Murder in the Name of Allah — Page 103
Mercy for the Universe chance to hunt some down?. Loud the cry goes up 'The Muslims?. They are vanished, lost to view',. We re-echo, 'Are true Muslims to be found in any place?'. Christian is your mode of living, and your culture is Hindu;. Why, such Muslims to the Jews would be a shame and a disgrace. . Sure enough, you have your Syeds,. Mirzas, Afghans, all the rest;. But can you claim that you are Muslims if the truth must be confessed?27. Having claimed that the Muslims of the day would shame even Jews, and that they would even sell their ancestors' tombstones, the 'poet, philosopher, political thinker and altogether most eminent figure in. Indian Islam of the twentieth century 28 decided to distinguish between. Muslims and Ahmadis. So in 1936 he wrote in an open letter to Pandit. Jawaharlal Nehru, the leader of the predominantly Hindu Indian National. Congress and, later, first prime minister of India, demanding that Ahmadis should be declared a non-Muslim minority. In the constitution of secular India the demand was, of course, ignored. But for the ulema of. Deoband it was a matter of life and death. Hindus have occupied Babari. Masjid in Ayodhya and converted it under police protection into the Ram. Janma Bhoomi temple. Another section of Hindus demand the conversion of Benares and Kashi mosques into temples. Most Hindus are agitating for the abolition of Muslim personal law. . This is what becomes of people who reject prophets of God and men of peace. They stand disunited and bereft of the blessings of the peace they sought to disturb. They breed violence and terrorism. 103