I liked the part of your message where you say a lot of people claim to know, follow the path of least resistance and blindly follow faith. I would like to remind that I questioned, and rejected just about everything by the time I was in my early twenties, and then rediscovered based on reason. We have to start looking seriously sometimes, and we have to stop looking when we really think we have found what we were looking for. Otherwise we go right past the truth .. and what else is there past the truth except falsehood. 

I want to address your specific comments about me, (below)

Also, as Mr Feroz Karmally reminds us, it is difficult to install democracy in the family, let alone a nation—but he makes the mistake, in my view at least, of introducing the greatest variable of all: this thing called “the Creator” for Whom there are so many conflicting explanations. Be that as it may, Mr Karmally raised an excellent question, “Why do Muslims need democracy [anyway]?” But as Mr Aziz Ahmad has noted, it is “funny” that Mr Karmally should talk of consensus when we cannot establish “a consensus among Feroz Karmally, Rashid Mughal, Javed Chaudry and Ahsan Khan.” Beat that!   

I did reply that consensus can be amongst those with a common goal, and religious consensus between people of similar (not identical) thinking. There is very little commonality between me, you, Javed and Ahsan.