Darul Uloom Falls For The Polarizing Agenda Of Hindutva Brigade

By Shamsul Islam

02 April, 2016
Countercurrents.org

It is unfortunate that some Muslim organizations are more than willing to be part of the Hindutva brigade's nefarious design of polarizing India between Hindus & Muslims. Instead of joining this polarizing game Darul Uloom (which played heroic role in freedom struggle against Muslim League's Pakistan project) should have issued a fatwa (it is a matter of discussion whether we need fatwas/hukumnamaas/dharm aadesh by religious functionaries in a democratic-secular India and whether Muslim bother about such fatwas) to ask all Indian Muslims to be familiar with the history of freedom struggle.

Those Hindutva organizations which have recently found 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' as a slogan to prove one's loyalty to India, never-never chanted it during the British rule. In fact, the slogan of freedom fighters was JAI HIND (which even today is a common phrase in all army/police/official communications) with which every PM of India ends his/her address at Red Fort on Independence Day and every President of India concludes address to the nation on the Republic Day. When we have National Anthem, National Flag, Democratic-Secular Constitution and Jai Hind dear to Indians 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' is only a diversionary tactic so that the Hindutva rulers can divert attention from serious issues like poverty, hunger, price-rise, unemployment, rising violence against women & Dalits, loot of public bank money by money-bags. It is sad that Darul Uloom by such decrees is only facilitating the polarizing agenda of Hindutva brigade.

Shamsul Islam is a retired Professor of University of Delhi.Email: [email protected]