Dear Sir / Madam The Articles in the enclosed book were written and posted on net as well as printed

in Magazines in the past. But friends were of the opinion that they should be compiled in the shape of a book so that they can remain at one place to show the continuity of events which has lead to various serious problems in the country and honouring there wishes it was done. However, those who read it were of the opinion that since the book can not reach every individual, therefore it should be posted on the net so that those who are interested can read it and know the facts. It has not been done with the intention of raising the communal passion, instead, is an effort to diffuse it simply by bringing the facts of conspiracy hatched by extremist individuals and organisations in the knowledge of citizens of the country, irrespective of faith and religion. This was naturally done by them to hurt some citizens of the country to polarize the society on communal lines to achieve their personal and political gains. I have taken data mostly from Government Records and authentic sources but still if anyone feels hurt or offended, I tender my unconditional apology in advance. Thank You Afzal Ahmad Khan The Author

Forward
This first attempt by Afzal bhai to write a book covers the spectrum of anguish of a Muslim living in India. From enumerating the backwardness of Muslim community, as substantiated by the Sachar Committee report, with statistics, to discrimination faced by it in implementing the policy of reservations in higher educational institutions, government jobs, state assemblies and parliament, from witnessing the demolition of Babri Masjid in broad daylight by hoodlums in the name of Hindutva forces with the governments of the day conniving, to innocent Muslim youth being implicated in false cases of terror, from demonization of Islam to the true message of this reformist religion, Afzal bhai has covered a wide range of subject. His criticism of the hegemonic power of United States is also justified. He has outpoured his agony on abovementioned subjects and therefore the sentiments behind the work are more important. This book should not be judged from a scholarly or academic point of view. The feelings of the hurt sentiments of a Muslim living in India should be appreciated. The book also hints at solutions to address the problems discussed. Hence the author has adopted a constructive approach instead of merely lamenting about the issues. My best wishes to the author for his debut venture. I congratulate him for putting together this work and hope well see more from him in future.

Dr. Sandeep Pandey

Megassy Award Winner, International Social and Communal Harmony Worker

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PREFACE
The Muslims of our country who preferred to remain in their mother land India instead of migrating to Pakistan have remained a very depressed, secluded and shattered lot due to horror and devastation of partition. The Governments and communal organizations with their backing played very vital role in creating such a sadist atmosphere for Muslims. As a follow up action of a preplanned strategy, a communal section of majority community and the media not only circulated twisted and cooked stories about Islam (like four wives at a time without explaining logic behind it) but also presented Muslims as antinational and propagated against them in such a way that they were forced to feel guilty of a sin (partition of country) which they never committed. In fact the Muslims proved their loyalty to our country much more than others. Though, they had the option of migrating to Pakistan, while other communities did not have the same choice, but even after facing the extreme insult and humiliation, all-round destruction, devastation and horror they preferred to remain in their mother land India, instead of moving across the border to Pakistan. Unfortunately they did not get the helping hand they needed from Government for their rehabilitation and restoration of their lost confidence in their governance in spite of various provisions for such cases in our constitution. Though our country is a secular one, still to establish the authority and rule of majority community over the rest, the restoration work of damaged Somnath Temple was financed and executed by the Government from its exchequer though it is public money which is contributed by every citizen of the country, including Muslims through direct and indirect taxes. Thus Muslims also contributed in its restoration work which is never highlighted. Along with propagating them antinational, an unending chain of harassments of Muslims started to downgrade them to second or third class citizens of the country. Some of them were done directly by the Governments and some by Hindutva forces with their backing. The deliberate planting of statues in Babari Masjid at Ayodhya in 1949 changed the total social and secular structure of our country and gave birth to terrorism. After we became Republic in 1950, in brutal violation of our Secular Constitution, Muslims were deprived of the benefits originally available to all Schedule Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) irrespective of their religion by issuing the Presidential Order 1950 under Article 341 of constitution. It had drastic psychological and financial effect on Muslims. The discriminatory action of leaving Muslims but including even Sikhs and Buddhists in the list of SCs in the year 1955 and 1990 respectively, had badly affected their education and job opportunities, which lead to their further downfall in every field of life, and the Report of Sachar Committee is its testimony. The Presidential Order of 1959, tempting Muslims to reconvert to Hinduism to get the benefits admissible to Hindu SCs has further damaged the secular credential of our country. This has forced the citizens to seriously think that though our constitution is secular but are we really living in a Secular Country which is not being governed by its constitution in its true letter and sprit but on personal vendetta? The incidences quoted above are like a few drops in a vast ocean. Persons responsible for governance take their oath to implement our constitution strictly with all fairness and impartiality without any fear and favour but it has rarely been seen in practice since our independence. It has resulted in multiple suicidal problems for the country as we are seeing them today every where. Scams after scams are being unearthed from Central to state Governments and one wonders that are the persons who are directly or indirectly governing our country are worth for the post, they are holding? The Anna Hazare Movement is the result of the doubtful integrity and dishonesty of the persons responsible for the governance of the country. 5

