Hamza913
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I'm from Lahore and i just saw that there is a Ranjit Singh statue there.
Why?
Why is there a statue of a tyrant, who tortured muslims during his rule, in the ISLAMIC republic of Pakistan?
And to make it worse, the statue was made and placed there by the Punjab government just last year. It's not even like that it was an ancient statue. They literally made the statue and placed it there.
This is extremely offensive.
Imagine if someone makes a statue of Hitler and places it in front of the Eiffel Tower. It's the same kind of situation here.
Shameful.
What are the Lahoris doing about this?
They should file a petition to get it removed.
And i just saw a tweet where Fawad Chaudhry called Ranjit Singh "Sher-e-Punjab". And i thought he couldn't be any worse.
He was a ruler for the Sikhs not for the muslims.
No Punjabi muslim likes Ranjit Singh.
Also, it's quite funny how Indians are "condemning" this "attack" on the statue but they would do anything to remove the statues of Aurangzeb and the other Mughal rulers from India. Hypocrites.
He was secular. Whilst he did indeed harm many Muslims, there were others that he was much nicer to (not that he especially cared, the man was a pragmatist above all else). The main reason he has a statue in Lahore is because he's a Punjabi and this move is meant to make Sikhs from the other side feel more warmly towards us for tourist money.
I don't feel especially warm towards him, but he was a Bhatti Punjabi born on our side of the Radcliffe line. He's part of our history.