why are Indian Muslims protesting against the bombing of Pakistan.

[Guest guest]

Namaskar,

after the Jumma prayers on the first Friday thousands of Muslims across India

protested against the American bombing of Afghanistan, some of yu might wonder

how does the bombing affect them. Here are extracts from a recent essay titled

Aligarg Movement. Given below are quotes by Syed Ahmed Khan, the father of the

Pan-islamic Movement in India, Gandhi consolidated the Pan-Islamic feeling

amonsgst Indian Muslims with the Khilafat movement. Syed was born in 1817 and

is hailed as amongst the greatest political leaders Muslim India has produced

in the last 200 yrs. He was the founder of the Aligarh University. The next

post would the British role in formenting, consolidating separatist tendencies

amongst the Muslims of India. if yu like to read the entire essay could send yu

a zipped file.

According to the latest India Today the govt of Sharjah has banned Indian women

from wearing from sarees since it shows the navel, are they moving the

Afghanistan way? What do the Hindus expect next? The "secular" media is silent!

love and om sanjeev

Words of Syed Ahmed / Analysis Chapter 4

While SAK attempts to uplift the Muslims is to be appreciated, it is painful to

note that it has as its background a supreme contempt for the Indians.

In a letter from London dated 15/10/1869 he writes "Without the flattering of

the English, I can truly say that the natives of India, high and low etc when

contrasted with the English in education, manners and uprightness, are as like

them as a dirty animal is to an able and handsome man. Do you look upon an

animal as a thing to be honored? Do you think it necessary to treat an animal

courteously, or the reverse? You do not! We have no right to courteous

treatment. The English have reason for believing us in India to be imbecile

brutes". Sir Syed Ahmad by Graham pg 183-184.

In a speech in 1884 he said "Do you not inhibit the same land, Remember that

words Hindu and Muslim are only meant for religious distinction, otherwise all

persons, whether Hindu and Muslim, even the Christians who reside in this

country, are all in this particular respect belong to one and the same

nation’. Eminent Mussalmans by Natesan pg 32.

To a Punjabi Hindu audience he said that every inhabitant of Hindusthan is a

Hindu and added "I am therefore sorry that you do not regard me as Hindu".

India Divided by Rajendra Prasad pg 99.

But some of his utterances reflect a different mindset. As far as 1858 he

deplored the fact that Hindus and Muslims, were put into the same regiment of

the British army, and thus a feeling of friendship and brotherhood sprang

between them. He added "If separate regiments of Hindus and Muslims had been

raised, this feeling of brotherhood could not have arisen". Causes of Indian

Revolt pg 54-55.

At a speech at Meerut on 16/03/1888 he refers to the Hindus and Muslims not only

as two nations, but as two warring nations who could not lead a common political

life if ever the Brits left India. He said, "Now suppose that all the Brits were

to leave India, then who would be the rulers of India? Is it possible that under

these circumstances these nations, the Muhammadan and the Hindu could sit on the

same throne and remain equal in power. Most certainly not. It is necessary that

one of them should conquer the other and thrust it down. To hope that both

could remain equal is to desire the impossible and the inconceivable". Sachin

Sen pg 42. Does this not reflect the Islamic mindset? As a community Muslims

have not learnt to co-exist with other communities. That is because Islam

believes in Dar-ul-Islam, Muslim rule pure and simple. These words were echoed

by Islamic writer Rafiq Zakaria in his book The Widening Divide. Unless the

Muslim stops drawing pride from the deeds of the Muslim invaders and realizes

that he is a Hindu convert, the divide between the two communities might never

cease.

Quoting from Indian Controversies by Arun Shourie pg 112 "And first suppose that

all the Muslims vote for a Muslim and all the Hindus vote for a Hindu, it is

certain that Muslims will have four times as many votes since their population

is four times as numerous. And then how can the Muslim guard his interests? Now

I ask you, O Muslims! Weep at your condition! Have you such wealth that you can

compete with the Hindus? In the whole nation there is no person who is equal to

Hindus in the fitness for the work!" Will the Hindus stop criticizing

themselves?

Quoting from Indian Controversies by Arun Shourie pg 118 "O, my brother Muslims!

I again remind you that you have ruled nations, and have for centuries held

different nations in your grasp". Cannot forget that Muslims ruled India once

and explains the Muslims desire to dominate India today through the Karachi

based underworld.

