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Re: # 355

This post (355) is incoherent to the extent that its writer- after harping day in and day out about how I make secularism an issue... is now bashing me for not framing the debate in "secular" and "religious" terms. The issue of what role religion should legitimately play in the state is NOT an issue here. He claims I am distorting history and yet he has never been able to show us how I have "distorted history". I have already explained that an independent Bangladesh fits in neatly with the Lahore Resolution and that it was the Indian National Congress that had insisted on keeping Bangladesh in the Pakistan Union ... instead of letting it be an independent country (presumably because that would have meant that there would be no partition of Bengal which was the cornerstone of Congress’ 1947 politics). I suppose mentioning all these nuances which are facts of history are a distortion of history for brilliant minds like Bulleya/Romair.


The issue here simply whether after having gotten Pakistan on the basis of the argument that "permanent majority should not by sheer numerical strength dictate the future of a permanent minority"... could the new permanent majority or any variant thereof act against a section of itself that constitutes permanent minority... As for there being more Hindus and Christians... maybe but has the assembly passed a law declaring that one kind of christian is more christian than the other kind of christian? In 1974 the assembly decidedly acted against this principle and even the principles embodied in the Islamic constitution of 1973... to come up with a horrendous amendment and calling it democracy. Is it not a negation of the principle on which we continued to struggle against the Hindu majority in India?


Only those who buy Indira Gandhi and her crap would accept 1971 as the date of Pakistan’s demise... because physical borders etc of the state can and will change... when I talk about Pakistan... I am talking about the ideal... which has been lost.. partly thanks to khotay sikay like the author of post 355 ... partly to callous fascists like the author of post 330. As long as Pakistan is taken hostage by people like Bulleya , who put their personal likes and dislikes instead of seeing what is just and fair and what is just downright wrong...The only issue I support is Pakistan. As long as Pakistan continues to treat Ahmadis like Nazi Germany treated the Jews... the danger shall remain of a Hitler carrying out a holocaust... in the end, it will be the undoing of Pakistan and Pakistanis... not Ahmadis. Thank god things have not gotten that bad... but we must make sure we undo what was done in the 1980s... if not in the 1970s...

Basically people like Bulleya want us to shut up... to not remind them of inconvenient facts... to not shake their conscience... to let things be. Some times I wonder if these people really believe in Islam ... because if they did, are they not scared of what awaits them - according to Islamic doctrine- after their death?