DACCA: By surrendering sovereignty to God, Islam creates a universal community leaving no scope for domination of man by man. This was the consensus at a seminar on `the nature of politics in Islam` held at the Islamic Academy here yesterday (June 6). Mr Justice Amin Ahmad, a former Chief Justice of East Pakistan, presided over the seminar. Maulvi Farid Ahmad, General-Secretary of the Nizam-i-Islam Party, said that in Islam individuals had to surrender supreme power to God, while in democracy they surrender it to society or State.

He said if it was a fact that in Islam the minorities are not granted full political rights it must then be said that even in the best form of democracy minorities are not allowed some of the rights enjoyed by the majority alone. He said even in a democratic country like Great Britain the head of the country must belong to a particular sect of Christianity. Agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by our special representative in Washington], US diplomacy is said to be active in some parts of Africa and Asia to limit the attendance to and downgrade the importance of the second Afro-Asian Conference to be held late this month at Algiers.

Washington never concealed its dislike for the Afro-Asian forum, which it fears might turn out to be more damaging to American policy and prestige than the non-aligned meeting in Cairo last year in which the USA took a bad beating.

There is little doubt that the Algiers meeting, to be attended by the most distinguished leaders of Asia and Africa will adopt strong and forthright stands on such issues as colonialism and imperialism, the US military of fensive in VietNam, denuclearisation of Indian Ocean and China`s place in the world.