DEV SAMAJ MOVEMENT IN LAHORE – A SEX SCANDAL ROCKS THE SERENITY OF LAHORE

DEV SAMAJ MOVEMENT IN LAHORE
A SEX SCANDAL ROCKS THE SERENITY OF LAHORE

Sexual harassment of a nurse of Aitchison Hospital

Dev Samaj founder
Dev Samaj founder

Tirith was a Hindu boy of Lahore, studying with the future legend M.A. Rahman Chughtai. They were very close friends and both were aspiring to be painters in the future. At that time there was a Drawing Mater at Government College Lahore, whose name was Bhagwan Devatwa (Shri Satyanand Agnihotri). Originally an engineer from Thomson College Roorki, he was associated with reformist movement in Hinduism. Divorcing himself from other events, he founded the DEV SAMAJ movement in Lahore on 16th February, 1887. They had a lot of property in Lahore which was left here as they moved in 1947 to other areas of the Punjab, including Bathinda and Chandigarh. Dev Samaj movement is still there in Punjab, India.

Ishwar Singh Dev Samaj Senior
Ishwar Singh Dev Samaj Senior

Dev Rattan was an important member of Dev Samaj. His eyes fell on a couple, who were living outside Lahore. Enamoured by the woman, Dev Rattan suggested to her husband to send her to Lahore for education and progress. He would take personal care of her and she would work in his own house. Dev Rattan declared the young beautiful girl as his own daughter. ‘Moon boli beti’. His designs were different. He was caught in compromising sexual episodes with her, and various people came up with complains against the Dev Samaj administrator, including the wife of Dev Rattan as well as the girl herself. When Bhagwan Devatwa heard of this, he kicked Dev Rattan out of Dev Samaj.

If things had been left there, it would have receded into nothingness. But Dev Rattan was obsessed with the girl and would not let go. On 16th September 1913 he wrote an article in the newspaper professing his innocence and telling the world she was a daughter to him. The Lahoris reacted very badly to this denial for there was first hand proof against the man. In march 1914, Shriman Amar Singh wrote a pamphlet against Dev Rattan. The fight was in full swing.

Hindu Incest
Hindu Incest

The girl used to work in Lady Aitchison Hospital Lahore and boys used to go to look at her., She was the headline in Lahore. Tirith and M A Rahman Chughtai on way home from Mayo School of Arts used to pass the hospital in an attempt to see the lady of the scandal. A sex scandal which started around 1906 and culminated around1914. The details really do not matter. But the affair brought a very bad name to the reputation of Dev Samaj itself.

It is interesting that DEV SAMAJ and DEV BAND have similar kind of histories of reformation. A link between the two movements may be there somewhere.

EPISODES IN LIFE OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM – GOVERNMENTAL APATHY AND ANIMOSITY

EPISODES IN LIFE OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM
GOVERNMENTAL APATHY AND ANIMOSITY

Last days of MARC
Last days of MARC

Few would believe what we have suffered from 1975 to this day. Daily we hear of governmental tirade against the people of Pakistan, but there is so much more. The Ideology of Pakistan is in itself under attack from a long time. A mischievous form of government has taken over from the last many decades. Loot and plunder is the name of the game. But the attacks on Chughtai Museum were phenomenal in all ways. Every year survival zero is presented to us on different plates. And every year we embark upon a fresh jehad against the tyranny of a political structure, allowed to rape Pakistan, by presenting their own self on cushion lined beds. Get humiliated at one place, and you are allowed to humiliate the entire country.

Of course we have written about many of these things in the past, and a big book is in order, for the historian buffs who will study this in future courses of art history. Our aim would be only to touch important episodes in the history of Chughtai Museum. A Pakistani origin artist in Canada, Ahmad Humayoun once told me, you were able to do many things, but you were not able to generate a following for yourself in Pakistan. For us the inspiration is the life of the Prophet. With a single woman who trusted him, to millions of followers today, the story of the Prophet is a beacon light for us. And we also remember the saying of one of our ancestors, when he wrote the verse:

“Our sad plight is due to ourselves and ourselves alone;
For we chose the profession of mirror polishing in land of blind people.”

