Life-size sculpture of Ranjit Singh to be unveiled at Lahore Fort

[Reddington]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1144169423189794817

 

[Vapnope]

The statue is gonna stay there whether the people in North like it or not.
Time to claim our Punjabi identity, next is Bhagat Singh and Chanakya.

 

[War Thunder]

Although Ranjit Singh is certainly an interesting character, this is not right as his rule directly or indirectly resulted in the persecution of Muslims. Its one thing to accept the reality of the time when reading about it today, but to actively celebrate the person is a whole other thing and taking it too far.

Well i dont care about that or who Ranjit Singh was. Allah gave him power over Muslims and whoever and then took it.
But we Muslims don't make nor celebrate idols be it for famous people or whatever.
But anything goes in the modern state of Pakistan which "supposedly" was "supposed" to be a state to be "supposedly" based on Islam and for Muslims and "supposedly" "Pak" of this kind of mess.

 

[SIPRA]

HAHAHAHAHA...

You should be embarrassed. This guy killed your ancestors. You only like him because he is the only Punjabi who ever ruled. That is it.

So desperate for any sort of pride, you celebrate this person who had zero love for your kind. Some real ego issues there buddy.

Except for certain small select groups, Ranjit Singh is hardly a celebrated personality in our Punjab, as far as I know. In common Punjabi parlance, rule of Ranjit Singh, and of the "Missals", before him, is termed as "Sikha Shahi", which is meant to be equivalent to gross misrule and lawlessness and is used, as such.

 

[Reddington]

HAHAHAHAHA...

You should be embarrassed. This guy killed your ancestors. You only like him because he is the only Punjabi who ever ruled. That is it.

So desperate for any sort of pride, you celebrate this person who had zero love for your kind. Some real ego issues there buddy.

No Pakistani Punjabi like that Singh. These are mostly Liberal scums. A very tiny minority. No need to take them seriously.

 

[Vapnope]

You should be embarrassed. This guy killed your ancestors. You only like him because he is the only Punjabi who ever ruled. That is it.

1 - How do you know my ancestors?
2 - Let me know your ethnic background
3 - Who were Porus & Chanakya?

 

[Narcissist]

1 - How do you know my ancestors?
2 - Let me know your ethnic background
3 - Who were Porus & Chanakya?

1 - generic statement for anyone who lived in the Punjab. That's why I'm surprised anyone celebrates him.
2 - Pakhtun..
3 - Yes you're right. Glad you got a good answer to my diss. Now why not have one of either?

 

[Hamza913]

HAHAHAHAHA...

You should be embarrassed. This guy killed your ancestors. You only like him because he is the only Punjabi who ever ruled. That is it.

So desperate for any sort of pride, you celebrate this person who had zero love for your kind. Some real ego issues there buddy.

He's not "the only one", and by issuing statements like that you're only going to further empower Punjabi nationalists.

 

[Kabira]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1144169423189794817

Nawab Muzafar was afghan who did something similar to indigenous seraikis.

 

[Narcissist]

He's not "the only one", and by issuing statements like that you're only going to further empower Punjabi nationalists.

Why don't you suggest some for those bundjabis then? They can't seem to come up with anyone else...

 

[Hamza913]

Why don't you suggest some for those bundjabis then? They can't seem to come up with anyone else...

1. Don't feed into the cycle by mocking another ethnicity.

2. I listed multiple other Punjabi heroes that could have been chosen earlier, but I will post some more detailed information about two of the ones that I feel would be the most suitable replacements:

Never the less, I don't approve of idols in the first place. I'd much prefer a mini-museum discussing ALL the heroes of the Punjab.

 

[Vapnope]

1 - generic statement for anyone who lived in the Punjab. That's why I'm surprised anyone celebrates him.
2 - Pakhtun..
3 - Yes you're right. Glad you got a good answer to my diss. Now why not have one of either?

1 - You don't know about my ancestors
2 - I knew you were a Pakhtun (I hope you have read your history well)
3 - One step at a time, Punjabis have eventually started to own their heroes. Maharaja Ranjit Singh now, Porus and Chanakya would be next.. Bhagat Singh Shaheed is in process of being accepted soon.

Why don't you suggest some for those bundjabis then? They can't seem to come up with anyone else...

I get it. Ranjit Singh taught the savages a lesson. Hatred for him is understandable. Now Go cry in the corner.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

3 - One step at a time, Punjabis have eventually started to own their heroes. Maharaja Ranjit Singh now, Porus and Chanakya would be next.. Bhagat Singh Shaheed is in process of being accepted soon.

Do you know what a Shaheed is?

I get it. Ranjit Singh taught the savages a lesson. Hatred for him is understandable. Now Go cry in the corner.

By killing countless Kashmiris? Sacking Multan? Turning Badshahi Mosque into stables?

The state of Kashmir was conquered by the Mughals between 1586—1588, and who's rule was popular.[1] Akbar the Great visited the state on three occasions (1588, 1592, and 1597)[1] and even his son Jahangir, and later still Shah Jahan, would also honour this new found tradition. In 1599 during the construction of the Nagar Fort, Akbar even refused to use forced labour, and insisted on paying his workers a fair wage from his treasury.[1] However in 1820 the demographically Muslim Kashmir state was occupied by the tyrant, and Sikh ruler, Ranjit Singh (1780—1839), under who's regime non-Sikhs were widely persecuted; eating beef was banned and the repair of non-Sikh religious buildings was forbidden.[1] The Sikhs later lost Kashmir in 1846; a mere twenty-six years after their invasion.[1] Pakistani historian Istiaq Ahmed once erroneously claimed that Singh "provided the most tolerant and benevolent rule" in Kashmir.[2] This has been contradicted by evidence discovered from other historians such as Barbara Brower and Barbara Rose Johnston.[3] Sikhs for example were the first "bigoted rulers" who introduced forced labour into Kashmir, who also banned "muezzins call to prayer, closing many mosques, making cow slaughter punishable by death" and "nearly" destroyed "the Shah-i-Hamdan mosque".[3] Singh also "razed mosques and built Gurdwaras in their place" and buried the Quran in their doorways.[4] Prior to Singh's persecution, independent Sikh bands, known as "misals", terrorized Muslims in the Punjab, who had "developed a number of institutions enabling them to wage a dispersed and yet united war" between 1761—1772.[5]

I cannot believe people here are kissing up to a tyrant who turned our mosques into stables; they do not even know the names of those Punjabi heroes who fought against these zalimdars.

Ahmed Khan Kharral, a famous Punjabi who fought both tyrant regimes of the Khalsa and then the British

 

[B.K.N]

process of being accepted soon.

Installing a statue to please Sikhs doesn't means Pakistanis are accepting these people you mentioned

 

[AfrazulMandal]

Sure why not?

Hindus Bhuddists Sikhs can invest in such projects. Religious freedom is guaranteed by Constitution of Pakistan.

Lovely.

Now drop the hypocrisy of an Islamic republic.