False Choices Quotes
One of the ideas to implement the Partition of India to create a Muslim Pakistan was to have plebiscites in many provinces to vote on whether the Province should remain with India or be a part of Pakistan. The Punjab was the largest of the mixed religion areas in question but the Punjab governor was opposed to the idea as most of the voters were illiterate and the Pro Pakistan forces would couch the alternatives in stark religious terms to the Muslim voters who will not realize that they could remain as Muslims in India just as they were at the time. In a number of areas—Kashmir being the most notable—there were a majority of Muslims yet enough of them preferred to remain with India than be part of Pakistan as they were Islamic moderates and did not want to be part of a Muslim Pakistan that might pressure them or force them to a more rigid form of Islam. Also many valued democracy and religious freedom. Some doubted Pakistan's likelihood of thriving in its own and preferred the stability of India.
The historical reality was that after the military dictator was ousted as ruler of Egypt, the Islamic Brotherhood, the most organized political force then in Egypt, not only won the elections at the polls, but then started to seize total power so they would never loose future elections and then started the country on the road to an Islamic theocracy under President Morsi. After a year or so, with the great support of the majority of Egyptians, the Military took over and ousted the Islamics. So the additional choices he seeks had not been successful yet at the time this quotation was made.