iii The articles in the book have not been written to raise the communal passion but to clear the misunderstanding about Islam and Muslims and bring the facts in the knowledge of common citizens so that we can unearth the basic reason behind all the problems and uproot it for ever from its very foundation; otherwise it will further damage the health of our country which may prove suicidal for all of us. The representation of Muslims in every field to sustain life is alarmingly low; however, the jails are exception where their presence is far too ahead of the ratio of their population. This grave condition of a vast mass of citizens of the country should not be taken as the problems of Muslims only but should be seen as the National Problem because no country can ever hope to progress if it leaves behind more than 200 million of its citizens in the ruins of illiteracy, poverty and hunger. It is also very important to mention here that no undue favour or special status for Muslims is required for this purpose. In fact, all these problems have been created due to encroachments in our original constitution by the Governments for their political gains. The sheer application of our constitution as originally adopted by our Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949 and enforced on our Republic Day, January 26, 1950 in its true letter and spirit, with all fairness, sincerity and honesty will solve every problem. Its my first attempt to compile articles on various fields in shape of a book and many errors might have crept in unknowingly for which I request for your apology. Your appreciations, encouragements and suggestions for improvements will serve me as a moral booster and will inspire me to bring more facts in your knowledge in future. In the end I would express my gratitude for Dr. Sandeep Pandey who spared some valuable time from his very busy schedule to write the foreword. I am also grateful to my friends Er Aslam Shibli and Prof Jamal Nusrat, who helped me a lot and gave their valuable time and suggestions in completion of this book. Dated January 1, 2012 Afzal Ahmad Khan Kashana-E-Afzal 41/2 Prag Naraian Road Lucknow 226 001, INDIA +91- 522- 2209066, +91- 9415151983 <afzalk1945@gmail.com>

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Contents
123456789Foreword Preface Appeasing or Fooling Muslims? Sachar Committee has the Answer Who is Responsible for the Poor Representation of Muslims? Secularism Hijacked Uniform Civil Code Terrorism, Our Home Grown Monster Demonizing Islam About Author i ii 7 13 22 25 29 35 42

Appeasing or Fooling Muslims?

Sachar Committee has the Answer
Since our independence, while the communal parties raised the baseless but well organised propaganda of appeasement of Muslims by the ruling parties to garner the Hindu votes in their favour, the self-proclaimed secular parties that ruled the country for almost the entire period projected the communal parties as the monsters for the Muslims, hell bent upon swallowing them at the first available opportunity. Apparently, these political parties appear to have diametrically opposite approaches to the minority issues, but by their actions, they have been serving the interest of each other. After the Partition, the Muslims who loved to remain in India, proved to be a very depressed, secluded and shattered lot and were rather forced to feel guilty of a sin (partition of the country), which they never committed. It is a naked fact that after Partition, in spite of the extreme all-round destruction, insult and humiliation, the Muslims who opted for their motherland India as their home instead of migrating to Pakistan, did not get the helping hand they needed for their rebuilding. The situation was ideally suited for revocation of the Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution, which could have not only worked as a morale booster for them but could have restored their shattered confidence in governance also. But this was not done. Instead, the facility of reservation for the Muslim Schedule Castes (SCs) along with the Hindu co-professionals, given by the British through the Government of India Act 1935 and adopted even by our Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949 and enforced on our Republic Day January 26, 1950 was withdrawn in 1950 itself. Adhering strictly to the principle of offence is the best defence, a widespread propaganda was launched by the biased media along with the communal politicians in connivance of Government, to make the world believe that only Muslims were responsible for every wrong happening in our country. Pursuing it further, orders were deliberately issued and the situations were purposely created, so that the Muslims do not only alienate themselves from the mainstream of the country but also become so much humiliated, demoralised and defensive that they do not raise their voices against the bullets of injustices, which have been continuously fired over them since our independence. Taking full advantage of the sense of insecurity among the Muslims, these self-proclaimed secular political parties fished in the troubled waters by spreading the message that the very survival of the Muslims in India is in danger and their existence in the country is possible only if they remained in power not only in the states but also at the centre and therefore, for their own safety, the Muslims should vote only in their favour. Similarly, communal parties propagated that the Hindus along with their religion will only survive in this country if they remained in power and therefore, for their own protection, they should vote only in their favour. Thus, the parties, communalists and self-proclaimed secularists gained enormously from their respective propaganda and successfully garnered the votes in their favour but the only loser in this whole drama was the citizens of this country, especially the Muslims, who were haplessly looking to all these games being played by the political parties from the fringe. These policies of the Governments have shown their true colour. The Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslims have gone down so drastically that a majority of them are at the level of SCs or even below them. The facts and figures have been well documented by Sachar Committee. Some of the Important Findings and Recommendations by the committee are as follows: 8

