This will probably be the first post in a series of posts that discuss in detail of the rise of Indianization and Islamic Middle Easternization in Pakistan on cultural and political lines. My second post on this issue can be found by clicking here. These ideologies seem to be dividing and confusing Pakistanis on both the cultural and political levels.
This post particularly discusses the political side to the rise of this phenomenon. For a long time I have noticed whenever influential people in Pakistan such as university professors and political annalists want to build criticism of Pakistan and our society, it is usually nonconstructive and almost always involves a praise(s) for India. The Pakistani media is polluted with the same ideas.
This "criticism" is better described as self-hatred for Pakistan and an unquestionable pride and praise for the Indian Republic.
These influential self-haters poison the minds of the Pakistani population with guilt for everything that goes wrong in Pakistan and the world. Many of these influential professors, annalists and political activists are seen as heroes by the Indians and are often paraded by the Indian propaganda media against Pakistan.
Whenever something terrible happens in India or the West such as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the pro-Indian front is quick to blame it on Pakistan without hesitating even though they haven't the slightest evidence linking Pakistan to the incidents.
Whenever anti-Pakistani lobbies in the West and India need a Pakistani to promote their propaganda, no one does a better job for them other than people such as Asma Jahangir, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Ahmed Rashid, Ayesha Jalal and many others like them.
Take for example this public letter written to Pervez Hoodhboy by what appears to be a Pakistani expatriate in Oman.
The self-hatred and anti-Pakistan propaganda of these influential speakers is slowly being echoed by provincial separatists in Pakistan who see this as a perfect opportunity to defame the Pakistani government and the state.
They blame the ISI for every terrorist incident in India, Afghanistan and the world (sometimes even the 911 attacks themselves!) while they praise every small good thing about India and highlight every small bad thing about Pakistan without mercy.
Some go as far to denounce the so-called "partition."
And as I wrote above, these influential people and their propaganda have also polluted the Pakistani media with the same kind of self-hatred. Take this Daily Times article as an example. The media is not short of self-hating publication similar to that example.
So in the end, what we have is a group of Indian pawns who offer no solutions to our problems and fill our peoples minds with self-hatred and worship of the Indian government, and are quick to aid the Indian propaganda machine against Pakistan; called for whenever needed like obedient stooges.
The pro-Indian self-haters have expressed their hatred for their country to such a great extent that there has been a rise in opposition to their sentiments- and that's where the radical Islamists come in, including Wahhabis.
Because too few Pakistanis including the educated ones have been vocal against these Indian pawns, the Islamists have gained an audience in Pakistanis who are resistant to the rise of Indian cultural and political influence in Pakistan.
No one in Pakistan has been as vocal against Indian influence in the country as the Islamists and now the Islamists are gaining even more popularity than they already very much have.
But the Islamists themselves are a mirror of the pro-Indian (and sometimes pro-Western) elites in Pakistan. The Islamists indoctrinate Pakistanis with an inferiority complex towards Muslims of Central Asia and the Middle East.
These Pan-Islamists brainwash Pakistanis into thinking the problems in the Middle East are Pakistan's problems, they make these issues feel more important than the issues Pakistanis face in their own country.
Never will these Islamists criticize the Middle Eastern countries and their barbaric policies, including the slave-like treatment of labor class Pakistanis in Gulf Arab states.
The Islamist Wahabbis will never criticize Afghanistan for it's propaganda war against Pakistan and attempted violations of the Durand Line treaty simply because Afghanistan is a fellow Muslim country.
They also make Pakistanis feel ashamed of their pre-Islamic heritage and anything indigenous in their culture (or something in the culture which is not borrowed from the Middle East) and brand it as "Hindu" or "Kaffir" (infidel).
Many readers might not know, but there is a movement amongst Pakistanis against Indian cultural invasion to remove Urdu as the state language and replace it with Farsi and/or Arabic.
All this is being done in the name of resisting Indian cultural invasion and to make Pakistanis "more Islamic."
By this, the pro-Indian self-haters have done more than enough to give popularity to the Islamists.
The pro-Indian self-haters who spread their lies and propaganda need to be countered, but it does not have involve another type of self-hating Arab worshipers who fill our people's minds with equally prejudiced thoughts of religious hatred and hatred for their own culture.
The Islamists such as Zaid Hamid have also developed the clever tactic of branding any of their opponents and critics as "Hindu agents." Anyone who rejects Arabization or Islamitization is branded as a "Hindu agent" and more recently a "self-defeatist."
I myself have come under fire from the Indian and Islamist side. By the Islamists I've been called a "Hindu agent" for rejecting the glorification of Pakistani ancestors as "Turks" or for rejecting the idea of Islamic Ummah, knowing the bitter hatred and superiority complex many Middle Eastern Muslims have towards Pakistanis.
