Unbreakable Promise Quotes
The Sikhs had lived for hundreds of years in the Mughal Empire—under Muslim domination where they had been not only like second class citizens but they were periodically persecuted for practicing their religion, including the torture and murder of their Guru. Jinnah himself was a strong advocate of religious toleration and freedom of religion, and proclaimed that for Pakistan. He promised that to the Sikhs as well as total equality with no second class citizenship. However Master Tara Singh was very familiar with the Koran itself and the history of minorities in Islamic nations. The only Muslim country in all of history that had not treated minorities as Second Class Citizens and curtailed the minorities' ability to practice their religion on an equal status was Turkey after the Ataturk revolution, and he knew that most orthodox Islamic clerics considered Ataturk a heretic. They did not see Jinnah as an Ataturk who could revolutionize not only a country but a culture as well. As it turned out, even in the 21st century every month or so another minority person was killed in Pakistan for violating some Koranic prescription—actual of imaginary. The Sikhs turned Jinnah down and he then had Sikhs targeted for mass terrorist attacks and murders.