There is indeed sadness in the state of our aesthetics. So called analysts like Qadu Gujjar rail us about our Identity all the time. Central Asian artists brought art and culture to this God-forsaken place. Now we are being inspired by artists who lost their own Identities a long time back. Our people do not have the capacity to look or appreciate art, so how can we evolve a package of analysts and critics from such a dumb crowd? Countries revolve around identity. Without identity, no nation comes into being or can sustain itself.

Chughtai Museum in making
Chughtai Museum in making

This region owes it to the Buddhist Masters from Central Asia who laid the basis of art like Ajanta. And the Sultans of Lahore and Delhi who patronized painting inspired from Chinese Masters. The Mughals who took the art of painting to newer heights, distinct from the Persian Masters themselves. One must keep in mind that the history of art as manufactured by foreign lobbies is as twisted as the history of civilization they have manufactured for us. They have hired our own soulless Mir Jaffers of Art to make us lose al our confidence in ourselves as well as Identities. All that is a separate story in itself. We will start the history of Chughtai Museum as episodes in our life.

DEMONIZING PAKISTAN – GOVERNMENTAL SHIT ON HONEST PEOPLE

DEMONIZING PAKISTAN
GOVERNMENTAL SHIT ON HONEST PEOPLE

Outlaws making impracticable laws for Pakistan

Food at last
Food at last

I live in Pakistan but my house is the world itself. I get in touch with all kinds of people everywhere. I am not isolated in an way. And what do I see, so called educated and civilized people, lacking even basic common sense to analyze the world in any dispassionate way. These civilized people of world rely on a twisted MEDIA of their own, which continuously feed them shit about the world. When someone should rise and ask the question TELL US THE TRUTH not your SHITTY VERSION OF IT. I have seen foreigners from all over the world, entering our premises and telling us simply that Pakistan is not at all like what the bigoted and racist media was telling us. And these people included diplomats from many parts of the world.

Normal scene in Pakistan
Normal scene in Pakistan

The Government does not give a crap about the citizens of Pakistan. But Pakistan does not give a crap about these planted bastards on us. Surely when an American said many years back that Pakistanis will sell their own mothers for money, he did not mean Pakistan or Pakistanis. He meant the people in the Government of Pakistan, for that is all the Pakistanis such people deal in usual routine.

American dream gone wrong
American dream gone wrong

The Britishers controlled this region with their inhumane laws. The present Governments are even more ruthless than their previous Masters. They are not even willing to give people to the right to breath as honest and free men and women. That is why laws are made to freeze the people of Pakistan as eternal slaves. A typical morning starts with the traffic choked for some concept of some body’s life as being more sacred than wastage of our time, and ridiculed by the police foce for being merely citizens of Pakistan. Camera speed traps abound on the canal, and yet the cavalcade of these people pass at supersonic speed, unchecked. A police man is busy driving his car or motorcycle in any direction. If somebody else does it, he is caught there and then. The authotrities like LDA are hounding people by foreclosing their businesses. The Parking vendor on Parking lot is giving his own hell to us. Then enter any governmental office and see whether you can even make it in, without greasing the palms of the pariah standing at the Gate. Count any day, it is hell. Count any day of these people, it is non stop bliss for them.

Our law-makers and administrators are daily thinking of passing new laws of harassment for the people. Computerize things, making new licenses, new registration books, and what not? Not to facilitate people, but to get bribes from people in trying to correct the mistakes in the process in doing these things. Politicians are busy getting into new ventures to take KICKBACKS, sell their products (though their industrial agents). Declare an industry unfit and then sell it at a cheap price, to buy it back, and then sell it again. A vicious circle of corruption. Who will stop it? We thought of Imam Khomeini as an extreme, now even the Khomeini revolution seems sensible o us.

Tyranny definition
Tyranny definition

No existing facility gets corrected. There is no money in same. Broken roads all over the country, or no roads, and yet super highways are planned,. Acquisition done of poor people’s land without giving any money to them. Injustice at its height and the hype of judicial activism being played to our broken eardrums. Yes we do know now what ANDHER NAGRI CHOPAT RAJ means.

The Law of Mukufat will catch up with them. Yes, that is our faith. But the time gap is not in the programme of Allah. We can make the gap shorter, if we unite as a nation. And that is what the foreign lobbies are trying their best to prevent. Divide us into small groups, armed to the teeth, at each other’s throat. Thanks heaven for those who do not think like that. Oh Allah save us from the wrath of our own absonders!

