A vry interesting choice of word. Luk carefully at dis tweet. I. Khan has used d word & #39;Ramazan& #39;. 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">https://twitter.com/ImranKhan...
In last 8-10 years we have seen a new trend in d subcontinent. https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1253745632101228547">https://twitter.com/ImranKhan...
The trend is to use the Arabic word & #39;Ramadan& #39; in place of Hindustani -- Hindi and Urdu are known as Hindustani languages -- word & #39;Ramazan& #39;. What& #39;s the issue if people use an Arabic word rather than a word in his or her own tongue? The issue is nothing...
#RamadanMubarak
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...save one. Preference being shown to the term & #39;Ramadan& #39; 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 & #39;exporting& #39; 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 & #39;Ramadan& #39; 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 & #39;Ramadan& #39; is not as innocuous as it seems. Abandoning one& #39;s one language and culture shows d level of radicalisation...
...one has reached. Imran Khan, by preferring the word & #39;Ramazan& #39; over Ramadan, has revived hope that Muslim& #39;s of this subcontinent will embrace their own culture and not buy into Wahhabism peddled by Saudi Arabia.
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Three typos: (1) suit to* design the agenda... (2) second last tweet of this thread -- *our Muslims..., not ur muslims (3) *Muslims..., not Muslim& #39;s as in third line of the last tweet. Do excuse slips of keypad.
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