Armstrong
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Your previous comment shows that it was never me me me. The Bengali Muslims were never even recognized or at least some of the most important decisions and conferences would have been held in Bengal. How many times did Jinnah actually visit Bengal and East Pakistan before and after 1947? How many times did Bengal leaders travel to the West during the same period. What arrogance to treat the Bengal Muslims as subordinate when it as them that galvanized the move for Pakistan.
Galvanized the move for Pakistan ? Who are we kidding here with this self-righteous narrative ? Just because the Muslims of Bengal along with other Muslims from the rest of British India, gave birth to the Muslim League in Dhaka at the backdrop of the Reversal of the Partitioning of Bengal, does not automatically place Bengali Muslims & Bengal on a higher pedestal than the rest of us !
In fact it would be just as absurd as saying that because Allama Iqbal was a Punjabi of Kashmiri Ethnicity (like myself), somehow I or the people of Punjab or those of Kashmir have bragging rights over the Pakistan Movement seeing that it was he & he alone who gave any real shape to the Pakistan Movement through his Allahabad Address of 1930.
At any rate the presence or absence of any event of note in Bengal is as ludicrous as a Sindhi, a Pashtun, a Hyderabadi or a Kashmiri Muslim saying because most of the events were happening either in Delhi, Lucknow, Lahore, Dhaka or others - We were the neglected ones !
And besides if there was any perceived neglect or toning-down on the contributions of Bengal in all of this the Bengali Muslim Stalwarts of note would've said something at time so surely a quote or two from them whereby they were being subordinated by the rest of us would be something I look forward to from you.
That others parts were not as affected as Bengal is shown by the fact they required much more convincing to be part of Pakistan. It was because Bengal had the most discrimination and oppression that the demand for Pakistan arose but even your comments show that Bengal Muslims had no place in decision making and were thought of as subsidiary.
What kind of a ludicrous aspersion is that ?
If we never cared about Bengali Muslims or didn't recognize the part they played in the Pakistan Movement our Pakistan Studies Books wouldn't explicitly mention Bengal of the Mughal Era & before, the Partitioning of Bengal, the Reversal of that Partitioning, the birth of the Muslim League at Dhaka & the exceptional contributions of Bengali Muslims like Suhrawardy, Fazlul-Haq, Nazimuddin amongst others.
Yes the Pakistan Studies Books have a habit of white-washing the whole '71 thing in a single paragraph without any blame being apportioned to us or to even Bengalis for that matter but they sure as hell haven't censored out Bengali Muslims who built the country up !
Every kid whose every gone through the system knows about Suhrawardy, about Fazlul-Haq, about Nazimuddin & others but I'd be mighty surprised if the average Bangladeshi knows about some of our Leaders or even knows about Quaid-e-Azam in a positive light - Theres just no comparison over here !
So many places all over Pakistan are named after those Bengali Stalwarts but is their even a tight street named in Bangladesh after any of Our Leaders ? So please spare me the comparison when there is none !
Besides even at the backdrop of '71 we didn't butcher a single Bengali here & even the guy tasked with investigating what the hell happened in '71 that caused the country to rip asunder was a Bengali - Justice Humoodor Rehman ! Whose son today is the Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court & is widely respected in the Legal & Journalistic Circles as one of those honorable Judges who refused to take oath under Musharraf's Provisional Constitutional Order !
Even Suhrawardy Sahib's granddaughter Shahida Jamil who became Pakistan's First Women Law Minister is widely respected in Pakistan !
Heck where more than 2 million Illegal Bangladeshi reside in Pakistan without anyone asking them to go back to Bangladesh & a few million more Pakistani Bengalis who are extremely well-integrated in the society ! Even I, despite what I say in my bouts of anger, don't want the Bengalis to leave - They are Our People....our brothers & sisters, our sons & our daughters & they are living in their Motherland ! I mean that even about the 2 million Illegal Bangladeshis ! I want the Biharis that my Government threw in '71 back & I'd want the 2 million Illegal Bangladeshis to stay as well !
So honestly, who are you kidding ? There is no comparison here & there is no belittling Bengalis by us !
Heck my own paternal uncle was born in Dhaka !
' @Secur - Your input is required !
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