[Goanet]Re: Was Jinnah Secular?

2005-06-10 Thread sandeep heble
(RKN wrote: It's unfair to pick up bits and pieces out of context to paint someone a fundamentalist. The statements have to be read in the context of the social milieu and time in history to understand their true import.) While Jinnah may not have been a fundamentalist

[Goanet]Re: Was Jinnah Secular?

2005-06-10 Thread carlos6143
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050609/asp/nation/story_4845560.asp If any one who should be annoyed by Lalji?s (Advani) remark, it should be the Congress,? George Fernandes said in Guwahati. Quoting veteran politicians and historians, Fernandes said it was Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress who

Re: [Goanet]Re: Was Jinnah Secular?

2005-06-10 Thread carlos6143
Halur, If the socialist Nehru had allowed Jinnah to be the PM of India, Pakistan would not have existed. We all could have lived as a happy familly in a true secular India. Regards, Carlos halur rasho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If Jinnah was secular, Pakisan would not exist. Or else the two-

[Goanet]Re: Was Jinnah Secular?

2005-06-09 Thread halur rasho
If Jinnah was secular, Pakisan would not exist. Or else the two-nation theory is highest form of secularism? And why two-nation theory? Was Jinnah prejudiced against Christians? If he was secular, he would have demanded a seperate country for Indian christians too > On 09/06/05, sandeep heble <[

[Goanet]RE: Was Jinnah secular?

2005-06-09 Thread Radhakrishnan Nair
(Sandeep Heble wrote: By no standards could Jinnah have been called a secular liberal leader. Jinnah never conceived of a Pakistan which was based on the principles of secularism that completely separated the State from religion. Rather, he envisioned Pakistan as a state whose political, social