Zilqal 1445   ||   May 2024

Modi's Hatred for Islam and the Arabs' Love for Modi

Mufti Abul Hasan Muhammad Abdullah

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the leader of extreme Hindutva party BJP, has again called Indian Muslims 'infiltrators'.  Modi made this comment in several election rallies recently.  Referring to the Indian National Congress and Muslims, he also said, 'They (Congress) will take your wealth and give it to the intruders.  Those who only give birth to children more and more.’ Modi's enmity towards Muslims is not new. He gained notoriety for his anti-Muslim actions and persecution during his time as Chief Minister of Gujarat. He was even labeled with titles like 'butcher' for his role in the killing and torture of Muslims. Several countries, including the United States, barred him from obtaining visas due to his brutality. Unfortunately, he later ascended to power at the central level in India. Although the Congress has been in power for a long time in India since independence, it also did not treat Muslims well. However, the BJP, particularly under Narendra Modi's leadership, has oppressed Muslims even more. 

Muslims are being brutally killed even over trivial issues. Traditional mosques are being occupied, and changed into temples. A relentless wave of torture is ongoing in the Muslim-majority state of Kashmir. The special provisions of the state have also been repealed. Similar to Israel's illegal settlements in Palestine, Hindus are being settled in Kashmir to alter its Muslim-majority status. Islamic educational institutions, Muslim politicians, businessmen, and socialists are cornered to an extreme degree.

Many analysts say that Narendra Modi's recent explosive comments stem from a fear of losing the polls, yet the issue of Islamophobia within Modi's party is not new. In Assam, the government has filed cases against three crore Muslims, alleging them to be infiltrators from Bangladesh. Additionally, in 2018, in a public gathering, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, called Muslims in Assam illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and  likened them to 'termites' consuming the country.

The anti-Muslim stance of Modi and his party have a bad impact on neighboring countries.  Especially, in recent years in Bangladesh, a class of Hindus has been increasing their complicites.  Many people think that the killing of two innocent brothers by a group of radical Hindus in the Madhukhali area of Faridpur district (on Thursday evening on April 18) is related to that hate speech.  Otherwise, how can a Muslim youth be killed openly by a minority community like this?  If they are not provoked and sheltered from within the country and outside the country, is such killing possible?  In addition, for more than a decade , some of these communities have been committing numerous misdeeds including looting the country's banks, stealing hundreds of crores of rupees from the common people, sexual harassment of female students in educational institutions, corruption in the Supreme Court (Surendra Kumar Sinha, former Chief Justice). In most cases, the culprits remain out of reach.

India's dual approach towards Bangladesh is evident here. On one hand, since 2014, there's been visible interference of India in Bangladesh's elections and governance, openly acknowledged by some ministers. The government also considers India and the current government of India as the best friend, providing them unlimited facilities. While India and its government open all doors of persecution  for its Muslim citizens. Even they want to expel Muslims from their homeland, calling them infiltrators. If they expel only muslims in Assam to Bangladesh, as Modi and  his party BJP wish, what will Bangladesh do -still it is not clear. 
Anti-Muslim activities of Modi and his party BJP neither shake Bangladesh, nor shake any Arab countries. Rather, some Arab countries present Modi as a hero in their country. The Arab Emirates is at the top of those countries. Within a few years, Modi made many tours and delivered speeches as the chief guest in Emirates. Also, a temple has been built beside a high way near Abu Dhabi and Modi inaugurated it. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and his companions removed all types of idolatetery from Jaziratul Arab.But now, Arabs are returning that idolatetery to their country. Their government have no shame for this work. 
However, this middle Eastern country accepted normalisation with Israel and supported it openly, and played a great role in taking care of Hindus and Hindutva government of India. Muslims are being persecuted in India in broad daylight but at the same time, amirat rewarded Modi medals and honoured him. Muslim rulers are mainly responsible for the the current crisis of Muslim world - it doesn't need much explanation.
Mawlana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India, said, “No-one can destroy us except we.” 
He is really true. As we have forsaken teachings and cultures of Islam and lead our lives according to our lust, our rulers also do not follow the Islamic Shariah. Rather they follow the rules of non muslims. They befriend those disbelievers who are the enemy of Islam. So, we should blame ourselves before we blame Modi and Netanyahu.
However, anti Islamic activities of Modi and his party are not unprecedented. However Indian Muslim face these challenges with courage despite persecution and adverse conditions. They don't seem to compromise with Modi. This is why Modi still fears Muslim despite being in power for a long time. Rather, his fear increased upon seeing the rise in the number of Muslims. 
A few years ago, I asked two Indian Muslims to compare the birth ratio of Hindus and Muslim in India. He said, as Hindus themselves feed their children, they fear having children more. But, as Allah feeds our children, we have no concern in this regard. 
I would like to finish my article with a couple of lines of poet Rahat Indori who recently died 
اگر خلاف ہيں، ہونے دو، جان تھوڑي ہے
يہ سب دھواں ہے، کوئي آسمان تھوڑي ہے
لگے گي آگ تو آئيں گے گھر کئي زد ميں
يہاں پہ صرف ہمارا مکان تھوڑي ہے
ميں جانتا ہوں کہ دشمن بھي کم نہيں ليکن
ہماري طرح ہتھيلي پہ جان تھوڑي ہے
ہماري منہ سے جو نکلے وہي صداقت ہے
ہماري منہ ميں تمہاري زبان تھوڑي ہے
جو آج صاحبِ مسند ہيں، کل نہيں ہوں گے
کرائے دار ہيں، ذاتي مکان تھوڑي ہے
سبھي کا خون ہے شامل يہاں کي مٹي ميں
کسي کے باپ کا ہندوستان تھوڑي ہے

 

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