A. Important Findings of Sachar Committee 1. The gross under-representation of Muslims in jobs in the government sector is a sad comment on the partisan nature of governance in India (P. 163). 2. Share of Muslims in employment in various departments is abysmally low at all levels. In no state does the representation of Muslims in the government departments match their population share (P 171). 3. The conditions of Muslims in general are also lower than the Hindu OBCs who have the benefit of reservations. (P. 213). 4. Though there are many Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) and Central Plan Schemes (CPS) available for the welfare of SCs, STs and OBCs, such schemes for the welfare of minorities are rare. And the available schemes are inadequately funded. (P. 251). 5. The presence and participation of Muslims in the Judiciary has been a major point of concern (P.173). 6. Representation of Muslims is very low in the Universities and in Banks (P.169). 7. (The presence of Muslims (in percentages) in various fields is as follows i. Employed in some services IAS 3% IFS 1.8% IPS 4% Indian Railways 4.5% [almost all (98.7%) of them are positioned at Lower levels] Security agencies 4% Education Department 6.5% Home Department 7.5% Constables 6% Health Department 4.4% ii. Education In the premier colleges of the country, Under-Graduate 4% only one out of the 25 students Post-Graduate 2% only one out of the 50 students. IIMs 1.3% IITs 3.3% 8. More than1000 Muslim concentration villages in West Bengal and Bihar, and 1943 such villages in UP do not have any educational institution. The situation is worse in smaller villages with a Muslim concentration. There is a clear and significant inverse association between the proportion of the Muslim population and the availability of educational infrastructure in small villages. (P. 143) 9. Poverty and Consumption Levels: For the year 2004-05, the all India average Mean per Capita Expenditure (at current prices) for urban areas was Rs.1,105. In comparative terms the figures were, upper caste Hindus (Rs.1,469), Other Minorities (Rs.1,485), OBC Hindus (Rs.955), Muslims (Rs. 804) and SCs/STs (Rs. 793). Thus, the MPCE of Muslims and SCs/STs are almost the same and is well below the National level. (P. 153). 10. Access to Credit i. .During the six years period 2000-01 to 2005-06, of the total amount of Rs. 26,593 crores disbursed by SIDBI, Muslims received a paltry Rs.124 crores (less than 0.5 %). (P. 134). ii. National Bank of Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) has done no better. During the two years 2004-05, 2005-06, Muslims received only 3.2% of the total production credit and 3.9% of investment credit. (P.135). 9

iii. RBIs efforts to extend banking and credit facilities under the Prime Ministers 15-point programme have mainly benefited other minorities, marginalising Muslims. (P. 128). iv. Some banks have identified a number of Muslim concentration areas as negative geographical zones where bank credit and other facilities are not easily provided. (Pg.136). 11. Wakf Boards: i. Encroachment by the State, who is the custodian of the Wakf interests, is common. (P. 221). ii. Many states have huge amounts that are outstanding but not paid to the Wakf Boards.(P 226). iii.The Delhi Wakf Board has effectively been deprived of the use of its valuable properties, currently estimated at Rs.6,000 crores. (P. 228). B. Sachars Important Recommendations 1. Set up Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) to look into grievances about denial of equal opportunity or bias or discrimination by the deprived groups. An example of such a policy tool is the United Kingdom Race Relations Act, 1976. (P. 240). 2. Enhance Muslim Participation in Governance. Because of the logic of one-man-one-vote principle, minorities in India often lack effective political importance. A carefully conceived nomination procedure should be worked out to increase the effective participation of minorities in local governance. (P. 239). 3. Because of the Presidential Order (1950), that restricts the SC status only to Hindu groups having unclean occupations (Sikhs and neo-Buddhists have since been included under SCs),Committee has argued it would be most appropriate for them to be included under the SC category, or at least club them with the Most Backward Castes (MBCs) category. (P.198). 4. Give Education Top Priority. Free and compulsory education up to the age of 14 is the responsibility of the State. And the fulfilment of this obligation is critical for the improvements in the educational conditions of Muslims, in fact, of all socio-economically deprived children.(P. 243). 5. Remove bias from school textbooks: A process of evaluating the content of the school textbooks needs to be initiated to purge them of explicit and implicit content that may impart inappropriate social values, especially religious intolerance. (P. 244). 6. Set up High Quality Government Schools in all areas of Muslim concentration. (P. 244). 7. Availability of primary education in ones mother tongue is constitutionally provided for. Provide primary education in Urdu in areas where Urdu-speaking population is concentrated. (P. 244). 8. Technical Education and Training for Non-matriculates: The pre-entry qualification for admission to ITIs should be reduced to Class VIII. Skill development initiatives of ITIs and polytechnics should be focused on areas where the minority population is concentrated. The eligibility for such programmes should also be extended to the Madrasa educated children as they are ineligible to get trained under many current formal technical education streams. (P. 245). 9. Providing hostel facilities at reasonable costs for students from minorities must be taken up on a priority basis. While this is required for all minority students, such facilities for girls in cities of all sizes are particularly desirable. (P. 246). 10.Support Urdu language: Often Urdu schools have teachers who have no knowledge of Urdu. This problem is partly compounded by the fact that posts of Urdu teachers are reserved for the SCs/STs and such candidates are not available. This anomaly needs to be corrected urgently. High quality Urdu medium schools can be opened in those parts of the country wherever there is demand for them. Ensure that good quality textbooks are available in the Urdu language and the products of these schools are employable. Urdu should be introduced as 10

