Biography salman khurshid jinnah

Text of speech delivered by Salman Khurshid on November 12 to Jinnah Institute's distinguished speaker series in Islamabad.
Salman Khurshid seems to be imbibing the Jinnah syndrome, assimilating the two contradictory traits, with the clear ascendancy of the faith over everything.
The trouble with Salman Khurshid is that India gave him everything yet he disparages our culture and religion.

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Salman Khurshid just released a book on Ayodhya. He made sure it would fly off the racks as he created a controversy he knew would hurt Hindus, not only living in India but anywhere in the world.

In the book, he compares Hindutva to Boko Haram and ISIS. Now we all know that these ultra-radical Islamist organisations, kill, rape, behead, kidnap and capture other religious minorities and use their women and girls as sex slaves and that too in the 21st Century.

How can anyone with a brain and historical facts ever compare a benign philosophy like Hinduism – Sanatan Dharma which is Hindutva-with the likes of ISIS and BOKO HARAM?

But Salman Khurshid does and he is not in the least bit apologetic about it.

This is when Salman knows how Islamic invaders came to India in the 8th Century and destroyed according to their own scribes, thousands of Hindu temples and actually killed the unbelievers in millions. It was either you convert or die, or you pay taxes and live like second class citizens. Millions got converted and yet they lived with their Hindu brethren in a culture that accepte

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Divided We Fall

WHEN, SEVEN DECADES after Independence, the eminent grandson of former President Zakir Hussain, feels the need to explain “What am I as a Muslim?” we have to ask ourselves where as a nation have we gone wrong.

The founding fathers of our Republic ‘anchored democracy in India on religious toleration and secularism, and ensured that India belonged to all Indians irrespective of their religious beliefs’ [Jawaharlal Nehru by Rudrangshu Mukherjee]. Indeed so ingrained was religious pluralism in the Indian mind that immediately after realising his goal of ‘two nations’, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, in his inaugural address to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly, had this to say about the two communities he had earlier claimed were two incompatible nations:

“…every one of you, no matter to what community he belongs…is first, second and last a citizen of this State with equal rights, privileges, and obligations …I cannot emphasise this too much…in course of time all these angularities of majority and minority communities…will vanish… you are free to go to your templ

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Why Salman Khurshid runs with fundamentalists and hunts with liberals

Comrade Karl Radek had been credited with a number of political jokes about Joseph Stalin. Long before he was killed in a scripted labour camp scuffle with another inmate at Stalin’s behest, Radek — as the joke goes — was one day standing naked at the Red Square. A well-wisher approached him and asked: “Aren’t you afraid of the police, Comrade Radek?”

Radek stared at him and shot back: “Police? Where are the police?” The man pointed towards a number of policemen all across the Square and said: “There’s a policeman. There’s another. And yet another… Why, the whole place is crawling with policemen.” Radek replied, “You can see them. I can’t. I am a party member. I am not supposed to see them. For party members there are no police anywhere in the Soviet Union.”

While reading Salman Khurshid ’s new book, Sunrise over Ayodhya: Nationhood in our Times , one is reminded of Radek and his ideological blindness. The book makes the usual provocative comment on Hindutva . In the chapter ‘The Saffron Sky’, Khurshid writ