The Forces of Falsehood keep questioning Islam and Muslims, and poor Muslims, naive as they are and not understanding the strategies of the global and national forces of hegemony, just keep answering their questions. There are innumerable questions and counter questions that need to be thrown at those forces but Muslim intellectuals are total failures in that fight. Though it is true that in absence of a Muslim or a neutral media, this is not an easy task to engage in, still, they do not do even the minimums they can. The truth is that they are not equipped with the science and art of that strategy.
This is why in my just published book, “Muslim Vision of Secular India: Destination and Roadmap”, I have listed “Ideological Empowerment” as the first of the four necessary dimensions of “Empowerment”, social, economic and political being the cither three. This does not apply to Indian Muslims alone; this is equally important for the rest of the Muslim World.
Ideological Empowerment is the key to confidence, proper planning and ultimate success. It involves proper knowledge and understanding of Islam, its application in all the spheres of life, individual, family, social and systematic, proper understanding of the major ideologies governing the world and their impact, an insight into the global and national policies and the ability to counter the propaganda unleashed by vested interests against Islam and Muslims.
Islamic/Muslim scholars tend not to be aggressive in their approach, and often exhibit sectarian bias. Instead of focusing on the faults and discrepancies of the new dispensations that are numerous, they continue to dissipate their energies in erecting defences around their faith. By the time, they defeat the mischievous propaganda unleashed against one principle or practice, the opponents, supported by the economic fundamentalists, open another front. The ideological war goes on unabated; but, this is still being fought in the domains of Islam. Islamic scholars have forgotten that, for ultimate triumph, the battle-line is to be pushed into the domain of the enemies.
They have to question the World, especially the West:
— Why is there no focus on the rising crime rates in the world especially in Western countries despite their huge law enforcing machinery and generally good economic conditions? Does it not point to the inefficiency of their law system and the prevalence of social conditions leading to crimes?
— Why is there focus only on certain kinds of violence and not on others, which are much more lethal in effect?
— Why focus only on violence caused by honour killing and not on violence caused by sexual partners, despite huge difference between the two?
— When talking of women, why focus on polygamy and not on promiscuity which causes huge medical and social problems? Why no big plans to uproot prostitution which has engulfed more than 100 million women by forcing or luring them?
— How can commercialisation and globalization of practices that kill millions be allowed?
— In a world where human rights is such a big issue, how come induced abortions leading to more than 50 million loss of human embryos does not become a major cause of concern?
— How come suicides taking hundreds of thousands of lives do not attract the attention of the protectors of life?
— How come, the powerful nations of the world keep invading countries and sponsoring civil wars leading to millions of deaths and not attracting any punishment?
— Why is there no debate on Western role in the genesis of Terrorism and the focus remains on Islam’s or Muslims’ role? Terrorism is an illegitimate response to illegitimate wars and the machinations of West in the Muslim World. For one illegitimate response to end, the other illegitimate is to be put to an end. This is true for India as well where much larger terrorism caused by Rightist and Leftist Hindus is ignored and Muslim Terrorism is discussed day and night?
— Why is there always a debate on Jihad in Islam and not on military ideologies and methods of Western countries? The military ideologies of other religions too including Christianity and Hinduism advocate much greater militarization than Islam.
— If democracy is important, how come this is not applicable to United Nations where 5 Big Powers have the right to veto any resolution even if it has the support of an overwhelming majority of nations?
Muslims have continuously been at the receiving end. When terrorism attacks occur anywhere in the world, including on Indian soil, Muslims are declared culprits till proved otherwise. The programmes are presented in a way as if Islam promotes violence and Muslims, especially Ulama, have no option but to “reform” Islam for the cause of peace. It is conveniently forgotten that the other communities throughout the world have much bigger share in all kinds of violence than Muslims. The violence heaped against Muslims such as the one unleashed by Western forces in Muslim countries killing millions of innocent Muslims is ignored, and the “terrorist” activities, which to them almost always means violence caused by “Muslims”, are highlighted beyond their impact.
