Ethnic Division Quotes



At Indian Independence from Britain, people could choose whether they wanted to be citizens of India or the new Muslim state created because many Muslims insisted on living in a country that was majority Muslim. However, and what came as a great shock to the then new Pakistani leadership, the majority of the Muslims of India choose not to become citizens of the new Islamic state and preferred to stay in Hindu dominated India which they knew would be democratic, free, and would protect their right to practice Islam as they saw fit. Many feared that in Pakistan Islamic extremists would dictate the exact form of Islam that Muslims must follow, and that is exactly what happened in Pakistan—not only from government action proscribing religious practice but from the government tolerating and not interfering with Islamic fundamentalist extremist terrorists who often assassinated Muslims whose particular form of worship was offensive to them or people would call for reforms of the protection of human rights.


Lindbergh, a great aviator, was a Fascist who was a great admirer and supporter of Hitler and Mussolini. He appeared to be tragically foolish, when 2 years later, the Japanese, with almost perfect precision, carried out the then largest and most successful air attack when they bombed and strafed Pearl Harbor. The entire attack was made from aircraft carrier based planes, the hardest and most technically complex of air operations.