ppl say religion n nationality r two different things. further they say religion is personal belief of some1 to be followed in their own homes. but as a person ie by nationality, v r all indians. thus conversion of ppl from one religion to another does not affect our nationality. now the point is. think of jinnah who was hindu by birth. n he was misguided to b converted himself into muslim. subsequently, he realised his mistakes n wanted to reconvert to his original hindu religion. but during that time, the hindu religious leaders did not allow him to reconvert him to hinduism. this frustrated jinnah to a great extent. he was then instrumental to the creation of state called pakistan in the name of religion. imagine if jinnah had been allowed back as hindu by the leaders then, the partition wud nt hv taken place. so ultimately change of religion ultimately led to change of nation and thus conversion and nationality r invariably related terms n cant b separated.
RE:religion and nationality.
by Prakash Desai on Dec 18, 2007 03:57 AM Permalink
Dear Sir, One small correction Mohammad Ali Jinnah did not converted himself to islam, It was his father His father was a Gujarati from Lohana community His father's full name was Zinabhai Poonjabhai Thakkar ( it can be spelled as Jhinabhai also) He himself was converted to muslim, and he named his son as Mohammad Ali Now, when Mohmmad Ali grew up with his own identity, he was ashamed of his father's hindu name. And under normal circumstances, his traditional full name would be Mohammad Ali Zinabhai Thakkar So, he changed, rather shortened his name, dropped surname Thakkar and respelled father's name from Zinabhai or Jhinabhai to Jinnah and created it as surname for his muslim identity. Thus he became Mohammad Ali Jinnah
