Why can't you criticise

[Jolie]

Re: Why can’t you criticise

@muqawwee123

I agree with most of the part of your post.

About your first para, I’m not asking about personal traits, how they live, what they own, what they ate / drink. I was asking for discussion of the actions which afterwards proved wrong.

I do agree that what Mr Jinah did had a reason and he considered it best at that time. But he and other leaders were human beings and when their actions contributed to some bad results, why should not be such actions analysed from different perspectives (as you did in your post to a good extent)?

I have a serious problem with simplifying (if not straight up bstardisation of History in Pakistan). In some quarters, it is so convenient to pump the narrative (or propaganda rather) that Bangladeshi discontent which became a separatist campaign turned into a terrible war was all due to them not liking the Urdu language. Hence it was due Jinnah’s ‘mistake’ in 1947 that Bangladesh happened, because other than the issues over Urdu language, East Pakistan and West Pakistan was one happy marriage. To put the entire blame on Urdu language and a man who died 23 years before the fall of Dhaka happened is logical fallacy. Like I said, Bangladeshis’ issue with language was just the tip of an iceberg. It is about time, Pakistanis start learning real history and start analysing the all important concepts and realities of deep economic inequalities, political repression, structural power struggle, personal pride and egos that massively contributed to bringing upon the tragedies of 1971, and many evils that the society is still facing.

I am all for analysing and debating the decisions of founding fathers, but for sake of intellectual honesty, I believe in the practice of proportional criticism. I genuinely believe that Jinnah made the right decision at the time by declaring Urdu a national language. The decision stood corrected for a long time after his death. If it went ‘wrong’ and contributed to bad results, then we need to name those people who used and abused this decision. I can bet my house that if Jinnah was around in 1971, instead of making a nasty speech calling all Bengalis pigs - as our honourable son of soil Mr Bhutto so proudly did - he would’ve found the a perfect solution to the crisis by just issuing few signatures here and there.

The first paragraph is relevant. Everyone’s favourite ‘Quid e Azam’ would have been lynched in present day Pakistan by born again culturists, Mullahs and fake liberals for being a wanabee white man. His dogs - not his accomplishments and the appeal of his ideas - would’ve stole the headlines. How dare an old man who couldn’t ‘control’ his daughter thought he was good enough to make a country through sheer power of his advocacy? Maybe our forefathers were slightly more liberal than liberal beyond liberal characters like Nadeem F. Pracha and likes as they could look beyond ridiculing, scandalising and discrediting personal transformations.