Thank you for making a change in your stand on Muslim community. DV is the only Voice of Dalits. So, it should talk of only Dalits irrespective of their religion.
In this regard, I am very thankful to Prof. T. Rahmatullah, K. Mukundan, Dr. N. Suresh, all from Kerala, who have started writing openly in favour of Dalits, a varna or backwards among Muslims (constituting a vast majority of Indian Muslims and are converts from non- Aryan indigenous Indians).
It is hard to deny the still persisting Savarna mind of the upper caste converts in the Muslim community – known as Ashraf, Savarna or “elite Muslims”. These 5 -10% upper caste Muslims are not controlling (though K. Mukundan writes so) but exploiting the rest of the 90 – 95% “Dalit Muslims” under the banner of religion.
When I criticised these Savarna Muslims, a DV editorial criticised me saying that such a situation is the problem confined only to the cowbell. But DV has published articles by Mukundan and others saying that throughout India this problem is there and the a varna and dark-skinned Muslims are suffering all over – from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh,
No support from south: In the North, we are fighting the corrupt upper caste Muslim leadership but from the South we could not get any link even to this day. Some Muslims criticised us saying that we were mis- guided and that there was nothing like caste system among Muslims in South India. But I was pretty sure about the prevalence of caste even among South Indian Muslims. The only difference between the North and South was the oppressed Muslims in the South were not aware of it. “l am very much thankful to DV for exposing the racist feelings of the Savarna Muslims in South”.
The point is that the “Dalit Muslims” have been kept drugged in the faith of religious sentiments to facilitate better exploitation so that they become blind and intolerant against any criticism of religious matter.
So, our strategy should be such that we should not touch the religious sentiments of “Dalit Muslims®. It is better to talk of their educational, economic and socio-political status and their liberation through nonreligious means.
Jiwa argue in favour of their inclusion in SC/ST quota and their entitlement of a due share in Mandal reservation, they will jump with joy.
Such argument will touch their hearts and they will themselves force a change in the existing Muslim leadership. So, this is the “master-key” for the global development of a community.
