Respected DrRajpalSingh,
IMO, first precondition for anybody or any group to be called a Jat is that the said individual or group must declare and claim that he/she/or the group is Jat. Only once this precondition is met we can discuss whether such individual or group is actually a Jat or not. Jat ethnicity - if there is such a thing - can't be thrust upon somebody. Can you here vouch for and provide concrete evidence that the celebrated "Muslim Jats" declare themselves to be Jats in numbers projected by extrapolation?
Further, regarding the extrapolation of numbers: Clearly, such extrapolation doesn't hold true. We have had a very big event, such as partition of country on communal lines - which resulted in blurring of caste boundaries amongst Muslims in Pakistan. Also, please provide evidence as to how it was/is ensured that "Muslim Jats" marry only other "Muslim Jats" - because otherwise the extrapolation has absolutely no meaning.
Mohammad Yousuf (formerly Yousuf Youhana) - the celebrity cricketer, had to convert from Christianity to Islam. This is the fate of a cricketer-celebrity, one can only imagine the fate of common Jats ploughing in the fields. Some months back we saw video evidence of Sri Lankan cricketer being chastised by a Pakistani cricketer for his religion. How much can one take such threats sometimes open and sometimes veiled depends on individual. Most people will succumb to such pressures, and will add to the tally of "peaceful conversions." While a few stubborn ones will get killed and will cease to matter in secular parlance, because they are so few when compared with the count of people who were converted by "peaceful" means. Also, if we can extrapolate numbers from past to present times to reach a conclusion, then it is quite in-the-correct, to extrapolate in the reverse to reach conclusions about what was done to masses from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and India itself, based on evidence coming from ISIS held territory today.
To conclude, I think your claims are nothing but nostalgia. The "Muslim Jats" don't identify themselves with the Hindu Jats, just like Muslims in Indian subcontinent don't identify themselves with their Hindu ancestors or their descendents.
Other equally Respected Members,
Muhammad Iqbal or Allama Iqbal was a second generation Muslim, his grandparents were Hindu Brahmins (Kashmiri Pandits from sapru clan), I am yet to see a Brahmin celebrate the fact that a "Muslim Brahmin" first gave the idea of Pakistan. May be this is what makes Jats different from Brahmins, and may be this is what Jats must reform so that they can deal with reality head-on.
Please get over your nostalgia and move on in life. Don't keep behaving like a wailing mother of twenty-one year old brat, who left her alone, high and dry, to fend for herself amidst the tribulations of life.
Otherwise,
I think this propaganda is clearly targeted for Jats. As mentioned above no Brahmin, no Bania, no Chamar, etc. talks about his/her long lost brothers who are Muslims with nostalgia. Is this done, because Jats are the only one's capable of holding off Muslims and Pakistanis? Is this propaganda to soften them so that they go with open arms to greet their muslim brothers, because they are the celebrated "Muslim Jats", only to be butchered in broad daylight? In the age when a real brother is killing real brother for a piece of land, etc., we are supposed to go nostalgic about people whom we know nothing about. The only connect being that somewhere in the distant past we shared with them some ancestors, while in present we share with them not the least amount of traits, characters, and behaviors.
It is vilest form of propaganda, I hope people doing it on JL are doing it in all innocence, and not with some ulterior motive in mind.
