I disagree..
Muslims are not thriving in Assam.
In the late 1960s, the Muslims of West Bengal suffered horrific religious persecution and displacement particularly from the industrial areas sending waves of refugees into East Pakistan.
The communal pogroms of the 1960s ended only on the rise of the Naxalite Marxist movement that bitterly fought the fascists bullet for bullet with no quarter asked or given. The years from 1967-1970 were terrible days for the West Bengali Muslims. The entire tea belt from the Doars area to northern Bihar was affected, The Naxalites couldn't protect the urban areas and communal massacres racked the industrial suburbs of Durgapur, Burdwan, Hooghly, spreading to South Bihar ( now Jharkhand) in Ranchi, Bokaro, Jamshedpur and Rourkela. These cities had an international footprint because the Soviet Union, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany had invested in steel, heavy engineering, mining and construction machinery manufacturing in these cities. The violence caused heavy losses to India ruining the steel production. The Indian army took control of the cities but an estimated 10-15000 Muslims are estimated to have been killed. In any case the 1971 war and the post 1971 rise of left wing power in West Bengal ended anti-Muslim sentiments for a period.
In the early 1980s Assam went through a horrific period of cleansing of Muslims with massacres such as the Nellie massacre.
Forum rules do not allow posting links and pictures of such a gruesome nature but you can do a search online yourself if you can stomach the information.,
Today the wheel has turned full circle with the RSS making a resounding comeback in Assam, Tripura, West Bengal. The secular government in West Bengal is likely to loose the election to the BJP and like Assam will be implementing a Hindutva fascist agenda. Muslims are fourth class citizens in Assam as of now.,Thousands have been interned in detention camps identified as "foreigners ". Amongst the detainees are members of the extended families of the former chief minister of the province and former president of India.,
@Avicenna,
@Bilal9
Will respond to your analysis of my "identity " . You are wrong on all counts but our points of view are more important than who we are .
I would have expected my post to be questioned on a different level.
There is a reason why I posted the video above. It would be interesting to learn from the members here what plane the BAF would use to attack the Indian side of that village.
Mercifully there are no such villages on the India Pakistan border.,
I need a separate post to explain why I am opening such threads and why I am writing such cynical posts. I am doing this primarily because it is in my countries interest for its people to open their eyes and see the reality and facade of "Islamic Unity". This charade of "Islamic Unity" has crippled my nation by illiterate selfish religious bigots.
We have suffered doubly from ethnic religious chauvinism which resulted in a devastating Civil War and then four decades of mullahdom that has weakened and nearly paralyzed my country, We can't change the past but we can look forward to completely focusing on our own security in meeting a vicious savage threat from an enemy that is superior to us in military and economic capabilities.
I strongly advocate complete disengagement with Bangladesh though not enmity because
Bangladesh has little significance to Pakistan as a military threat.
Bangladesh is however a useful propaganda tool for India which looses no opportunity to curse and diplomatically humiliate my nation. Logically as part of a defense pact a hyper nationalistic government in Bangladesh would love to join India in military aggression against Pakistan, My OP explains the reasons.
I sometimes contemplate what would have been the situation in 1971 if we had the sane weapons of mass destruction and capabilities we have today. Rather than survuve and suffer the humiliation of a defeat we would have made the choice that any people with a grain of dignity left in them would have made.
Even so, we were in grave danger of being overrun in our own land even though we would have delivered heavy losses on the enemy fighting to the last bullet and last man. Luckily for us India at that time had a secular government in power, and was unwilling to suffer losses in an attempt to which was more interested in peace than pushing us into an existential struggle.
Today we don't have to fight an insurgency to defeat a much larger enemy. The end will be quick and horrific. Horrific...for all,
Having said that I don't have any enmity to the Bengali language, music , people and culture।. I understand some Bengali and actually enjoy Bengali patriotic music, which I find inclusive and secular.
In a future war between Pakistan and India I hope Bangladesh chooses to do the right thing and not try to piggyback on aggression against my nation.
However given the current realities this doesn't seem likely.
Will explain later that despite my personal cultural preferences the distancing between Bangladesh and Pakistan is complete. "Islamic unity" didn't hold the union in 1971 and it is unlikely to be a factor in a future war.