> The Muslim Pakistanis I’ve worked with for more than a few months were eventually threatening and vulgar against others.
> The Hindus I’ve worked with and gone to for services, on the other hand, were more competent, considerate and friendly.
I find generalizations about people to be unhelpful at best.
Lumping people together into subjective categories is just plain wrong.
It’s like saying all Jews are greedy (definitely some are) or all Scots are mean (definitely some are — I am) or all Cretans are liars (definitely some are) or all Frenchmen are cowards (definitely some are) or all Germans are gross (definitely some are) or all Chinese are sneaky (definitely some are) or all Japanese are cheats (definitely some are), or all Americans are braggarts and bullies (definitely some are), or all Catholics are Apostate (definitely some are) or all Protestants are Bigots (definitely some are)...
Would that life were that simple! But it just isn’t.
The mere notion that “all we need to do is let India attack Pakistan and all will be well in the world” is merely puerile silly bloody nonsense-on-stilts. Jolly-bollix.
As if India could manage a full-on war with Pakistan! Crikey, it is to laugh! India is a great country with fantastic food and very brave soldiers (particularly the Sikhs and the Ghurkas borrowed from Nepal) but let’s get real: to conduct a war you need a unified country and India is everything but that! The Hindoos are not the Sikhs, and the Christian Indians aren’t any of either. A few thoroughly corrupt family dynasties run the show, most the rest of India lives lower-middle-class or subsistence level. And nevermind Ceylon / Sri Langka, just to the south: they have a much better cricket team than India, and their Tamil warriors tend to fight to the death...
Go ahead, tho’ — attack Pakistan if you must, but at your peril. Pakistan would open a large can of whup-ass on India and it would serve you lot right.
Indians do love Ghulam Ali and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as much as Pakistanis love Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi. Culturally, we are much closer to Pakistanis than to any other people in the entire world, afterall..since most Indians and Pakistanis speak the same language.
Its just that their "social" culture of Islamic fundamentalism, which has been gradually encouraged by their politicians and some Arab nations, that has created a very potent radical minority. A virulent anti-Indian sentiment has been continually nourished by those Islamic fundamentalists over there.
That said, the latter part of your post is quite speculatory and condescending towards India.
You know, its not just Sikhs and Gurkhas and Rajputs, there are people from all communities who are involved. Lots of Christians are in Indian navy.. The general who led Indian armies to victory against Pakistan in the 1971 war was an Indian JEW ? Or the fact that the first Indian Chief of staff was a PARSI ?
While I'm no expert on army related issues or who can fight better or not, I definitely think the following statement you made is utterly ridiculous -->
Go ahead, tho’ — attack Pakistan if you must, but at your peril. Pakistan would open a large can of whup-ass on India and it would serve you lot right.
Surely, they have shown how brave they were in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999. The humiliation of having the entire world (especially US and China) supporting them on the Bangladesh issue and still surrendering their entire eastern armed forces with 95,000 soldiers ! says a lot about their "bravery"... not to mention the Kargil war of 1999, when their own army did not even pick up the bodies of their dead soldiers.