By Indians, I have been called some other fancy names such as madrassa educated for rejecting their false hegemonic claims on our pre-historic heritage.
Many pro-Indian self-defeatists also link Pakistani patriotism or nationalism with religious fundamentalism and hatred for India. Perhaps they too have a tactic of trying to defame their political opponents and perhaps to hide their own guilt.
The best example of this ongoing political climax is Ahmed Quraishi's outspoken opposition against pro-Indian self-haters in Pakistani universities and Indian propaganda in general, which I give him credit for.
The problem is it appears Mr Quraishi has close ties to Mr Zaid Hamid. Even during the scandal surrounding Mr Hamid on his links to Yousaf Kazzab, Quraishi has voiced much support for him and if I'm not mistaken, accused self-hating pro-Indian pawns of involvement in the scandal.
Never did Quraishi to my knowledge or any other Pakistani express any opposition towards towards the Arab/Middle Eastern worshiping Islamists- which include Zaid Hamid. Instead Zaid Hamid seems to be a close partner of Quraishi and other Pakistanis who stand up to pro-Indian self-defeatists.
Even on his YouTube channel, Ahmed Quraishi seems to be passionate on claiming Persians, Turks and Arabs as the ancestors of Pakistanis without providing any historic or scientific evidence for this popular claim in Pakistan.
This claim has been around for quite a while and is widespread amongst Islamitized Pakistanis. If I'm not mistaken, I also believe this idea of Pakistanis descending from Turks, Arabs and Persians is part of the public education system in Pakistan.
In the post 911 era, a new "blame Pakistan game" has been launched in the West, where every failure of the West in Iraq and Afghanistan is somehow always the fault Pakistan for "not doing enough" or "secretly supporting terrorism."
This blame Pakistan game has become a popular one especially in India and is aided by self-defeatists in Pakistan as well as the provincial separatists.
The Islamists have been the main outspoken ones offering a resistance to the blame Pakistan team of Americans, Indians, self-defeatists and others- in return for spreading their own sick ideologies of Islamic Ummah, intolerance towards other religions and glorification of ancient Islamic armies who were mostly Middle Eastern.
Zaid Hamid and his followers are the latest leaders of countering anti-Pakistan, pro-Indian, self-defeatist propaganda in return for being able to spread the idea of Middle Eastern superiority and turning every issue into a Western, Hindu or Zionist conspiracy theory.
Even amongst the patriotic or Westernized, leftist Pakistanis, Zaid Hamid had gained a huge following and almost turned into an unquestionable icon until his recent scandal.
Zaid Hamid is a strong propagator against a secular society that Jinnah had wished for as discussed in this article.
Zaid Hamid also recently spoke of planting the Pakistani flag on New Delhi, in other words conquering the Indian capital.
Many unintelligent, naive, narrow-minded Pakistanis buy into this ridiculous idea without knowing the nuclear outbreak that would devastate the entire region just trying to conquer a city which is not even ours nor has anything beneficial to conquer anyways.
And unsurprisingly, amongst the most outspoken people against this growing Middle Easternization of Pakistan (particularly Arabization) and rise in religious fundamentalism are the pro-Indian self-defeatists themselves such as Pervez Hoodbhoy.
Many readers at this point can see a clearly established pattern over here. Pro-Indian, self-hating defeatists who offer only regret after regret in being Pakistani and support for the enemy which seeks to destroy us.
On the other hand a rising Islamist movement with an inferiority complex towards the people of the Middle East and a hatred for other religions, indigenous interests as well as indigenous history and culture.
Both sides frequently outspoken against one another and their horrific ambitions/ideologies.
Both sides frequently distorting history to suit themselves and promoting hatred in being Pakistani.
Also interestingly, both sides occasionally like to use conspiracy theories involving the British to score points in their propaganda wars. The pro-Indian self-defeatists often claim the so-called "partition" was the work of the British to "weaken" the unity of the subcontinent, while certain Islamists including Zaid Hamid are said to claim the officialization of Urdu in the subcontinent was a British conspiracy to reduce the influence of Persian and Arabic.
Both sides only adding more confusion in the minds of already confused Pakistanis. Both sides tearing the country apart.
And because too few people are speaking out against either side, you have Pakistanis rejecting either one and embracing the other.
Just about every Pakistani who agrees with me on the problem of Bollywood, Indianization and Indian hijacking of Pakistani identity wishes for Persianization & Arabization. Zaid Hamid and those like him are heroes to these Pakistanis.
On the other hand most of the Pakistanis who agree with me on the problem of Arabization buy into Indianization and often welcome the ideas of the pro-Indian self-defeatists.
If we Pakistanis truly love our country and want to save our people from these poisonous trends, we need to have the courage to openly reject both.
This post particularly discusses the political side to the rise of this phenomenon. For a long time I have noticed whenever influential people in Pakistan such as university professors and political annalists want to build criticism of Pakistan and our society, it is usually nonconstructive and almost always involves a praise(s) for India. The Pakistani media is polluted with the same ideas.
