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Dakhni

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This will also clear up many of the allegations made against him by many as a "jinnah/paki" apologist

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His explicit comments on modern day Pakistan are of tantamount importance because it is the furthest it has ever been from Jinnah's own ideal of it. Almost everything he says is necessary for India is equally necessary for Pakistan.

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Yes. Theres no point to a blame game now. Sharjeel needs to write a piece clarifying his views on post partition Pakistan and the garrsion state that it eventually ended up becoming, because much of his writing so far only limits itself to the events leading up to partition.

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@Janab_e_Ali It absolutely does need spelling out. His explicit comments on modern pakistan, which is an antithesis to Jinnah's vision, will only make his arguments more robust

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Yes. Theres no point to a blame game now. Sharjeel needs to write a piece clarifying his views on post partition Pakistan and the garrsion state that it eventually ended up becoming, because much of his writing so far only limits itself to the events leading up to partition.

[Mad Milton @PhilipPanass]

Tbh, they were kinda forced, as Joya Chatterji and others show though this question of culpability is, imo, a non-starter. The larger problem with Sharjeel’s lionisation of Jinnah/League is that Pakistan hardly turned out to be a haven for minorities. (1/4)

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@Janab_e_Ali Ah, you mean in ref to both states? Yes, thats precisely what i want him to point out for pakistan as well

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And in rationalising their own praetorian state and its extreme excesses against its people, especially against its minorities. This further harms the muslims of India because that is exactly what Hindu nationalists need.

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His admiration of Jinnah is needlessly provocative and harms the cause of his own people. Because Jinnah is akin to Hitler here. And ive seen so many Pakistanis use sharjeel's rhetoric to validate their own national project. They use his suffering as a "see? I told you so!" tool

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The Congress and its faults must and should be pointed out during both pre and post partition eras, but it must not come at the cost of unnecessary sanctification of many others involved as mere passive actors who merely got played.

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Sharjeel rightfully holds the congress to account for their rigid and uncompromising attitude towards centralisation that sealed partition, but i don't think saying the muslims were "forced" into partition is wholly true. And i think this rhetoric is detrimental to his own cause.

[Fatima Khan @khanthefatima]

What exceptionally rich thinking and writing. Please read this interview of Sharjeel Imam on capitalism, faith, and perseverance.
https://t.co/NiD042ciMy

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You even had fat idealists from Aurangabad like Maududi leave their people to fend for themselves while posturing themselves as their leaders for decades, worse in his case as he was adverse to both muslim nationalism and secularism.

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Trying to involve and strong arm the govt turns this issue into smtg beyond football. If the UK and PL fold here, the repercussions for them will be devastating. Both for the integrity of the govt and the English league. They must bury city purely for their audacity now

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Its fascinating how everything the UAE does is so cartoonishly evil. Now they're trying to blackmail the UK govt after being found guilty of cheating, when theyd spent years denying their blatant financial fraud. This will only worsen their already abysmal PR lol

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🚨 Emirati officials have warned the UK Government that the severity of the ruling against Manchester City could impact the UAE’s appetite for future major investment and commitments in Britain, with the situation now affecting relations between the two countries. 🇬🇧🇦🇪

UK officials are also frustrated with their UAE counterparts and believe some figures in the Gulf state must have been aware of the extent of City’s wrongdoing despite previously insisting nothing improper had taken place.

(Source: Bloomberg)

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@alpacamugshot26 The only reason Maududi is lapped up like this is because of his influence, and its on this basis that this parallel was made. But Iqbal and Sharjeel were constructive, positive influences on indic muslims. While Maududi and his thought has only ever been detrimental to SA

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Maududi was a bagorha who left for Pakistan the moment the tide began to shift, when hed spent half his life moaning against Pakistan being un-islamic or whatever. While sharjeel has spent 7 years being falsely incarcerated fighting for the rights of his ppl in a fascist state

[Vikas Amin @Vikasamiinn]

What Iqbal was to poetry and Maududi to Islamic thought, Sharjeel Imam is to Muslim politics.

His understanding of Muslim politics in India is without parallel. I wish he were seen not merely as a socio-political activist, but as a political scientist & a thinker whose ideas need to be taken as a new framework in modern democracies.

https://t.co/q6xxuVnrTC

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One ran away, abandoning his ppl to pursue his own nauseating idealism. The other sacrificed his lucrative career (arguably his life) resisting the injustices against the same people. Maududi being lumped together with Iqbal and Sharjeel is a grave insult to these men.

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@UsmanIfc Now that we know for sure that the only reason they were denied those trophies was because of cheating, they're going to be remembered even more fondly. Generational team and manager

[Mao Keji | मुखर्जी @kejimao]

Many years ago, during my time studying South Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University in the US, my professor solved a long-standing mystery for me: Why do Indians constantly emphasize "purity," yet their public sanitation is so poor?

The answer lies in the fact that what many Indians mean by "purity" is actually ritual compliance, not physical cleanliness. Consequently, a cup of water that looks greasy and filthy can be considered supremely "pure" simply because it was drawn from a specific sacred site, by a specific holy person, at a specific auspicious hour.

Once you grasp this distinction between ritual purity and physical cleanliness, it becomes easy to understand the attitude of many Indian scholars toward democracy. Just as they are willing to ignore physical grime and actual hygiene for the sake of ritual purity, they are equally willing to disregard tangible governance performance for the sake of democratic formality.

This explains why, in the classic debate comparing China and India, whenever outsiders point out that "India lags behind China" based on sheer common sense, the most common and lazy copium is: "We are simply unwilling to compromise our principles."

This is clearly a highly satisfying answer for many, for it allows them to claim the moral high ground while dodging the objective gap in actual performance.

However, the harsh reality is that if a cup of water is contaminated, anyone who drinks it will get very sick, no matter how ritually pure it is deemed to be.

By the same token, no matter how self-gratifying the obsession with democracy is, if it fails to deliver tangible performance, it will be exposed as an illusion the moment it faces a true test of hard power.