It is so amusing reading comments that would have helped Nehru in his hay day. India got a secular state and to top it off every single ethnic group that lives in Pakistan today. So, to those who start a secular versus religious divide/argument today, it is done and dusted. Seculars got their state and Muslims their very own. Problem is the seculars want to convert this very openly religious state by subverting, distracting and misleading. Especially through educational institutions because it is under the radar everyone wants to get their kid educated but not brainwashed/indoctrinated into secular agenda.
People here openly argue and call all Muslims as the cause of every problem in Pakistan... take your pick... education, GDP, technology so on and so forth. They also show themselves as more patriotic, they play ethnic and linguistic divisions. The laymen here would be fooled as a genuine argument but miss the plot. They seek a foothold though on this platform they hold sway, they are adamant and knock you down with contempt. I have always found seculars being smug and haughty. They give you the impression that they know it all.
It is same in Turkey where secularism won and ruled for a better part of the century. They had both the arrogance and military at their side. Today they are looking for room to survive. One more thing Ottoman Empire was the first secular empire followed by the western Europe and the rest of the world. They had already created nation states i.e. millet and Pasha from every millet and both Christians and jews on every echelon of power. Today people ask why did they collapse so fast and why Muslims didn't feel they shared common goals? Secularism had its victim! Turks.
Secularism broke Muslims yet it united west! Conversely, Muslims were United by religion and west was separated by religion.
Today they show you smoke and mirrors to split you from your deen. Want hard borders between Muslims... to create contempt for your brother on the other side and create pride for these lines. They don't want you to know that when you cross these and meet your brothers they take you with open arms because of your faith and not your ethnicity. This platform will tell you that all Afghans and Bangladeshis hate you, yet in Nur Mosque they all were standing in same lines they shared food in Ramadan and invited each other to their homes.
