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Pakistan, India and the Spirit of Chowk
Posted by BroadVision Jul 15, 2000 02:39 am
Whatever RR`s article maybe, it put certain check and I feel it was timely. You will find differences in replies which will follow henceforth on all articles.

Best wishes



A Letter from Talha Sughlatwala
Posted by BroadVision Jun 29, 2000 05:44 pm
This letter is not exactly an eye opener, the impression about Indian Muslim in India is created by very nature of the attitude they hold: in peace time or hard time, and every1 knows this fact more or less. As I have experienced it, it starts with Cricket, every time Pakistan wins against India they celebrate on the streets, and I don’t understand what inspires them: it is not a religious win, it just cricket. Well they always try to be different, they never try to mix with the main stream, wherever they are the minority or to that matter majority. I find it amazing that Muslim struggle to locate their identity wherever they are: In Pakistan they Anti-India, anti-Mohajir, anti-Shiite, in Afganistan they are Tailban, in India they are pro-Pakistani, in Philippines they are hostage takers, in US they bomb buildings. I wonder if there is any place available to them on Earth where they do not have to struggle for an identity.



Indians and Pakistanis Must Start Anew
Posted by BroadVision Jun 28, 2000 06:01 pm
Hi All. This is my 1st posting in Chowk. The whole issue that Pakistanis are struggling for an identity and Islam hardly has helped them. They are confused, misguided and stick to only one identity: the enemy of India.

The only way for the Pakistanis to get their identity is to abandon Islam and converted to a milder religion like Christianity. Nobody, nowhere in the world believes in muslim people, beacuse their ability to use Islam as a shelter, despite they are surely confused.

Hence lets not talk about Reunification. It has never happened between Muslim and Non Muslim people. Intolerence has isolated them worldover.




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