Re: 1971 War
Nothing. Neither Sindhi is the subject of the thread. Its been dragged by someone unnecessarily.
My point is that every community got varied level of affection with its language. We can’t compare Bengalis with Punjabi in this regard.
To summarise, this has been brought up from previous discussions. There are people who believe that language imposition in Bengal did create conflict among the two parts of the country and that mobilized Bengalis to next level when they felt that they were economically being suppressed as well. We need to see things as a whole. Nations don’t forget past atrocities committed to them. Sikhs remembered cruelties of Mughals till 1947 massacre, so how come we expect that Bengalis forgot their language movement within two decades?
Apart from that there were restrictions on their national poets like Tagore on Radio Pakistan from 1965 on wards. They were being taunted for being less Muslims. Bhooke Nange Bengali was the popular slogan. It is very naive that these things did not create hatred among the Bengalis.
As far as raising question on decisions of founding fathers is concerned, it might be a trial of grave for blind worshipers, but I don’t think that the founding fathers are some infallible prophets guided by Allah through revelation making their decisions unquestionable. When we can link Hazrat Usman’s action of appointing Banu Ummaya on pivotal posts with incident of Karbala, why can’t Quid e Azam’s decision to impose Urdu on Bengalis and its impacts in future years be discussed without personally attacking people. How come this means disrespect to founding father? Wasn’t it also a disrespect to Quaid e Azam, when in 1950’s Bengalis was given status of state language against the strict stance adapted by Quaid e Azam in his life?