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How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
Dear Mr.Bashir,
In India, we don’t force a married woman to remove her mangalsutra, which is ‘mangal’ i.e. holy to her. We don’t force a woman to wear different clothes than what she is used to. We don’t shut her up when wants to speak to her own son in their own native language.
Perhaps these are par for the course in Pakistan, but not for us. After all, Pakistan is a country which forces its citizens to convert to Islam, it forcibly marries non Muslim girls to convert them, it terrorises girls to not attend school, it forces women to cover themselves with Hijab … is it any surprise you feel Indian’s are over-reacting over the treatment meted out to Jadhav’s mother and wife?
Do you even realise how stupid Pakistan sounds when it uses the word ‘humanitarian’? But given your nature and track record, maybe we were wrong to hope that you understand what the word means!
Dear Mr.Bashir,
In India, we don’t force a married woman to remove her mangalsutra, which is ‘mangal’ i.e. holy to her. We don’t force a woman to wear different clothes than what she is used to. We don’t shut her up when wants to speak to her own son in their own native language.
Perhaps these are par for the course in Pakistan, but not for us. After all, Pakistan is a country which forces its citizens to convert to Islam, it forcibly marries non Muslim girls to convert them, it terrorises girls to not attend school, it forces women to cover themselves with Hijab … is it any surprise you feel Indian’s are over-reacting over the treatment meted out to Jadhav’s mother and wife?
Do you even realise how stupid Pakistan sounds when it uses the word ‘humanitarian’? But given your nature and track record, maybe we were wrong to hope that you understand what the word means!