Well here is one lesson in history, the fanatics of India only migrated to Pakistan after the death of Jinnah. For a long period, they were dormant because of their known anti-Pakistan views and they were not very popular in the public arena. Pakistan was not polarized for a long period until Bhutto's regime came into power and when he started to loose support, he initiated a plan to gain the support of mullahs. Later Mard-e-Momin Mard-e-Haq Gen. Zia polarized the nation by ideas of an Islamic state by implementing laws that were detrimental to the nation.
Are you going to have us believe that fanatics from India came over to Pakistan and destroyed its social fabric? Seriously?
Your second comment is more pertinent. The fanaticism and polarization was there, but dormant. Do you believe that all the religious frenzy and emotion, of pictures of persecution and enslavement of muslims in a democratic India whipped up by Jinnah and associates to attain their objective of a nation for a religion, would have suddenly vanished on 14th August 1947. The polarization may have been a means to an end for Jinnah, unfortunately it went out of his control. It is hard to believe that a couple of leaders who were in not too popular could polarize a whole society they themselves grew in. That was Jinnah's undoing, he planted the idea, the tree grew too big.
After all we were the least corrupt and most progressive nation in Asia by the sixties, we had many religions living side by side and we had no polarization then. We were one, had one identity and a very high number of important posts were occupied from members of minorities or small Muslim sects.
Know which was the most industrialized country prior to WWII- Gemany. Point is, economic advancement may happen in a polarized society as well.
He carved a nation for Muslims of the upper north provinces of India, initially it was only meant to be an autonomous province within Federal India but when Ganhdi and Nehru could not offer the required rights to Muslims, Pakistan was made. It was made as a Muslim majority state, it was not an Islamic state, had it been one, it would have been called an Islamic state from day one.
Exactly he carved a nation for muslims, separate from the majority hindus, the muslims had a right to believe it was a homeland of Islam, and believe they do.
The people of Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan were demanding a separate state long before Jinnah joined the Muslim league. Jinnah too rebuked Rehmat Ali when this idea was told to him. But the will was there and the one thing that could be used to bring us together was our Muslim identity. Even then some Hindus, Parsis and Christians threw their weight behind the idea of Pakistan because the idea was an attractive one and they enjoyed great years until our coward leaders destroyed our fabric.
Thats what the whole laws and protests are all about still, muslim identity isn't it. People want to believe that Pakistan was built up on muslim identity and so shall it remain, sharia and blasphemy laws are just a manifestation of trying to maintain that muslim identity.
Nonsense, had it been the case then from the very birth of Pakistan, this polarization would have occurred. Pakistan until the late 70's was a peaceful, calm and tolerant place where religion did not matter. You should understand the Pakistan was the nation that was on such an excellent path that nations like South Korea visited us to study our economic model.
Other Muslim nations saw Pakistan as the place where religious minorities were equally as responsible in driving the state forward.
As you said it was dormant, the idea that Paksitan is a nation created for muslims was always there.
These people you are referring to have unfortunately been through an intensive brainwashing campaign started by the late great Mard-e-Momin Mard-e-Haq Gen Zia who made slogans like 'Pakistan ka matlab Kya, La-Illaha-IllAllah' popular and made the populace think that Pakistan was supposed to be an Islamic state. He introduced public lashing, hudood ordinances and many other laws that has left the nation on the verge of social collapse because of the eventual collapse
Did you know that the majority of Pak Muslims were just Shrine visiting privately religious people who did not provoke religion at every step. But the bastardization of our nation led by some third rate leaders has overtime altered the course of our nation.
Though its not all lost, people question our Islamization, they realize that the nation which was on such a good path has been scarred by this Islamization and soon the right authorities too will wake up to this fact and change this nation for the better.
These people you so contemptously dismiss as being brainwashed are the ones that seem to be driving your policies and Pakistan. A law that is simply illogical and holds no place in a civilised society is applicable in Pakistan because the people support it, people obviously believe in the idea that Pakistan is an Islamic state and archaic laws need to be established there to prove it. Blaming it on a couple of leaders is futile, those leaders were supported by masses and their policies still are, its after all the masses that will decide which direction a nation takes. Its a case of existential crisis, Pakistan was promised as a land for muslims by Jinnah, now Pakistanis are out to prove it.
