Kashmir occupies a special place in my heart as my soul lives and dreams of that heaven on earth... A casual read on an article on Kashmir in the economist, I realized a biased opinion by an author pretending to be representing the interest of the majority.. Hyper me! I decided to set records straight by two posts... You must have an opinion, here's mine. Here's my post 2 which basically is countering the argument of Liberal Jinnah Vs fundamentalist RSS and Hindu Indians:
Great comments Goodmaan! I pity your biased treatment of the subject. Hindu Indians? India's muslim Population is higher than yours and you speak of Hindu Indians. Please don't read articles from one side only and form opinions about a nation as large and as diverse as India. People can be good or bad, politics might be dirty or not. It always will be only one component of a nation and not the nation. Its a nation and culture of diversity, much beyond what you would have ever experienced, but not your fault! If you read your own statements, you agree that it was all about Power sharing and you call Jinnah a liberal. It was power mongering between him and congress which costed us more than a million dead bodies. They were dead bodies and raped dead bodies of no religion, cast or creed. Hindus and Muslims alike slaughtered and saved... both ways... Now, the entire world is watching what whisky drinking and chain smoking Jinnah's Pakistan has turned into! And for muslims in India, again check your records and they will cry out for themselves. A Sikh is the prime minister and we had a massive Hindu Sikh communal riots in this country in 1984. Still he was given a choice and a chance and he made the most out of that. Najma Heptullah, gD/O Maulana Abul Kalam Azad is one of the most respected politicians in India. APJ Abul Kalam Azad, is probably the next popular person in this country after Mahatma only. Latest; A group of Ulemas in India has requested for not granting permission to bury the perpeterators of Mumbai attack in their own country INDIA and you talk about Hindu Indians. As they say it lightly "It happens only in India".
History has scarred everyone and any form of fundamentalism has to be punished. Indian agencies have gotten hold of the highest Hindu seer in the country and not a single hindu has come to oppose it because if it is just, law will decide its course. Not a single time has a govt been overthrown by military in this country. An attacker who attacked the very symbol of our democracy, our parliament has been ordered to be hung and sadly this nation doesn't seem to be in mood of doing that also. How many examples you want me to quote? On contrary, How many scholars of lal masjid have been prosecuted in Pakistan. I mean, Masood Azhar, Dawood, lakhwi and so many more are in Pakistan and we are fundamentalists and you liberals. Pakistan, today is known as Islamic republic of Pakistan and India is the same old diverse India, and not a Hindutva republic of India. BJP being a Hindu party does not even have a simple majority. Its a nation of many relegions and not of one relegion.
I do not want to say that we are the best. All I want to say is that our judiciary & democracy is a well oiled system and it has proven to be unbiased for eternity and we, "somehow manage to do just enuff to keep our head above water". So please get over the burden of history and visit some corners of India. I am positively sure that you will be amazed at just how many different societies, relegions and faith live and prosper here. You won't find that anywhere in the world. Narrowing your vision is easy. The greatness is in looking beyond the scars of history and looking ahead rather than behind...
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