The Muslims, as I think...
The Muslim of India is akin to the Hindu and has no resemblance whatsoever to the Muslim in Turkey, Iran or any Arab country. In fact, the Muslims of those countries customarily refer to Muslims of India as 'Hindis' only. What then is the factor that separates local Muslims from Hindus? Most of the Muslims do not yet regard India as their home of which they must feel proud. Many regard themselves, quite wrongly, I think, as belonging to the race of conquerers. Many consider their forefathers to be Aurangazeb, Humayun etc., who are worshiped as heroes. But none of them are descendants of these alien invaders(looters?). These are a peculiar new community, being the progeny of Hindus who had been converted to Islam, many time by fraud, temptation or force. Physically they are children of Hindustan, but mentally aligned with foreign invaders.
“There is not an inch of soil of India which our forefathers did not once purchase with their blood. We cannot be false to the blood of our forefathers. India the whole of it, is therefore our heritage and it must be conquered by Islam. Expansion in the spiritual sense is an inherent necessary of our faith and implies no hatred or enmity towards the Hindus. Rather the reverse. Our ultimate Ideal should be the unification of India, spiritually as well as politically, under the banner of Islam. The final political salvation of India is not otherwise possible”
~ A.F. Khan Durrani ( writes in the preface to his book 'THE MEANING OF PAKISTAN')
Are these foreign invaders really the heroes to be adored? As the great Historian Will Durant describes ' The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history', during which the persecution of Hindus was conducted by massive ethnic cleansing. Forced religious conversion, enslavement, desecration and demolishment of Hindu temples and ashrams, and mass-rapes of Hindu women and sexual abuse of Hindu children were common during those days. Even the great Tipu Sultan, wanted to Islamise the entire south India. He had to wage a war against the Britishers when they prevented him from doing so, as the British wanted to rule them. Is he an Indian freedom fighter?
“Kashiji ki kalaa jaati, Mathuraa masjid hoti
Shivaji na hote to sunnat hoti sab ki”
(The beauty of Benaras would have vanished, Mathura would have turned into a Masjid, and all would have been circumcised, had not Shivaji been born)
The recent controversy over the recitation of Vande mataram raises doubts about the national spirit of the Muslims. I know that forcing someone to sing VandeMataram might not inculcate patriotism in them, but opposing to such things will definitely draw a line of demarcation between the Muslims and the Hindus, which might further split the nation in two. I don't understand why they always bring religion on issues concerning the nation. On September 7, a Muslim school in Lucknow preferred to sing Mohammad Iqbal's 'saare jahan se achha..' instead of 'Vande Mataram'. The Muslims should understand the fact that, even though we follow different religions we share a common motherland, and should never bring religion in all such matters. In contrast, the Hindus throughout the country sing 'Allah ke bande..', 'ya ali..' etc., without thinking of religion even once. This is what I call a true secularism! I know that there are Muslims who are loyal to the nation, but when a section of them are bent upon breaking the solidarity of our nation, I don't find any hesitation to blame the community as a whole. And their brothers, if they are true to the nation, should take the lead rather than supporting them. One thing that you got to observe is that most of the Muslims in India blindly follow the Mullahs and the Malvis. It is only because of these Mullahs, that a large section of Muslim community is uneducated. The statistics show that only 3.1% of the Muslims are graduates and 1.2% are post-graduates. The Mullahs insist upon sending the Muslim children to Madrassas rather than schools, so that they can keep these people under their control. These Mullahs issue fatwas against whichever is anti-Islamic (according to their interpretation). But not even a single fatwa has been issued against terrorism, which lies in the core of their religion. They proclaim that terrorism has no religion. But you cannot run away from certain facts. The fact that ' all Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims' is enough to say that Terrorism lies in the core of Islam. All the prime accused of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts (for the matter of fact, any) are all the local muslims, who are the citizens of India. Now the question arises: what is that provokes these people to become Terrorists? The fact is that Madrassas have become the recruitment grounds of Islamic terrorists who brainwash the Muslim youth to believe that converting the Kafir land of India (Dar-Ul-Harb) into an Islamic Nation (Dar-Ul-Islam) is the sacred duty of every Muslim and therefore the Muslims must engage themselves in Jihad or Holy war to destroy the Kafirs. Their religious teachings not only brainwashes the uneducated but also the well learned. The best example that I can give is the case of Mohammad Iqbal, who had written 'Saare jahan se achha, Hisndustan hamaraa..'. The same person, after his return from Germany, where he had delved deep into Islamic studies, then writes ' muslim hain hum, watan hain saara jahan hamara' (we are Muslims and the whole world is our land).
