Comments on: Dec 16 & Muslim nationalism

By: rakeshvora

rakeshvora — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:28:36 +0000

you are right.. imran, very well said.. but how many will buy your logic.. i doubt.

By: Does not matter

Does not matter — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:17:58 +0000

I don’t understand what do you mean by hindu accepting the Muslim identity of the people following Islam.If you look at India, the Hindus have already accepted the fellow Muslim brothers long time back even before the partition. India is not a “Hindu” country. It has a secular constitution. It does not follow thousands years old books to run the modern society.The leaders of India knew that Hindus and Muslims can live together peacefully and so they were against a separate nation for Muslims.And now if you think Hindus and Muslims can live together then don’t you think Muslims league and Jinnah were wrong in asking for Pakistan?

By: Cynical

Cynical — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:58:41 +0000

Please explain. I thought both Austrians and German are mostly christians. Also I do not know of any religion called ‘Austrian’ or ‘German’.

By: Imran

Imran — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:57:50 +0000

It is really amazing how Pakistanis live in continuous self denial mode and give foolish logics to legitimize creation of pakistan They need to understand the history of Pakistan, which is India prior to 1947 starts much more beyond the attack of Muhammad Bin Kasim attck of Sind and defeat or King Dahir. They need to understand that the same blood is running in Pakistanis as Indians. 90 % of their ancestors are the same as that of the Indians. The sooner Pakistan realizes this fact and start behaving accordingly the better it will be for it. Why don’t they understand the partition of India was artificial and unnatural. The two nation theory has already failed in 1971 and the threat still looms large in many areas of remaing west-pakistan.
Pakistan can survive only as a SECULAR MODERN country.
Mohammed Ali jiinah was a hindu just two generation ahead and so was Allam Iqbal a kashmiri pandit. Today what is a muslim majority Pakistan was once inhibited by hindus, Buddhists and jainas. The whole of Pkaistan is converted.
They need to realize that not just India. Pakistan and Bangladesh share a common cultural heritage which is rich. Pakistan will continue to live in turmoil until it accepts with open mind the common legacy.

By: rich

rich — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:47:56 +0000

comments are being posted selectively a shame

By: Raag

Raag — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:22:19 +0000

Dear Author

Please read Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen’s book, “Identity and Violence”.

He spends a lot of time debating whether one is a Man/Women, Hindu/Muslim, Tamil/Panjabi/Bengali, young/old, white/brown/black, religious/atheist and the hundreds of identities we all have. He also talks about how a narrow view of oneself or one’s identity leads to the sort of problems we have today. Whether you like it or not, merely being a Muslim does not constitute a nation as Pakistan has proved it. Lastly, you seem to have missed a major point, there still are as nearly many Muslims in India as there are in Pakistan.

Hope this will help you in widening your identity of yourself.

– Raag
(born Hindu/Indian but an Atheist/American, Tamil speaking but a ployglot, middle aged, husband, father, programmer, espousing liberal views and so many more identities)

By: Shayan

Shayan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:31:53 +0000

@anwar kamal, Sure you are!

By: umair khan

umair khan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:56:45 +0000

A well written article, JJ proved everything with logic and facts on ground, not the wishful thinking and hopes of few defeated ones. Pakistan / Bangladesh and Islam are a reality and an independent identity and i would request my hindu brothers to please accept it with open heart so that we can progress as a region without any conflict,hate and fear.this region has tremendous potential and in past was the most thriving region of entire planet.we can attain that lost ground again provided we start respecting each other, rather then talking the fanciful dream of united subcontenent or trying to point score on each other by proving the other party wrong.the divide between us is so evident from the undermentioned sharp and teasing comments of my friends.we are different in our thoughts, in our living habbits and all other aspects, but this does not diminish the possiblity of peaceful co-existance and progressing together.

By: Muhammad Abul Hossain, PhD

Muhammad Abul Hossain, PhD — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:09:13 +0000

Pakistan was a geographical anomaly- a country divided by 1000 miles. Apart from geographjical distance, ethnicity, culture, language, mutual hatred kept us further apart. During my stay in Pakistan, I was treated by Pakistanis as a Bangali and they never treated me as their equal as a Muslim. After independence of Bangladesh, I visit Kolkata, my birth place every year where people own me and adore me and with whom I can easily connect. No body bothers whether I go to Shia or Sunni Mosque. My grandma, a Pakistani was a Shia. It is the noncommunal environment which is more important for people to live in peace. Pakiostanis can try for a noncommunal society to ensure its integrity and peace for its people.

By: Raj

Raj — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:02:38 +0000

I guess sky is the limit for such kind of adventure