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A vry interesting choice of word. Luk carefully at dis tweet. I. Khan has used d word 'Ramazan'. R u wondering wat is so interesting in it? Ok, let me try 2 give u a socio-linguistic lesson as briefly as I could.
In last 8-10 years we have seen a new trend in d subcontinent. https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1253745632101228547
In last 8-10 years we have seen a new trend in d subcontinent. https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1253745632101228547
The trend is to use the Arabic word 'Ramadan' in place of Hindustani -- Hindi and Urdu are known as Hindustani languages -- word 'Ramazan'. What's the issue if people use an Arabic word rather than a word in his or her own tongue? The issue is nothing...
#RamadanMubarak
#RamadanMubarak
...save one. Preference being shown to the term 'Ramadan' by muslims of subcontinent brings home to us a very bitter fact. The bitter fact is that Saudi Arabia, a country which re-wrote Quaran in 1970s and gave birth to Wahhabism and Salafist ideology, has succeeded...
...in exporting (the choice of word 'exporting' is deliberate) its version of Islam which is highly convoluted and twisted; designed suit the agenda of the family of Sauds. When Muslims of subcontinent, a region whose Islam is radically different from that of Arabia, start...
...using the word 'Ramadan' in place of Ramazan, it tells us dat Saudi Arabia has succeeded in buying a place in d minds of ur Muslims. I repeat d use of word 'Ramadan' is not as innocuous as it seems. Abandoning one's one language and culture shows d level of radicalisation...
...one has reached. Imran Khan, by preferring the word 'Ramazan' over Ramadan, has revived hope that Muslim's of this subcontinent will embrace their own culture and not buy into Wahhabism peddled by Saudi Arabia.
#RamazanMubarak #RamadanMubarak #ramadankareem #Ramazan
#RamazanMubarak #RamadanMubarak
#ramadankareem #Ramazan
Three typos: (1) suit to* design the agenda... (2) second last tweet of this thread -- *our Muslims..., not ur muslims (3) *Muslims..., not Muslim's as in third line of the last tweet. Do excuse slips of keypad.
#Ramazan #RamazanMubarak #RamadanMubarak #ramadankareem
#Ramazan
#RamazanMubarak #RamadanMubarak #ramadankareem
