Responsibilities of educated Muslims 5

  The educated Muslims have historical responsibility at this crucial juncture. The Muslim community has been failed by clergies and communal leaders who pushed the community to the wall and made it vulnerable to attacks by paranoid elements.

Since India became independent in 1947, whole nation was united on Constitution, National  Tricolor, National anthem and Gandhi. In the beginning there was hate campaign against Gandhi and educated Middle Class families of particular castes used to say openly why anybody does not shoot him but after his assassination they saw the blunder and became aloof to Jan Sangh. But gradually RSS resurfaced and continued its propaganda against Constitution and presented Bhagwa, Vande Matram and Godse as replacement of above mentioned rallying points.

The orthodoxy of Muslims after Shah Bano case and then Babri issue was resurrected by Rajiv Gandhi and hijacked by BJP and Mandal Commission and then Islamic terrorism all this pushed majority of educated Hindus into RSS-BJP fold.

I have read Golwalkar’s Bunch of Thoughts and appreciate his concern for nation and demonstrating evils of religious minorities but his desire to base national integration by diminishing castes, regions and languages differences and by accentuating religions  differences and marginalizing Muslims and Christians are against nation and are self defeating. This approach was understandable before Independence and Partition, is now treachery to nation.

Hindu community is divided into castes and privileged castes are in minority even less than Muslims. So staying of Muslims gave chance to Congress to make these privileged castes take control of everything – service, banking, business, media, profession. If there had not been strong Muslim vote bank, the Backwards and Dalits had come to power. Then Reservations were given to Dalits to keep them in Hindu fold otherwise they had converted to Islam or Christianity and thus making privileged castes marginalized.

Now after 50 years, privileged castes feel themselves powerful to crush minorities and to undo reservations. This is playing with fire.

Taking cue from RSS who are adamant to replace Constitution, National Tricolor, National Anthem and Gandhi, educated Dalits are working to undermine Hindu Mythological icons – JNU and other universities are its den and this is why BJP government meddled in these to crush this movement by force on pretext of anti-national slogans and activities. Perhaps other politicians failed to grasp this reality. This Dalit think tank cannot be crushed by force. The only solution is to work for total national integration including religious minorities.

Or all politicians are only interested in dividing people and making themselves ruling elite and keeping masses enslaved.