George Bernard Shaw quotes:
“Islam is a religion where You will be butchered for worshiping other religions, for which you will go to hell and he will go to heaven.”
He further writes:
“Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers.”
The behavior of the Muslims all over the world is more or less the same. Whenever the Muslims are in a minority they have been generally reluctant to regard themselves as a part and parcel of a non-religious nation. For example, the Muslims of France, who constitute 24%, are clamoring for separate civil laws based on Shariat, and this is the same case in all other countries including India. The recent revolts of Muslims in Philippines, Thailand, Ethiopia, are merely expressions of the Muslim unwillingness to participate in a common social order on equal terms with others. Whenever Muslims are in a majority they have refused to recognize the equal rights to non-muslim minorities. During the partition of our country, Pakistan signed an agreement that it would make sure that the rights and the safety of the minorities would be taken proper care. But through planned activities of persecution and torture and forced conversion of minority Hindus and Christians, the number of minorities in Pakistan has gone down from 24% in 1947 to almost 1% today. In Bangladesh too, the number of minorities has gone down from 30% in 1947 to 7% today. What happened to these minorities?? Did they leave their nation and came back to India? I guess not. In contrast, the Muslim population in India has gone up from 10% in 1947 to almost 14% today; whereas the Hindu population has come down from 88% in 1947 to 81% today. The answer to these questions is not only because of conversion, but also because of giving birth to large number of children. There was a case in Mallapuram (Kerala) where a doctor found 3 generations of Muslim women –daughter(13), Mother(26) and grandmother(39) all pregnant being admitted for delivery.
Every religion has certain flaws. Even the Hindu religion was blindfolded by sati, casteism etc. After constant reformation by the Hindu intelligentsia these things have been abolished. The outdated notion of Manu Smruti has been rejected by VHP and Dharmacharyas. Among the Muslims there is conspicuous absence of unbiased self-critical and rational individuals who can discuss the problems fruitfully. Their so-called leaders are usually the leaders of a blind, orthodox, and ill-educated community. All of them put forward the arguments in the same tone again and again. When they find faults, the faults are invariable the faults of others. They do not have the capacity to understand their own mistakes. Atleast the Muslim intelligentsia who have understood the flaws should courageously strive hard to reform their society. Unless this is done riots, terror attacks etc. can never be put to an end.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good man to do nothing.”
~Edmund Burke
Indonesia, which was a part of Bharat long ago, affords a striking example of an Islamic country deeply imbued with Hindu culture. To the muslims who form about 80% of the population, Islam has remained very much their personal faith, but their national culture continues to be a Hindu -their culture before their conversion to Islam. Ramayana and Mahabharata are their national epics. They worship Ganesha and saraswati. Their currency notes have an image of Lord Ganesha (see the image below). Their constitution begins with the declaration “Dharmo rakhsati rakhitah”. Garuda, the mount of Vishnu, adorns the name of their airways. The epic hero Dronacharya inspires their defence academy. Most of the people bear the illustrious names of ancient Bharat. The Indonesians affirm with pride that they have changed their religion but not their ancestors. If any Indonesian visits India, it is more than a sight-seeing, it is a pilgrimage. But in India the first thing for a convert is to adopt an Arabic name. There was a ridiculous case in Perayur (Mathura district, Tamilnadu), where a convert named Mathu Karuppiah became Saddam Hussain. Let us realize and believe that we all are children of this soil coming from the same stock, that our forefathers are one and our aspirations are also one!
