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| Confused generations - the brainwashing of Pak children |
| 2006-08-27 |
| By Amar Jaleel Fixed 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 anyone’s 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 didn’t they launch a movement for the separate homeland for the Muslims of Spain instead of an unceremonious exodus?” |
| Posted by:john |
| #7 The pre-Moghul Hindus weren't exactly lovers of peace and harmony, despite a religion that calls for falling in caste in the next reincarnation for acts of violence or harm. As I recall, the caste immediately below that of the Brahmin priests is that of the warriors, who generally didn't sit in full lotus meditating on the oneness of all. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-08-27 15:33 |
| #6 Actually the descendents of Genghis, when they invaded India were already muslim. They spread Islam further. The Mughal Emperors styled themselves "the house of Timur" - Timur or Tamerlane was a direct descendent of Genghis Khan. The Rajput kings, the Marathas and the Sikhs all fought muslim rule. Some historians speculate that their reconquest would have succeeeded, driving islam out, but for the arrival of the British East India compnay and the Raj. |
| Posted by: john 2006-08-27 13:49 |
| #5 India was a peaceful home to Hindus a thousand years ago until Mooselimbs invaded and conquered and slaughtered. They were only overturned by the armies of Genhis Khan who basically slaughtered all Mooselimb men, women, and children they could find. Hindus were able to regain prominence, but did not follow thru and exterminate the remaining Mooselimbs. Like the rat pack they are, they have bred their way back to near prominence again. They intend to fully recover "their" territory, the entire subcontinent. I really don't know how the Hindus have accomodated this horde over the centuries. Nothing but ongoing misery from these subhuman nihlists. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-08-27 13:35 |
| #4 sons of Allan look covetously at the entire subcontinent and plot for the day they may claim India too? Indeed.. the most rabid of the islamists actually opposed partition. They saw it as hindering the triumph of islam. The Ulema of the Jammat Islamii called Pakistan "the work of the devil". Imam Sayyid Maududi.. whose writings (along with Sayyid Qutb) provide the intellectual foundation for islamo-fascism opposed Pakistan. Only afterwards did he migrate, finding fertile soil there to inculcate his poison. Incidently, in one of the early Osama videos, where OBL's Kalasknikov is propped up against a bookcase, the books of Maududi and Qubt are prominent. |
| Posted by: john 2006-08-27 10:17 |
| #3 J.N. Dixit, the Indian National Security Advisor wrote of going to dinner at the home of some Pakistani friends during his stint as Ambassador to Pakistan. While he and his wife waited for dinner to be served, a young child entered the room. Her parents told her that "uncle and aunty are from India". The little girl got immensely excited and began "dancing around them gaily, singing “Hindu Kutta, Hindu Kutta, Hindu Kutta” much to the embarrassment of her parents." (Hindu Kutta = Hindu Dog) Dixit pointed out that while Indian textbooks bent over backwards to encourage secularism and tolerance of minorities (India having the second largest population of muslims in the world), Pakistan was bringing up its children to hate India and Indians. The trouble with the peaceniks, he said, with their ‘Pollyanna’ approach to foreign policy, is that they forgot that the mindsets were not the same on both sides of the border. |
| Posted by: john 2006-08-27 10:10 |
| #2 But john, would I be correct in thinking that Pakland was not nearly enough, and that the sons of Allan look covetously at the entire subcontinent and plot for the day they may claim India too? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-08-27 10:06 |
| #1 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. The big lie. Necessary to justify partition and the creation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. |
| Posted by: john 2006-08-27 10:02 |