Dt: 11/9/17
Rohingyas in India?
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
A number of Muslim organisations in Hyderabad and their traditional friends, the communist parties ( CPIM, CPI, CPML…) left, liberal, human rights activists and fellow travelling intellectuals and even some English dailies through their editorials have been urging upon the Government of India to provide asylum to the Bengali speaking Rohingyas who infiltrated into Myanmar since the middle of 19th century and have since furiously proliferated to overwhelm the natives but now are expelled from Myanmar. They are objecting to the Government of India’s action to identify these illegal entrants into India and its direction to the states to arrange for their deportation . The partisans of Rohingyas are ignoring the most significant facts.
2. The British occupied Myanmar ( Burma then) in the 1820s. They encouraged the Bengali- speaking Muslims of East Bengal to cross into Myanmar on the east and to Assam in the north east. The British policy was to inject minorities into majority areas so that these minorities will be the bull work for the British raj against the majorities who will be anti-British occupying power, Sylhet district of Assam and the Arakan (now Rakhine) of Burma were special targets for infiltration. In both these districts the Bengali –speaking Muslims of East Bengal had become the majority . Sylhet had to be ceded to Bangladesh. Muslim Rohingyas had always been treated even during the British rule in Burna as non- Burmese citizens. They are foreigners living in Burma (now Myanmar). Finding that these Rohingyas have, through large families are overwhelming the natives even the mild Buddhists had turned against them. There was a movement for expulsion of Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrates in Assam, there have been agitations for expulsion of Rohingyas from Myanmar. While in India, the 20 mln Bangladeshi Muslims are sheltered by their co-religionists and many of them are used as vote banks by the communist and secular parties, Myanmar has no such secular parties or vote bank politics . Both the people and the government are of the same mind that illegal settlers in their land should be thrown out.
3. Bangladesh from where the Rohingyas have entered Myanmar is not willing to take them back and settle them in the land of their ancestors. A few of them are being settled in an uninhabited Island of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal . If the mother country does not take, what compelling reason is there for Bharat to take these Muslim Rohingyas ?
4. There are over 50 Muslim countries in the Organisation of Islamic Convention (OIC). According to Islam Muslims all over the world belong to one transnational Islamic Umma (Islamic nation) that is, one fraternal community. None of them is willing to play host to their Muslim brethren . Malaysia, a Muslim country hunted these infiltrators and threw them out of that country. Saudi Arabia, one of the richest fundamentally Islamist country which funds madrasas and Islamisation all over the world, does not take these Rohingyas. The density* of population of all Muslim countries except Pakistan and Bangladesh is less than that of Myanmar - in fact, only a fraction . When none of the 50 Muslims countries including the neighbour Malaysia nor the mother country does take them , why should India more than 170 mln Muslims already and with a population density of 393/sq.km take these Rohingyas. West Bengal the border state to Bangladesh have each having more than 1000 persons per sq.kmt., Delhi had 50,000 Muslims in 1951 . They are now 15 lakhs ( a 30 times increased). Many of them are Bangladeshi Muslims who have managed, courtesy secular party governments, Indian documents. Is not the fact that millions of Muslims fleeing Iraq and Syria go to Christian countries in Europe and not to any Muslim Umma country like S.Arabia or Iran or Algeria, ominous ? Is such infiltration calculated to Islamise non-Muslim countries?
5. A few thousand Rohingyas are taken to and settled in and around Jammu a Hindu majority area of J&K state and not in the by now 100% Muslims Kashmir valley. All the 400,00 Hindus and Sikhs had been expelled from the Kashmir Valley and are living in tents in and around Jammu and other far off places. Why are the Muslim Rohingyas not settled in the Muslim majority Kashmir but in the Hindu majority Jammu if not to bring down the Hindu proportion and increase the Muslim proportion?
6. In India that is Bharat, Hindus and Sikhs are discriminated against in J&K which is repeatedly asserted by all parties and government as an inalienable part of India. In the wake of partition and communal riots in 1947, a few thousand Hindus and Sikhs entered the Jammu province of J&K adjoining the Punjab province of Pakistan . Till today they are denied citizenship of J&K. They cannot get jobs, cannot vote for the state legislature and the municipalities . Why should the Muslim Rohingyas be settled in the Hindu majority Jammu areas while Hindu and Sikh refugees from treated as aliens?
7. Very pompously, the left, fellow -travellers and Muslims and some Muslim leader are saying that India has given refuge to Jews and Parsis and Buddhists ( Chekmas who had been kicked out of Muslim Bangladesh & Tibetans, Buddhists who had to flee the terror of the occupying Communist China) and Tamils from Sri Lanka. Sri Lankas’ Tamils are our people and so we took, them when native Sri Lankans asked them to quit. The Jews and Parsis had never said that they are not Indians , separate nation and that India should be partitioned to create home -lands for them ; on the other hand they are great patriots; great industrialists and intellectuals, scientists and are more Bharatiya than the other Bharatiyas . Unlike the invaders and their miscegenated progeny in this country. India can be proud of them. Certainly it can’t be proud of those who cannot be integrated, who are separatist and who are demanding and getting separate districts wherever they are a majority.
8. The Muslim Rohingyas of Bangladeshi origin are certainly totally unlike the Parsis and the Jews and the Tibetan Buddhists. They will add to the separatists and some of them will join the ranks of jihadists evidence for which is already forthcoming. Government of India and patriotic citizens of this country should not be misled by the cacophony of the traditionally anti-Indian, anti-Hindu elements in our population.
9. Rohingyas and other infiltrators into this country must be deported . If countries of their Umma (Islamic nation) with rich oil resources do not care for them, poor India under siege from within and outside cannot afford to add to its teaming millions potential jihadists .
The Density of Some Umma and Other Countries
Country |
Density
|
Country |
Density
|
Malaysia |
92/km2 (238.3/sq mi) (116th) |
Morocco |
73.1/km2 (189.3/sq mi) |
Myanmar |
76/km2 (196.8/sq mi) (125th) |
Sudan |
21.3/km2 (55.2/sq mi) |
Bangladesh |
1,106/km2 (2,864.5/sq mi) (10th) |
Egypt |
90/km2 (233.1/sq mi) (118th) |
India |
393.5/km2 (1,019.2/sq mi) (31st) |
Katar |
176/km2 (455.8/sq mi) (76th) |
Pakistan |
244.4/km2 (633.0/sq mi) (56th) |
Kuwait |
200.2/km2 (518.5/sq mi) (61st) |
S.Arabia |
15/km2 (38.8/sq mi) (216th) |
UAE |
99/km2 (256.4/sq mi) (110th)
|
Iran |
48/km2 (124.3/sq mi) (162nd) |
Assam |
400/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
Iraq |
82.7/km2 (214.2/sq mi) (125th) |
West Bengal
|
1,029/km2 (2,670/sq mi) |
Algeria |
15.9/km2 (41.2/sq mi) (208th) |
Bihar |
1,102/km2 (2,850/sq mi) |
(1,120 words + 1 table )
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