Author: A N Bismil
Publication: Gujarat Samachar
Date: April 2, 2002
It is the duty of every Indian Muslim
to be free of foreign money and foreign influence.
Indian Muslims, who are staying
in this country for their own well-being and happiness should come together
to show their commitment to this country They should not get influenced
by all the rumours, foreign powers and foreign money and also should keep
distance from those few elements which are involved in anti-social and
anti-national activities. The self-proclaimed Muslim leaders who raise
communal passions are the real enemies of peace-loving true Muslims. The
only motive of these leaders is to save their own power by burning other's
houses.
My dear fellow Muslim brother! Even
being in Hindu majority country, we have great freedom to follow our religion.
We can establish Muslim University and teach Urdu. We can follow our tradition
of polygamy. We can freely take processions of our community. Indian government
declares general holiday on the festivals like Id. We can buy land wherever
we like and set-up business, set up mosques and Madarsas and propagate
Islam. Because of our minority status, we can contest elections, get job
opportunities. In this Hindu majority country, we can join politics and
even become President of the country. No other non-Muslim country in this
world gives so much freedom. Even in China, we cannot enjoy polygamy and
give birth to more than two children.
In Singapore, all the graves were
dismantled and the dead bodies of Muslims were burnt in the electric crematorium.
Japan does not allow building graves. In Israel, no Muslim is allowed to
propagate his religion. In Nepal, no Hindu can be converted to Islam and
if done, it is severely punished.
In this country, Jain, Buddhists
and Sikhs can not enjoy even a fraction of special facilities available
to Muslims. In short, no Sikh or Buddhist can open a religion or language
based school in any Muslim country and unlike India, cannot provide education
in Hindi through Jamia Milia or Aligarh Muslim University.
Unlike in India, where, thousands
of religious school and Urdu medium schools are present, no Sanskrit School
for Vedas can be opened in other Muslim country and as we get Friday holiday
for the Namaz, Minorities do not get special weekly holiday. No Hindu can
use Hindi in public places and like Id, nobody gets holiday on Ram Navami,
Dashahara or Diwali.
No Hindu living in Muslim country
can listen to Hindi or Sanskrit programmes on TV and radio and not even
programmes in their mother tongue, forget about religious programmes on
Ramayan.
We can have even Muslim President
in India, but Hindus in Muslim countries can neither join politics nor
contest elections. They can not ask admission in schools, colleges or get
jobs on the basis of their minority status, cannot ask for a separate place
for their own organizations. We keep the portraits of our Muslim President
in government offices but in those countries, no Indian can display a photograph
of a Hindu leader. We, in India, have allowed Zia Ul Haq of Pakistan to
offer Namaz in Rashtrapati Bhavan (President's residence), but in Muslim
countries, no Hindu will be allowed to have Hindu religious ritual in any
government place. Hindus are not allowed to take any procession with musical
band and unlike our Tazia, they cannot propagate their religion. Unlike
in Meenakshipuram, they cannot convert anybody to Hinduism. We have thousand
of meat shops selling halal (Kosher) meat, but in Muslim countries, if
someone opens a shop to sell pork, he will be inviting his own de ath.
No Hindu can publish books on Veda,
Ramayan, Geeta or even display them in the book shops. "Satyarthprakash"
of Arya Samaj is totally banned in Muslim countries.
Arya Samaj is totally banned in
Muslim countries.
In India, you can easily open a
liquor shop in Muslim dominated Shrinagar, but in many Muslim countries,
a drunken person is severely beaten up as a punishment. I watch my Muslim
brothers block highways with the tombs but in these Muslim countries, Hindus
cannot even put a brick in the name of temple or Gurudwara even in the
remotest part of the country.
Hindus cannot wear Dhoti or carry
Kirpan in these Muslim countries. They are afraid of the law not only outside
but also inside their homes. You may be aware that even today, no Sikh
can enter Saudi Arabia. No Hindu, whether he is Pundit or Sikh, can get
a job in police force or any other government office.
In India, we have several riots
on the issue of cow slaughter. These riots are not beneficial to either
community. But in Saudi Arabia, a person killing a cow is put to death.
In this situation, weddings take place without cow slaughter. Like our
Muslim brothers in Saudi Arabia, if we Muslims also determine not to kill
cows, Hindus and Muslims can live here peacefully.
Few traitor Muslims of this country
always try to impress that Islam is not safe in India. As a Muslim, I feel
that there cannot be any further lie than this false claim. Simply looking
at the fact that after 1947, thousands of new mosques, Universities in
Aligarh, Jamia Milia and Deoband, have been established one can dismiss
this claim. On the other hand, only couple of Hindu religious places remained
in Pakistan. Even though Pakistan is giving very bad treatment to Hindus
there, Indian government continues to support Muslim establishments in
India. It shows brotherly treatment to Indian Muslims and not of a torture.
In Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and
other Muslim countries, no Hindu can be a member of their national hockey
or football team, while we have Muslims in every national team; to the
extent that the captain of the Indian Hockey team in Asian Game was a Muslim
(Jafar Iqbal).
If we understand ail these facts
correctly, then we will realize that it is our duty that for our own prosperity,
we Muslim should be loyal to India.
Today's self-proclaimed Muslim leaders,
who dance on the tunes of foreign powers, and who, for their greed for
power and money, instigate communal riots in Meerut, Muradabad, Vadodara,
Ahmedabad, Kashmir, Chambal, Bhivandi or Mumbai, are actually defaming
Muslim religion and sowing thorns in our way. We should always carefully
distance ourselves from them.
(This article has been translated
from Gujarati)