INFLUENCE OF ISLAMIC AESTHETICS – ON WESTERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

INFLUENCE OF ISLAMIC AESTHETICS
ON WESTERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Images speak louder than only claims

Madonna in Islamic dress
Madonna in Islamic dress

A survey of Western pictorial heritage makes it very clear to us. The rising advent of Islam on Europe was not only affecting its science and philosophy. It was also directly influencing its aesthetics. Scholars of the old Western world freely acknowledged it, and it became unfashionable in a wave against Islam to mention these things. But facts do not go away, by wishing them to evapourate. We need not write books for same. A few images can be enough for elucidation.

Bellini of Venice under Islamic spell
Bellini of Venice under Islamic spell

When the Madonna herself is cloaked in Islamic dress, what does that mean? It shows that the idea even penetrated the most rigid clergy of the beauty of Islamic traditions. The most sacred icon of the Madonna can be clothed in Islamic terms mean total belief in the supremacy of the new aesthetics. Various artists had their inspiration in different ways. All this is well known, nothing new here. At times repeating is essential to remind us that we are one on Planet Earth.

Islamic influences
Islamic influences

The romance of Islamic Art and Architecture is even there today as western circles try to emulate the splendours of the Sultans as well as the Mughals in duplication of projects today, all over the world. We will touch some of these projects soon.

ONE COMMON SENSE IS KNOWN TO ALL – PAKISTAN ARMY IS CUSTODIAN OF IDEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY

ONE COMMON SENSE IS KNOWN TO ALL
PAKISTAN ARMY IS CUSTODIAN OF IDEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY

Politician’s dossiers are self evident of Mir Jaffers

Pakistan Army
Pakistan Army

If we the people of Pakistan know it, obviously the men in power know it too. The Pakistan Army is not an army of nincompoops, they know it very well too. The hidden agenda is no longer hidden. It is all in the open. The script to end Pakistan by 2015 is in full play. The speeches of leaders in 1947 and those of leaders in 2014 are self evident in the depth of thought of two extreme groups. For self progress, everything can be sacrificed, but these fools are putting themselves in the highest danger possible. The Masters can offer bribes only, no one comes to the rescue of Mir Jaffers in the end. TUM APNI KOM KA NAHI BANA, HAMARA KEYA BANAY GA.

Custodians
Custodians

This is Pakistan, dear world! Our people are forged on the anvil of blacksmiths. Hardened beyond possibility. Knowing life is a trust given by Allah to us, and by Divine command, we are always ready to give our life for our country and our way of life. The more you try to divide us, remember DIVIDE AND RULE does not work anymore. At that time you were dealing with two nations, now there is only ONE NATION. However much you try to foment discord, our Love for ALLAH and love of the QURAN unites us as ONE NATION. And when it comes to attack on our Identity, we lose our rationality and are emotionally charged to defend our homeland against all cost. So stop this charade. Hearing President Ayub’s speech on the eve of 1965 war, refreshes us even today. It is the heartbeat of Pakistan.


06 September 1965 Historical adress by Ayub… by f100002407930063

WOODEN HOUSES OF LAHORE – A LOST TRADITION

WOODEN HOUSES OF LAHORE
A LOST TRADITION

Remnants remain here and there

House in Lahore one
House in Lahore one

The tradition of wooden houses was everywhere in Indian region and craftsmen excelled in designs and wood use both in front facades as well as inside the rooms. That is why extensive houses existed all over the region. Even today when another old house falls, inside reveals wooden structures. Brackets with wide range of animals, including lions, horses, ducks and even mermaids existed here. Arches and sitting spaces for viewing of lanes.

House at Lahore two
House at Lahore two

In the Mohalla Khawajan in Bhera, there existed many houses like this made in the British period but even those were subject to decay, fall, as well as sale to unsuspected buyers thinking of them as from ancient times.

Wooden balconies all around
Wooden balconies all around

Our research spree started n the 1977s era. But there were people before us. Lockwood Forest, an artist from New York came here and met Lockwood Kipling and together they surveyed the houses of Lahore and held an exhibition in the Lahore Museum in 1885. The love for local craftsmanship was so much, that Lockwood Forest took many local craftsmen to New York in 1885 and built a house for himself there, looking exactly like a house of Lahore. Even all the inside was wooden. Lockwood Forest offered these services to others and this antique house existed in New York for a long period of time. We do not know exactly what happened in the end but fashion magazines reported their existence for a long time.

