Another Arab invasion pushes into Indian subcontinent

Here is a candid look at the forces shaping the Pakistani political and cultural landscape -- came across it in livemint.com through a friend's Facebook post - Losing Faith in Pakistan

It is all the more insightful as it is written by someone with Pakistani roots.
Yes, the writer has hit the na0il on the head. Pakistan's problem is not just hate for India.

It is fast succumbing to a second wave of the intolerant and rigid of Islam is trying to push into the subcontinent from the Arabian deserts.
The hate that the Punjabi ruling elite in Pakistan has been injecting into the populace there has served as nourishment to the proponents of this version of Islam.

And it is no secret that petro-dollars have been flowing into India, too, into the hands of radical Islamists.

And Indian politicians have, in their quest to preserve vote banks, been helping these zealots in one way or another.

The British conquest of India put an end to radical Hindu forces that were expanding to fill the void left by the decline of Islamic rule in India.

But if India's democratic rulers cannot rise to the occasion and crack down on zealots of all hues, soon we will be seeing history, and bloodshed, repeating itself -- with radical Hindus rising to challenge radical Islam.

Both are bad -- for the country and for the syncretic culture that India has been famous for.