Alcoholic drink 'Ginnah' takes dig at Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah

[MenInG]

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In a dig at Pakistan Founding Father Muhammad Ali Jinnah, an alcoholic drink seems to have been named after him suggesting that he had "enjoyed" activities that are forbidden in Islam like pool billiards, cigars, pork sausages as well as fine scotch, whiskey and gin.

News agency ANI cited a Twitter user who posted photos of a bottle of gin named 'Ginnah' after Jinnah. The label on the bottle reads, "In the memory of the man of pleasure who he was: Ginnah".

ANI said it could not confirm the veracity of the bottle. However, several Twitter users have been posting about it with '#Ginnah'.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born on December 25, 1876, in Karachi, now in Pakistan, but then part of British-controlled India. He campaigned for an independent Pakistan and became its first leader. He is known there as 'Quaid-I Azam' or 'Great Leader' in Pakistan.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah was the founder of Pakistan that came into being in 1947 as a secular state," the back label of the bottle read.

In an apparent reference to Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, a Pakistani four-star general, who had deposed then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1977 coup d'etat, the label of the bottle read that the "country was pushed over the cliff by a military dictator aided by supported in Washington DC and converted into a troubled place where he and some of the religious clergy pursued their sinister designs".

"MA Jinnah would never approve of that for he much enjoyed pool billiard, cigars, pork sausages as well as fine scotch whiskey and gin," the label further quipped.

Intoxicants and betting are considered as 'haram' or forbidden in Islam.

Haram is an Arabic term meaning "forbidden". Acts that are haram are prohibited in the religious texts of the Quran and the Sunnah. If something is considered haram, it remains prohibited no matter how good the intention is, or how honourable the purpose is.

Pakistani Twitter users took to social media to react on the matter.

"Needs to be made the national drink #Ginnah," a user quipped.

"Damn! We have gin named after our founding father," another tweeted.

https://www.dnaindia.com/world/repo...-pakistan-founder-muhammad-ali-jinnah-2859830

 

[Pakpak]

Not surprised, you go to any Indian portals and you'll keep reading the word 'Porkistan'. Funny thing is 220 million of their fellow Indians are Muslims too, clearly it doesn't matter to Hinduvta warriors.

 

[MenInG]

Not surprised, you go to any Indian portals and you'll keep reading the word 'Porkistan'. Funny thing is 220 million of their fellow Indians are Muslims too, clearly it doesn't matter to Hinduvta warriors.

Also note the source of the news.... ANI

 

[KingKhanWC]

Childish lol.

They should add to the bottle, his biggest pleasure was to break India into pieces, which even the likes of Ghenghis Khan was unable to do.

I just hope no Indians die of alcohol poisoning from this, Pakistan and Jinnah will be blamed.

 

[sweep_shot]

Really childish and disrespectful.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Why is pool billiards and cigar haram?

 

[El Generico]

ANI said it could not confirm the veracity of the bottle

Lol no wonder ANI has been discredited as a source and is seen as a joke. They saw a random possibly fake image and tired to pass it of as news.

BTW is it just ANI or is it normal for mainstream Indian news sites to write entire reports based on a single unverified tweet?

 

[KingKhanWC]

Why is pool billiards and cigar haram?

They arent not but you cant except the fool who made this to be aware.

Poor business reallly, this wont sell well in India. Modi Martini or Amti Amaretoo would have been better.

 

[Dios]

This is actually pretty lit. I'm sure the man himself would have been flattered and probably would have indulged himself.

 

[gani999]

This is actually pretty lit. I'm sure the man himself would have been flattered and probably would have indulged himself.

This.

If anything, it is a great tribute to Mr. Jinnah. He would have heartily approved of it.

And it is an Indian product?? I'm genuinely shocked!

 

[Third_Umpire]

The Quaid enjoyed a stiff drink, no secret there

 

[El Generico]

This.

If anything, it is a great tribute to Mr. Jinnah. He would have heartily approved of it.

And it is an Indian product?? I'm genuinely shocked!

Why? Slandering a dead man seems pretty on brand for India .

 

[Romali_rotti]

Nothing wrong with making the drink, however its intentions are poor, if this drink was really made then it is to disrespect a nations leader. This is similar to the Chinese making 'Trump Toilets', kinder garden stuff..

 

[Local.Dada]

Nothing wrong with making the drink, however its intentions are poor, if this drink was really made then it is to disrespect a nations leader. This is similar to the Chinese making 'Trump Toilets', kinder garden stuff..

Based on that packaging and bottling, it doesn’t seem to be an Indian brand.

