The National Security of Indian Muslims — Page 7
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 7 ] had opposed the call for dissension against the British rule. They (the non-Ahmad i s) thought that they were doing a service to Islam. They wanted to render the same treatment to Ahmad i s that they saw fit for the British, including kill- ing and beating. But it was a lonely voice that arose from Qadian, warning the Muslims repeatedly of the dangerous error that they were committing. Mah a tm a Gandhi’s Concoction A Dissension Movement which was an invention of Mah a tm a Gandhi, was started by the mullahs 2 that were favoured by the Congress. Under the Movement, Muslims were incited to discord and dissension against the British government. Then this Movement gained such force that it took all the great scholars and Muslim leaders of India in its grip without distinction as to who belonged to the Congress and who did not. Gandhi himself favoured the religious decrees of this movement, which pointed out the great injustice that had been carried out by the British when they wiped out the khil a fat. He asked the Muslim scholars how jihad could be carried out if it was not possible to fight the British. That is, the Hindu leaders were asking for religious decrees for the benefit of the Muslims. Thus, when Gandhi asked for the verdict from the 2. Muslim religious clerics