that the two religious nations Pakistan and Bangladesh have been failed states and the one secular country India has made it.

A very clear A/B test which shows mixing governance and religion is a terrible idea. So it is strange that India is now moving towards religion and more importantly we are doing this here in the US?

Did Christopher Hitchens teach us nothing?

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Bangladesh overtook India in GDP per capita since 2019, so at least by that measure it has been more successful than India.

Of course, that was before the recent crisis. I don’t know what that is going to do to GDP per capita figures, but I’d be surprised if Bangladesh didn’t go backwards as a result of this.

Also, calling Bangladesh a “religious nation” ignores that Sheikh Hasina’s rule was fundamentally secular, even though she never sought to change the religious provisions in the national constitution, she largely governed as if they weren’t there.

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