“There is not an inch of soil of India which our forefathers did not once purchase with their blood. We cannot be false to the blood of our forefathers. India the whole of it, is therefore our heritage and it must be conquered by Islam. Expansion in the spiritual sense is an inherent necessary of our faith and implies no hatred or enmity towards the Hindus. Rather the reverse. Our ultimate Ideal should be the unification of India, spiritually as well as politically, under the banner of Islam. The final political salvation of India is not otherwise possible”
~ A.F. Khan Durrani ( writes in the preface to his book 'THE MEANING OF PAKISTAN')
Are these foreign invaders really the heroes to be adored? As the great Historian Will Durant describes ' The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history', during which the persecution of Hindus was conducted by massive ethnic cleansing. Forced religious conversion, enslavement, desecration and demolishment of Hindu temples and ashrams, and mass-rapes of Hindu women and sexual abuse of Hindu children were common during those days. Even the great Tipu Sultan, wanted to Islamise the entire south India. He had to wage a war against the Britishers when they prevented him from doing so, as the British wanted to rule them. Is he an Indian freedom fighter?
“Kashiji ki kalaa jaati, Mathuraa masjid hoti
Shivaji na hote to sunnat hoti sab ki”
(The beauty of Benaras would have vanished, Mathura would have turned into a Masjid, and all would have been circumcised, had not Shivaji been born)
The recent controversy over the recitation of Vande mataram raises doubts about the national spirit of the Muslims. I know that forcing someone to sing VandeMataram might not inculcate patriotism in them, but opposing to such things will definitely draw a line of demarcation between the Muslims and the Hindus, which might further split the nation in two. I don't understand why they always bring religion on issues concerning the nation. On September 7, a Muslim school in Lucknow preferred to sing Mohammad Iqbal's 'saare jahan se achha..' instead of 'Vande Mataram'. The Muslims should understand the fact that, even though we follow different religions we share a common motherland, and should never bring religion in all such matters. In contrast, the Hindus throughout the country sing 'Allah ke bande..', 'ya ali..' etc., without thinking of religion even once. This is what I call a true secularism! I know that there are Muslims who are loyal to the nation, but when a section of them are bent upon breaking the solidarity of our nation, I don't find any hesitation to blame the community as a whole. And their brothers, if they are true to the nation, should take the lead rather than supporting them. One thing that you got to observe is that most of the Muslims in India blindly follow the Mullahs and the Malvis. It is only because of these Mullahs, that a large section of Muslim community is uneducated. The statistics show that only 3.1% of the Muslims are graduates and 1.2% are post-graduates. The Mullahs insist upon sending the Muslim children to Madrassas rather than schools, so that they can keep these people under their control. These Mullahs issue fatwas against whichever is anti-Islamic (according to their interpretation). But not even a single fatwa has been issued against terrorism, which lies in the core of their religion. They proclaim that terrorism has no religion. But you cannot run away from certain facts. The fact that ' all Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims' is enough to say that Terrorism lies in the core of Islam. All the prime accused of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts (for the matter of fact, any) are all the local muslims, who are the citizens of India. Now the question arises: what is that provokes these people to become Terrorists? The fact is that Madrassas have become the recruitment grounds of Islamic terrorists who brainwash the Muslim youth to believe that converting the Kafir land of India (Dar-Ul-Harb) into an Islamic Nation (Dar-Ul-Islam) is the sacred duty of every Muslim and therefore the Muslims must engage themselves in Jihad or Holy war to destroy the Kafirs. Their religious teachings not only brainwashes the uneducated but also the well learned. The best example that I can give is the case of Mohammad Iqbal, who had written 'Saare jahan se achha, Hisndustan hamaraa..'. The same person, after his return from Germany, where he had delved deep into Islamic studies, then writes ' muslim hain hum, watan hain saara jahan hamara' (we are Muslims and the whole world is our land).
