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In memory of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, whose whole life can be described as a series of failures due to being historys chew toy, unless one goes with the Hindu view that he was a CIA stooge paid to destroy the new nation in the cradle, or Pakistani hagiography which makes him a bigot on par with those who stone girls for being raped! In the early years of his political career, Jinnah advocated Hindu–Muslim unity, helping to shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the All-India Muslim League, a party in which Jinnah had also become prominent. Jinnah became a key leader in the All India Home Rule League, and proposed a fourteen-point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims should a united British India become independent. In 1918, Jinnah demonstrated his secularism and commitment to the concept of Indianess when he married his second wife, Rattanbai Petit (Ruttie), 24 years his junior. She was the fashionable young daughter of his friend Sir Dinshaw Petit, of an elite Parsi family of Bombay. There was great opposition to the marriage from Rattanbais family and the Parsi community, as well as from some Muslim religious leaders. Rattanbai defied her family and nominally converted to Islam, adopting (though never using) the name Maryam Jinnah, resulting in a permanent estrangement from her family and Parsi society. In 1920, Gandhi called for satyagraha against the British. Gandhis proposal gained broad Hindu support, and was also attractive to many Muslims of the Khilafat faction. These Muslims, supported by Gandhi, sought retention of the Caliphate, which supplied spiritual leadership to many Muslims. Jinnah criticised Gandhis Khilafat advocacy, which he saw as an endorsement of religious zealotry. Jinnah regarded Gandhis proposed satyagraha campaign as political anarchy, and believed that self-government should be secured through constitutional means. Jinnah resigned from the Congress when it agreed to follow a campaign of satyagraha, or non-violent resistance, and formerly allied with the Khalifat movement. The Khilafat struggle evokes controversy and strong opinions. To Jinnah, it was a political agitation based on a pan-Islamic, fundamentalist platform and was largely indifferent to the cause of Indian independence, and its alliance with the Congress as a marriage of convenience. Proponents of the Khilafat see it as the spark that led to the non-cooperation movement in India and a major milestone in improving Hindu-Muslim relations, while advocates of Pakistan and Muslim separatism see it as a major step towards establishing the separate Muslim state. Obviously, the two groups were pursuing different goals. But, considering it broke apart with the abolition of the Caliphate, Id say Jinnah was right, and its main long term effect was to politicize Muslims along religious lines, and then leave them with no goal but to establish a new Islamic order by creating (in contradistinction to Jinnahs dream) an Islamic state in the Paki provinces. In the face of increasingly sectarian politics, Jinnahs dream of a united secular India died. Like Robespierre, having seen where the people were going, Jinnah undertook to lead them to his utopia via a detour thru Pakistan, and in 1940, Jinnah had come work for Punjab, Kashmir, and other core areas of India. It did not work. That dream of a larger coherent state failed, and instead he got a siamese miscarriage in Partition. As the first Governor-General of Pakistan, Jinnah worked to establish the new nations government and policies according to the principles outlined in the Aug 11 Address, and to aid the millions of Muslim migrants who had emigrated from the new nation of India to Pakistan after the partition, personally supervising the establishment of refugee camps. but he died just over a year after Pakistan gained independence from the British Raj. Wiki sez He left a deep and respected legacy in Pakistan They keep using those words. I dont think they mean what wiki is using them for. His dream had its last dying gasp in 2007 on the 60th anniversary of Jinnahs speech, when Pakistani religious minorities, including Christians, Hindus and Sikhs to hold a large rally to celebrate Jinnahs legacy at the Minar-e-Pakistan calling for the implementation of Jinnahs vision in letter and spirit. The response from Muslims has been pograms, assassinations, and increased prosecution of non-Muslims for blaspheming Islam. youtube/watch?v=kaAQjI4VaQU
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:29:07 +0000

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