It could be just that how our perspective is Jinnah the man who broke India and Pakistan’s perspective rightfully for them as a man who got them independence this could be a third party perspective of Jinnah as a man with high taste with his wining and dining. could it genuinely be that particular reputation which made this company give this tribute to him ?

 

[Slog]

Lol no wonder ANI has been discredited as a source and is seen as a joke. They saw a random possibly fake image and tired to pass it of as news.

BTW is it just ANI or is it normal for mainstream Indian news sites to write entire reports based on a single unverified tweet?

I’ve seen this bottle myself. About 3 weeks ago. I was actually thinking of making a thread on it but was too lazy to upload a pic and start at thread.

I don’t see it being insulting or anything. It’s definitely not a dig at the Quaid and Indian media is being pathetic like they always are.

 

[Slog]

I’ve seen this bottle myself. About 3 weeks ago. I was actually thinking of making a thread on it but was too lazy to upload a pic and start at thread.

I don’t see it being insulting or anything. It’s definitely not a dig at the Quaid and Indian media is being pathetic like they always are.

On correction. The tweet isn’t a dig. The article is

 

[cricketjoshila]

Lol no wonder ANI has been discredited as a source and is seen as a joke. They saw a random possibly fake image and tired to pass it of as news.

BTW is it just ANI or is it normal for mainstream Indian news sites to write entire reports based on a single unverified tweet?

Who discredited ANI?

 

[Varun]

Who discredited ANI?

It discredited itself when that human Snorlax Smita Prakash took charge.

On topic, if I was Jinnah I would consider this a compliment. How many people in the world have wines and spirits named after them? You can count them on one hand. I would be flattered.

 

[Mamoon]

There is no doubt about the fact that Jinnah was an Anglophile and preferred a western lifestyle.

He would have bacon and pork sausages for breakfast, enjoy red wine after dinner and a glass of whiskey with cigar after dinner while playing billiards.

He also felt very uncomfortable when had to pray because of public pressure, and considered it a form of “exercise”.

It is also said that when he left his Bombay home after partition, he requested Nehru to not allow a Muslim family occupy his house, because they would ruin the western architecture and decor.

As a result, it was handed over to the British High Commission.

There isn’t much discourse on Jinnah’s lifestyle because it is a very uncomfortable topic for Pakistanis today. The fact that the founding father of Pakistan didn’t personally approve of a Muslim lifestyle is an ironic tragedy.

Moreover, Jinnah never wanted Pakistan to become a “Muslim country”. It was a country for Muslim majority but not a Muslim state. There is a clear distinction.

What Pakistan has become today is not remotely what Jinnah wanted and expected, and if he had any inclination of what Pakistan would become a mere 30-40 years after independence, he would have retracted his demands of an independent homeland.

 

[ahsan17]

Who discredited ANI?

At this point, playing mental gymnastics and semantics isn't going to help. The only ones questioning EU disinfo lab are Bakhts. Everyone else has either accepted it or is indifferent, but no one has denied it other than the bakhts.

 

[MenInG]

There is no doubt about the fact that Jinnah was an Anglophile and preferred a western lifestyle.

He would have bacon and pork sausages for breakfast, enjoy red wine after dinner and a glass of whiskey with cigar after dinner while playing billiards.

He also felt very uncomfortable when had to pray because of public pressure, and considered it a form of “exercise”.

It is also said that when he left his Bombay home after partition, he requested Nehru to not allow a Muslim family occupy his house, because they would ruin the western architecture and decor.

As a result, it was handed over to the British High Commission.

There isn’t much discourse on Jinnah’s lifestyle because it is a very uncomfortable topic for Pakistanis today. The fact that the founding father of Pakistan didn’t personally approve of a Muslim lifestyle is an ironic tragedy.

Moreover, Jinnah never wanted Pakistan to become a “Muslim country”. It was a country for Muslim majority but not a Muslim state. There is a clear distinction.

What Pakistan has become today is not remotely what Jinnah wanted and expected, and if he had any inclination of what Pakistan would become a mere 30-40 years after independence, he would have retracted his demands of an independent homeland.

Mr. Jinnah, if you dont mind.

 

[saeedhk]

What’s the matter here? No biggie.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Based on that packaging and bottling, it doesn’t seem to be an Indian brand.

It could be just that how our perspective is Jinnah the man who broke India and Pakistan’s perspective rightfully for them as a man who got them independence this could be a third party perspective of Jinnah as a man with high taste with his wining and dining. could it genuinely be that particular reputation which made this company give this tribute to him ?

Hard to tell what an Indian brand is these days, English is the master language now in India and thus it makes perfect sense to use English humour to troll Pakistan. It's not a bad play on words, but of course inadvertently the makers are sending themselves up as brown sahibs without realising it.