An Appeal to Indian Muslims

It is very unfortunate that even after more than sixty years of partition of India which led to the birth of Pakistan in 1947-Indian political leaders and the intelligentsia in general have failed to grasp the root of all the unfortunate events of communal strife and terrorism (basically Islamic).

India will never be able to solve these two problems so long the state of Pakistan will exist with its existential root in religion. If there is any single community in the world that has the least knowledge of its religion and its philosophy –then it can be mentioned without the least qualm- that it is Pakistan. There are several Islamic states and groups in the world but none of them is so un-Islamic as Pakistan and now Bangladesh. It can not be expected that all the states of the world like India –will effectively pursue the noble idea of states of not interfering in the affairs of the religions of their subjects and thereby remaining perfectly neutral to all religious sects and groups of the people living in these countries. The word secularism is relatively modern in its use relating to governance of states. But when Asoka or Harshvardhana became Buddhists they did not discriminate against the majority Hindus. Religious tolerance is deep in Indian psyche; it’s basically for the Hindus that it was possible for the birth the Upanishads, the Vedas and the Gita. The catholicity of the wisdom as evident from these great books must be considered for analysing the nature and character of the Hindus –if one wants to understand a nation in a scientific way. It is for this rooted wisdom the Indian leaders accepted secularism as a policy of the government and ingrained it in the constitution of free India after the partition. And it was for this same wisdom and catholic attitude that Indian political leaders never accepted the two-nation theory of Jinnah. Indian people never accepted partition. It is not for the love for Hinduism but for India –the land-whom they consider as their mother. Muslims have failed to understand this spirit of the majority Hindus who regard their land as dear and as loving as their mother-a mother who is the source of all sustenance of the life of a child. The most sacred and deep relation is missed when the narrow and sectarian way is chosen for a refusal of a noble and tender feeling.
Muslims of various shades and sects invaded India time and again to plunder away with her wealth and destroy the Hindu temples –and finally they settled in India by conquering the country. Hindus –perhaps destroyed only one- the Babri Mosque in the historical time. But the vehement protests came from the majority Hindus who did not approve of that destructive impulse. But there is no recorded instance in history of a single protest by any Muslim for destroying thousands of Hindu temples by the Muslims in one thousand years. There is no recorded instance of the Hindus invading a foreign country in history. Hindus are basically peace-loving people because of the influence of their spiritual thoughts from time immemorial.
In time of Sepoy-mutiny against the British –the Hindus were at the helm of that revolt and not any Muslim of any consequence. The Hindu militants wanted to oust the British and replace them not with any renowned Hindu but with the Second Bahadur Shah-a descendant of the Moughal emperors. They considered the last Moughal as their own person and not the British. It was because of living under Muslim rule for almost five hundred years. So it was natural for the Hindus to want to remain in an undivided India.





Unfortunately, the Muslims in this sub-continent had an uncomfortable complex to live under Hindu rulers whom they had been accustomed to rule for five hundred years. So it was desirable to them even to be ruled by the British than by the Hindus. Throughout the period of freedom –movement against the British –Muslims –in general remained aloof and did not take any significant part in that struggle. They had no significant political grievance against the British and they never felt it in their passion to see them free from the foreign rule. It was much later the league and some rootless leaders appeared to fish in the troubled water for personal and individual gains. Some argue that the majority of the Muslims in the then undivided India were too uneducated and socially backward to be aware of the value of independence. But why were the Muslims were so backward? They had had the advantage of being patronised by their own Muslim rulers for about five hundred years before the British came to replace them. So for what reasons the Hindus became more associated with the British administration than the Muslims? In all fields of life the Hindus were an overwhelming majority in the British period. The Hindus were treated at par with the Muslims by the British and they did not discriminate Muslims against the Hindus. If we go on tracing the root of this backwardness –we will find it in the dominant mullahs who were the guardians of Muslim society. These mullahs were unenlightened medievalists and fundamentalists. Muslims were –in the name of religion-kept outside the ever changing and progressing world. The evolution of mind as reflected in new thoughts and ideas was anathema to the Muslim world of this sub-continent. The society turned into ghettos thanks to the alienation of the Muslims from the large open world. In this background the Hindus and for that matter any progressiveness was seen as anti-Islam. This anti-Islamic conception was imposed against Hindus emphatically in Muslim psychology. The more the Hindus progressed and developed the more the Muslims became anti-Hindu. This social and economical differences gave a fillip to anti-Hindu feeling as was seen in the case of Jews in many other countries. But here in India the chemistry was more complicated with the elements of religions and the sense of inferiority.
Here the concept of Islam is mixed with anti-Hinduism. This is a very complicated situation. One may argue that why then Osama bin Laden and his terrorist outfits have grown against the US when it has no way been related to the Hindus? Yes –this is a very pertinent point while discussing the issue of Islamic terrorism and the situation in India is also related to a common psychological problem.
Muslims all over the world are victims of a peculiar psychology. They are very sensitive of their religion. They could not think of other identity –however great that may be than the identity in religion. The Christians missed the true spiritual import of Christ and took only the element that ensued from the original consciousness-the element of charity and kindness to the fellow neighbours. So is the reality with the true and proper Islam but in the inferior way. The instinct of organisational cohesion got the better of love, chivalry and universal brotherhood of Islam. So for this instinct to get into the organisation than to remain in the wider air of the world –the Muslims –in general become unusually sensitive of their physical existence as Muslims.
This psychology also plays a in a subtle way in their approach to the Hindus and their affairs apart from what have been told above.
It’s not a question which country the terrorists belong to. There are so many anti-Indian Muslim terrorists in India-and some of them are citizens of India. But the home of all the terrorists is Pakistan –in the full knowledge of Pakistani rulers and the pamparing ISI whose existence is for causing harms to India with the terrorists. They are not state-less but with a home in Pakistan. All these terrorists are trained in Pakistan and Bangladesh and they are moved to action by the instigation and plan of the ISI and Pakistani army. The loss of property and life by the Muslim terrorists are definitely shocking and each terrorist strike caused immense damage to this country. But the most alarming damage –Pakistan has been inflicting on India is communal disharmony among the people of India. Pakistan can not survive without India bashing. Anti-Hinduism and Islam are now tantamount to them. They will be more inimical in future for India’s every step towards material prosperity. For all this the most responsible groups are the group of the mullahs who are the walls against the Light that enlightens.
In such circumstance India can only be safe in dismantling of the state apparatus of Pakistan. Pakistan is now the Mecca of all the terrorists of the world. But in the law of the greater truth Pakistan in its present form will definitely be destroyed in the process.
Or the only way she can survive is to be led by a person of the magnitude of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.






But before that I would appeal to all Indian Muslims for raising their voice publicly against the terrorists and more emphatically against Pakistan and it is especially on the Indian Muslims now more than the majority Hindus to convince the other religious people of India and the world at large that it is not the Muslims but the state of Pakistan is responsible for all terrorist activities. The purpose of this appeal is for communal harmony and for the welfare of India in general.