Re: Rejecting Qaid E Azam
How is this person, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, our national hero? Worthy of a national mausoleum larger than a city block? What has materialized from all those grainy speeches and dusty declarations? is the Pakistan he envisioned the Pakistan we bear witnessed today?
I know this is Flame of Death's terrain, so I will make it explicit - this thread is not devoted to mocking this man. Instead, this thread exists ONLY to prove Muhammad Ali Jinnah is worthy of the titles we grant him. If there are no relevant reasons for his acclaim in the Pakistan we have today, just maybe, it's time we realize he's not all that and a bag of chips.
Looking back at Muhammad Ali Jinnah's legacy - there's absolutely no reason to call him a great leader. Today - say no to qaid-e-azam. He was a dismal failure. Minus breaking India apart, he has achieved nothing he set out to do. He would grant Muslims their rights and promise to extend them to minorities. That has not happened. Minorities face a dismal state of affairs in Pakistan.
Looking back at Muhammad Ali Jinnah's legacy - there's absolutely no reason to call him our nation's father. Today - say no to baba-e-qam. Minus living in Pakistan for the better part of his senior years, his paternal legacy has always preferred India as their homestead. His daughter would run to the United States and marry an Indian industrialist. If you want to know just how significant Jinnah was, ask his Indian grandson.
What Muhammad Ali Jinnah is, is a failed attempt by Pakistanis to idolize their own Gandhi. When Indians have Gandhi to cheer for, we want someone too. What's happened is, in our attempt to compete with India, we have propped up an utter failure of a statesman as our national hero.We are in dire need of someone to look up to. We exist with the aspirations Jinnah decreed. It's just too bad that the year 2007 proves all his work was in vain.
Pakistan, sad to say, has only developed a perverted fantasy with this man because it needs to idolize someone. It could have been anyone. Clueless, we lifted Jinnah up on our shoulders. Sometime between 1948 and 2007...we dropped him. No one knows when because most of us believe we're still carrying him. We're not. Jinnah's dead. He's been long dead. Get over it.
What is the point of blaming him? Was he a hero? Of course.
BTW, he did not fail us as nation. He gave us a country, but we failed him and his creation, Pakistan. Blame our leaders, presents and past, and more than anything else, we should blame ourselves for our failers.