Re: The new name ‘Pakistan’: Our loss?
agreed…actually this whole notion of islamic ummah was coined, nurtured and promoted by pakistani establishment of zia times and even bhutto…no other muslim country never promoted or sold this stupid vision to their masses…so we cannot blame anyone but our own sorry ass!
bhutto was the first idiot who tried to sell islamic ummah concept by arranging 1974 conference in lahore…while emotions ran high at that time, time proved that muslim countries are way too diverse and we cannot use islam as a platform to evolve as a unifying brand. OIC became a laughing stock but zia never learned lessons and took this islamic ummah bul**** to a totally new level in pakistan.
iranians remained Persians and muslims, Egyptians remained north Africans and muslims and saudis remained arabs and muslims…they were all proud of their identity and always kept their national interest ahead of islam
Under Zia, we cut ourselves off from our past in an attempt to re-brand ourselves as a muslin-identity-only land but became a celebratory gutter of this universe in the mean process…
as i said above we did not have these hang ups in 50s/60s/70s and we were trying to establish a Pakistani brand with a secular, modern and progressive outlook…yes, religious parties were trying to pollute pakistan even then (1954 movement against qadyanis and moduddi’s JI)…
…but our establishment never promoted those visions untill zia came into power…and this islamic ummah became a national policy…syllabus got changed, history books got slaughtered with newly coined arab heroes, our history now suddenly started to begin from 712 with arrival of some qasim dude, sect based hatred got pronounced, islamic ummah concept got popular, proxy wars started, afghan war was promoted as a platform to spread islam across the globe, minorities were crushed…rest is history…
that zia-based generation is now grown up and is in its mid 40s and running pakistan…these socio-politico-ideas that zia establishment (and then PMLN for a while) dumped upon them is now part of their thinking dna…so i really dont see any hope in near future…