For all those advocates of freedom of choice and who believe that if Kashmiris don’t want to live with India, we have no moral right to prevent them from doing so. My simple question to them is that if tomorrow some other state also wishes the same secessionist feeling, would that also be respected. And going too far in that logic, if me and my family decide that we do not like India and need to create a nation of our own, and want to become a Prime Minister (like Mr. Geelani)should I be allowed to do so. In fundamental terms, does blind usage of freedom of choice lead to anarchy and is it not undesirable?
And if people’s choice is the criteria for coming to conclusions, then would Arundhati Roy object if Hindus of Gujarat declare that they want to secede from India creating a Hindu theocratic state with unequal (if any) rights to the Muslims of Gujarat. If they accept it, there is no bigger fool than them and if they don’t, how is Kashmir different except with respect to the color and greater extent of extremism. Forget about giving rights to minority, people like Geelani who are asking children to throw stones are the same people who 20 years back used to announce from the mosques that every Kashmiri Pandit and Sikh would be killed if he does not leave the valley.
And after removing all the dissenting voices, by attacking on the very secularism Kashmir was famous for, they have created an atmosphere where almost everyone hates India. Of course India could have managed things better but still I can’t digest rhetorical statements of the so called liberalists who are favoring the creation of state and helping a leader like Geelani which would even leave behind Taliban in banning civil liberties. Anyways this creed of so called liberals is famous for mindless, senseless application of some half witted principles. I honestly don’t know what would happen with respect to Kashmir in near or distant Kashmir, but I am very sure that if it does happen, humanity, India and to the greatest extent these Kashmiris would suffer.
PS:
1. I may sound like Churchill shouting in Westminster before India’s independence but I am sorry to say I cannot find any Gandhi in Kashmir, not even his shadow!
2. To all those who believe that Kashmir is a different case and there is a historical, constitutional and international baggage attached, then the debate should be hinged on that rather than the principles of freedom of choice. More on that later.
3. As almost all the Kashmiri Pandits don’t want to live in an Islamic Kashmir, should Kashmir be partitioned on the similar basis of freedom of choice?
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