ajazali
January 29, 2015, 6:02am
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Re: End of the past?
Read! I said ethnic cleansing of Pakistan’s history, not people. Big, big difference in case you notice.
Besides, did you not say Raja Ranjit and some other coward King should be Punjab’s heroes as opposed to foreign Arabs, Persians, Turks and Afghans invaders? Go on, what exactly is your argument for calling Porus and Raja Ranjit your ‘heroes’ other than the fact they fit your self pleasing sons of soil criteria? Speaking of sons of soil, do you have any idea how Punjab’s present day population owes its wonderful mix of ethnic diversity and racial make up to those foreigners who established communities and populated the rich, fertile land of five rivers. By randomly throwing in the manipulative neo-Nazi - natives good, foreigners evil - arguments, you are subsequently disrespecting the heritage of those groups whose familial lineage has roots outside of Punjab yet today they are just as Punjabi as everyone else in Punjab. But I’m interested to know what percentage of Punjab’s population is ethically pure ‘native’ Punjabi and what percentage carry the damned foreigners’ blood. Who are the real sons of soil and who are still ‘outsiders’. I’m gonna debunk your argument on every single level to show the how dangerous and poisonous that mentally is if it is not properly challenged and nipped in the bud.
I’m willing to agree that the history you read at school which glorifies personalities is totally rubbish because hero worshiping is not what history is all about. But I don’t think you actually agree with that. None of you have actually presented a single credible argument on academic grounds as to why it is important to study objective history, turn it into a specialised field of academia, expand and enrich our intellectual scope of historical studies and how can we practically achieve that (i.e allocate more funds for research). All I see is same old ethnic bullsht ranting about creating ‘heroes’ to sooth incurable sense of victim complex who can’t be bothered about anything else in this world.
Well said.