The media regularly ignores major social issues of the world or the country and keeps on attacking Muslims on much smaller issues. The time has come when Muslims need to question the world or a country like India on the larger issues:
We have to ask global/Indian opinion makers why there is a continuous debate on the “plight” of Muslim women on the issues of polygamy and Triple Divorce when the issues are statistically of hardly any significance and no debate on the issues of prostitution and promiscuity which are destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of women. There are hundreds of millions of prostitutes worldwide and more than ten million in India who have been either forced or lured into prostitution. Whether by choice or by force, these women are the ultimate sufferers with threats of diseases like AIDS, repeated pregnancies and abortions and absence of a good family life. The truth is that nothing can be a bigger crime against womanhood than their sexual services being commercialised for the sake of lascivious men. While polygamy is questioned, promiscuity is never an issue. This is despite the fact that while polygamy is a self-limiting aberration, promiscuity is an all-enveloping monster posing huge threats to life and family and social peace. Just a few thousands of honour killings are highlighted; the killings of hundreds of thousands of women by their partners are hardly ever an issue. And while honour killing is a big human rights issue, human rights activists prefer to either remain tight-lipped or go on the other side on the issue of the death of more than 50 million human embryos by way of induced abortion just because it suits corporate-sponsored feminism.
Never in the history have women been subjected to such security risks as have been in the so-called modern world. Apart from being exploited in the name of freedom through promiscuity, prostitution, pornography and abortions, they are raped with 20 to 50 percent of all women having been raped in most of the Western countries. More than 250000 women are reportedly raped every year, and yet there are hardly any debates on the issue. And when sometimes debates occur, as happened in India in last couple of years, the real factors and solutions are deliberately ignored or suppressed. The debates will never allow anyone to question the provocation in the form of nude images, provoking dresses and mixing of men and women in solitude or provocative gatherings, and will always blame men for violence against men. The system commercialised to the hilt by merchants including merchants of sex will never be put under scanner. They have the right to provoke men but men do not have the right to be provoked beyond what the Industries want. Men should either control their hormones or should better make use of them in places created by the market.
The media will likewise never discuss the frenzy alcohol and gambling cause except when forced by political circumstances. And of course the problems related to economic disparity and the role of corporates in accentuating and perpetuating this disparity will never ever be discussed. Instead “reforms” will be promoted, which almost always mean such changes in economic policies as help the market forces, mostly if not always, at the cost of the masses.
Most of these are the results of the concepts of “freedom” promoted by West and political ideologies aimed at hegemonization of the world by West, which they have pursued throughout the modern history. Here are a few examples that sum up the radicalization in social, ideological, political and economic arena:
1– The United Nations is not an organization where all countries have equal status. Five big powers hold the veto power, and nothing can happen in the world without their approval;
2– While these 5 and a few more can amass nuclear arsenals, others are bound by Non-Proliferation treaty. Anyone trying to acquire nuclear technology, especially if it is not a Western ally, will have to face toughest sanctions and threats of war;
3– The Big Powers can always invade other countries on one pretext or the other; but they cannot be made accountable for their actions;
4– Western ideological positions are allowing, in fact promoting, massive commercialisation of human susceptibilities at colossal cost of human lives and health problems.
5– Their concept of “Freedom of Choice” only means “Freedoms” that suit their economic designs. They can impose bans, restrictions and sanctions on anyone or any practice, which does not suit them. So, promiscuity is permitted (with men and women having an option of having as many partners as they like) but polygamy is banned. Marriage before a specified age is punishable under law, but young boys and girls are always free to have sex despite the fact that such relationships lead to huge numbers of foeticide and mortality and morbidity due to sex related diseases. Abortions are permitted but there have been severe restrictions in most countries on multiple children.
6– When they speak against religious morality, they use “Freedom of expression” as the cover to do it, but when somebody speaks against dangerous practices, he is hounded as an enemy of freedom.
7– When some rapists or murderers are given death sentences, the Human Rights Activists call for an end to death sentence on the ground of “Right to life” but they forget the same right when it comes to abortions by choice, as if the aborted foetuses are not humans. Human rights activists also never call for laws that can minimize murderous assaults. “Human Rights” in modern world have been reduced to saving criminals from gallows, protecting homosexuality as right (a right which reduces life expectancy of the population by a substantial margin) and protecting the rights of women to kill their foetuses. Obviously, “Human Rights” is a concept designed under the patronage of market forces.
8– The champions of “Women’s Rights” forget that there cannot be a bigger blot on the face of mankind than that the women sell their sexual services, through compulsion or choice, endangering the lives of prostitutes themselves, their clients as well as all those who come into contact with their clients. In the name of “Equality of Women”, men have transferred a lot of their burden to women, while women continue to suffer on account of the new sex and sexuality. It is they who have to take precautions against pregnancy, it is they who become pregnant even when they do not want, it is they who have to abort killing their own children, it is they who have to look after their children if they decide to take birth and in large number of cases, they have to share the burden alone.