Lahori door
Lahori door

A prestigious book DOMESTIC INDIAN ARCHITECTURE along with a lot of advertisements was published by Lockwood Forest and it itself is an antique item in the world of art. John Lockwood Kipling took many of these wooden structures, and after a flooding in Lahore, deposited some of them in the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum as well as in Lahore Museum. The doors in Lahore Museum were removed by him. Percy Brown included an image in his phenomenal book on Indian Architecture. Certainly an extensive documentation exist for some of these houses to this day in the world of Art and Architecture. Well done everybody!

Ghaznavid Seljuk House
Ghaznavid Seljuk House
Wood use all the time
Wood use all the time
Horses balconey
Horses balconey

 

 

AMANAT KHAN SHIRAZI – CALLIGRAPHER OF TAJ MAHAL

AMANAT KHAN SHIRAZI
CALLIGRAPHER OF TAJ MAHAL

Not much known or remains

Construction Taj Mahal
Construction Taj Mahal

When partition happened the lines were drawn regardless of the position of places. The BRB canal took the Eidgah and Sarai of Abdur Raheem Khan Khanan to our side, and the Serai of Amanat Khan Shirazi to the other side. I was standing and photographing the Serai of Abdur Raheem Khan Khanan, when an ex-ranger offered that he could take me on the other side. The Serai was something we were eager to see. But rational sense always prevails. I would never break any international laws for my enjoyment of a Mughal monument. As a little boy, I had stood on the second storey of the mausoleum of Ittemad ud daula in Agra, and recited the English poem of ‘Bundle of Firewood’ loud and clear, for my mother and father on the down floor.

Amanat Khan Sherazi
Amanat Khan Sherazi

My father used to repent that nobody paid attention to the life of artists and architects and we know hardly anything of those people. So little is known about these important people. Amanat Khan Sherazi has left his writ for us rarely. The inscriptions on the Taj Mahal are there, as well as writings on the tomb of Akbar himself. An inscription in Aurangabad on a mosque. A beautiful manuscript. A Quran written in his own hands in 1050 AH. And multiple books with his SEAL on it, as librarian of the Mughal’s kitab-khana.

Amanat Khan Sherazi lies buried in a small mausoleum near the Serai which he made in the memory of his brother. He loved his brother so much, that after his death, this calligrapher retired from life in total, and spent the rest of his life in prayers. Love and dedication surrounded his life. It seems working on a monument of love for the Emperor Shah Jahan, he worked on a monument of love all his own. Sincerity and passion was part of their lives. After the death of his brother, he chose to retire to Lahore. Just outside Lahore he built a Serai in the name of his brother and it is known as the Serai Amanat Khan. Unfortunately the canal has separated us from the Serai and mausoleum of one of the greatest calligraphers of all times. Certainly his decision to retire to Lahore was due to the presence of his friend, Ustad Ahmad Lahori in Lahore, the architect of the Taj Mahal. Lahore is the greatest city of art and culture of the entire region.

Amanat Khan Shirazi 1050 AH Quran
Amanat Khan Shirazi 1050 AH Quran

THE DILEMMA OF LAHORE CITY – SEARCHING FOR LAHORIS IN LAHORE

THE DILEMMA OF LAHORE CITY
SEARCHING FOR LAHORIS IN LAHORE

Paindoos invasion of the city

Mullah caught in debauchery
Mullah caught in debauchery

Our copies used to be perfect. So nicely printed by Alpha Mian and Sons on Nicholson road, Lahore. And there used to be a verse on each copy and we were all familiar with these poems. One thing which was repeated again and again was that:

“God made the country, and Man made the town.”

William Cowper
William Cowper

Obviously William Cowper had an environment in mind, and he believed that rural villagers were innocent and nearer to God and there were only shrewd people in the city. But in our view this is totally wrong. God did not send us here to be ignorant fools but to move ahead in time, in research, knowledge, seeking of welfare of humanity and progress in general. Obviously the rural person may be very hard working, but certainly a donkey cannot be be better than a thoroughbred horse. Yes, the roles are totally different in character.

