Tarek Fatah, the Pakistani origin writer and columnist who
now is a Canadian citizen has amassed quite a fan following in India for his no
holds barred criticism of Pakistan, Sharia and the follies of the Islamic
world. He has now become a regular feature in discussions, talk shows on Indian
channels and cultural programmes in India. He rightfully calls Pakistan as a
harlot, who goes to sleep with anyone who pays her good money, be it Saudi
Arabia or USA. Or expressing the faux nature of the Pakistani state as a piece
of land owned by the Pakistan Army who
employs the civil govt , or how just about every artiste coming here is
carefully selected by ISI, or what a joke Aman ki Asha like programmes is.
But there are quite a few half truths or non truths he
pushes which his fanboys ignore at their and everybody’s peril:-
Claims of Mohammad’s family fleeing to India and Dahir
fighting for them. There is absolutely no proof of the fact that the remnants
of Mohammad’s family came to India and were sheltered by Hindu kings here. This
seems like nothing but another promotion of the leftist ‘’ganga jamuni
tehzeeb’’ propaganda.
Puts the creation of Pakistan mostly on the west for wanting
to have a buffer zone for combating communism, and blames them for creating and
fanning discontent. While the British backing to Muslim separatism is a fact, the
truth is that the Pakistan movement had began during the days of Syed Ahmed
Khan or even earlier. It got its official name only during the 1930s. It was
mostly Muslim separatism, driven by the vested Muslim interests in central
provinces, CP Berar and Bengal who could not bear to have their ‘’glory days’’
behind them and live in the regime of kafirs. Pakistan was the British Raj’s
parting gift to the Muslim League for their loyalty. But they didn’t create the
situation, they merely fanned the existing one and benefitted from it.
He pushes forward a very dangerous notion that Bangladesh as
the biggest friend of India, and hence the best ally to fight against Pakistan.
Not a word about how over 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are
wrecking havoc in India, especially in the north eastern part of the country
where they have demographically altered dozens of districts and now call the
shots in any elections. Not one word about how Bangladesh has become the hotbed
of jihadi training and indoctrination. He does rightly state about Pakistani
government’s Hindu genocide in east Bengal but fails to mention that anti Hindu
killings in Bangladesh have exceeded those in Pakistan at any given time. He
always says that there are no Hindus left in West Punjab, but fails to mention
how they have been ethnically cleansed in east Bengal. The anti Hindu pogroms
of 1950 and 1964 wiped out every single Hindu from many districts of
Bangladesh. In sheer numbers of Hindus killed, it was larger than the toll of
all the riots in independent India. And
most of all, its today’s Bangladesh where the real idea of Pakistan got its biggest
support, in terms of men and material. The biggest vote bank of the Muslim
League was from Bengal Province and not Punjab or Sindh. He goes even as far as
to suggest that Indians don’t like Bangladeshis due to their dark skin colour!
Afghanistan too is touted as a natural ally by him, giving
examples of Badshah Khan at every opportunity. But we shouldn’t forget that
afghans were always willing footsoldiers for jihad, from Sher Shah Suri to Ahmed
Shah Abdali . Afghans today are a very divided people with ever changing
loyalties. With Taliban on the Pakistan and Saudi side, Afghan government on
the American side and warlords that
change alliances like item girls changing dance bars, India has a huge task
ahead in Afghanistan for ensuring that the region cannot be used for anti India
activities (it shouldn’t get too carried
away with Afghan president’s pro India utterances, a lot has to be done in this
regard).
Balochistan being natural ally is another one of his
thoughts. While it is true that India has to give backing to Baloch people and
bring their sufferings at the hands of the Pak Army to international notice just like Pakistan
keeps harping Kashmir at the drop of a hat, it has to be remembered that the
Baloch leaders are no less brutal in the
treatment of their people than any Punjabi feudal or an Afghan warlord. They
are opportunist to the core, allying with the Pakistan government and getting
elected to legislatures when it is in their favour, or calling rebellion when
it is not eg not getting enough share of
the oil and natural gas revenues (which wont be used for Baloch people’s
betterment but for the benefit of these Baloch leaders).Balochistan remains one
of the most backward regions in the world, and while it is true that the
Pakistan Army and civilian establishment is responsible for it, the Baloch
warlords have their fare share of responsibility in this.
Pic: Dusshera in Quetta, 1930s.
As for Balochis being friends of Hindus/ India, there is no
Hindu left in Balochistan, just like there is no Hindu left in west Punjab.
During partition, Baloch soldiers were among the ones who killed male refugees
and raped female refugees in trains going to India. Lets not have any romantic
thoughts about ‘’abki baar Modi sarkar” being written on hills there as Mr
Fatah claims.
Admiration for people like Shashi Tharoor as some kind of
visionary leaders. One cannot forget the arrogance of the man who as HRD
minister had openly called lower middle class Indians as ‘’cattle class’’. His admiration of Narendra Modi too is
recently found, as he was his vehement oppose before the 2014 election. He is a
left progressive person and always stands by leaders with that ideology. His
admiration of Nehru is well known, doesn’t matter that Nehruvian socialism
scuttled any possibility of India ever being a prosperous country. Or his
admiration of Justin Trudeau, who is flooding Canada with illegal ‘’refugees’’
from Syria and other great lands in the name of diversity. He may somewhat
support the Hindu nationalists in front of the camera, but blocks them from his
social media profiles.
Perhaps the fans of Mr Fatah will like to see this old video
of his where he talks in favour of Balkanisation of India:-
Or this excerpt from his interview where he seems to suggest
that bad treatment of lower classes is an exclusively Indian trait, and that in
Pakistan, no servant tolerates mistreatment (!):-
Calling India a police state:-
How different are these views from radical left outfits or
from foreign mainstream media like BBC or NYT?
The propagation of the faulty ‘’thousand year slavery’’ idea,
by claiming that India has been on aggressive mode for the first time in the
last one thousand years. Nothing can be further from the truth. The defeatist
historians make us believe that the throne of Delhi was occupied What defeatist
historians call thousand year old slavery period is the period of thousand
year period of non stop warfare between
the jihadi invaders and Hindu defenders, which began with the valiant but
unsuccessful fight by the Shahiya kings against Mohd bin Qasim and ended with
the Maratha confederacy’s permanent destruction of Ahmed Shah Abdali’s forces
in the third battle of Panipat (Yes, it was not the permanent defeat of the
Marathas like the defeatist historians like us to believe. They regained lost
ground in less than ten years while Abdali never dared to cross India’s borders
again and ceased to be a pan Asian threat). Between the first jihadi invasion
of 712 and the last in 1761, countless conflicts big and small only show the
indomitable spirit of this land to preserve its way of life at all costs.
It will be a paranoia to call Mr Fatah a taqqiyamaster, but
making him into some kind of guru whose every word should be taken as true is
stupidity. All these things aside, Mr Fatah should be given the Indian
citizenship, because frankly, if thousands of illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators
can be given the citizenship, he can be too. The only thing is to tread
cautiously, take what is necessary and leaving the rest and keeping in mind
that one doesn’t become your trusted friend just by abusing your enemy.
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