Who Is Responsible For Present Day Jehadi Culture?

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Re: Who Is Responsible For Present Day Jehadi Culture?

@LastOfTheDinosaurs

I think the history of Pakistan’s Jehadi culture goes far back to prepartition era when Islam was used by the landed elite of Uttar Pardesh and other regions of Hindustan to maintain their status-quo and grab political power in face of the ascending political influence and clout of the Hindu peasantry and urban classes brought about by the introduction of Western-style democracy in Hindustan. Contributing to this was the tendency of Indian Muslims to disown their Indic identity and adopt an identity that would link them with Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, etc. So Muslim identity was emphasized…Urdu was falsely propagated to have originated from Persian, Turkish, Arabic, etc. just to give Muslims an Islamic identity marker…Medieval Muslim history was glorified …The slogans like “Pakistan ka matlab kia la ilaha ilalah” and “Pakistan Islam ka qila” were given currency…and Mualana Shabir Ahamd Usmani, Mualana Maududi etc. Muslims from Hindustan came forward to Islamize Pakistan constitution through “qarar dadi maqasid”…There was another Hindustani Muslim, General Sher Ali khan, to invent two-nation theory ie the theory that Muslims and non-Muslims cannot live in a single state …a sort of version of Pan-Islam where Muslims will ultimately gather in a single state or Darul Islam ruled by Khilafath. West also used Pakistan and its Islamic orientation and inclinations/cridentials to counter communism and further their global security agenda…Kashmir, Bangal, Al-Badar Al-Shams etc. predated Ziaul-Haq…

However, under Zia rule Jehadi, ideological, and political Islam adopted a more draconian face…

What you are trying to blame “hindustani muslims” for is even more severe in your own NWFP. And LoD, why do you deny the reason that the reason that this barelvi guy was betrayed, like the taliban by their own pashtuns many times, is because of money. This is why british invented the saying that Always bribe a pathan. Pathan ko paisa khilao in urdu.

I remember reading about the “islamist” inclinations of tribesman in NWFP. A british guy remarked that the pashtun were still very angry at the farangi british but tolerated the british commander who talked to them about partition in an assembly in NWFP because they thought he admired islam [he was wearing a green uniform ].