[nukkad] India, Pak, Islam and Hinduism

["Mahesh chandra gupta" <>]

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I am taking an unconventional step of posting on nukkad a message 
 from another list which I found extremely nice. This is done now 
and then by others also. The unusual part is that the contributor 
on that other list is a member of this list also. Mr. L Suresh 
Kumar is to the AOISCN list [Analysis of Indian Subcontinental 
News] what Harshal is to nukkad. He has joined nukkad recently, 
and we should all feel privileged at it. I have chosen to repost 
his message here in the hope that he will not mind it.

The message follows.

MC Gupta
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 From: "L. Suresh Kumar-LSK" 
Subject: Re: [IndiaForeignPolicy] Give Kashmir to Pakistan and 
reunite the subcontinent

Faisal, Arif, Friends

As an Indian and as a Hindu, I have no hatred towards Pakistan
and Islam and other nations/religions.

OTOH, Pakistan was created and still exists on the basis of its
hatred of India, Hindus and anything to do with India.
It is this hatred that sustains Pakistan than democracy itself.

After 1971, Bangladesh which went the Islamic way with an 
Islamic
constitution, is not too far from emulating Pakistan.

In India, there is democracy and freedom of press/religion/dress 
... et al.

In Pakistan, only the freedom to promote Islamic fanaticism 
exists.

Freedom is anethma to Pakistan.

Non Muslim minorities have very little or no rights in Pakistan.

With that the case, Pakistan's claims to J&K is just based on
Islam, nothing else.

As for Pakistan's treatment of Mohajirs and nonMuslims,
the less said the better.

After all, how could intellectuals take pride in Ghaznavis and
Ghouris who plundered the land now known as Pakistan and whose
ancestors were all Hindus/Sikhs/Jains/Buddhists at one point in
time ?

Its better to have a balkanised Pakistan, where the existing
minorities (who still have not been ethnic cleansed by Pakistan)
can live in smaller nations with more freedom and liberties than
in Pakistan.

After all, intellectuals want freedom and liberty, right ? :-)

Or would Muslim intellectuals from Pakistan prefer the nonMuslim
minorities should live under tyrannical Islamic laws which deny
equal rights to nonMuslims ?

Perhaps one should always remember that Pakistan eliminated
intellectuals in its 1971 massacre in Bangladesh.

The bottom line is : It is not J&K which is the root cause.
It is the Islamic fanaticism that ails the sub-continent, the 
Middle East
and now the whole world.

Reuniting nations is not just about realigning borders. It is 
about realigning
the mindsets, sharing commonalities, and taking pride in our 
heritage,
culture, and many other issues. When Pakistan and Bangladesh 
consider
themselves to be Islamic first, such a reunion is only a mirage. 
For their
(Pakistanis') Islamic identity will force them to deny their past, 
their Hindu past,
the nonIslamic portion of the history of the sub-continent, and 
thus it is
intellectually impossible to defend such a narrow mindset when 
clamouring for reunion.

But what forces them (Pak. and BDesh) to deny their past ?

Suresh


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