an optional subject in all government and government-aided schools in states having a substantial Urdu speaking population. (P. 247). 11. Link Madrasas to Mainstream Education: i. Provision of equivalence to Madrasa certificates/degrees for subsequent admissions into institutions of higher learning. Work out mechanisms whereby Madrasas can be linked with a higher secondary school board so that students wanting to shift to a regular/mainstream education can do so after having passed from a Madrasa. (P. 248). ii. Recognition of the degrees from Madrasas for eligibility in competitive examinations such as the Civil Services, Banks, Defence Services and other such examinations within the existing framework of these competitive examinations. (P. 248) 12. Ensure More Access to Credit and Government Schemes: i. Information regarding the religious background of customers and clients should be maintained by the banks and made available to the RBI. RBI in turn can provide this information for others under the Right to Information Act. (P. 249). ii. Promote and enhance access to Muslims in Priority Sector Advances. Any shortfall in achievement of targeted amount in minority specific programmes should be parked with NMDFC, NABARD and SIDBI and specific programmes should be funded with this amount. (P 249). iii. It is desirable to have experts drawn from the community on relevant interview panels and boards. This practice is already in vogue in the case of SCs/STs. (P. 250). iv. The Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) should set aside a fund for training for minorities under its Entrepreneurial Development Programme. (P. 250). v. National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) should lay down a policy to enhance the participation of minorities in its micro-credit schemes. (P. 250). vi. All 58 districts with more than 25% Muslim population should be brought under the Prime Ministers 15-Point Programme for minoritys welfare. (P. 250) vii.There should be transparency in information about minorities in all activities. It should be made mandatory to publish/furnish information in a prescribed format once in three months and also to post the same on the website of the departments and state governments. (P.250). viii.The review of Government programmes suggests that Muslims have not benefited much from them. Detailed data should be collected regularly on the participation of different SRCs in government programmes, both at the state and the Central level. (P. 251). 13. Improve Employment Opportunities: i. Locate ITIs, polytechnics and other institutions that provide skill training for non-matriculates in areas/clusters which have concentrations of Muslim population. (P. 252). ii. It is imperative to increase the employment share of Muslims particularly in departments where there is a great deal of public dealing: the teachers, health workers, police personnel, bank employees etc. (P. 252). iii.Encourage employers to endorse their organisations as Equal Opportunity Institutions so that applicants from all socio-religious communities may apply. A time bound effort in this direction is desirable. (P. 252). iv In the Muslim concentratedareas, ensure at least one Muslim inspector/sub-inspector in Thanas, Muslim health personnel in health units, a few Muslim teachers in schools, and so on. (P. 253).

14. Wakf Boards: 11

There are more than 4.9 lakh registered Wakfs spread over the country, the market value of all the Wakf properties at current prices is around Rs.1.2 lakh crores but the current annual income from these properties is only about Rs. 163 crores, which amounts to a meagre 2.7 per cent rate of return. If these properties are put to efficient and marketable use, they can generate at least a minimum 10% annual return which means around Rs.12,000 crores. Data available with Committee shows that in cases where Wakf property is efficiently utilised, the return has averaged 20% per annum. (P. 219). It is expected that the recommendations will receive the attention of the Central and the state governments and will be implemented with all the earnestness and the thoroughness that they deserve. The issues relating to disparities across socio-religious communities are of utmost importance to our nation today. (P. 254). The Sachar Committee report depicts a true picture of the Social, Economic and Educational Status of Indian Muslims. The Report not only thoroughly exposes the Sangh Parivars baseless propaganda of Muslim appeasement but its findings are a shocking testimony to six decades of deliberate neglect and bias by the Governments and their agencies that has left the countrys Muslims far behind in the areas of education, employment, access to credit, access to social and physical infrastructure and political representation. The Report has made numerous recommendations for urgent governmental action to redress the problem of Muslim backwardness which is not only the problem of a community but is a national problem because no country can ever hope to progress if it leaves behind more than 150 million of its population in the ruins of illiteracy, poverty and hunger. It is also very important to mention here that no undue favour or special status for Muslims is required for this purpose. In fact, all these problems have been created due to encroachments in our original constitution by the Governments for their political gains. The sheer application of our constitution, originally adopted on our Republic Day January 26, 1950, in its true letter and spirit, with all fairness, sincerity and honesty will solve the problem. The minorities are probably rightly looking to governments and their governance with suspicious eyes. Therefore, the law of the land should uniformly be applied to every citizen without any discrimination or bias and Justice should not only be done but should appear to have been done. The following actions will not only check further damage to the conditions of Muslims of the country but will also rebuild their confidence in our governments and their governance apart from enhancing the credibility of our democratic system. 1) Implement all the recommendations of Sachar Committee without any further delay. 2) Remove discriminations against minorities. The Muslims have been illegally placed in the category of Upper Caste Hindus due to the Presidential Order of 1950 (PO) and can try only against 76% seats/vacancies. Either withdraw these orders or allow them to compete as a single caste against 100% vacancies/seats. The said PO is criminal violation of our secular constitution, especially Article 14, 15 and 16 which state as follows: I. Article 14: Equality before law: The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India. II. Article 15: Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. Clause (1) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them. III. Article 16 Equality of opportunity in matters of public employment. Clause (1) There shall be equality of opportunity for all citizens in matters relating to employment or appointment to any office under the State. 12

