Good post. You write everything down lucidly without any ambiguity. I can rebut them one by one without sentimentality.
Despite of unfortunate civil war, that didn't stop the Ummah from progressing and expanded all the way to Iran.
It expanded by military might, before and after the civil wars. Military might alone. No un Islamic country voluntarily chose Islam without giving a fight (and losing) based on 'preachers' teachings' alone. There were no 'takers' of Islam. They were top down in approach, not bottom up. Similar to the spread of Christianity. Political power reinforced the spread of religion. And vice versa. Very effective.
He was liberal because he wanted Pakistan to be modern, the platform to live with honor and dignity, the vision upon Alama Iqbal where the spirit of equality is respected, and their right to exercise their ways of life.
He was no liberal. He was no conservative either. He was a lawyer. A damn good one. He defended a man in 1929 for killing another man for publishing a book on the Prophet. All lawyers condemned him for defending the cold blooded killer (Ilmuddin), but both he and Iqbal glorified him. He was considered a martyr then and considered one now. By Muslims, of course. Sorry, but lets not get on the horse of equality. He was not a practicing Muslim for most of his life - that I will agree. But he definitely was a political Islamist. He furthered the Do Qaumi Nazreeyat. There can be no equality, by definition - both qaums being equal and different
but separate (whatever that means)
From an Islamic PoV - it totally makes sense, trust me.
There is the reason why Ahmedhiya community aligned with Jinnah while mass conservative Mullahs opposed Jinnah and his ideology [Pakistan]. To the extent, they didn't spare Jinnah's sister who was part of politics where Jinnah defended for his sister to be part of politics and even gave example of the first generations where women were part of politics and played vital role for the development of the earlier Muslim worlds.
There is a simple reason. Hindus considered Ahmedis as Muslim. They do so even today. Even officially. Their illusions were cleared soon after independence of the Dominion of Pakistan.
Read what Jinnah's attitude was to her daughter. The father did not even see her face till his death - even though he himself married a Parsi. Perhaps her daughter was not imbibed sufficiently in Islamic values.
There had always been clashes between Jinnah ideology and Mullah ideology.
Mullahs supported Jinnah. Only the JI and the Deobandis opposed Pakistan. They opposed Pakistan to protect Islam. Their logic was simple - to unite Muslims and convert India to Islam - COMPLETELY. Had Pakistan not been carved out, it is likely that they would have succeeded - at best we would be engaged in civil wars. At best, Hindus and Sikhs would have been wiped off much greater regions of Bharat. Jinnah saved
US Hindus and Sikhs and Buddhists from extinction.
Liberal is emerging with the strong support against the face of conservative that once opposed the creation of Pakistan
Take example of your Asoka.
Again wrong. We don't celebrate Chadashok. We celebrate Dharmashok. See the emblem of Pakistan Army, or the flag of Saudi Arabia. Remember the hadith that says that Paradise lies under the shadow of swords. Our culture is different. We celebrate the Ahimsa of Ashoka, not his massacre of people. Hence the Dharmachakra in our flag(the wheel), or the Ashok Stambha as our emblem. Not his sword. Not even the sword of Shivaji.
Like I said - it is different in our two cultures.
It was their contribution in science, Algebra, medicals that made Western world what it is now.
No. The Western world as we know was built from the Renaissance. Little link to the ME or even India. Except for some Mathematics from Bharat via Arabia. The ME scholars were actually called and denounced as heretics, like in Europe. The Islamic Golden age came about because it was the un Islamic Golden age when dogma was questioned and answers were sought - when critical thinking was briefly encouraged. Raezis, Rumi, Ibn Sina, Al Maari, Omar Khayyam, Ibn Rashid, al Kharizmi, al Biruni, al Kindi, etc were all freethinkers and far far more being Muslim. So sorry, you can call it the ME Golden age - which it truly was. But that was what it was. It was no religious Golden age of any kind.
The fact that you are using internet is due to the courtesy of people that contributed during the golden age of Islam which passed down to the darkest period of Western world
LOL. Forget the Internet. Everything that we use today is a direct invention of the West. There have been very few inventions from the East for centuries. Accept that and move ahead to build a better future. The Japs and the Chinese have done great. Even Indians are doing good in some sectors. Inventions are beginning to take shape again.
