End of the past?

[Ali_Syed]

Re: End of the past?

@Jolie

According to RSS and their counterparts, if ‘Muslimisation’ of Ashoka’s India is so evil and unacceptable (but luckily it’s potentially reversible - don’t ask me, ask them). Does that mean all Sikh invasions and Ranjit’s attack on Punjab will be glorified as holy and heroic deed since he was a ‘son of soil’ in Pakistani textbooks? Sikh invaders ravaging of Punjab province during the last and weakest phase of Mughal rule will be seen as act of wonderful of charity?

If expansionist, opportunistic violent invasions and wars from Mawslums are part of lasting evil, I want to know on what basis Sikh invasions on Punjab should be ‘glamourised’ and ‘glorified’ other than the fact it feeds into some people’s racist complex. I repeat, if Ranjit Singh’s attack on Mughal Sultanate can be termed heroic according to ethnic supremacists, I want to how Shah Alam can be portrayed as villain – other than the fact he was Muslim and shared Turko-Persian roots - for protecting the Sultanate from Sikh invasion? Those who are looking to replace one extreme with another and dividing the rich complexities of Punjab’s history into the blocks of black and white – should answer this question.

On the contrary to RSS and some mullahs in Pakistan I don’t think Islam spread through force in the subcontinent. It was spread by the sufis but that’s another discussion.

How would you consider the acts of Muslim rulers fighting against each other during their glorious period? Son sending the father and brothers to dungeon and so on? Even in recent times one can see the havoc Muslims are wrecking havoc on each other. 50000 dead in Pakistan, all Muslims…go back a few decades hundreds of thousands dead in Bangladesh were all Muslims. Boko haram and isis are all curses on muslims. Do we need enemies? Sadly this has been Islamic history.

My question remains why single Ranjit Singh’s out (when his pm was also a Muslim) since he was just a ruler like many before him? All of them were power hungry and fought for the throne, why should we glamorize only the Muslim ones? Is the religion the only deciding factor?