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Bangladeshis seem perfectly happy with a “Pakistan invested nothing in us from 1947-71” narrative while buying air defense systems from them well into 21st cent
by selimthegrim 4y ago
Bangladeshis seem perfectly happy with a “Pakistan invested nothing in us from 1947-71” narrative while buying air defense systems from them well into 21st century.
- rayiner 4y agoAnd they’re downright gleeful about the recent divergence in GDP per capita growth between Pakistan and India/Bangladesh, as well as Pakistan’s inability to get their birth rate down to replacement levels. But that doesn’t top India’s recent preoccupation with being mad not about the 700 years of Muslim rule prior to British colonization…
- selimthegrim 4y agoI don’t worship Aurangzeb and neither should anyone else. What’s going on is about erasing Muslims rather than moving forward (moving the buildings or building a new mosque on a different site, etc). Inventing sacred sites (and I am not saying this about Kashi/Mathura because those are well documented) is the oldest trick in the book (see attempts at Charminar in Hyderabad by Hindus, Shab Bhar Masjid in pre-Partition Lahore, etc)
- selimthegrim 4y agoSpeaking of Shab Bhar Masjid, today’s Google Doodle is of none other than Gama Pehlwan, who was involved in that and also saved lives of many Hindus during Partition.