THE PROBLEM BEHIND, THE PROBLEM AT HAND AND THE PROBLEM AHEAD

THE PROBLEM BEHIND, THE PROBLEM AT HAND AND THE PROBLEM AHEAD

The Partition of India would never have taken place if Muslims had considered themselves first Indians and then Muslims. They would then have had no problems in staying with the Hindus peacefully side by side in a common homeland. That they refused to do so clearly showed their mindset that they considered themselves first Muslims and then Indians. This mindset is indoctrinated into Muslims by Islam ☪️.

Islam divides the world into two distinct sections -- Dar al-lslam or the land ruled by Muslims in accordance with the Sharia and Dar al-Harb or the land ruled by the kafir or the non-Muslim according to non-Islamic law. According to Islam it is the divinely ordained duty of each and every Muslim to convert Dar al-Harb to Dar al-Islam by waging holy war continuously till the transformation is complete. This being the inviolable doctrinaire position of Islam, Muslims are conditioned from birth to live up to this political ideal and under no circumstances to compromise otherwise unless situation and circumstance completely inhibit all action towards fulfilment of such a divine dictate. Thus, a Muslim's identity and allegiance is that of a Muslim and towards Islam overridingly above that of a mere citizen of a country and towards secular values, for Islam is a religious way of life derived from the Islamic God, Allah, and not a secular way of life derived from the historical evolution of human civilisation.

Islam is omnipresent in the life of a Muslim and Allah, not any man-made Constitution of a country, the omnipotent divine authority, absolute and inviolable. This is not just the scriptural position of Islam but the practised-to-perfection position of 1.8 billion Muslims the world over, now and before and prospectively in the future as well unless like Christianity the dictates of Islam are outgrown and overthrown by vast masses of Muslims revolting against its absolute throttling hold. Then a revolution will indeed be seen, an epochal event of liberalisation that will usher in peace of a higher order on earth. But that, as of now, is difficult to envisage, although gurgling movements can be heard underground as Muslims by the hundreds of thousands are turning into ex-Muslims worldwide. 

Tyranny has been on for ages. Alas, its days are numbered it seems as technology probes its way through the privacy of primitive societies, ushering the sunlight in to dispel darkness.

The question now arises as to why so many Muslims, if not all, bear this sectarian outlook. It is rooted deep in culture born in ignorance in medieval times in the Middle East and perpetuated through cultural perversion of conquered countries. Now it is all over the world, feeding on sensuality, misogyny, abject surrender of individual rights to divine tyranny carried out on earth with telling effect, and transmission of ideology through indoctrination from birth, generation to generation.

But how did it all happen in the first place? The answer lies in the divergence of social evolution among races owing to a host of factors from geographical to genetic that in some places made man enlightened and in some others relatively less so, even savage, barbaric, and with growing collective strength becoming empowered to overcome more refined civilisations that had lost the brute's strength of self-defence and had not gone in for defence technology advanced enough that could have saved them. Thus, original tribal savagery gave birth to superstitious ideology which with contact with more refined civilisations consequent on conquest became furthered entrenched in the ensuing culture, a curious mixture of monstrosity and materialism evolving into perpetuating power over vast masses of men converted to the fold.

The history of the world has till the mid-tewntieth century been one of brutal exploitation of peoples by imperialistic powers and for the most part by religion playing roguish role in such imperialistic expansion. Conversion itself is the toxic instance of such imperialistic design. It is religious expansionism, the close kin of imperial expansionism. The unfolding of history has been barbaric as refinement of culture in ancient and medieval times has often been to the exclusion of evolution in martial terms which has laid bare evolved civilisations to aggression from barbaric hordes which led to their demise. Darwinian evolutionary principles had held their ground in history till the other day when force spread religion. Thus, India became Islamised.

The decline of India began when oppression of the masses by the higher and privileged classes reduced the former to being beasts of burden no better than the lower animals they tended, often worse, for these suppressed slaves were sensitive to their pains but mutely had to bear it all for ages before redemption came to many through conversion to the faith of conquering races. Islam got its converts majorly by the sword but minorly by men seeking escape from the tyrannical social order of the day that allowed them no hope of survival as humans but merely as 'drawers of water and hewers of wood' as Swami Vivekananda put it. Coupled with it was the refusal to engage with the rest of the world as Hindus shut themselves up in complacent cultural isolation which resulted in their falling behind in defence technology and political awareness. Thus, India fell to Mohammedan invasion, losing territory, culture, religion, population, freedom et al. 

The Muslim invasions were barbaric, for they were by races that were of an inferior civilisation and culture that by force gradually imposed their civilisation on us. It took centuries of continuous depredation, desecration, domination, destruction and death before vast masses had been converted from the religions of Indian origin to Islam with all its consequential cultural effects. By the time of Partition the Muslim population was 25% of the Indian population and these refused to live with the Hindus 🕉 in an independent India.

But what was so divisive and discriminatory about Islam ☪️ that caused Hindus 🕉 to suffer so much under its thousand year reign in India and ultimately caused the dismemberment of the grand old country? What is there in Islam essentially that caused this horrendous suffering? It is its fundamental doctrine of exclusiveness and intolerance of all other creeds and faiths. The idea that Islam is the only perfect way of life and living, that its theological creed is the ultimate in divine revelation beyond any possible future improvement, that its founder is the most perfect and the final messenger of God (Allah) and that each and every Muslim's holy duty is to wage war in all possible manner for all time to come till the whole of humanity submits to Islam makes it dangerously fanatical and a perpetual threat to world peace. And history has testified to this effect amply.

Written by Sugata Bose