Dt: 14/9/17
Chakmas are Different from Rohingyas
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
Some Muslim gentlemen (eg: Munir Khasru ) left, liberals and the compulsively anti-Hindu, Muslims -fraternising communists of various sects (I,M,ML,ND…) are questioning as to why the Government of India while not only giving asylum but even content to give citizenship to Chakmas , is wanting to deport the Rohingya Muslims who had illegally entered India, not even recently but since the last few years. The case of Chakmas and Rohingyas is fundamentally different. Chakmas are Buddhists. They were the majority in the Chittagong Hills area ( district of East Pakistan, now Bangladesh ). Sylhet was Muslim majority district in Assam . At the time of partition, there was referendum and the Muslim majority there voted to join Pakistan and Sylhet became part of East Pakistan , Bangladesh
If the Congress party insist on holding a referendum in the Chittagang Hills district which had the Buddhist majority, surely they would have voted to be a part of India. These Buddhist Chakmas from, just as the 35% Hindus, were persecuted in East Pakistan . They had to flee from the persecuting Islamist East Pakistan. This is how they landed in India.
2. In the Sindh province, there is a district Tharparkar which had a Hindu majority . It is adjacent to the Kutch district of Gujarat. While we insisted upon the division of Punjab and Bengal so that the Hindu-Sikh majority areas will not be part of Pakistan but part of India, we should have insisted that Sindh also should be divided . There could have been a referendum in Tharparkar just as there was a referendum in Sylhet. The Hindu majority of Tharparkar in Sindh would have voted for merger with India; there could have been a Sindh state in India to justify the word Sindhu in our national anthem. It is unfortunate that the Chittagong area of Budhist and Tharparkar area of Hindus were lost to intolerant Islamism states.
3. Muslims anywhere and everywhere have the option to go to any of the more than 50 Muslim majority countries where they are a part of the borderless Islamic Umma. The Umma is incarnated in the OIC, Organisation of Islamic Convention. Hindus and Buddhists in the world can go nowhere if they are persecuted , except to Hindu India and India is the only Hindu majority country and the Hindu tradition has been to give shelter to all persecuted people. Nepal used to be a Hindu state but after the communists had taken over, it is “secular” i.e anti-Hindu as India had been till recently. India had given shelter to Zoroastrians of Iran who had to flee from Persia , when Persia was Islamised. We had given asylum to Jews who had been expelled by the Roman Empire in the first century AD. We had given shelter to more than 10 mln Hindus and Sikhs expelled from west Pakistan . The Hindu majority Jammu and Delhi are giving shelter to the Hindus and Sikhs expelled from the Kashmir Valley of J&K state. The millions of Hindus squeezed out of Bangladesh are also given shelter in the mother country, Bharat. But the case with Muslims is different. The Muslims of India asserted and succeeded in their demand that they are not part of Indian nation, that they are a separate nation and they carved out a home -land Pakistan from where the 19% Hindu Sikh population is reduced to 1%; even today Muslims living in India refer to themselves as a “minority” and not as Indians. They talk of Muslim Indians and not Indian Muslims . They are demanding the carving out of Muslim majority areas into separate districts. 98% of the terrorists operating in India are from that community. Muslim infiltrators from Pakistan and Bangladesh are sheltered among them. They refuse to sing Vandemataram. As before Independence they are asking for separate reservations to be followed by separate electorate and so on.
4. In such a background it would be committing suicide if India goes on adding some more Muslims from other countries to those who are already within India and are always complaining of insecurity and exhibiting separatism . It is also known that quite a number of Rohingyas have already become the IS soldiers . Those Rohingya Muslims who are already in India are settling in Jammu in Hindu majority city for this and not in the exclusively Muslim Kashmir Valley of J&K. What is the reason if not muslimification of non-Muslim areas .
5. One more thing we should remember is that while all the non- Muslim nation members of the United Nations have subscribed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the fifty and odd Muslim countries in the Organisation of Islamic Convention (OIC) have come out with an Islam Declaration of Human Rights there by asserting that Muslims are different from non-Muslim humans.
6. One more thing to be noted is that the Muslims who are fleeing violence and genocide from other Muslims in Syria and Iraq are not going to other Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia but to the Christian countries in Europe . Is that also a part of a grand design for muslimification of non-Muslim counties ? India cannot become a shelter for people where divisive, intolerant and converting others .
7. Bharat is the only refuge for the Buddhist Chakmas of Chittagong Hills ( formerly east Pakistan now Bangladesh ) and of Tibet. These peoples are our spiritual cousins. They would be subjected to humiliation, degradation, deprivation, ethnic cleansing and forced conversions if left in the lands where the majority people belong to the Abrahamic religions which enjoin upon their followers to convert the rest of the humanity to their own respective faiths. The Rohingyas must not be sheltered in India . Their natural choice must be the fifty and odd countries of the Islamic Umma represented by the OIC. The United Nations especially the UN Rights Chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussain must be told in no uncertain terms that the OIC should be addressed and prevailed upon to take care of the Rohingya Muslims . It would be perilous for India to have them. That Muslim Rohingyas are concentrating in Hindu majority areas like Jammu and not in exclusively Muslim Kashmir Valley is ominous and should be the red flag for India to be intensely cautious about them
8. India should also investigate those persons and organisations which are welcoming them, sheltering them and are pleading that they should be taken care of by India.
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