This "criticism" is better described as self-hatred for Pakistan and an unquestionable pride and praise for the Indian Republic.
These influential self-haters poison the minds of the Pakistani population with guilt for everything that goes wrong in Pakistan and the world. Many of these influential professors, annalists and political activists are seen as heroes by the Indians and are often paraded by the Indian propaganda media against Pakistan.
Whenever something terrible happens in India or the West such as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the pro-Indian front is quick to blame it on Pakistan without hesitating even though they haven't the slightest evidence linking Pakistan to the incidents.
Whenever anti-Pakistani lobbies in the West and India need a Pakistani to promote their propaganda, no one does a better job for them other than people such as Asma Jahangir, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Ahmed Rashid, Ayesha Jalal and many others like them.
Take for example this public letter written to Pervez Hoodhboy by what appears to be a Pakistani expatriate in Oman.
The self-hatred and anti-Pakistan propaganda of these influential speakers is slowly being echoed by provincial separatists in Pakistan who see this as a perfect opportunity to defame the Pakistani government and the state.
They blame the ISI for every terrorist incident in India, Afghanistan and the world (sometimes even the 911 attacks themselves!) while they praise every small good thing about India and highlight every small bad thing about Pakistan without mercy.
Some go as far to denounce the so-called "partition."
And as I wrote above, these influential people and their propaganda have also polluted the Pakistani media with the same kind of self-hatred. Take this Daily Times article as an example. The media is not short of self-hating publication similar to that example.
So in the end, what we have is a group of Indian pawns who offer no solutions to our problems and fill our peoples minds with self-hatred and worship of the Indian government, and are quick to aid the Indian propaganda machine against Pakistan; called for whenever needed like obedient stooges.
The pro-Indian self-haters have expressed their hatred for their country to such a great extent that there has been a rise in opposition to their sentiments- and that's where the radical Islamists come in, including Wahhabis.
Because too few Pakistanis including the educated ones have been vocal against these Indian pawns, the Islamists have gained an audience in Pakistanis who are resistant to the rise of Indian cultural and political influence in Pakistan.
No one in Pakistan has been as vocal against Indian influence in the country as the Islamists and now the Islamists are gaining even more popularity than they already very much have.
But the Islamists themselves are a mirror of the pro-Indian (and sometimes pro-Western) elites in Pakistan. The Islamists indoctrinate Pakistanis with an inferiority complex towards Muslims of Central Asia and the Middle East.
These Pan-Islamists brainwash Pakistanis into thinking the problems in the Middle East are Pakistan's problems, they make these issues feel more important than the issues Pakistanis face in their own country.
Never will these Islamists criticize the Middle Eastern countries and their barbaric policies, including the slave-like treatment of labor class Pakistanis in Gulf Arab states.
The Islamist Wahabbis will never criticize Afghanistan for it's propaganda war against Pakistan and attempted violations of the Durand Line treaty simply because Afghanistan is a fellow Muslim country.
They also make Pakistanis feel ashamed of their pre-Islamic heritage and anything indigenous in their culture (or something in the culture which is not borrowed from the Middle East) and brand it as "Hindu" or "Kaffir" (infidel).
Many readers might not know, but there is a movement amongst Pakistanis against Indian cultural invasion to remove Urdu as the state language and replace it with Farsi and/or Arabic.
All this is being done in the name of resisting Indian cultural invasion and to make Pakistanis "more Islamic."
By this, the pro-Indian self-haters have done more than enough to give popularity to the Islamists.
The pro-Indian self-haters who spread their lies and propaganda need to be countered, but it does not have involve another type of self-hating Arab worshipers who fill our people's minds with equally prejudiced thoughts of religious hatred and hatred for their own culture.
The Islamists such as Zaid Hamid have also developed the clever tactic of branding any of their opponents and critics as "Hindu agents." Anyone who rejects Arabization or Islamitization is branded as a "Hindu agent" and more recently a "self-defeatist."
I myself have come under fire from the Indian and Islamist side. By the Islamists I've been called a "Hindu agent" for rejecting the glorification of Pakistani ancestors as "Turks" or for rejecting the idea of Islamic Ummah, knowing the bitter hatred and superiority complex many Middle Eastern Muslims have towards Pakistanis.
By Indians, I have been called some other fancy names such as madrassa educated for rejecting their false hegemonic claims on our pre-historic heritage.
Many pro-Indian self-defeatists also link Pakistani patriotism or nationalism with religious fundamentalism and hatred for India. Perhaps they too have a tactic of trying to defame their political opponents and perhaps to hide their own guilt.
The best example of this ongoing political climax is Ahmed Quraishi's outspoken opposition against pro-Indian self-haters in Pakistani universities and Indian propaganda in general, which I give him credit for.
