Things are bad in Baluchistan

[DMB]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/peter-tatchell-the-people-of-baluchistan-have-a-right-to-selfdetermination-1943855.html

Ever since its annexation by Pakistan in 1948, Baluchistan has been subjected to a quadruple whammy of military occupation, political domination, economic exploitation and cultural hegemony. Just like Israel's settlement programme on the West Bank, Islamabad has a settler scheme to colonise Baluchistan. It is encouraging Punjabis to move to the region. The aim is to make the Baluch people a minority in their own homeland.

Punjabi supremacists have imposed an alien language, Urdu, on Baluchi-speaking people. Borrowing from the tactics of apartheid in South Africa, which forced black children to be schooled in Afrikaans, Islamabad has dictated that Urdu is the compulsory language of instruction in Baluch educational institutions. The cultural conquest also involves the radical Islamification of the traditionally more secular Baluch nation. Large numbers of religious schools have been funded by Islamabad with a view to imposing Pakistan's harsher, more narrow-minded interpretation of Islam. This is fuelling fundamentalism.



I suggest reading the whole article. It's not very long.

[premjan]

Pakistanis screwed up Bangladesh badly enough to lose it once.

[DMB]

Pakistanis screwed up Bangladesh badly enough to lose it once.

Killing huge numbers of Bangladeshis. But of course it hardly counts when Muslims kill Muslims. It matters much more when non-Muslims kill Muslims. :rolleyes:

[premjan]

Well, once you get inside the skin of the Islamic society, there are a lot of different shades. Many of the constituent groups would probably be able to stand each other even less without the common religion, but they are bad enough to each other as it is.

[rcscwc]

Pakistanis screwed up Bangladesh badly enough to lose it once.

Killing huge numbers of Bangladeshis. But of course it hardly counts when Muslims kill Muslims. It matters much more when non-Muslims kill Muslims. :rolleyes:
Of course Admin. Muslims killing non muslims too is ok.

[David B]

Pakistanis screwed up Bangladesh badly enough to lose it once.

Killing huge numbers of Bangladeshis. But of course it hardly counts when Muslims kill Muslims. It matters much more when non-Muslims kill Muslims. :rolleyes:
Of course Admin. Muslims killing non muslims too is ok.

rsc, would I be right in thinking that English is not your first language?

I suspect that it isn't, and if I am right then I'd say you can't be blamed for detecting the irony in DMB's post.

But miss it you seem to have done, to my mind.

I only speak one language, myself:(

David

[Daynna]

Irony detection is necessary in understanding English dialogue. Especially here. :)