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Confused generations - the brainwashing of Pak children
By Amar JaleelFixed beliefs have been hammered into the heads of our children, leaving them unable to differentiate between fact and fiction As a loving and caring father you always strive to send your child to a good school. You see to it that he remains healthy in his body and soul. He speaks the truth. His attitude towards the world is positive. You aim at bringing him up as a bright young man imbued with courage and an ability to face the ordeals in life with fortitude. No father would desire his son to succumb to falsehood. He would like him to cultivate an intellect to distinguish between what is the truth and what is not the truth. You would hardly come across a father who stops his son from speaking the truth. You would hardly come across a father who desires to see his son grow into a confused and a bewildered person. A misguided child on attaining manhood and maturity is often left baffled in life when he stands face-to-face with reality. As a reaction he revolts against his family, his teachers and society for having lied to him, and keeping him perpetually misdirected and ignorant. Information technology has hardly left anything in ambiguity. Sooner or later a misguided child is bound to come in contact with truthfulness. He is bound to discover that the entire world fourteen hundred years ago was not as dark as his teachers and the parents had painted for him. The apostles and the saints, wise and virtuous like Moses, Abraham, Hammurabi, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Rama, Krishna, Gotama Buddha and Jesus Christ, had already graced the world with the message of love, piety and tolerance. Instead of telling our children that the entire world was wrapped in darkness, the teachers should plainly tell the students that the Arab peninsula was surrounded by darkness and barbarity. The teachers should not confine our children to the ancient Arab civilization. They must inform them about the Greek, Indian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman, and other earlier civilization. Our young generations hardly know that the Muslims had held sway over Spain for a much longer time than their domination over India. The teachers and the textbooks do not divulge the history of fierce resistance the Muslims had to face from the Spaniards. They do not tell the tales of ignominious exit of Muslims from Spain. Our textbooks have not been specially designed to create hatred for Spain and Spaniards in the mind of our children. But when it comes to India, the teachers and the textbooks inject hatred for India and Hindus in the mind of our children. Many young men interpret Two Nation Theory as acute dislike for Hindus. It is horrendous. Our succeeding generations since 1947 have been brought up on hate-India syndrome. Hatred ignites a fire that consumes you from within. It leaves you burnt up, empty and hollow. Purely from an academic point of view, let us look at the fixed beliefs that have been hammered in the head of our children. Myth of sacrifice: The children of today and of yesteryears, now in their forties, fifties and sixties religiously believe that Pakistan was created after great sacrifices. It is a totally an incorrect and misleading impression. Nowhere in the entire documented record of Pakistan Movement is implied that unless a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand Muslims offered their neck at the guillotine, Pakistan will not come into being. However, in the wake of partitioning of India, the world saw one of the most horrifying riots in the history of mankind in which hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were butchered in the Subcontinent. Unfortunately, dying in riots hardly qualifies to be accredited as qurbani (sacrifice). The Hindus mercilessly killed the Muslims: Our children have been systematically brainwashed. They believe that in the aftermath of the partitioning of India, the Hindus went on a killing spree of the Muslims. It is a very bad example of the poisoning of the mind of our children by giving them a one-sided story. In the ensuing riots, both the Hindus (including Sikhs) and the Muslims were butchered. Like Muslim women, countless Hindu and Sikh women were abducted, raped and then were either slaughtered or converted to Islam. I would recommend to my young readers to go through at least two books to capture the feel of the terrifying year of 1947. One book is, A Train to Pakistan, by Khushwant Singh, and the second book is Ghaddar by Kirshin Chandar. The year 1947 augmented an extremely tragic chapter in human history. It should not be exploited to anyones gain or glory, or for creating hatred for Hindus or for the Muslims. Crux of Two Nation Theory: I am afraid our mutilated Constitution refrains us from the analysis of Two Nation Theory, the basis for the creation of Pakistan. We will keep a safe distance from it in the concluding paragraph. Our children have been convinced that the Hindus and the Muslims are different people. Their religion, their culture, their traditions and their festivals are different. Therefore it was not possible for the two communities to live together. Thus, a separate homeland was essential for the Muslims of the subcontinent. It is playing havoc with our children. How are we to satisfy a child if he found out that far more Muslims live in India than in Pakistan! What would be our answer if a child asked, The Christians and the Muslims too are two different people. Why didnt they launch a movement for the separate homeland for the Muslims of Spain instead of an unceremonious exodus? Posted by: john 2006-08-27 |
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