Re: Making Arabic our National Language
Calling Urdu the language of Muslims is a cultural and political propaganda and a nacked lie. I have watched a lot of Hindi movies and Hindi T.V. Channel programs and haven't found even the slightest hint that Hindi is anything other than Urdu.
Why should Indian film makers ignore 400 million Hindi speakers-(such a huge market for entertainment products) and target only a section (hardly 40 millions)of Pakistanis if Hindi is different from Urdu? Are people in Indian entertainment industry fools or not interested in profit? Or are they doing this for philanthropy?
Anyhow, I have visited India (both southern and northern) and the so called Hindi spoken there is actually Urdu (or the so-called Urdu spoken in Pakistan is actually Hindi). Probably, this language with two different scripts should be called "Hindustani".
Retaining Urdu/Hindi as a national language would be Hindustanization of Pakistan. I've no problem with Urdu/Hindi (or more appropriately Hindustani) but why link it to religion and falsely use it as a basis for distinction between Hindus and Muslims?
Also nations are not born like this. Give me a single instance from history where diverse people have suddenly decided that "now let us make a nation" and they have become a nation. On 13th August 1947, all people were Hindustanis. And the next morning when they woke up, they had become Pakistanis. Are nations born like this?
For nationhood, more fundamental factors should be in place e.g. a consciousness of common origin/race, common values and norms, common language, common history, common territory, common interests, common psyche, etc.
The only thing Pakistan is a political contract (how unrepresentative it may be though) between different nations...however it has the chances of fusing these components together into a larger whole if it is administered wisely which seems very unlikely...