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my dear khalid, while your insistence of a muslim identity blind of national affiliations does carry a noble ideal, it completely ignores the reality of the multifaceted character of the islamic mosaic and the reality of its varied ethnic make up. Our shared faith is not an impenetrable monolith of homogeneic beliefs and doctrines, and the attempt to rationalize political exegencies along theological lines is both dangerous and detrimental to the continued evolution of religious precepts to changing contexts and conditions. while the original teachings are immutable, their application is not. They offer a base to further understand the contemporary context through a clear set of interpretive idioms.
You must be able to clearly differentiate the political facts of the 1971 war from the self-serving rhetoric that inflamed the emotions of misguided sections of society and set up the conditions for the subsequent atrocities. the past conflict was not a result of a religious schism , but on the right of one group, in this case the majority, to determine its cultural and linguistic vocation. The war only further made evident the inconsistensies on which the geographic fallacy of our former two-state nation was founded upon.
Cultural divergence can only be bridged by a willingness to discover the innate differences and implicit commonalities between people. Dismissing them to a secondary role under a cloak of misrepresented universality will continue to fuel a debate along tribal lines.
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