What Can You Say?
Here's the famous part of that famous speech by Jinnah, three days before independence:
Here's a story from the BBC:
Here's the famous part of that famous speech by Jinnah, three days before independence:
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State. As you know, history shows that in England conditions, some time ago, were much worse than those prevailing in India today. The Roman Catholics and the Protestants persecuted each other. Even now there are some State in existence where there are discriminations made and bars imposed against a particular class. Thank God, we are not starting in those days. We are starting in the days when there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State.
Here's a story from the BBC:
Christians in north-west Pakistan are demanding government protection following threats of bomb attacks if they do not become Muslims.An unsigned letter received 10 days ago said they had to convert by Thursday.
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"Only the few policemen who patrol there on the motorbike are watching the Christians, but no significant security is provided," said religious minorities spokesman Shabaz Bhati."We are very much in fear that due to the lack of security these extremists will find a way to attack our people easily."
Mr Bhati also asked government officials to publicly condemn the threats but says he has got no response.
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Jinnah was a despicable hypocrite! His conciliatory speech was to ensure that the Hindus, who ran the economy then, would not pack up and depart for India leaving Pakistan devastated.
Excerpt from Two Nation Theory: The Myth, The Reality
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, (in his address to the annual session of Muslim League) mentioned:
“It is extremely difficult to appreciate why our Hindu friends fail to understand the real nature of Islam and Hinduism. They are not religions in the strict sense of the word, but are, in fact, different social orders. It is a dream that the Hindu and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality; and this misconception of one Indian nation has gone far beyond the limits, and is the cause of most of our troubles, and will lead India to destruction, if we fail to revise our notions in time. The Hindus and the Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs and literature. They neither intermarry, nor interline together and indeed they belong to two different civilizations, which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspects on life and of life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Musalmans derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, their heroes are different, and they have different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other, and likewise, their victories and defeats overlap. To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and the final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state.”
The only despicable hypocrite was the racist casteist hindu fascist bigot Gandhi.
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