On Jinnah

An excellent article on Jinnah, debunking his secular credentials, in the wake of Advani's comments about Jinnah having wanted a secular Pakistan.
Despite wiping out Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and Parsis, the Muslims of Pakistan have become more sectarian and intolerant about their Islamic faith than they were 50 or 100 years ago. Islam has assumed dangerously virulent forms today and Pakistan has come to be associated with terror and tyranny, rather than democracy and secularism. These developments are intrinsic to Jinnah’s ideology rather than unintended, unexpected by-products.
Jinnah's legacy, says Madhu Kishwar, is a planted seed of hatred that consumes Pakistan and burns India in its wake.

Another comment of note is about how the Sangh and Shiv Sena are but mirror images of Jinnah's politics.
The Sangh Parivar hates Jinnah because Jinnah succeeded in his mission of dividing India by "uniting" Muslims into an ethnically cleansed state, whereas a whole century of efforts by the Sangh Parivar to likewise "unite" Hindus have not produced comparable results. They are haunted by the fact that a Muslim leader, despite representing a minority of the sub-continent’s people, could force his will on the entire territory, while Hindus repeatedly snub leaders who develop Jinnah-like aspirations. Advani lost the clout he once had within the Sangh Parivar because he proved to be a failed Jinnah. It ought to be a matter of pride for us that our political and social value system does not allow Jinnahs to flourish beyond a point in India, as demonstrated by the still more pathetic fate of another Jinnah aspirant-Shiv Sena’s Bal Thackeray.
Gandhi and Buddha were both certainly right about one thing. When you hate another person, you become the first victim of your hatred. The story of Pakistan is a cautionary tale in this regard. It has not become any better a country for getting rid of its minorities. This has only bred even more fanaticism.

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