Responsibilities of educated Muslims 9

  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.

Under British and European education, a section of Muslim and Hindu elite became progressive and Marxist. But all this was fake.

Tilak started his nationalist career by opposing anti-cholera and anti-epidemic measures taken by British as intervention in his religion.

M.K. Gandhi opposed universal education by taking the plea farmers don’t need school education. Even in his time farmers in Europe and Russia were adopting newer techniques not possible without education. The farmers befooled for centuries by money lenders could be saved by banking and insurance. Even today, farmers are committing suicide because they are not able to avail protection of law because they are not educated enough and Bapu/ Father of Nation opposed universal education of farmers, implying that of low caste and he was protagonist of caste system. Historians owe responsibility to expose retrogressive thinking and beliefs of those leaders from 1857 to 1947.

So, the same section of 15% that was orthodox and believer in Caste inequality had donned the mask of nationalism, modernism, enlightenment and Marxism.

There can be no true modernism, enlightenment and Marxism without liberation of women and annihilation of Castes. Same happened in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Whatever be their religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the 15 % are socio-economically exploiting the rest of 85 % who are backwards and oppressed.