Clause (2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, descent, place of birth, residence or any of them, be ineligible for, or discriminated against in respect of, any employment or office under the State. 3) The overall pathetic condition of Muslims of the country is a fit case for application of Article 15 and 16 of our Constitution over the entire community. They state as I. Article 15 Clause (4). Nothing in this article or in clause (2) or article 29 shall prevent the State from making any special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. II .Article 16 Clause (4) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from making any provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favour of any backward class of citizens which, in the opinion of the State, is not adequately represented in the services under the State. 4) All the minorities should be brought under the umbrella of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. This will not only create confidence in them but will also be very effective in checking the communal riots which mostly start with provocations and bias or discriminations. 5) The number of vacancies which should have gone to Muslims (in the ratio of population of Muslim SCs) should be worked out at least from 1990 (when Buddhist were also included in the list of SCs along with Hindus and Sikhs) and the backlog of filling the vacancies should be cleared in a phased manner, by framing and strictly adhering to a time bound programme of five years. This method for clearing the backlog of the present SCs is in practice in all the Government departments.

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Who is Responsible for the Poor Representation of Muslims ?

Since our independence, the social, economic and educational conditions of Muslims of the country have gone down so drastically that now it has come at the level of the Schedule Castes or even below them. In the opinion of the politicians, some individuals or NGOs, the Muslims are themselves responsible for this pathetic condition of the community. Because, instead of joining the National Mainstream and contributing in countrys development so that they could have also shared its benefit, they preferred to remain aloof and secluded not only from National Mainstream but also from society. However, if the sequences of developments after the Partition of the Country are analyzed minutely the facts, which emerge, are just opposite to these allegations. Probably every possible effort was made to ensure that the Muslims remain far too behind in every field of progress by officially blocking their entry everywhere, like elected bodies, employments, educational institutions etc. to name a few, and for this hopeless condition of Muslims, the Governments of the country since our independence are solely responsible. After the partition of the country, most of the elite class of the Muslims migrated to Pakistan for greener pasture. Therefore, the Muslims who did not align with the then Muslim League and preferred to live in India instead of migrating to Pakistan, were not only illiterate and poor but also a very depressed, secluded and shattered lot and their social educational and economic status was almost at par with downtrodden like SCs or even worse than them. Their conditions were ideally suited for the application of the Articles 14, 15 and 16 of our Constitution, which could have not only worked as a morale booster for them but would have restored their shattered confidence in the government and their governance after the horrible experience of partition of the country. But, this was not done. Instead, insult was added to their injury by forcing them to feel guilty of a sin (partition of the country) which they never committed. Not only this, even the facility of reservation to the Muslim Schedule Castes (SCs) given by the British through the Government of India Act 1935 along with the Hindu co-professionals, was withdrawn by the President of free India through his Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950[2]. It is important to mention here that after independence; even our Constituent Assembly has adopted the said act without any amendment on November 26, 1949. It appears that after independence, our Secular Leadership was eagerly waiting for the enforcement of our own constitution so that they can immediately issue the said communal Presidential Order in brutal violation of the decision of our Constituent Assembly. Probably that was the beginning of an unending chain of bias and discrimination against the Muslims of the country which is continuing even today with full vengeance and has left them struggling in the ruins of illiteracy, poverty and hunger. Though Muslim are underrepresented everywhere except in jails where they are far too ahead of the proportion of their population. They are there since years and in most of the cases, their trial has not even begun or it is at a very primary stage. In majority of the cases, the courts did not find substantial evidence against them and they were acquitted but after years of illegal detention as was confirmed by a Peoples Tribunal consisting of eminent personalities of national and international fame which heard the testimonies of Muslim accused of terrorism over the last two years in Hyderabad from August 22-24, 2008. Who and how the victims and their families will be compensated for the illegal action committed against them by the Government agencies. However, just as a sample survey, if the reasons for the poor representations of Muslims is analyzed only at three places, i.e. Elected bodies, employment and education and its history traced 14