George Bernard Shaw quotes:
“Islam is a religion where You will be butchered for worshiping other religions, for which you will go to hell and he will go to heaven.”
He further writes:
“Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers.”
The behavior of the Muslims all over the world is more or less the same. Whenever the Muslims are in a minority they have been generally reluctant to regard themselves as a part and parcel of a non-religious nation. For example, the Muslims of France, who constitute 24%, are clamoring for separate civil laws based on Shariat, and this is the same case in all other countries including India. The recent revolts of Muslims in Philippines, Thailand, Ethiopia, are merely expressions of the Muslim unwillingness to participate in a common social order on equal terms with others. Whenever Muslims are in a majority they have refused to recognize the equal rights to non-muslim minorities. During the partition of our country, Pakistan signed an agreement that it would make sure that the rights and the safety of the minorities would be taken proper care. But through planned activities of persecution and torture and forced conversion of minority Hindus and Christians, the number of minorities in Pakistan has gone down from 24% in 1947 to almost 1% today. In Bangladesh too, the number of minorities has gone down from 30% in 1947 to 7% today. What happened to these minorities?? Did they leave their nation and came back to India? I guess not. In contrast, the Muslim population in India has gone up from 10% in 1947 to almost 14% today; whereas the Hindu population has come down from 88% in 1947 to 81% today. The answer to these questions is not only because of conversion, but also because of giving birth to large number of children. There was a case in Mallapuram (Kerala) where a doctor found 3 generations of Muslim women –daughter(13), Mother(26) and grandmother(39) all pregnant being admitted for delivery.
Every religion has certain flaws. Even the Hindu religion was blindfolded by sati, casteism etc. After constant reformation by the Hindu intelligentsia these things have been abolished. The outdated notion of Manu Smruti has been rejected by VHP and Dharmacharyas. Among the Muslims there is conspicuous absence of unbiased self-critical and rational individuals who can discuss the problems fruitfully. Their so-called leaders are usually the leaders of a blind, orthodox, and ill-educated community. All of them put forward the arguments in the same tone again and again. When they find faults, the faults are invariable the faults of others. They do not have the capacity to understand their own mistakes. Atleast the Muslim intelligentsia who have understood the flaws should courageously strive hard to reform their society. Unless this is done riots, terror attacks etc. can never be put to an end.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good man to do nothing.”
~Edmund Burke
Indonesia, which was a part of Bharat long ago, affords a striking example of an Islamic country deeply imbued with Hindu culture. To the muslims who form about 80% of the population, Islam has remained very much their personal faith, but their national culture continues to be a Hindu -their culture before their conversion to Islam. Ramayana and Mahabharata are their national epics. They worship Ganesha and saraswati. Their currency notes have an image of Lord Ganesha (see the image below). Their constitution begins with the declaration “Dharmo rakhsati rakhitah”. Garuda, the mount of Vishnu, adorns the name of their airways. The epic hero Dronacharya inspires their defence academy. Most of the people bear the illustrious names of ancient Bharat. The Indonesians affirm with pride that they have changed their religion but not their ancestors. If any Indonesian visits India, it is more than a sight-seeing, it is a pilgrimage. But in India the first thing for a convert is to adopt an Arabic name. There was a ridiculous case in Perayur (Mathura district, Tamilnadu), where a convert named Mathu Karuppiah became Saddam Hussain. Let us realize and believe that we all are children of this soil coming from the same stock, that our forefathers are one and our aspirations are also one!
P.S.: i must say i really really liked this blog post very every much...it reflected all that i think EXACTLY...in just the right mix...
people think tht i hate muslims but its not so..i hate those behaviours tht some of them do (as put in the post)and which puts all of them in a bad name....they shld seek out these things amongst themselves and ostracize such people instead of just blaming other indians of minoritising them..:( Only if they understand..
