08-13-2006, 08:12 AM
Atleast we agree on some of the issues,.. I am simply dismayed as I find today's youth questioning the two nation theory and the basis of religion as casually as you would comment on the whether. Most forums and boards you go to do have these on.
I do not mean this to be offensive to any one,.. but I think muslims who migrated from East Punjab were as uprooted and displaced as migrants from Delhi or Bombay or other parts of India. As you have said yourself that the East Punjab migrants have assimilated in society and are in line with the two nation theory.
Whereas other migrants (who did not have an ethnic base here in Pakistan) are dismayed and do not think that the two nation theory is valid any more. Although I have a large number of friends who's parents or grand parents migrated to Pakistan, some as late as 60's and very much agree with the two nation theory and the fact that it was a conscious choice for muslims in India to either migrate or not migrate.
I think it has become more of a fad, a fashion to disagree with this. It goes without saying that the Prime Minsiter and the President are from that dismayed ethnic group. Well, people do have a right to their view and I would not of all people want to force my ideas on them, but ofcourse I would go on to profess what I believe in.
And Yes I still do believe that we did not betray muslims in India... They had always been a different country and they still are, FULL STOP.
I do not mean this to be offensive to any one,.. but I think muslims who migrated from East Punjab were as uprooted and displaced as migrants from Delhi or Bombay or other parts of India. As you have said yourself that the East Punjab migrants have assimilated in society and are in line with the two nation theory.
Whereas other migrants (who did not have an ethnic base here in Pakistan) are dismayed and do not think that the two nation theory is valid any more. Although I have a large number of friends who's parents or grand parents migrated to Pakistan, some as late as 60's and very much agree with the two nation theory and the fact that it was a conscious choice for muslims in India to either migrate or not migrate.
I think it has become more of a fad, a fashion to disagree with this. It goes without saying that the Prime Minsiter and the President are from that dismayed ethnic group. Well, people do have a right to their view and I would not of all people want to force my ideas on them, but ofcourse I would go on to profess what I believe in.
And Yes I still do believe that we did not betray muslims in India... They had always been a different country and they still are, FULL STOP.