since 1947, one will get a fair idea of the conspiracy hatched against the Muslims to block every path of progress for them. 1. Elected Bodies The election of Parliament is over and there has been a lot of hype from various corners regarding the very low representation of Muslims in the Parliament. It is being argued that there are 543 seats in Parliament and according to 2001 census; the Muslim population in the country is 13.4% therefore the number of Muslims in Parliament should have been 13.4% of 543= 72.76 say 73. However, the actual number of Muslims in Parliament after 2009 election is 30 (41%, not even half) only and thus a short fall of 43 seats. During the arguments for this shortfall, many reasons like lack of genuine leadership among them, lack of unity and division of their votes, illiteracy and ignorance about the duties and rights in democratic system etc are mentioned. But, apart from others factors, one of the main reason, responsible for this shortfall are the two Presidential Orders The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950[2] and The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950[3] issued by the President of India under Article 341 of our constitution. Both these orders ie Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950[2], and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950[3] restricted the facility of reservation to the followers of Hindu religion only, which is criminal violation of our Secular Country and Constitution. Ironically both these communal orders were issued by the President of India, the Chief Guardian of our Secularism, during the governance of those stalwarts whose secular character is unquestionable and raising even any doubt about their secular credentials is like a crime of being antinational. Since the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950[2] deprived the benefits of Reservation to the Schedule Castes (SCs) of every religion except Hinduism, there were strong reactions against this injustice all over the country. While Sikhs and Buddhists reacted ferociously against the Orders, the Muslims were a very subdued lot due to the horrifying and devastating after effects of the partition. The strong resentment and violent protests by the Sikhs and Buddhs forced the Government for modifying the aforesaid Presidential Order. While the Sikhs were restored back in the list of SCs in the year 1956, the Buddhists were included in 1990. However, the discrimination on religious grounds under article 341 of our constitution still continues due to non-inclusion of Dalits professing Islam and Christianity in the list of SCs even though more than sixty years have passed. The Muslim STs constitute only 0.25% of total STs Population of the country and most of them are inhabitants of Lakshdweep. As per the 2001 Census, the SCs (Scheduled Castes also known as Dalits) and STs (Scheduled Tribes also known as Adivasis) together comprise over 24% of Indias population (SCs over 16% and STs over 8%). Thus out of total reservation of around 24% for SCs and STs in the country, at present the Muslims who are constitutionally entitled to get the benefit of reservation is not even 0.1%, which is as good as none. Ironically, while Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists can constitutionally try for 100% (General+SCs+STs) seats/vacancies, Muslims are entitled for 76% (General+Non-existent STs) only. Thus after the aforesaid Presidential Orders of 1950 and their amendments, the seats available for various categories in Parliament and Legislative Assemblies have been produced in the Table 1.1 & 1.2-Table 1.1

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STATES

(Note- The Information has been copied from the Website of Election Commission of India) SCHEDULE I Allocation of Seats SCHEDULE II Allocation of Seats in the Name of State/ Legislative Assemblies Union Territory in House of People PARLIAMENT Ser

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1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Number of seats in the House as constituted In 2004 on the basis of the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976 as amended from time to time Tota SCs ST l s 2 3 4 5 Andhra Pradesh 42 6 2 Arunachal Pradesh 2 --Assam 14 1 2 Bihar 40 7 -Chhattisgarh 11 2 4 Goa 2 --Gujarat 26 2 4 Haryana 10 2 -Himachal Pradesh 4 1 -Jammu and 6 --Kashmir* Jharkhand 14 1 5 Karnataka 28 4 -Kerala 20 2 -Madhya Pradesh 29 4 5 Maharashtra 48 3 4 Manipur 2 -1 Meghalaya 2 --Mizoram 1 -1 Nagaland 1 --Orissa 21 3 5 Punjab 13 3 -Rajasthan 25 4 3 Sikkim 1 --Tamil Nadu 39 7 -Tripura 2 -1 Uttrakhand 5 --Uttar Pradesh 80 18 -West Bengal 42 8 2 Total 530 74 43

Number of seats in the House as subsequently constituted as per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008

Tota l 6 42 2 14 40 11 2 26 10 4 6 14 28 20 29 48 2 2 1 1 21 13 25 1 39 2 5 80 42 530

SCs 7 7 -1 6 1 -2 2 1 -1 5 2 5 5 ----3 4 4 -7 -1 17 10 83

Number of seats in the House as constituted In 2004 on the basis of the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976 as amended from time to time ST Total SCs STs s 8 9 10 11 3 294 39 15 -60 -59 2 126 8 16 -243 39 -4 90 10 34 -40 1 -4 182 13 26 -90 17 --68 16 3 -87 6 -5 2 -6 4 1 2 1 -5 -3 --1 --2 45 81 224 140 230 288 60 60 40 60 147 117 200 32** 234 60 70 403 294 4020 9 33 13 34 18 1 ---22 29 33 2 42 7 12 89 59 552 28 2 1 41 22 19 55 39 59 34 -24 12 3 20 3 -17 473

Number of seats in the House as subsequently constituted as per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008

Total 12 294 60 126 243 90 40 182 90. 68 87 81 224 140 230 288 60 60 40 60 147 117 200 32** 234 60 70 403 294 4020

