Well, no doubt that those migrants were Central Asians but matter of fact is their mumbers.
Members ya numbers? If numbers well sorry to tell you that we are humans and can reproduce hence the significant difference in the population back then and now...
They came only to invade for wealth that this region had. The Army n Kings were negligible to the civilian numbers. Islam spread either thru INFLUENCE or FORCED CONVERSION. Both were active reasons for Islamization in India. Its not that All the muslims came from Central Asia as u suggested. MAJORITY of muslims were the locals.
1) I beg to differ...whoever thought you history surely had some strong hatred...Pry do tell me who was mascaraed in Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia in 6-7th century ...because they have clear records of Arab merchants (travelers who either settled or traded actively and hence spread their religion as well ....it was common back then to spread Islam through trade and intermarriage)..Heck there are even written historical documents of Chinese Muslims as early as 7th and 8th century who after converting visited Indonesia and Malaysia frequently!
So stating Islam was spread through only those 2 ways in absurd!
2) As for the Army and King...Wasnt it Akhbar who actually married Jodha? Hence proves your theory of negligible inter marriages
3) It wasnt just the army and kings who were Muslims...Muslim traders actively went from China to Africa! Not all were obliged to stay on the ship some would dock and stay and mix with the locals....there are many such tales....Esp of people who kept their ties with their ancestral cousins! I know a few Filipino who can show you that they have Arab roots....I know some Malaysian who can trace himself back to Yemen...You see the Arabs have a family name and a tribe name which you can trace back as easily as anything...This is just talking about the Arabs not including the Persians who kept coming in and out of S.Asia ...and then we also have the Turks and many other ethnicity...I dont know why you Indians keep claiming these people vaporized unless of course India had something to do with mass murder of foreigners coming in!
But again, they become Punjabi, Sindhi, Ahmadi, Shia sunni first then they state of they are Muslims or Pakistani. Thats where the issues of Pakistan lie.
Very few do that...It is a fact that its fading ...Maybe not soo much for Ahmadi but Sunni and Shis is def fading people are less concerned!
That was bound to happen. Its was declared during independence tough by Maulana Azad. Pakistani infact is a land for Subcontinent Muslims.
We didnt get enough land to accommodate all of them...some preferred their family ancestral land and refused to leave it ...others were established in India and didnt want to uproot and start over....we dont have enough land to accommodate all subcontinental Muslims...For that the British needed to give us more than we got!
If Jinnah dreamt that just by asking for a seperate nation wud segregate u guyz away from Hindus then it was right but if he assumed that u guyz wud get seperated from Hindutva then u are wrong. Culturally, India n Pakistan are very very similar and heve blood association amongst. That was bound to happen. No point crying now.
Mind you, I have lived with a Shia Iranian family when I was in UK...and their culture, food and even some words in their language are soo damn similar even I was surprised...I never knew the similarities...Then I also met Turks and mind you even they are very similar esp their breads..
We are a corridor to Central Asia alot of people passed through us and many stayed...we can not deny their descendants their culture and rights and try to wrap it up under your Hindutva ...That may be true for India alone! Its a fact!
Only viable option is Acceptance n Trust of India by Pak nad Viceversa.
Trust who? Those who deny those with foreign background to say they have foreign blood? What sort of oppression of forcing is that? As for trusting India...how can we trust a country that keeps backstabbing and laughing at our downs? When we talk about wanting peace...talks are in few weeks and then India blames us for some bomb blast in some area in India and of course ignoring (maybe because we dont cry as loud as India) our own problems of bomb blasts, mental goons, corruption and what not...Were India sincere...till date we would already have some friendship going on or at least some talks towards it!
For that Religion has to get out of our Identity otherwise religion has such mess within that it will still not give u that desired identity of a homogenious country. Indian Subcontinent cannot have homogenity, it never had one. No matter how many Pakistan or Bangladesh u create.
Well....Islam is not a just a religion it is a deen a way of life...something you guys wont understand and hence you talk off getting rid of it!
Its like you asking us to forsake our parents or our identity!
Lal masjid only backfired ...some other minor "crackdowns" have resulted in a few being killed...
