Harm Caused By Wrong Thinking

HARM CAUSED BY WRONG THINKING Following such anachronistic thinking, in those countries that had territories on their frontiers with Muslim-majority, such movement, as can be called ‘Pakistanisation’, emerged with full zeal. In all such places, Muslim leaders emerged who, through their emotionally driven movements and fiery rhetoric, fomented emotional politics among Muslims based on separatism. The cases of Myanmar, the Philippines, Ethiopia, parts of China, and the former Yugoslavia can be cited in this regard. These regional Muslim leaders were enthusiastically driven to the point of madness in their imaginary ideology of ‘Pakistanisation.’ And so, they did not keep their divisive political movements limited to peaceful methods of action. Rather, they led them on to bloody armed struggles. These violent movements of ‘Pakistanisation’ met with complete failure. They resulted in further exacerbation of the problems of the Muslims themselves. Why did this destructive policy of ‘Pakistanisation’ become popular in so many parts of the Muslim world? The reason was the anachronistic thinking of the Muslim leaders of the times. They could not understand and appreciate the new changes that had come about in modern times. The whole world had become one and was entering the age of globalization, but at this very time, Muslim leaders, because of