Why can't you criticise

muqawwee123 · December 15, 2014, 3:39pm

Re: Why can’t you criticise

I don’t think criticism is not allowed … So much that the years of propaganda has moulded the mindset of people to believe that to do so is tantamount to treason or at least unpatriotic … With all the effort put in to convince Indians to part with their fellow people and call them others be they Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Punjabi, Sindhi or Bengalis … People, our own parents will speak with disdain and contempt towards other races purely because that is how it was made to be so from the years of propaganda.

The forefathers are considered slightly immune from absolute criticism because if they were wrong then our whole premise of Pakistani nationalism is wrong. No one is ready or has the guts to admit that … However, in the years of animosity to develop national identities did those forefathers ever think to consider that we would make enemies of our neighbours? Did our forefathers ever think that for us to be at each other’s throats would make us all easier pickings for the previous colonisers? Did our forefathers not think that the British Raj had full control over us despite being amidst us or not?

With all of our big thinkers and drinkers … Did we ever have the guts to say we were wrong? The trait of success in the West … Is a realisation of their shortfalls … And bolstering them … We don’t even admit to ourselves that we have any shortfalls and that also has poisoned us in religious circles too … We are so huffy about religion … It is no longer about truth but about representing a club … A membership that we go in to. Simply by asking why we can’t criticise is itself criticism … Problem is the wrong people ask that question.

I hope this use of ‘we’ don’t get the usual fate