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Hindu Muslim Friendship, Brother Hood or Unity - Impossible
Dt: 12/6/26
Hindu Muslim Friendship, Brother Hood or Unity - Impossible
Dr T H Chowdary*
One of the unresolvable issues concerning Hindu -Muslim relations has been Hindu-Muslim friendship, Hindu -Muslim unity , common nationality ... .
2. I have read over 20 books on these issues and also Holy Koran. I lived for one year in Yemen an Islamic country leading a five nation team of telecom experts to write a 25- year telecom development plan. The latest one which I have re-read recently is ,
The Great Theft:
Wrestling Islam from the extremists
By Khaled Abou El Fadl written in 2005.
3. The following lines deserve to be noted and recalled as often as possible especially in our country when do-gooders think of Hindu-Muslim unity which has been a mirage pursued so passionately by Mahatma Gandhi and failed to be achieved.
“Author Khaled Abou El Fadl in one of the definitive passages in the book wrote, “ puritans believe that for Islam to be victorious , Muslims need to conquer and subjugate others. Only then will God’s sovereignty be established, and only then can The Word of God stand supreme. The gap between Muslims and non-Muslims is so vast because in puritan thinking one side possesses the incontrovertible and incorruptible truth and the other side is lost in absolute darkness…. Therefore, there is nothing that Muslims and non-Muslims can co-operate on or collaborate on achieving. The relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims may be nonbelligerent yet times, the hostility should always be there, and it can be expected to flareup into war whenever there is a chance to dominate , defeat or inflict damage upon the other .” (Page 245)
4. The relationship between Maulana Md Ali a tall leader of the Khilafat movement ( 1919-22) and Mahatma Gandhi should be recalled while ever talking about Hindu-Muslim unity. If at all it can only be temporary at the initiative of the Hindus themselves for Muslims’ causes as for example, during the 1857 Indian Soldier Mutiny against the British when the Indian soldiers rose against the British to restore the powerless nominal Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah to effectively rule India after the defeated expulsion of the British rulers.
5. The second time was during the Khilafat movement (1919-22) . The agitation of the Indian Muslims was to restore the Turkish Caliph, his former glory which was lost because of the Turkish defeat in the first world war . While during the movement Maulana Md Ali fraternized with Mahatma Gandhi but after the movement came to naught because of developments in Turkey itself Maulana Md Ali called M Gandhi :
“However pure Mr. Gandhi’s character may be, he must appear to be from the point of view of religion inferior to any Musalaman, even though he be without character”.
The Statement created a great stir. Many did not believe that Mr. Mohamed Ali, who testified to so much veneration for Mr. Gandhi was capable of entertaining such ungenerous and contemptuous sentiments about him. When Mr. Mohamed Ali was speaking in a meeting held at Amina Baug Park in Lucknow, he was asked whether the sentiments attributed to him were true. Mr. Mohamed Ali without any hesitation or compunction replied.
Yes! According to my religion and creed, I do hold an adulterous and a fallen Musalman to be better than Mr. Gandhi”
This event confirms what Khaled Abou El Fadl wrote about Muslim and non-Muslim relations.
6. In India it is futile to talk of Hindu-Muslim unity. Hindus are kafirs , non-believer destined for hell . They can never be an agreed and believed in ( by Muslims) common nationality as eloquently asserted by Md Ali Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan .
Excerpts from Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s (Dec 1876- Sept 1948) Presidential address at All India Muslim League Lahore Session, March, 1940:
“……………………It is extremely difficult to appreciate why our Hindu friends fail to understand the real nature of Islam and Hinduism. They are not religions in the strict sense of the word, but are, in fact, different and distinct social orders and it is a dream that the Hindus and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality, and this misconception of one Indian nation has gone far beyond the limits and is the cause of most of our troubles and will lead India to destruction if we fail to revise our notions in time. The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs, and literature. They neither intermarry, (only Hindu girls are seduced to marry Moslems, but they have to convert to Islam – THC) nor interdine together and, indeed they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspects on life and of life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Mussalmans derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other and, likewise, their victories and defeats overlap. To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the Government of such a state…….”
7. Dr B R Ambedkar is the only leader who understood the true nature of Islam and hence of Muslims * some of his thoughts / opinions on Islam and Muslims as recorded in his scholarly book, “Pakistan or India Divided” are give in Annexure. India’s almost all regional parties are appease Muslims for their votes; besides the avowedly Muslim parties like the IUML, AIUDF, AIMIM, the largest patron and appeaser of Islamists is the Congress Party led and owned by the trio; mother, son and daughter (MSD), the Indo Italians. Out of the twenty Congress MLAs in Assam in 2026, nineteen are Muslims. Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi(?) Wadra got elected to the Lok Sabha in 2024 from the Muslim majority constituency Wayanad in Kerala. In Telangana, the ruling party whether TRS (BRS) or Congress is in undeclared alliance with AIMIM. All the Communist Parties of India since their birth in 1925 have the supporters of the Muslim League and were for partition of India and creation of Pakistan. It is against this Phalanx of Muslim-appeasing vote-mongering parties that the Jana Sangh / BJP have been battling in the ideological and political arena.
8. Under the leadership of Sri Narendra Modi and the BJP Hindu Bharatiyas seem to be increasingly aware of the Islamist threat to their country and state. West Bengal under 34-years rule of communists followed by 15 years of Trinamool Congress was becoming an annex to Bangladesh . In a titanic effort, the BJP led by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah freed it from the impending disaster in the 2026 election to the States legislature. The TMC seems to be going back to its mother, the MSD Indo-Italians’ Congress.
9. Sri Narendra Modi is rejuvenating the civilizational state of Bharat. He restored the Khandit (broken) Vande Maataram to its fullness. Our economy and stature in the world are growing . We are getting out of the miasma of pseudo-socialism ( permit-licence-quota raj) and pseudo-secularism (appeasement and accelerated growth of Islamist population).
10. A Vikasit Bharat by 2047 will frustrate the Islamist aspiration of “conquering and subjugating” India. (1217 words)
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