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Jalal and Jalalabad

I was telling someone about what I got to know about Jalalabad. That Jalal was Changez Khan's son who was killed in Afghanistan.  Changez Khan was not interested in occupying Afghanistan, he learnt that his son had been killed there, he wanted to know exactly where he was buried, so that he could arrange a proper funeral for him. It took some doing after some battles, Changez Khan prevailed, the Afghans who surrendered told him about where Jalal was buried. After the funeral, Changez Khan left. The place then on became known as Jalalbad.The person whom I was telling this story,  reaction was this
"Oh so Jalal's name was Jalal because he had converted to Islam"
I had to explain to him that that was not the case. The Mongols accepted Islam much later.  There are semi-educated people mix up historical information with religious data. They cannot tell the difference.
There was talk about how Arabs do not support Pakistan. I had my opinion let them go on with their discussion. I put forward my opinion was that Arabs never trusted Pakistan is because of the  Maulana Mohammed Ali's Khilafat Movement which encouraged the Muslims of India to fight for te defence of Turkey during World War 1.  The  Turks lost their empire and the territory which was a part of the Turkish empire were Arab countries. The Arabs were free from Turkish rule, hated the Turks and everyone who supported them which Muslims of India. It did not matter if Pakistan came into existence.
No one was interested in that, their dislike of Arabs had nothing to do with historical facts it was religious bigotry nothing else. I realised I was in the wrong forum. It was not a place where historical facts mattered, bigotry and discrimination was all that wanted to hear or talk about.
I do not consider myself an expert in any religion, I quiet about, people are quickly offended. Nothing can be discussed in pure historical terms, the raw facts, religion requires intense tremendous interpretation, so leave it be. Nothing can be done

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