[Reader-list] Simi Garewal?

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Naeem
 
Simi Garewal for sure has interviewed Benazir on her show "Rendezvous with Simi Garewal" for the 'Star World' channel
 
That is probably what you saw. I do not know of any other 'oldtime' actress who conducts interviews.
 
She has apologised for her "Pakistani Flags" comment. She missed the fact that 'those' flags did not have the vertical White Stripe. I guess since 'peace' was a casualty, the 'white stripe' was not taken into account.
 
That brings me to the question to educate myself. Where does the 'Crescent Moon and Star' motif  come from as an Islamic symbol? 
 
All accounts suggest that it has nothing to do with Islam as such and predates Islam. The know linkage for introduction into Islamic Symbolism is after the Islamisation of Constantinople where it was already a part of the flag for the Ottomon Empire.
 
The Star is used on the flags of islamic countries with varying designs and numbers. The suggestion therefore that the Star if 5 pointed represents the 5 pillars of Islam does not seem to be valid.
 
If this is factual, then the question arises for the Indian Muslims that should they be thinking about using the Islamic Flag without the Crescent and Star so that it does not appear to be close to being the flag of Pakistan?
 
Kshmendra
 
 
 

--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] Simi Garewal?
To: "reader-list at sarai.net" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 3:18 PM

On Jet Airways Dhaka-Delhi flight last week, there was a full-length
interview of Benazir Bhutto that kept running on one channel. Very
odd. But anyay, my question is, was the interviewer Simi Garewal or
someone else? I can't keep the oldtime filmi stars straight, so I may
have mixed her up.

I ask because now I read reports of Simi G talking about "Pakistani
flags" in India, so just trying to connect.

But I may have the interviewer mixed up, can someone shed light?
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