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Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Urdu, quite unfortunately, has become the language of indoctrination for Jihadi elements in the Indian subcontinent. An overwhelming majority of the Jihadi literature seized during police raids busting terror modules is in Urdu.
How and why it became the language of Islamic fundamentalism and associated Jihadi terrorism is something which needs serious research.
Urdu’s downfall began the day Pakistan decided to make Urdu it’s national language.
Urdu poetry/literature protests against everything except Islamic extremism and resultant Jihadi terrorism. It points fingers at everyone but refuses to introspect and understand the underlying causes of Islamic fundamentalism.
It rants and rails against the West and RSS/Hindutva but would not speak a word aginst Wahhabism, Salafism and countless other theological schools of Islam which promote terrorism and violence against non-believing “kafirs”.
It’s shameful to say the least.
Wait. Anyone with A clear mind can see this ‘poetry’ is not contrarian. Nor assimilative.
This reads more and more like a call to bigotry and rebellion without a cause.
Thise ‘journalist’ will fit well in the job of a white washer.
Urdu, quite unfortunately, has become the language of indoctrination for Jihadi elements in the Indian subcontinent. An overwhelming majority of the Jihadi literature seized during police raids busting terror modules is in Urdu.
How and why it became the language of Islamic fundamentalism and associated Jihadi terrorism is something which needs serious research.
Urdu’s downfall began the day Pakistan decided to make Urdu it’s national language.
Urdu poetry/literature protests against everything except Islamic extremism and resultant Jihadi terrorism. It points fingers at everyone but refuses to introspect and understand the underlying causes of Islamic fundamentalism.
It rants and rails against the West and RSS/Hindutva but would not speak a word aginst Wahhabism, Salafism and countless other theological schools of Islam which promote terrorism and violence against non-believing “kafirs”.
It’s shameful to say the least.