Hamid Dalwai, 'Muslim Politics in India', 1969
1. Muslim leaders complain injustice is done to Muslims in India. But they have a strange definition of injustice. They suggest, indirectly no doubt, the very fact India has a Hindu majority is in itself a great injustice to Muslims.
1. Muslim leaders complain injustice is done to Muslims in India. But they have a strange definition of injustice. They suggest, indirectly no doubt, the very fact India has a Hindu majority is in itself a great injustice to Muslims.
2. How else can one understand the programme of the Mashawarat which demands sovereign rights for the Muslim community? In their own way, Muslim leaders are continuously trying to remove this injustice.
3. One of the methods of ensuring justice is to claim that Pakistani infiltrators in Assam are not Pakistani at all. A second method is to demand the granting of Indian citizenship to those Pakistanis who are illegal residents of Bihar, West Bengal and some other states of India.
4. A third method is to oppose family planning. A professor from Aligarh University was quite frank about this. He said: "Hindus cannot keep us permanently in a minority. Remember the history of Canada? How did the question of Quebec arise?
5. Those citizens of Quebec who are of English origin are Protestants and they practise family planning. But those who are of French origin are Catholics who never planned their families nor are doing so even today.
6. As a result, the number of French-speaking Catholics in Quebec has increased in relation to the number of English-speaking Protestants. Now the French-speaking Catholics have started protecting their own rights and interests. We shall follow the same example.
7. If not today, fifty years hence; if not fifty, a hundred years hence. This country will eventually be swept by an Islamic tide." The professor was quite forthright in expressing his views.
8. There are other leaders of Indian Muslims who say the same thing although they couch it in clever phrases. They say, "Our religion does not permit family planning. Grant us the freedom to practise our religion."
9. The Urdu newspaper Radiance, commenting on the report of the last Census in India, said, "In the last ten years the Muslim population in India has increased by 4 per cent more than the Hindus. Therefore, Muslims need not despair about their future."
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