There is a bit of history in that with the Brits, and to avoid derailment but to drop a hint for notes on a “future” discussion.
I have read books and some articles on ghe google search rabbit hole by the Shah or someone’s biography on him, some Pakistani bureaucrats and ex-CIA on the Brits using religious leadership as their primary target for “agents” and moles.
Multiple well known Mullahs in Iran during the Shah and then as recently in FATA were found with their foreskin still attached, “Aryan” Pundits calling the sacredness of dharm but then enjoying their beef and pork as well.
I am 80% convinced that the religious fanatics back during partition and after have a lot of external input.
This would make a wonderful topic for discussion, if somebody like you were to lead the discussion.
[For the rest of my comment, it is regrettable that the instinct of self-preservation sometimes favours bad style. Life is an eternal compromise, and we never cease apologising for that for which we are ourselves responsible.]
Comment on this is possible only with respect to the Hindutva fanatics, who were incidentally NOT Hindu fanatics. To a man, they derived their ideology (they had no theology worth the name, one charlatan even proclaimed that he was an atheist) from western sources, dimly understood and distorted in the acquiring. Even more pernicious than the conscious efforts of the ubiquitous minions in the IB were the unconscious influences of the pretty rotten set of 'intellectuals' who infested the culture of the 'west' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Houston Chamberlains and de Gobineaus and Cosima Wagners.
Some members here, I regret to have to remind you, apparently go around with a second carbon copy of such views.
Comment on eminences who got their philosophy disastrously wrong, but were reputed to be the shining light and guiding beacon for an entire country, is, in contrast, not possible, without the imminent prospect of execution by a joint Indian and Pakistani delegation. This particular instance was not an injected case; it was a spontaneous, self-inflicted case.
Comment on the failure to circumcise being a cultural failure and a poor absorption of a conquerors' religion might lead to a compounding of the previous offence and a similar abbreviation of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, in spite of the phenomenon being entirely identical in nature though not in content.
Finally, some of the secular proselytisers are already 'known to the police'. The elder Philby, for instance; our own little industrious T. E. Shaw of Arabia and Karachi who forever sought to make up on his motor-cycle what nature had denied in his inches (the reference is to the length of his trousers, as ought to be obvious). There are many others.
...there is a whole world outside it we all have to live in best we can.