Muslims must make sure that they are not apologetic or defensive in their discussions on the question of terrorism or riots in India. They must make sure that not only the dimensions and implications of terrorism are analysed but the genesis of terrorism is also debated in its all minute details. Without discussing the genesis, solution cannot be found out. Muslims must take the stance that all forms of violence are equally condemnable and the solution to the violence lies in punishing the culprits plus root out the cause of the violence.
The Muslim organisations and NGOs of Muslims all over the world must form an umbrella organisation and engage in a global campaign against violence, vices, hegemony and economic disparity. They must announce and organise special annual days like anti-prostitution day, anti-alcohol day, anti-gambling day, anti-crime day, anti-rape day, anti-disparity day, family peace day, moral values day, etc, and on each of these days must organise seminars, workshops and protests within the laws of the lands.
By just continuing to defend their positions, Muslims cannot hope to challenge the current international ideologies. Counter-attack, ideological onslaught and social movements through peaceful means are the need of the time. Muslims must realise that the challenge to the Truth of Islam does not come from other religions but the global forces of economics and politics, and they must make every possible effort to take all other religions in their fight for Comprehensive Peace in the world.
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Dr Javed Jamil is India based thinker and writer with over a dozen books including his latest, “Muslim Vision of Secular India: Destination & Road-map”. He can be contacted at doctorforu123@yahoo.com .
MARVELLOUS.VERY TRUE.
In fact the WEST has ideologically empowerred themselves by encting INTERNATIONAL LAWS and UNITED NATYIONS and VETO power.All veto power nations are anti islamic and are united on this point. ALL INTERNATIONAL LAWS ARE BEING ENCTED TO GRADUALLY FALL IN LINE WITH “PROTOCOL OF ZION” For this purpose rest of the slave nations of the world are not being allowed to become militarily powerful and economically powerful.Though Rusia andChina do not endores Protocol of Zion,they have veto power because they became power to recon with alongside and in pace with the west and so now all attempts to cripple them.What the auther says is correct approach but is a uphill task.WEAK NATIONS CAN NOT REVOLT AGAINST INTERNATION LAWS. Mass awareness and enmass people’s mutiny can do this to some extent.
Salam to all & forthcoming Jumma Mubarak !
What is said cannot be unsaid. What what is fortold in al hadis & even in the Bible about the signal of the end time can never be ceased or axed by human rules of law.
The golden Prophecy of Holy prophet of Islam containing in Al Hadis:
The slaves girls will give birth to King & Queens: Chawala has become a king. Million like him in all countries .
Natural disaster will occur day to day around the world. Unnatural
Acute sounds in west & east.
Killing without reasons. No rule of law can stop these World Chaos.
The Universe may collapse in a few century.ALLAH SWT knows the best.
As usual, a very nice article by Dr.Javed Jamil.
Yes there is intellectual stagnation amongst the Muslims, particularly Indian Muslims. Our Spiritual leaders seldom in panel debates gets crushed due to lack of knowledge and critical thinking. MUSLIM DEBATE INITIATIVE in Australia is an awesome organisation which debates Non-Muslims. I think we should open a like of MDI in India too, where Critical Muslim thinkers will join with brutal and ruthless approach, aggresive right from the outset in any forum. And that organistaion should go for thorough research on any topic be it social issue or religion.
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I can tell you how Hindutva was born. As you know since last many centuries India is a home place of hindus. Around 500 years ago, Muslim kings attacked India & captured several parts of India. They killed many innocent human beings, raped women, applied heavy tax (Zaziya), destroyed hindu temples, did mass religion conversions etc. Hindu kings never attacked middle east but muslims attacked India & destroyed our culture. Hence, hindus inherently hate muslims.
Secondly, during freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi played major role. However he was inclined towards muslims. Hence hindus consistently have feeling of insecurity since last many decades. Due to this RSS was established to protect hindus & term Hindutva emerged.
So I think, muslim community is behind emerging Hindutva. Since you are behind it, how can you question?
