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When I was young, growing up in Canada I never understood Pakistani obsession with this man.
He's just another guy I thought, and who cares if Pakistan was part of India or not. All my friends were Indian Punjabi after all.
As I grew older I met Indians, real Indians, Hindu Indians, and I saw in real life the visceral hatred they had for Muslims. Now we see the road of that hatred has lead us to the brink of a Kashmir genocide, cow lynching, butchers of Muslims being elected PM and much more.
Now I realize how important this man was to me personally, to a nation of 200 million people
and for that, I just want to say
Thank You Jinnah.
You met Indian Hindus in Canada who had a visceral hatred of Muslims?When I was young, growing up in Canada I never understood Pakistani obsession with this man.
He's just another guy I thought, and who cares if Pakistan was part of India or not. All my friends were Indian Punjabi after all.
As I grew older I met Indians, real Indians, Hindu Indians, and I saw in real life the visceral hatred they had for Muslims. Now we see the road of that hatred has lead us to the brink of a Kashmir genocide, cow lynching, butchers of Muslims being elected PM and much more.
Now I realize how important this man was to me personally, to a nation of 200 million people
and for that, I just want to say
Thank You Jinnah.
Believe it or not but one of my best friends was a Hindu and he was very nationalistic.You met Indian Hindus in Canada who had a visceral hatred of Muslims?
Sorry you had that experience. NRIs undoubtedly tend to me more nationalistic and jingoistic. Don't judge people based on social media and forums - they tend to attract the vocal hyper nationalists anyway - from Cricinfo to YouTube.Believe it or not but one of my best friends was a Hindu and he was very nationalistic.
At the time I didn't know what Hindutva/Rss/BJP was.
But we used to get into arguments all the time about Hindu Muslim history.
Again, I was in the 20s and did not understand.
We stopped being friends for other reasons but around 2011 I came to PDF and started reading about Hindutva, RSS, etc.
Looking back, he was 100% Hindutva and he did have a visceral hatred for Muslim.
Why were we friends?
At the time I had zero hatred for India/Hindus so I had no problems being his friend. I still don't fully understand why he was my friend.
Sorry you had that experience. NRIs undoubtedly tend to me more nationalistic and jingoistic. Don't judge people based on social media and forums - they tend to attract the vocal hyper nationalists anyway - from Cricinfo to YouTube.