The problem is it appears Mr Quraishi has close ties to Mr Zaid Hamid. Even during the scandal surrounding Mr Hamid on his links to Yousaf Kazzab, Quraishi has voiced much support for him and if I'm not mistaken, accused self-hating pro-Indian pawns of involvement in the scandal.
Never did Quraishi to my knowledge or any other Pakistani express any opposition towards towards the Arab/Middle Eastern worshiping Islamists- which include Zaid Hamid. Instead Zaid Hamid seems to be a close partner of Quraishi and other Pakistanis who stand up to pro-Indian self-defeatists.
Even on his YouTube channel, Ahmed Quraishi seems to be passionate on claiming Persians, Turks and Arabs as the ancestors of Pakistanis without providing any historic or scientific evidence for this popular claim in Pakistan.
This claim has been around for quite a while and is widespread amongst Islamitized Pakistanis. If I'm not mistaken, I also believe this idea of Pakistanis descending from Turks, Arabs and Persians is part of the public education system in Pakistan.
In the post 911 era, a new "blame Pakistan game" has been launched in the West, where every failure of the West in Iraq and Afghanistan is somehow always the fault Pakistan for "not doing enough" or "secretly supporting terrorism."
This blame Pakistan game has become a popular one especially in India and is aided by self-defeatists in Pakistan as well as the provincial separatists.
The Islamists have been the main outspoken ones offering a resistance to the blame Pakistan team of Americans, Indians, self-defeatists and others- in return for spreading their own sick ideologies of Islamic Ummah, intolerance towards other religions and glorification of ancient Islamic armies who were mostly Middle Eastern.
Zaid Hamid and his followers are the latest leaders of countering anti-Pakistan, pro-Indian, self-defeatist propaganda in return for being able to spread the idea of Middle Eastern superiority and turning every issue into a Western, Hindu or Zionist conspiracy theory.
Even amongst the patriotic or Westernized, leftist Pakistanis, Zaid Hamid had gained a huge following and almost turned into an unquestionable icon until his recent scandal.
Zaid Hamid is a strong propagator against a secular society that Jinnah had wished for as discussed in this article.
Zaid Hamid also recently spoke of planting the Pakistani flag on New Delhi, in other words conquering the Indian capital.
Many unintelligent, naive, narrow-minded Pakistanis buy into this ridiculous idea without knowing the nuclear outbreak that would devastate the entire region just trying to conquer a city which is not even ours nor has anything beneficial to conquer anyways.
And unsurprisingly, amongst the most outspoken people against this growing Middle Easternization of Pakistan (particularly Arabization) and rise in religious fundamentalism are the pro-Indian self-defeatists themselves such as Pervez Hoodbhoy.
Many readers at this point can see a clearly established pattern over here. Pro-Indian, self-hating defeatists who offer only regret after regret in being Pakistani and support for the enemy which seeks to destroy us.
On the other hand a rising Islamist movement with an inferiority complex towards the people of the Middle East and a hatred for other religions, indigenous interests as well as indigenous history and culture.
Both sides frequently outspoken against one another and their horrific ambitions/ideologies.
Both sides frequently distorting history to suit themselves and promoting hatred in being Pakistani.
Also interestingly, both sides occasionally like to use conspiracy theories involving the British to score points in their propaganda wars. The pro-Indian self-defeatists often claim the so-called "partition" was the work of the British to "weaken" the unity of the subcontinent, while certain Islamists including Zaid Hamid are said to claim the officialization of Urdu in the subcontinent was a British conspiracy to reduce the influence of Persian and Arabic.
Both sides only adding more confusion in the minds of already confused Pakistanis. Both sides tearing the country apart.
And because too few people are speaking out against either side, you have Pakistanis rejecting either one and embracing the other.
Just about every Pakistani who agrees with me on the problem of Bollywood, Indianization and Indian hijacking of Pakistani identity wishes for Persianization & Arabization. Zaid Hamid and those like him are heroes to these Pakistanis.
On the other hand most of the Pakistanis who agree with me on the problem of Arabization buy into Indianization and often welcome the ideas of the pro-Indian self-defeatists.
If we Pakistanis truly love our country and want to save our people from these poisonous trends, we need to have the courage to openly reject both.
In less than 100 years Pakistani culture will be almost indistinguishable from Indian. India will bring Pakistan to its knees without even trying to do so, or firing a single bullet.
ReplyDeleteYou do not provide clear evidence for calling people like Dr.Hoodbhoy Pro-Indian . What i found is these people are worried over the future of Pakistan and because of these their rational arguments may at some point seem like pessimistic ,which is what you refer to as self-defeatist .
ReplyDeleteYour comment is irrational so I won't bother refuting it. Now days everyone claims to be worried about Pakistan's future, when they really want to push forward their dirty agendas.
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