RE: Why India should not be Secular

["Raju Agarwal" <krantikari@hotmail.com>]

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Dear Prabhu,

I suggest you read up on the history of the two nation theory.
Here is a short history lesson for you.

The father of the two nation theory, was SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN (born in 1817)
who founded the Aligarh Muslim University, and it was subsequently taken up
by IQBAL:

Iqbal gave the lead in his presidential address to the annual session of the
All-India Muslim League at Allahabad in December 1930. He argued that the
principle of European democracy could not be applied to India without
recognizing the fact of communal groups. He voiced the demand for a separate
Muslim state because "The life of Islam as a cultural force in this
country(India) very largely depends on its centralization in a specific
territory." He specified the territory by saying: "I would like to see the
Punjab, North-West Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single
state the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears
to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India."

Your argument that the creation of pakistan was a reaction to the
de-secularisation of the freedom struggle is absurd.


Secondly, your second point that you don't see any muslims objecting to
Secularism is also a hollow argument.  Just a few days ago in Kashmir, a
fundamentalist muslim organization called a rival secular muslim
organisation "Godless".  Muslim politicians in the Lok Sabha have questioned
the authority of Parliament to discus such issues as Universal Civil Code
and Muslim Personal Law.  In fact, Nehru said that Kashmir would be the true
test of secularism, becuase it would mean that a muslim majority would be
agreeable to it.  I don't need to tell you what the Kashmiri muslims think
of secularism.



>
>dear Sanjay
>
>Also, if you care to study the history of our freedom struggle, you will
>
>realise that it was the de-secularisation (or Hinduisation) of the
>freedom
>struggle which led to the creation of Pakistan,
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