Did Muslims and Islam bring civilisation to India?

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Re: Did Muslims and Islam bring civilisation to India?

@denada

There was a letter in DAWN yesterday that Muslims and Islam brought civilisation to India? Do you’ll think this is true. Are Muslims more sphisticated and civilised and cultured than Hindus?

Is it true that most Pakistanis are more sophisticated than Indians? What is India missing that Pakistan has?

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/09/letted.htm

IN her letter, Ms Mujahid suggests that the ban on Indian channels should be relaxed because the Indus and Ganges valley civilisation were part of India and Pakistan. She is not alone in this misconception of our great civilisations.

Most of the civilisations in the subcontinent reside in Pakistani areas such as the Indus civilization and Harrappa and so forth. Most of the people in these civilisations were immigrants from Central Asia or west Asia, which means simply that most of them were non-Indians. And obviously this applies to Pakistanis in general also. Pakistani culture, especially the Urdu language, is a non-Indian entity.

Pakistan is more sophisticated in its language and culture then India. Our ancestors brought civilisation to India for example beautiful Islamic buildings, Ittar (perfume) Urdu language and etiquette.

We should learn a great lesson from the Mughals who tried hard to mix Indians and Muslims but ]they ended up evaporating. Every Pakistani knows today that Urdu language is in great threat from Indian channels.

We should watch embrace every culture and society movies and shows including India’s but not at the cost of Pakistan’s own culture and language.

JAVED ALTAF
San Ramon, USA

Agree with everything in the letter except the bolded part.