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2008-10-14 India-Pakistan

Muslim law doesn't apply to Pakistan's founder Jinnah, says daughter

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Posted by john frum 2008-10-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Jinnah was a single-minded, tunnel-visioned cynic. If he had died, or Gandhi had died, or Britain could have held on 18 months longer (by which time both were dead), India might very well never have been partitioned. That would have been a tremendous blessing not only for everyone in the subcontinent but for the world as well.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-14 00:39|| 2008-10-14 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Humm, if my memory is any good his vision was an India as a confedratoiopn of Muslim states with the Hinus keeping only an area in the far South about twice the size of Ceylan. But perhaps I am confounding him with another guy.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-14 04:53|| 2008-10-14 04:53|| Front Page Top

#3 That would Rehmat Ali - the man who coined the word Pakistan

Posted by john frum 2008-10-14 11:32|| 2008-10-14 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 link

Rehmat Alis concept of Pakistan was nebulous, impractical and fantasy-ridden. It was to include the entire northwest of India, Kashmir, the Kathiawar peninsula, Kutch, and several enclaves deep within UP, including Delhi and Lucknow. There were to be two independent Muslim states besides Pakistan: Bangistan comprising Bengal and Assam in the east and Osmanistan in the south. These two were to form a federation with Pakistan. The 243 principalities or Rajwaras were to be divided among caste Hindus and others and then herded together in a ghetto called Hanoodia. As for the Sikhs, they were to be pushed into an enclave called Sikhia. Other races and religions were to inhabit an encampment by the name of Hanadika. Every non-Muslim was to remain subservient to the master race he called The Paks. And yes, the subcontinent was to be renamed Dinia. He did not say how he was going to bring all that about.

Posted by john frum 2008-10-14 11:35|| 2008-10-14 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Map of Dinia

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Posted by john frum 2008-10-14 13:33|| 2008-10-14 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Looking at that map John, reminds me of the old joke:
How do you make God burst out laughing?
A. Show Him your plan.

Posted by tipper 2008-10-14 15:01|| 2008-10-14 15:01|| Front Page Top

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