(I thank my daughter Ayesha for the picture)
I did not know anything about Israel in 1948-49. All I knew that the students in Islamia college planned a big rally in Lahore, the "city of Colleges" and of course many other college students joined in this rally (the picture is not from 1949). I was a teen-ager full of enthusiasm and zeal about Islam and Muslims as the partition effect of India and the "Pakistan Ka matlab kia, La ilaha illallah" and "Pakistan zindabad" type of slogans were still echoing in my ears, so I joined the crowd. I remember going to the Governer House having walked all the way on The Mall. Somebody was sitting on the shoulders of another friend and making a speech at the top of his voice in favor of Falasteeni Muslims. I dont remember much else but it was a big crowd and I was still in awe of the "Governer House" the seat of the British Governers, feeling somewhat guilty for it was a "no no place" for us, the commoners. I was happy to be a part of the demonstration (which was against the establishment of Israel, I know now)
And now I see my children and grandchildren are in the rally in favor of Falateeni Muslims.
I wonder how many generations will have to do that before something will be done to settle them in their home.
3 comments:
sorry it took a day or so to get the picture up, abboo!
i was thinking something very similar at the rally: i came to MD in 2000, just before ariel sharon triggered the second intifada with his visit to al-aqsa that september, and i remember so well all the rallies i used to go to as a reporter and photographer at the time. and it was so heartbreaking, after eight years to be out on the streets of DC again, for the exact same reason, with the exact same rally cries, "bi rooh, bi dam, nafdeek ya filasteen" only this time it was "gaza" at the end...
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