@SECULAR HINDU…..HINDUTWAADI IDIOT….THE WORD HINDUTWAA WAS COINED BY A FRUSTRATED HINDUTWAADI…VEER SAWARKAR…JUST GOOGLE N GET YOUR FACTS CORRECT…BEFORE FFFAARRTTTIIINNNGG YOUR ABSURD HISTORY….SO MUSLIMS DID THIS AND THAT AND YET HINDUS ARE 80% OF INDIAN POPULATION..WHILST MUSLIMS ARE 15% something….so it shows how cowards are sanghi/bajrangi/rss goon brigade….that despite of overwhelming majority….they are so afraid of minority/muslims….darrpook/kaayar/g#####fatuu is best compliments to the “chaadiwale veers”….hell to hindutwaad.
dear akbar,
when youare replying to anyone please dont use felthy languagge explain with proper language so people read with and respect you insead of they also misuse and replay in same language.
This is not islamic method. hope in future you avoid this tupe of language
your well wisher
You are technically & factually wrong in your analysis. ISLAM in india is as old as the rignoble itself. The first mosque was built in calicut during the period of Prophet in 7 th century. when Islam didn’t even crossed Arabian peninsula & was in nacent state. Perumul jumma msajid u can google it. If you look that 1000 years of human history during those eras there wasn’t any umbrella organisation of world leaders as their military strength grew all leading nations adopted expansionist policies to expand their Kingdom & the only way was to lead a war with other principalities & nations. If may sound disturbing but it was widely accepted in those times in general. Earlier Christianity spread in Europe by conquering the Wikings & introduced their form of Christianity which is called trinity or st paulism which is in contrast to unitarian Christianity practice in the Arab world as it originated in present day Syria / Palestinian. Similarly In 6 th century Island. Emerged as a dominant Religion in Arabia peninsular & eventually led expeditions to conquer greener pastures to feed the growing population & to generate better revenues through newly conquered territories & generate economy new employment & markets in the process they introduced their faith Islam in these territories. It was their Honesty & simplicity which attracted many towards Islam & it wasn’t forced evident from the fact that Persia present day Iran / Iraq was conquered in 7 th century yet it took 800 yrs or 8 centuries when almost every inhabitant embraced Islam. Coz if they had implied forced conversation within years either all would have been converted or killed as seen in previous regimes of Human history in Greek era. Similarly the Afghans, Turks, & Mughals had adopted expansionist policies but have adopted India as their new Home & were residing rulers unlike Britisher who kept india bleeding starved of wealth & plundered everything they could to England. Mughals lived invested fought & died on Indian Land. During Mughal regime Islam spread but was never forced as it was evident that in 1947 Muslims formed just 33% of Indian population despite the fact that India was Ruled / governed by Muslim rulers for a 1000 yrs also majority of princely states had Muslim Rulers with overwhelming majority of Hindu Subjects. Nizams hyderabad being the best example. Regarding hindutva this RSS was an organization which was formed by britishers as an answer to Indian National Congress to fight against Freedom fighters which had people from all cast creed religion. They aligned with britishers & opposed freedom struggle during entire struggle right till independence they were aloof & had no role in it. Their poster boy & ideologue SavRkar when caught & prisoned gave away what little struggle he had enmassed earlier & remained loyal to the British regime in heart & soul as evident from his letter to then British government. So all this hindutva is a fux & maligned ploy to deny Muslims equal share in fruits of freedom which is their right. They constantly provoked Muslim league & were equally responsible for formation of Pakistan as earlier Muslims & Dalits were jointly struggling & Negotiated for approval of their just demands at the round table Coference. As Muslims & dalits together comprised over 55-60% of undivided INDIA & their coalition would have blowned the Brihminical chord & it’s politics which just formed 3% yet has more than 50% share in Indian politics. In order to maintain its Hagemony in Indian Affairs the Brahmins conspired RSS to make sure Jinah has his way though a small principality is named as pakstn . It was a blunder with devastating effects whose ripples destroyed Punjab & Bengal booming economic centres of those times. RSS is an embelical cord of Britishes which exits through dividing ppl & nurturing self. As if 97% of Indians realize this ploy Brahmin dominance will cease to exist. Still its never too late Muslims + Dalits should unite to fight this RSS. It’s started very strongly in Gujarat where Dalits were pitted against Muslims in 2002 pogrom. Together they constitute 50cr. & can change the course of time in their favour.
