Salaam Ali and Adnan:
FlyHigh
My friend let me try to explain how I feel about this situation, I don't know if others would agree with me or not.
1. If I call my self muhajir, that does not mean I hate non muhajirs. But the feeling that I get is once we start identifying ourself as muhajirs, the non muhajirs somehow get offended. I still don't understand what is the reason, maybe you can shed some light on it.
When you immigrate on your free will to a different part of the world, you try to assimilate.
I have been in Florida for 26 yrs and don't call my self an immigrant, my children are born here, they call themselves as American Muslims and Floridians period. Yes I acll my self Pakistani/ American thats because i was born in Pakistan and love Pakistan. You generation like Adnan said are born in Sindh province, hence Sindhis. Mujahir is not an ethnic group it consists of different ethnicity coming from India. Why can't you be Sindhi?
2. Secondly I got an impression from your post, that you think muhajirs kill anyone and everyone who has different point of view then their's. Read your remark in red, it is one very callous and irresponsinsible remark. You sound like you think that muhajirs are some sort of killing machines.
I am sorry not Muhajirs but MQM is a killing machine
3. If you are living in New York, California or Texas, you can without any problem call yourself New Yorker, Californian or Texan, because these are just geographical locations and nothing more. Whereas Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and Pk are not only geographical locations but they represent very rich and beautiful cultures. It is not easy to adopt or assimilate into these cultures in 60 short years, it will take many decades. But in the mean time we can enjoy and share these cultures with our Sindhi, Balochi, Punjabi, Puktoon and other brothers.
Come on Ali four generations have passed and you are still an immigrant? My roots go back to UP but we have settled in Pindi. all my brothers and sisters speak Punjabi and we call our selves Punjabis. Here lies the difference, we have assimilated and youguys have that aura of superiority complex hence resistance to change.
Lastly I want to ask you one question, Do Punjabis, Pakhtoons and Balochis living in sindh identify themselves as Sindhis or do they still call themselves Punjabis, Pakhtoons and Balochis? Please do answer this question.
Like you said New Yorker in California is still a Yankee, but I am a Floridain since I immigrated from the outside. Therefore a Pakistani living in New york is no longer a Pakistani by second generation, he is a New Yorker. And you guys have been in Karachi since 1947, come on give me a break.