As early as 1883, he delivered a long speech deprecating the system of

representative institutions for fear that "the larger community would totally

derive override the interest of the smaller community". Coupland II part I pg

154-56. In this speech he harped upon the elements of discord and disunion that

divided India. "In one and the same district, said he, the population consists

of various creeds and nationalities". The whole speech is an eloquent plea

against Indian nationality and indicates the wide chasm that divided the Hindu

and Muslim leaders in their political thought and ideas.

"In a country like India where homogeneity does not exist in any one of these

fields (nationality, religion, ways of living, customs, mores, culture and

historical traditions), the introduction of representative govt cannot produce

any beneficial results, it can only result in interfering with the peace and

prosperity of the land. The aims and objectives of the Congress are based upon

the ignorance of history and present day realities; they do not take into

consideration that India is inhabited with different nationalities. I consider

the experiment, which the Congress wants to make fraught with dangers and

suffering for all the nationalities of India, especially for the Muslims. The

Muslims are in a minority, but they are a highly united minority. Atleast they

are traditionally prone to taking the sword when the majority oppresses them.

If this happens, it will bring about disasters greater than the ones, which

came in the wake of the happenings of 1857. The Congress cannot rationally

prove its claim to represent the opinions, ideals and aspirations of the

Muslims". Syed Ahmad Khan, Akhari Madamin, pg 46-50. Quoted in Sources of

Indian Tradition pp 746-7. Think about it have things changed! A couple of days

i.e. some 20/8/2001, the police in Ahmedabad removed Muslim hawkers from the

pavement and they rioted. In Lucknow some time in 2001 during I think a Ramzan

procession a Muslim girl was allegedly molested by a policemen. Without

checking the veracity of the event or asking the police to take action they

took to the streets. Examples like this are galore. The Indian Muslim had begun

to believe that by resorting to violence the scared Hindu would back off and let

him live in a Muslim ghetto without being subject to Indian read Hindu laws.

SAK regarded the Congress as inimical to the true interests of the Muslims. He

wrote in the Pioneer on 2-3/10/1887 that the parliamentary form of governance

"was unsuited to a country containing two or more nations tending to oppress

the numerically weaker". The Development of Indian National Congress by P C

Ghosh pg 43C.

During 1988, Tyabji and Hume worked hard to secure SAK ka cooperation. He said

"I do not understand what the words National Congress mean. Is it supposed that

the different castes and creeds living in India belong to one nation, or can

become a nation, and their aims and aspirations be one and the same? I think it

is impossible, and when it is possible there can be no such thing as a national

congress, nor can it be of equal benefit to all peoples. I object to every

Congress in any shape or form whatever which regards Indian as one nation". Ram

Gopal ph 67. It may be mentioned that the Muslims of north India agreed with the

policy of SAK.

At Lucknow on 28/12/1887, on the eve of the Congress session in Madras he said

"If you accept that the country should groan under the yoke of Bengali rule and

its people lick the Bengali shoes, then in the name of God! Jump into the train,

sit down, and be off to Madras". Syed Ahmad Khan On the present state of Indian

Politics pg 11-12. Referring to these speeches M Noman said "No Muslim of India

since then joined the Congress except one or two. Even SAK’s fellow

Muslims who differed from his views on religion, education and social matters,

opposed him violently, followed him in politics and preserved their isolation

from the Congress".

There is no doubt that SAK succeed in keeping the bulk of the Muslims away from

the Congress. In 1896, Rahimatullah Sayani, a distinguished Muslim, presided

over the Congress session. Haji Ismail Khan a friend of SAH suggested to the

Congress President that the Congress should pass a resolution to the effect

that the Hindus and Muslims should have equal seats in the legislative

councils, district boards and municipalities. SAK endorsed it and wrote an

article that Muslims could join the Congress only if the Congress agreed to the

proposal of Ismail Khan. P C Ghosh.

Quoting from Indian Controversies by Arun Shourie pg 106, SAK believed that "If

the Congress or the British persist in pushing these proposals the Muslims will

fight with the help of the Turks and Pathans if necessary. He said that Muslims

are enjoined by the Quran and the Prophet to be loyal to the ruler. Muslims are

taught by the Koran that people who are most likely to be their friends are

Christians rather than kafirs". Discover your Roots - Visit

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