You are portraying mughal kings like saints. They were cruel people. This is a fact that they have killed innocent human beings, raped women & destroyed temples. Lets take it one by one:
Forced conversions: You said that muslims were just 33%. Do you think 33% is a ‘just’ number? India is a home place for Buddhist & Jainism. These religions are much superior than Islam still their existance is nigligible. How come Islam was accepted by so many people. This is simply because Mughals used to force poor hindus to convert. Even now a days muslims all over the world have same policy. In middle east, if you accept Islam then your imprisonment duration is reduced. ISIS presently converting several yazidi’s to Islam & raping yazidi women considering them as sex slave.
Temple destruction: Mughal kings have destroyed around 40 thousand temples. Our famous temples were Somnath, Ayoddhya, Mathura & Kashi. It is proven by ‘archaeology survey of india’ that there was a temple below Babri mosque. Temple destruction is considered as one of the holy work in Islam. ISIS has destroyed several temples in Palmyra ancient city. Around one decade ago, taliban destroyed several Buddha idols in Afghanistan. No muslim country criticized this act. Now you will say ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. But I think ISIS is a true islamic organization & it is doing the same this which was done by muslims during Islam formation time in middle east. Even after proving in the court that there was temple below Babri mosque, still muslims resist to build Ayoddhya temple.. why so?? If you are really good people, then help hindus to build temples at Ayoddhya, Kashi & Mathura.
Caste system: I agree that Hindu caste system is a problem for our Dalit brothers. We are promoting education among Dalits & it will help us to eradicate caste based system. But muslims have no rights to show finger because in your community caste system is more powerful than Hindus. We hear news from Iraq that sunny killed hundreds of Shia muslims. Shia killed sunny leaders & so on… You could not make Shia as your brothers & trying to make Dalits as brothers? Have you ever heard that Brahmin community killed hundreds of Dalits in bomb attack or vice versa? No.. because hindu religion is peaceful & on other side islam is inherantly violant.
RSS formation: RSS was formed to provide security to hindus. Hindu religion has shown tolerance since last several centuries & now we want to live peacefully in India. But your terrorist gang does not allow us to live peacefully. Another problem is your population growth. This is a world wide problem. Whereever you go.. start increasing population & become threat to local residents.
When we talk about the things British did during their British raj, we don’t say that Christians did them do we? But why is it that you say Muslims did it when you talk about mugal empire? We (indian Muslims) are not even related to mugals!
Your generalisation and bigotry just shows how much hatred you have towards Muslims. How could you call yourself secular? Do you even know the meaning of secular?
Distorted history mentioned by you. Totally ignorant about Indian history. You are not ashamed of narrating LIE. Attentively read the answser of Er. SAMEER QURESHI.
QURESHI SAHAB,
Right presentation of facts but hindutwa forces will not like to accept.
Facts should be represented in full spirit the question whether people accept it or not is meaningless as facts speak for self. At least it will change the narrative it may not change the tides but at least will force people to see through right prospective. We must do our job rather worrying about result. I request all readers to stop being defensive & be open to discussion on any topic & try to project facts u may Win or lose but at least u tried to dissolve the sterretype. Which matters
Hindutva and westernization.
Indians irrespective of religion do not like hindutva and westernization.
Hindutva is for facilitating Brahmins and westernization for facilitating west.
Every indian is working for the development of west (other countries also) and in return we are getting some benefits and losing a lot (permanent damage) to this country.
I remember, a western tourist said that, “Every Indian thinks that they are west”. Worst thing is he is a tourist and not a leader.
Knowledege level of muslims (practising) will develop to higher extent if they work on such topics also it will take muslims to next level and equally india.
Hindutva elements are direct and indirect representative of WEST and their ideology and they can’t bring any solution to westernization
This is very interesting topic to work.
IT IS SIMPLE WESTERN CHRISTIAN ARE NO MORE CHRISTIANS ,,THEY WHAT BIBLE HAS FORBIDDEN ,JUST OBSERVE ,THEY DO WHATEVER JESUS CHRIST NEVER TAUGHT OR BIBLE NEVER ALLOWED.
THEIR BEHAVIOUR IS MORE OF ANTI CHRIST.
AND HINDUS DO NOT KNOW WHOME TO WORSHIP ,WHEN IT IS SAID IT CLEARLY MENTIONED IN VEDAS AND BHAGWAT GITA TO WORSHIP ONE GOD ONLY AND IT IS GRAVE SIN NOT TO DO IT.
THERE IS NO PLACE OF WORSHIP FOR ONE GOD OF VEDAS