I thought I would share some outrageously funny excerpts from the Pakistani history textbooks which I compiled from the resources available on the internet. Contents like these regularly find a place in the textbooks meant for children, despite the efforts made by their own citizens.
"Hindus worship in temples which are very narrow and dark places, where they
worship idols. Only one person can enter the temple at a time. In our mosques,
on the other hand, all Muslims can say their prayers together."
[A story “The Enemy Pilot”, about a captured Indian pilot, presumably of Hindu
faith] He had only been taught never to have pity on Muslims, to always bother
the neighbouring Muslims, to weaken them to the extent that they forget about
freedom, and that it is better to finish off the enemy. He remembered that the
Hindus tried to please their Devi Kali by slaughtering innocent people of other
faiths at her feet; that they regarded everybody else as untouchables. He knew
that his country India had attacked Pakistan in the dead of the night to bleed
Pakistani Muslims and to dominate the entire Subcontinent.
"While the Muslims provided all type of help to those wishing to leave Pakistan, the people of Indiacommitted cruelties against the Muslims (refugees). They would attack the buses, trucks, and trains carrying the Muslim refugees and they were murdered and looted."
"In 1965, the Pakistani army conquered several areas of India, and when India was on the point of being defeated, she requested the United Nations to arrange a ceasefire. After 1965, India, with the help of Hindus living in East Pakistan, instigated the people living there against the people of West Pakistan, and finally invaded East Pakistan in December 1971. The conspiracy resulted in the separation of East Pakistan from us. All of us should receive military training and be prepared to fight the enemy."
"After winning their freedom, they [Muslims] wanted to
establish a government in which they could live in
accordance with Islam, where every law would be in
accordance to Qur’an. But they knew that the Hindus
were in a majority in India. After the British leave, they
would not let an Islamic state be established here. They
would establish a rule of the Hindu law rather than that
of the law of the God. In this law, Muslims would be
treated as untouchables."
"When the rule of the British was established, Hindus were quick
to learn the English language, and became tools in the
strengthening of the British rule, and simultaneously continued to
foster their traditional hatred towards Muslims. And this way they
prepared a plan to make Muslims their slaves for ever."
“The Hindus lived in small and dark houses. Child marriage was common in
those days. Women were assigned a low position in society. In case the
husband of a woman died, she was burnt alive with his dead body. This was
called ‘sati’. … The killing of shudras was not punished, but the murder of a
Brahman was a serious crime. … However, the people of low caste were not
allowed to learn this language. The caste system had made their life
miserable.”
"Hindus thought that there was no country other than India, nor any people other
than the Indians, nor did anyone else possess any knowledge." [Amazingly, this sentence, meant to denigrate Hindus, describes the response of the local
people to Al Beruni’s visit to India. This is despite the fact that Alexander the
Greek had come to this land many centuries earlier, that the rule of the Mauryas
and the Guptas stretched to the lands from where Al Beruni had come, that the
Arabs had conquered Sindh before Al Beruni’s visit, that the Arab conquest was
also aimed against the Ismailis who had settled in the area around Multan much
earlier, and that the Arabic mathematics was deeply influenced by the Indian
mathematics, etc., etc.]
"Hindu pundits were jealous of Al Beruni. Since they could not compete against Al
Beruni in knowledge, they started calling him a magician."
"The Hindus had the upper hand in the Congress and they established good
relations with the British. This party tried its best to safeguard the interests of the
Hindus. Gradually it became purely a Hindu organization. Most of the Hindu
leaders of the Congress were not prepared to tolerate the presence of the
Muslims in the sub-continent. They demanded that the Muslims should either
embrace Hinduism or leave the country."
"Therefore in order to appease the Hindus and the Congress, the British
announced political reforms. Muslims were not eligible to vote. Hindus vote
never voted for a Muslim, therefore, …"
"We have a high regard for Mohammad bin Qasim. He laid the foundation for the
Muslim rule in India. But the first brick of the foundation was defective. Therefore
the structure erected on this foundation turned out to be defective and fragile,
not destined to last long. Had Mohammad bin Qasim and the conquerors that
followed relied less on sword to increase their numerical strength ad more on
preaching and other methods, we would have been spared the events because
of which we are presently facing tribulations."
"Their (Muslim saints) teachings dispelled many superstitions of the Hindus and reformed their bad practices. Thereby Hindu religion of the olden times came to an end."
“…. during the 11th century the Ghaznavid Empire comprised what is now
Pakistan and Afghanistan. During the 12th century the Ghaznavids lost
Afghanistan, and their rule came to be confined to Pakistan. … By the 13th
century, Pakistan had spread to include the whole of Northern India and
Bengal… Under the Khiljis Pakistan moved further Southward to include a
greater part of Central India and the Deccan… Many Mongols accepted Islam.
As such Pakistan remained safe for Islam… During the 16th
century, ‘Hindustan’ disappeared and was completely absorbed in ‘Pakistan’… Under Aurangzeb the Pakistan spirit gathered in strength. This evoked the opposition of the Hindus…
After the death of Aurangzeb in 1707, the process of the disintegration of
Mughal Rule set in, and weakened the Pakistan Spirit… The shape of Pakistan
in the 18th Century was thus more or less the same as it was under the
Ghaznavids in the 11th century.”
"Shah Waliullah accordingly appealed to Ahmad Shah Durrani, the ruler of
Afghanistan and ‘Pakistan’ to come to the rescue of the Muslims of Mughal
India, and save them from the tyrannies of the Marhattas… Ahmad Shah Durrani
died in 1773, and with his death things became dark for the Muslims both in
‘Pakistan’ and Mughal India. In the ‘Pakistan’ territories the Sikhs raised their
head in the Punjab and became a great headache for the successors of Ahmad
Shah Durrani… In the ‘Pakistan’ territories, where a Sikh state had come to be
established, the Muslims were denied the freedom of religion. The Mujahideen
set up an Islamic state in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) which was a
manifestation of Pakistan spirit… Thus by the middle the 19th century both
‘Pakistan’ and Hindustan had ceased to exist; instead British India had come
into existence.
Although Pakistan was created in August 1947, yet except for its name, the
present-day Pakistan has existed, as a more or less single entity, for
centuries."
sources :
- The Subtle Subversion, Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
- http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/12/pakistani-textbook-previously-india-was-part-of-pakistan.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_textbooks_controversy
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