We have replied all the charges made by lay Muslim leaders in Dalit Voice many times and also in our books. But an Islamic scholars like Brother Rahim Quraishi coming out with such an observation shows he has not made a deep study of our common enemy Brahminism which is behind the screen and yet directs the bloody drama.
Since the Brahmins constitute a micro-minority of less than 3% and this pyramid-shaped Hindu structure has many layers of castes, on ascending order of reverence and descending degree of contempt, this centuries-old enemy can never remain as ruler – not to speak of living alive – unless it instigates one caste (or community) against the other.
ENEMY BEHIND SCREEN
Perpetrators of caste riots and anti- Muslim, Christian, Sikh war and violence are all standing behind the screen.
The question you raised, however, is very important and needs a deep thought. But Islamic scholars are refusing to ponder on this all- important subject of Dalits being the main actors in every anti-Muslim riot.
What you say is absolutely true. The Babri Masjid demolition was done by the Andhra Pradesh Dalits. The Gujarat Genocide of Muslims (2002) was the handi- work of Dalits and Tribals. There are ever so many instances of Dalits attacking Muslims.
Everybody is made to “believe” that the Dalits and Tribals are the culprits. Such a belief system is systematically nurtured and promoted by the Brahminical toilet papers.
MUSLIM AS OUR BLOOD BROTHERS
As the Editor of Dalit Voice, we have attended several hundred Dalit meetings in different parts of the country. No where we have heard any Dalit leader speaking anything against the Muslims. All their complaints are only against the Brahmins and other upper castes (Hindus). They have all praise for Muslim.
In the writings or speeches of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Shyam Sunder, Kanshi Ram nowhere you can find even a word against Muslims. In fact all of us unanimously support Muslims because they are our blood brothers. Dalits fought against Brahmins by first getting converted to Budhism. Then into Islam and Christianity and Sikhism. The entire Bangladeshi Muslims were once Dalits. Muslim scholars have admitted this fact. (Buddhism in South Asia, Prof. M. Abdul Mumin Chowdhury, 2008, LISA, London).
If the Dalits are blood brothers of Muslims how did they attack Muslims? This is the million dollar question which the Muslim religious leadership has failed to examine in depth. We had several rounds of discussion on this subject with the late Moulana Ali Miyan, who became our great admirer through the late Moulana Jaffer All of Bangalore, also your friend.
GULF BETWEEN BROTHERS
The failure of the Muslim religious leadership to go deep into this subject has brought about a big gulf between the two blood brothers who live side by side in all urban slums (including Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Delhi etc.) and eat the same food including beef.
The Muslims are not only our elder brothers but one endowed with a rich, revolutionary religion. But Dalits are not only poor but culturally deprived by thousands of years of Brahminical oppression-which the Muslims escaped because of conversion.
Had the Muslim rulers and the saints of those days converted the Dalits and Tribals in total by this time the entire country would have gone Muslim and become free from Brahminical tyranny. The Muslim rulers and the religious leadership did not do it then. This was a big mistake.
AGHA KHAN REBUFFS GANDHI
But the Muslim leadership of India before “independence” (1947) and the Dalits led by Dr. Ambedkar had worked together to fight their common Brahminical enemy. The Agha Khan, who led the Muslim delegation to the London Round Table Conference, refused to play into the hands of the treacherous Gujarati Bania, M.K. Gandhi, who abruptly came to the place where the Muslim delegation was staying in London. The “Mahatma’s” sudden arrival at the dead of night shocked the Muslim delegation. Gandhi said he came to inform the “happy news” that he had accepted all the 14-point Muslim demand – but on the condition that the Muslims would not support Dr. Ambedkar (who was also in London leading the Dalit delegation) demand for separate electorate. Gandhi then dramatically produced a copy of Quran he was hiding under his dress and asked the Agha Khan to give him a promise on the Quran.
The Agha Khan said being Muslims they would not go back on the promise given to Babasaheb to support the separate electorate. The cunning Bania went away disappointed.
All this is part of history. All the Muslim leaders of India know this historical truth about Gandhi’s mischief. The above historical incident in London reveals that before the “independence”, the Dalits and Muslims were together.
R.S.S. MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR EXPERIMENT
How did they fall out later? How the blood brother Dalits were made to attack and kill Muslims? How did the cordial relations between the two dramatically break?
This is because of the multi-million dollar experiment conducted by the premier Brahmin organization, RSS, to hinduise (enslave) the Dalits.
How did the Brahmins succeed in dividing the Dalit-Muslim blood brothers?
This needs a deep study of Brahminism to answer this question and to understand the working of the “Hindu Mind”.
Once the Muslim leadership acquires this ability, we can put an end to this frequent Hindu-Muslim (meaning Dalit-Muslim) blood bath and launch Dalit-Muslim unity which will depend upon the initiative to be taken by Muslims being our elder brothers.
The problem is too simple. And Dalits are too willing to understand it. The problem lies with the elite Muslims who in their madrasa education system have failed to study the Indian social system (caste system) of which they are also a part. Yet another problem is the elite Muslim desire to be closer to the Brahminical upper castes than get closer to us.
We have discussed this subject with top Jamate-Islami leadership. It simply rejected our plea saying they prefer to go with the upper castes.
Already the country is choked with anti-Muslim hatred. The longer the Muslim leadership takes to understand our point, faster will be the hinduisation of Dalits.
ROOT CAUSE OF PROBLEM
The elite Muslims have Brahmins and other upper castes as their lawyers, accountants, tax officers, doctors, managers, neighbours, teachers, club mates, bosses. They read the media produced by this very enemy. They dine in the hotel run by this enemy. Their children go to elite schools and colleges run by the Hindu ar Christians. All their day- to-day dealings are with upper castes. Here lies the problem.
BIHAR AS AN EXCEPTION
But look at the Pasmanda Muslims of Bihar, India’s second largest state with a big Muslim population. Here the Backward Muslims themselves are coming forward to embrace the Dalits. We have attended many meetings in Bihar and found very cordial relationship between the two blood brothers. Why this is lacking elsewhere? Even the late Ashfaq Hussain Ansari, MP of UP, was close to us and fully understood us.
SC/ST/OBC Muslims never had any problem with us.
We admit that Dalits are behind all anti-Muslim riots. Since Muslims are the target of attack it is in their interest to find a solution. We are here to support you.
Dr. Ram Nath, a former Vice- Chancellor of a UP Agri. University, has written a book itself on Dalit- Muslim Unity with our foreword. It is necessary the Muslim leadership gives a fresh thought to this subject in their own interest and also the interest of the country.