SCs 13 48 -8 38 10 1 13 17 17 6 9 36 14 35 29 1 ---24 34 34 2 44 10 13 85 68 655

STs 14 59 16 2 29 -27 -3 -28 15 2 47 25 19 55 39 59 33 -25 12 2 2 -16 555

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UNION TEROTORRIES
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Dadra and Nagar 1 -1 1 -1 -----Haveli Delhi 7 1 .. 7 1 .. 70 13 -70 12 Daman and Diu 1 .. -1 -------Lakshadweep 1 -1 1 -1 -----Puducherry 1 1 30 5 30 5 Total 13 1 2 13 1 2 100 18 -100 17 Grand Total 543 75 45 543 84 47 4120 570 473 4120 672 *Under the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of that State excluding the 24 seats earmarked for Pakistan occupied territory is 87 out of which 7 seats have been reserved for the Scheduled Castes in pursuance of the Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People Act, 1957. **Reserved 1 seat for Sanghas, 2 seats for Scheduled Castes and 12 for the Sikkimese of Bhutia Lepcha origin under section 7(1A) of the representation of the People Act, 1950.

Table 1.2 Abstract of seats in Parliament and Legislative Assemblies Seri Name of Number of seats in the House as Number of seats in the House as al the House constituted in 2004 on the basis of subsequently constituted as per the No. the Delimitation of Parliamentary Delimitation of Parliamentary and and Assembly Constituencies Order, Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 1976 as amended from time to time Total Gen Reserved Total Gen Reserved Number of eral Number of eral SCs STs Total SCs STs Total the Seats in the Seats in the House the House I. Parliament 543 423 75 45 120 543 412 84 47 131 II. Legislative 4120 3077 570 473 1043 4120 2893 672 555 1227 Assembly Explanatory Note I. Parliament a. Muslims and Christians both are barred from contesting all the 84 seats reserved for SCs.
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c. Thus, Muslims can contest for only 413 (76%) seats against a total strength of 543 seats. II. Legislative Assembly a. Muslims and Christians both are barred from contesting all the 672 seats reserved for SCs. b. Out of the total 555 seats reserved for STs, Muslims can contest against a few seats only (almost negligible) because of their non-existent STs Population in rest of the constituencies. c. Thus Muslims can contest for 2893 (70%) seats only against a total combined strength of 4120 seats of all the Legislative Assemblies of the country. The tale of vows of Muslims does not end here. While selecting the constituencies to declare them general or reserved, it appears that the Population of Muslims in that constituency was one of 17

the main criteria. Because the constituencies having substantial number of Muslims but nominal SCs population, were reserved for SCs and the constituencies having substantial number of SCs but low Muslim population were declared un-reserved. Here is an observation from the Sachar Committee Report. Data relating to the reserved constituencies for the SC candidates in three states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal was analysed by the Committee (Appendix Table 2.2). These states have a relatively large share of the Muslim population in India. The data shows that constituencies which have been declared reserved for SCs by the Delimitation Commission in these three states are by and large those constituencies where Muslims live in greater numbers often more than 50 per cent as well as their proportion in the population is higher than that of SCs. On the other hand, there are quite a large number of other constituencies within the respective states, where the share of SCs is large, often closer to or even more than one half but these are declared as un-reserved. Arguably, this can be seen as discriminatory and certainly reduces the opportunities that Muslims have to get elected to democratic institutions (pg 25). Appendix Table 2.2 (Page 269 & 270 of PMHL Sachar Committee Report) Uttar Pradesh : Reserved Assembly Constituency Tahsil Total Muslim SCs Name Population Population Population

STs SCs Pop Muslim Population as % of Pop as % Total of Total Population Population 11 418 2004 203 192 9 0 0 23.4 23.0 21.6 20.6 20.4 16.5 16.4 16.1 28.6 49.2 42.3 26.8 32.1 18.1 36.6 23.0

Hapur Najibabad Nagina Koil Khalilabad Mankapur Jansath Faridpur

773899 605199 625366 1373814 605777 530697 767827 383771

220996 297892 264523 368210 194538 95791 280764 88280

181026 139227 134807 283384 123577 87701 125816 61607

Uttar Pradesh: Un-Reserved Assembly Constituencies Marihan 189950 6167 93575 Ghorawal 225824 10198 100869 Lalganj 287983 17125 122031 Hardoi 975970 85110 391950 Misrikh 764302 65750 289823 Sandila 828047 120541 309395 Haidergarh 507962 72085 182517 Bakhshi KaTalab 276134 33062 98476 Tahrauli 151202 4688 53302 Bihar : Reserved Assembly Constituencies Raniganj 302261 86655 64383 Phulwari 191005 41698 35844

617 8 189 98 19 75 61 93 57

49.3 44.7 42.4 40.2 37.9 37.4 35.9 35.7 5.3

3.2 4.5 5.9 8.7 8.6 14.6 14.2 12.0 3.1

13708 212

21.3 18.8

28.7 21.8 18

Sakra 242815 50630 44809 Chhatapur 215493 39568 36445 Bagaha 314874 53235 45190 Korha 210656 78482 29961 Darbhanga 496486 131287 65236 Mairwa 93497 11713 10310 Dhuraiya 186270 55960 18899 Bihar : Un-Reserved Assembly Constituencies Dumaria 100411 13420 39474 Banke Bazar 100354 11903 39220 Dobhi 117763 9620 43803 Manpur 108516 9368 40169 Amas 81640 12190 29668 Tan Kuppa 93175 3721 33606 Mohanpur 161817 15796 58185 Gurua 142853 19924 49980 Sirdala 136369 10431 46468

