THE DEMOGRAPHIC DANGER AHEAD

THE DEMOGRAPHIC DANGER AHEAD

In just about three hundred years Muslims will outnumber Hindus in India if current demographic trends continue. And that will mean the Islamisation of India wholly thereafter as the number of Hindus will continue to rapidly diminish till they are reduced to a minuscule minority and eventually obliterated en masse. This is how from many countries in the Middle East where Christianity was once the dominant religion, it has been gradually displaced by Islam till they barely exist there as a feeble minority. That this can happen in India as well is very much on the cards. When Islam made its first arrival in Sindh in 664 A.D. just thirty-two years after the death of its founder, hardly anybody could even in his wildest dreams imagine that one day parts of India would be so densely populated by Muslims that they would succeed in partitioning the country in 1300 years time. So may be the fate of India in the next three centuries as the demographic balance progressively tilts against the Hindus towards the Muslims. Should this happen, Indian civilisation will die and with it, world civilisation as well.

Before the eyes of our parents and grandparents our motherland was partitioned. Could anybody prevent it? People may keep on blaming the British and the Indian National Congress, especially, Nehru, Patel and Gandhi for it, but the blame for it essentially lies with the All India Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Could the British have dismembered our motherland if from Sir Syed Ahmed Khan to Jinnah the two nation theory had not been floated and singularly pursued on the basis of some scriptural injunction and imperative thereof? Did the Hindus want Partition or the Muslims? Whose movement was for Partition? Now, do not quote Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee and his demand for the partition of Bengal, by way of deflecting discourse and concealing the basic fact of the case, for Mookerjee's demand was merely a consequential act close to Partition to save Hindu interests in Bengal and that, too, only after Partition became an imminent possibility. His was a pre-emptive move on behalf of the endangered Hindus to prevent the whole of Bengal falling into Islamic Pakistan's hands.

Now, to return to the main subject. Slow demographic change in favour of Islam has been the historical case in every region of India where once the local population was 100% Hindu but became later predominantly Muslim. For instance, Kashmir was wholly Hindu by habitation, and, now, look at the demographic composition there. See how in Pakistan and Bangladesh Hindus have been coerced into conversion or emigration to other lands to reduce them to meagre minorities with hardly any protection for them and their religious culture. While we keep on hearing Hindus and Muslims both raising voices against atrocities against the Muslims in India -- and they ought to raise their resistive voices thus by all means to protect the minority community --, we hardly hear any protest from their side about the genocide and exodus from homeland that 500, 000 Kashmiri Hindu Pandits suffered at the hands of the Kashmiri Muslims in 1991. Not once do they raise their voices to make the persecution of Pakistani and Bangladeshi Hindus an international issue. Demographically the Muslims are thriving in India and the Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh are being wiped out. What about that? Every decade the census reveals that the population of Muslims in India has risen by one percentage point while that of Hindus has fallen by the same margin. Which is why one can clearly see that unless there is a radical shift in Muslim consciousness like that of their Semitic siblings, the Christians, in the European Enlightenment, the centuries ahead are bleak for this country and its largely Hindu population, for the latter will be overwhelmed numerically, slowly but surely, over the next three hundred years.

God bless the Hindus and safeguard their future and God bless this motherland of ours with another Vivekananda to defend the Sanatan Dharma !

Written by Sugata Bose