Progress and Ijjthehad
Progress and Ijjthehad

This is the dilemma of Lahore city. A place where education was hundred percent once upon a time and illiteracy was generated here by the definition of the British that one who did not knew English would be treated as illiterate in their views. All education in Arabic, Persian or Urdu was not considered enough for civilization. The result people resented this and with time really became ignorant in modern terms. It was people like Sir Syed Ahmad Khan who came to Lahore (Yes Lahore at least three times and it is on record) again and again, to receive the most grand reception at the Railway Station and was brought in a procession to the city. Leading to receive him were people like Muharam Ali Chisti of Kocha Chabuk Sawaran, who fecilitated the great man. Ghulam Sarwar Lahore was also there, as well as Raheem Baksh Mimar and Elahi Baksh Mimar. A list of Lahore’s best there for moving forward in time.

City lights
City lights

The Lahori was not only well educated, he was a man ahead of his times. His urban character was amazing for the rest of the region. Always willing to accept the new ideas, that is why they heard the Ahmadiyah chief well (before rejecting him) as well as the Kashmeeri Dr Allama Iqbal, who was taken seriously here. It was Lahore who rejected the Mullah all the time, and made fun of him. It was Lahore where the zest to return to original Quranic thought became a reality. Mosques produced scholars not rattoo totas (repetitive parrots). The Quranic thought sprung into view which culminated after partition in people like Ghulam Ahmad Pervaiz.

Go out and search for a Lahori these days. You will find one with great difficulty. At any festival holidays, see and you will find Lahore empty of people. Because Paindoos live in Lahore these days and they have destroyed the culture of Lahore. (Paindoos is Punjabi for villagers and rustic personality)

“HOW MUCH A DUNCE THAT HAS BEEN SENT TO ROAM, EXCELS A DUNCE THAT HAS BEEN KEPT AT HOME.”
WILLIAM COWPER

Punjabi paindoo hardworking
Punjabi paindoo hardworking

ON HER MAJESTYS ASSASSINATION SERVICE – ANNEXATION OF PUNJAB 1849

ON HER MAJESTYS ASSASSINATION SERVICE
ANNEXATION OF PUNJAB 1849

The overturning of Sikh rule in the Punjab

Kharrack Singh
Kharrack Singh

The British were not ready yet for takeover of all the Indian region. It was good luck for the Sikhs. The citizens of Lahore tired of dacoits after dacoits in the city, decided to invite one bigger dacoit by opening the Gates of Lahore. Ranjit Singh camping in the baradari of Wazeer Khan entered and took the city with the blessings of the citizens of Lahore. The list of citizens along with the Kotwal is well known. However much the tale may be twisted by historians, the facts stand stark for every body to read in the books. Ranjit Singh was further lucky by signing treaty of 1809 with the British by agreeing to respect the river boundary as the boundary of conquests of both. All Sikh luck came to an end with the so-called death of Ranjit Singh. It was even rumoured that he had been poisoned to death by people like Dr Murray and others who surrounded him at that time. In any case Ranjit Singh was himself so paranoid of being poisoned by them, that he never took any medicine or drinks offered by them anytime. Journals are full of his refusal to eat anything from their hands.

Sher Singh
Sher Singh

What followed after 1839 is a trail of deaths and assassinations. Let us list them first:
MAHARJAH KHARRACK SINGH, son of Ranjit Singh, was set aside by his own son Nau Nehal Singh, with help of Raja Dhian Singh, (after killing CHET SINGH on 8th October 1839) and slowly put to death by poison and opium. He died on 5th November, 1840.
NAU NEHAL SINGH, son of Kharrack Singh, died the same day on 5th November, 1840, when some bricks fell on his head, in attendance of cremation of his father.
SHER SINGH gained power and had MAI CHAND KAUR, wife of Kharrack Singh murdered by her slave girls, while combing her hair. Sher Singh was murdered on 15th September, 1843.
RAJA DHIAN SINGH murdered on 15th September, 1843, with an hour of the death of Sher Singh.
DALLIP SINGH put on the throne on 18th September, 1843, and acceded to the British on 2nd Febraury, 1844.
HIRA SINGH AND PANDIT JALLA murdered by the Sikh Army on 21st December, 1844.
PESHORA SINGH put to death on 30th August, 1845.
JAWAHAR SINGH put to death on 21st September, 1845.

