The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 177
[ 177 ] Myself and the whole of the Ahmadiyya Community are prepared to co-operate in this matter with all other sections of the Muslims, and I promise to employ the whole of the wide and efficient organisation of the Ahmadiyya Community in the advocacy of this cause of Islam in every reasonable and proper way. It is also incumbent upon us to enlighten the British public opinion on the present situation. For the present I have arranged to distribute among the members of the British Parliament and other responsible Englishmen copies of the English translation of this brochure, (mean ing the Urdu original} so that they may be enabled to see for themselves that the Nehru-Report is by far the most biased, and altogether one-sided representation of the Indian view-point, and that the Muslim interests have not been safeguarded adequately under its scheme. ·It is regrettable indeed that while the Hindu extremists, notwithstanding their profession of non-co-operation and tpublic condemnation of the British Government, have been always courting the favours of members of the British Parliament with the result that from two to three dozens of the members are very warm friends of the extremist Hindus, there is not a single member of the Parliament with genuine sympathy with the Muslim cause. Similarly, a section of the English-edited Press is under the Hindu influence, but the Muslims have not cared to enlist such support. Naturally, the Muslim voice is without that weight, which the Hindu voice carries in English political circles. While the Hindu non-co-opera tors, notwithstanding their non-co-operation, should in their personal capacity find it necessary to try to impress their views upon the British Statesmen, it seems strange to me why the same course should be neglected by the Muslims. A non-co-operator would say that the English