Aly Khan Quotes
We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.
Khan, Aly. "Pakistan and the Muslim World." Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 24, no. 17, 15 June 1958, pp. 535-537.
The Japanese have always been very race conscious seeing themselves as the racial pinnacle of Asian peoples and others as inferior. The peoples of Okinawa were not the racially pure Japanese and MacArthur turned out to be right that protection of Okinawan rights, prerogatives, and dignity was much less important than for ethnic Japanese. It would not be until the last decade of the 20th century that Japanese public opinion was seriously concerned about the Okinawans. Even then, Japan’s independence and dignity as a sovereign nation appeared more important than the rights and dignity of the native Okinawans.
Once the Muslims got their separate country, the Buddhists tried to do the same. The disaster of the Pakistan partition was not about to be be repeated so it never happened.
While the American Civil War was raging, Pinyin Hong Xiuquan started a quasi Christian religion (he claimed to be the brother of Jesus Christ) in China which initiated a war of extermination with the Manchus and other religions. More than 20 million Chinese were killed in a religious war that proportionately killed more Chinese than the Nazis killed in Europeans. Though hardly noticed in America and Europe, the religious war of extermination had been so traumatic that dissident religions are the most feared problem by Chinese modern leaders—more so than Capitalists, Taiwan or any of the modern ‘enemies’. It is the Falun Gong and the Tibetan Buddhists who the leadership fear might grow into another Yellow Turban movement—the worst Trauma of Chinese History—even worse than the Japanese WWII invasion. Hence the irrational view of the Chinese leadership towards religions they cannot control. See {612649} and {612649}. In Western terms as Wiesel put it, the Chinese leadership suppression of Tibet makes little or no sense, but current Chinese leadership is paranoid as a result of its history.
Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan, known as Aly Khan, was a son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Nizārī Ismaili Muslims, a sect of Shia Islam, the father of Aga Khan IV and a sayyid descendant of Muhammad through his cousin Ali, daughter Fatimah and grandson Husayn ibn Ali.