The Sikh wars started and the first Sikh Army was won by Lord Hardinge for the British Monarchy. What more do we need to write?

Lall Singh and Sikh War
Lall Singh and Sikh War

Look behind the facts and figures. All these murders and assassinations clearly show MASTER HAND behind all this? Reading one journal after another, the same thing becomes pristine clear for all. Some were openly advocating the take over, some secretly. Perhaps few were even against it, But the material wealth of the Punjab with crores in the exchequer of Ranjit singh, brought water to the eyes of the greedy Britishers. It is a sad tale for anyone. In 1849 the British officially took over Punjab and there is stone commemorating this seizure at the Sheesh Mahal in Lahore Fort. 007s had done their work with their license to kill on Her Majesty’s assassination Service.

Mai Jindan Kaur
Mai Jindan Kaur

CHARADE OF TEXTBOOKS REVISION – NO HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE CAN BE OBJECTIVE

CHARADE OF TEXTBOOKS REVISION
NO HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE CAN BE OBJECTIVE

Confusing coming generations of past glories

Salam
Salam

Childhood memories are always there. Our textbook in school clearly spoke of Tipu Sultan in very bad words. My cousin at my house was telling me different. I had to listen to both versions, but I was not confused at all. It was a textbook made by British subjects for a Missionary School. The analysis was well understood. I read a History of India published in the lifetime of Tipu Sultan, and it said simply, that Tipu Sultan was the main hurdle to the annexation of India. Who to believe? Well understood.

Textbook means no harm
Textbook means no harm

All history books are full of versions. Versions from the civilization that wrote them. Read about Red Indians and read about Native Americans. Time changes approach. The disguise and prejudice remains. Information is never free from Ideology. Should it be! Never, never ever.

Take the case of Emperor Jahangeer and Guru Arjan Singh. Jahangeer mentions the incident in his own memoirs and states his perception in clear terms. We have his memoirs for the real version. And you see the Sikh versions on internet or in books and that version is totally different. And also different versions of the same version. The best scholarly way is to state both versions and let the reader arrive at the truth himself. But here in Pakistan, boot polishers would like other versions to be written in our textbooks, without any reference to our own version. That is unfair in all terms of reference.

Islamic Textbook Protest
Islamic Textbook Protest

The Sikh sites are full of venom against Jahangeer for this incident against their Guru. But look at it objectively. The Guru coming with Prince Khusraw and instigating him with spirit of rebellion against his own father. There is no religion here, mere politics. A man fomented political unrest against the Emperor and all the men who sided with him were punished. Ruthlessly exterminated. That was the best formula of those times. And look at it from even another direction. A knowledgeable man like Jahangeer, who was a bibliophile himself, considers Guru Arjan as a Hindu, and does not recognize Arjan and his Sikh religion. This is not due to lack of knowledge, it is the perception of that time.

Now a Mughal textbook will write Jahangeer’s view. A Sikh textbook will write the Sikh view. Scholars will write their own views. No view will be absolutely objective. Bias will be seen in all versions. To reach the truth, one will have to break the shackles of belief in ones faith.

Did these things stop in history? Obviously not. Obviously they will never stop. Guantanomo bay is outside the law of every country, including that of the people who started this detention center. And yet no one can speak. How will you write objective history books?

Jahangeer's statement in memoirs
Jahangeer’s statement in memoirs

The charade of REVISION OF TEXTBOOKS is merely to deprive Muslim generations of pride in their ancestral doings. To derogate everything done before. To demean Muslims in the eyes of Muslims themselves.

These things backfire. Christian and Jewish civilizations have REVISED THEIR HOLY BOOKS a number of times. The old Books only partially represent Divine message. The HOLY QURAN remain unrevised to these days. Many attempts in Western and Indian world have been made to revise the Quran itself. Is that possible? Obviously, never. So what’s the solution?

People should learn to respect other civilizations and their point of view and co-exist with each other in peace, without sacrificing their own Identity. BUT CERTAIN THINGS WILL PREVAIL, CERTAIN THINGS WILL VANISH. THAT IS HISTORY. THE LESSON OF HISTORY IS THAT THE MORE YOU TRY TO CHANGE IT, THE MORE AGGRESSIVE IT BECOMES IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. Live in peace. Accept each other. Let freedom govern ones own home and territory. That is the motto of live and let live.