Dear dina khan - a regular writer in chottala yahoo groups,
In the debate about two nation theory it is based on whether language or Religon, I think there is some misconception and wrong idea.
M.A. Jinnah the iron man as you mentioned without uttering the name of three or four other iron men from Bengal like H.S. Sohrawardy, Sher-E-Bangla A.K.Fazlul Hoque, Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bashani and many others iron man who by their combined efforts and supports to M.A. Jinnah once became successful in bringing the unity of the Bengal Muslims in India by creating a religious sentiments in the minds of Muslim which ultimately results in the creation of Pakistan.
Except Muslims of Bengal there were no other Muslim majority area like Hyderabad, Junagar, Bihar, Kashmir including Frontier Province in Pakistan came forward to support M.A. Jinnah to create a separate state for Mslims. Look at Kashmir being a Muslim majority area in India trying for the last 61 years to come out from their grip but still not successful rather Kashmiris are suppressed and oppressed by the Indian soldiers for years together.
What M.A. Jinnah did later on, instead of showing his gratitude to Bengal, by forgetting what the Muslims of Bengal did, tried to push the knife over the back of our Bengal by introducing Urdu at the first instance. So "he is not correct" as you told.
There was no mention at all in the history, anyone from Bihar came forward to establish the interest of Muslims in India. No mention also in the history about taking any part by the Biharis in the creation of Pakistan. These Biharis neither can be a Pakistani (as evident in the several incidents in Karachi) nor can be a Bangladeshi. They are Biharis at heart moving from one place to another with their selfish motivation and trouble making policy.
The sentiment which our leaders were able to create in the minds of Muslims of Bengal on the basis of Islam, later on by a small sentence of M.A. Jinnah "state language should be Urdu" spoiled the whole show creating maximum hatreds for Urdu particularly in the minds of people of Bengal.
Though Islam is dearer to us as we are Muslims but our Bengali language is also dearest to us equally. How dare they are just like "Pagla Toglok" to enforce a slumdog type of Urdu language of Bihar over our highly enriched cultural land of sophisticated Bengali language?
Religion made the Muslims of India to unite under the banner of one Islam to make a separate state of Muslims as Pakistan. Later on by raising the linguistic sentiments amongst the Bengalis by M.A. Jinnah in 1952, created a vigorous language movement in the then East Pakistan causing martyrs of Rafique, Salam, Jabbar, Barkat and many others. That accelerated the division of a strong Pakistan in comparison to India into two in 1971 creating two separate weaker country like Bangladesh (Previous East Pakistan) and Pakistan (previous West Pakistan). Who is the actual gainer behind the scene? Our martyr's blood was not in vain. Because of the sacrifices of their blood we are now having a chance of taking a full breath of Bengali smell instead of slumdog smell of Biharis in our soil.
Urdu was not a rich language rather a cocktail of multiple languages of Indo-Pak-Bangla sub continent whereas Nobel Prize winning Bengali literature is a much more stronger and richer language spoken by about one forth of population (East and West Bengal) in united India. The Muslims of East Bengal separated from their fellow Bengali speaking Hindus of West Bengal on the sentiments of religions only and nothing else.
Who took the opportunity for the division of a strong Muslim country like Pakistan into two, making two weaker states in front of India. Whatever damage is there already done, now is it not wise to avoid the creation of further bitter sentiments by raising the trifling language issue again and again.
Who was the beneficiaries out of this? What is more preferable - Language or Religion? Two strong tigers after fighting when tired seeing helplessly a fox is taking away slowly their foods in front of their nose.
Dowllah.
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