You are
not free, you are
not free to go to your temples, you are
not free to go to your mosques or any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or cast or creed — that has everything to do with the business of the State ...
is this what you wanted him to say to prove that he wasnt Secular?
"The Muslims of India want their national sovereign State, where we can live according to our ideals and according to what Islam has taught us."
~ Speech at a public meeting held under the auspices of the All-Bengal Muslim Students League at Calcutta, 27 February 1946.
“...You must educate yourselves and educate your children...you must bring up your children, who are the future leaders of Muslim India, as intelligent, educated Muslim boys imbued with a love for Islam and service to their fellow countrymen."
~ Speech delivered in Urdu to Muslim women at the Muslim Institute Hall, Calcutta, 25 February 1946.
“In the Pakistan zone, we will be able to safeguard the heritage of Islam and all the glory of our culture and civilization without any interference from others...The Muslims and the Hindus of India are two major nations of India and we are entirely different from each other.
The Muslims in India have their own codes of civilization, morality, society and of all branches of life, which go to make a nation distinct from the other. We have our own laws, culture, music, and religion. If India remains undivided, it will mean a Hindu majority of three to one. The Hindu majority will be able, after some time, to wipe out Muslim culture and Islamic civilization, which has been preserved by the Indian Muslims with greatest care through the ages."
~ Radio Broadcast from the Egyptian State Broadcasting Service, Cairo, 16-20 December, 1946.
“Hindu India and Muslim India must be separated because the two nations are entirely distinct and different and, in some matters, antagonistic to each other. Let me tell you some of the differences: we differ in our history, culture, language, architecture, music, laws, jurisprudence, calendar and our entire social fabric and code of life. One India is an impossible realization. It will inevitably mean that the Muslims would be transferred from the domination of the British to the caste Hindu rule, a position that Muslims will never accept. As an all India minority, we shall be under the rule of the permanent Hindu majority of about three to one, which will virtually mean one nation ruling another by means of ballot box...Our scheme of division of India gives Hindus three-fourths of the country and the Muslims secure a dominant voice in the remaining one quarter of India, thereby giving the two nations scope and opportunity to develop in accordance with their own culture and ideology..."
~Radio Address for the American audience of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), London, 13 December 1946.
“The achievement of Pakistan to us means our very existence, failure means our extinction and all that Islam stands for in this subcontinent"
~Message to the Muslims of India on the occasion of Pakistan Day, Lahore, 22 March 1946.
“We [Muslims] have our own laws, our own culture and language, we have our own calendar, names, social life, architecture and music; in short, the entire social and economic structure of our society is different from that of the Hindus. We find that the Hindus have their own structure of society, which is different from ours. It is not only different, but, in some cases, it is antagonistic...the Hindu believes in idolatry; we do not. We believe in equality, liberty and fraternity, while they are caste-ridden and caste bound."
~ Address to Muslim women, Shillong (Assam), 4 March 1946.
“I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1,300 years ago.”
-M. A. Jinnah's speech to Karachi Bar Association, 1948.
Pakistan’s foundation is based on Islamic ideology. There should be a slap on everyone’s face those quoting August 11 speech and misleading others. Jinnah’s speech was in context to support minorities and giving them equal rights of citizenship that is a hallmark of an Islamic state precedented by the Holy Prophet at the time of Fateh Makkah
@Khafee