Re: Interesting Extracts from the Book - I’m Malala
Of Jinah, Independence, Women rights, minority issues… A loaded Paragraph from the book. But what is in this paragraph that we can deny khuda ko hazir naazir jaan ke? 
I am** proud that our country was created as the world’s first Muslim homeland**, but we still don’t agree on what this means. The Quran teaches us sabar – patience – but often it feels that we have forgotten the word and think Islam means women sitting at home in purdah or wearing burqas while men do jihad. We have many strands of Islam in Pakistan. Our founder Jinnah wanted the rights of Muslims in India to be recognised, but the majority of people in India were Hindu. It was as if there was a feud between two brothers and they agreed to live in different houses. So British India was divided in August 1947, and an independent Muslim state was born. It could hardly have been a bloodier beginning. Millions of Muslims crossed from India, and Hindus travelled in the other direction. Almost two million of them were killed trying to cross the new border. Many were slaughtered on trains which arrived at Lahore and Delhi full of bloodied corpses. My own grandfather narrowly escaped death in the riots when his train was attacked by Hindus on his way home from Delhi, where he had been studying. Now we are a country of 180 million and more than 96 per cent are Muslim. **We also have around two million Christians and more than two million Ahmadis, who **say they are Muslims though our government says they are not. Sadly those minority communities are often attacked.