Quote of the Day
Tarik Jan, “a gentle-mannered scholar at Islamabad’s Institute of Policy Studies” quoted in TIME Magazine, “Pakistan: Divided by Faith” by Aryn Baker:
“We [Muslims] were the legal rulers of India, and in 1857 the British took that away from us…In 1947 they should have given that (India) back to the Muslims.”
Further, “Jan is no militant, but he pines for the golden era of the Mughal period in the 1700s, and has a fervent desire to see India, Pakistan and Bangladesh reunited under Islamic rule.”
Dream on!
Happy Independence Day to all of you…
Let us not forget the struggle and the sacrifices…
Jai Hind, Jai Bharat.
P.S. For a slightly unusual way to celebrate today, get a special Independence Day Heroes T-Shirt here (ChandraShekhar Azaad) or here (Shahid Bhagat Singh).
“We [Muslims] were the legal rulers of India, and in 1857 the British took that away from us…In 1947 they should have given that (India) back to the Muslims.”
That is a great argument. I was just wondering if this great votary of justice would then have recommended that they (Muslims) extend the same logic to themselves and restore the land along with the enormous wealth to the Hindus from whom they usurped power and return to their place of origin like the British did in 1947.
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, methinks.
Or is it asking for too much?
Good one, Nandan!