Elite Muslims let down Muslim India

Bangalore: The Muslim India, edited by the veteran Muslim intellectual, Syed Shahabuddin, has announced the closure of the 20-year-old monthly English journal published from Delhi from Jan.1, 2010. The journal might have just reproduced articles mainly from Hindu papers and also some Muslim. Yet it has been for long the voice of a Muslim leader who should not have been let down by the community which itself is reeling under the blow of the Hindu terrorists. Muslims of India, forming about 15 to 20% of the population, ruled India for about 800 years and also made India the largest Muslim ‘country in the world. At least 5% of Muslims are rich and consider themselves custodians of everything that is Islam. Its religious, political, business leaders and even those running educational institutions are from this English-speaking elite. How did the elite Muslims let down the Muslim India which itself catered to this very elite section? Editor Shahabuddin is our good old friend. He broke his diplomatic service to enter politics from his native backward Bihar and got elected to parliament-encouraged by the Hindu terrorist party leader A.B. Vajpayee. But Bihar is not only one of the poorest states but the home for the country’s single largest “Backward Muslims” – converts from the SC/ST/BCs. To fight the Hindu imperialism under Brahmins, the rebellious SC/ST/ BCs embraced Islam and gained liberation. But Shahabuddin Saheb did not understand this because he was a Syed. This brought a gulf between the Syed and the Backward Muslims Pasmanda. Poor Syed went away from the Pasmanda Muslims in his love for his fair weather blood brothers who did not stand by him. In the process Muslim India had to close down further proving the fast deteriorating socio- cultural-political situation of the powerful Muslim community which once ruled India and liberated a vast sections of its slaves from Brahminical terrorists. The plight of India’s Muslims is so serious that the Brahminical media has given them a new name: “Terrorists”. Yet they are not getting angry.