26 2264 947 19209 280 617 1474 29 263 129 3 164 4 214 2 61

18.5 16.9 14.4 14.2 13.1 11.0 10.1 39.3 39.1 37.2 37.0 36.3 36.1 36.0 35.0 34.1

20.9 18.4 16.9 37.3 26.4 12.5 30.0 13.4 11.9 8.2 8.6 14.9 4.0 9.8 13.9 7.6

West Bengal : Reserved Assembly Constituencies Basanti 278592 114736 107602 Rajarhat 145381 60108 52233 Nanoor 193775 64827 61803 Kulpi 242752 88230 77380 KetugramI 145859 64975 39011 Sankrail 290924 92942 73191 Keshpur 288489 76866 72536 Khargram 234780 120557 55320 Sagardighi 252293 156870 44992 Kaliganj 290957 161705 49349

17462 938 3834 141 582 1761 17012 1918 16882 1447

38.6 35.9 31.9 31.9 26.7 25.2 25.1 23.6 17.8 17.0

41.2 41.3 33.5 36.3 44.5 31.9 26.6 51.3 62.2 55.5

West Bengal: Un-Reserved Assembly Constituencies Sitai 96347 26491 64869 8 HalHaldibari 93867 30036 58070 254 Jalpaiguri 280927 40519 170394 16774 Kaliaganj 190019 39334 114922 8656 Khejuri II 117438 8306 66658 819 Kharibari 88230 4128 44863 17099 Tufanganj -II 167455 2208 84790 3176 Bamangola 127252 11287 63459 25083 Gaighata 300588 18841 144293 4401 Bongaon 344044 69777 161918 10245 Surces: 1. Election Commission of India, 2004 2. Census of India, 2001

67.3 61.9 60.7 60.5 56.8 50.8 50.6 49.9 48.0 47.1

27.5 32.0 14.4 20.7 7.1 4.7 13.2 8.9 6.3 20.3

Special attention for relative population of Muslims & SCs and declaring the constituency Reserved or Un- Reserved 19

2. Employments

(Page 165,167,168,172,173)

( Source- Report of Sachar Committee) i. IAS ii. IFS iii. IPS iv. Indian Railways

3% 1.8% 4% 4.5 %

Almost all (98.7%) of them are positioned at Lower levels

v. Security agencies 4% vi. Education Department 6.5% vii. Home Department 7.5% viii. Constables 6% ix. Health Department 4.4% 3. Education a. In the premier colleges of the country (Pg 69) i. Under-Graduate 4% only one out of the 25 students ii. Post-Graduate 2% only one out of the 50 students b. In the Professionals Institutions (Pg 68 - 69) i. IIMs 1.3% ii. IITs 3.3% The discriminatory attitude of the governments since our independence have rightly developed a bitter feeling among the Muslims that while other communities get jobs and other beneficial schemes in various ways like economic aids, developmental projects, reservations etc., Muslims get destructions and inquiry Commissions. Since 1955 many commissions such as Kaka Kalelkar, Minorities Commission, Gopal Singh Committee, Mandal Commission, Sachar Committee and latest Justice Ranganath Mishra commission have recommended to extend SC status to all, irrespective of their religion but belonging to same profession. Deliberately a misunderstanding was spread in public that, for including the Muslims and Christians in SCs, the Article 341 of our constitution will have to be amended. It is totally wrong because there is no such necessity, instead, this can easily be done by simply withdrawing or amending the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950[2] which in turn can be achieved by getting the approval of Parliament with Simple Majority, as was done in the case of the Sikhs in 1956 and Budhs in 1990. Ironically, similar discrimination existed even among STs and OBCs and no one except Hindus were eligible to get the benefit of reservation under STs and OBCs. However, the Government issued its Resolution No. CBC- 1058/E dt 14th May, 1958 for STs and an amendment for OBCs to extend the benefit of Reservation to STs and OBCs belonging to every religion of the country. Apart from above, some of the landmark judgments, important recommendations and memorandums to include persons belonging to every religion in the list of SCs are mentioned belowI. Supreme court AIR 1992: 8 out of 9 judges bench said that Change of Religion does not change the caste II. The Govt. of India Act.1935 in scheduled 1st on Serial no. 25 clarified the meaning of scheduled castes in which religion of the person was immaterial. The Scheduled Castes means such castes, races, tribes, parts of, or groups within castes, races or tribes to his majesty in council to correspond to the classes of persons formerly known as Depressed Classes. 20

III. The National commission for SC/STs in its report (vol.1, June 14, 1983, Para 13) had strongly recommended that recognition of dalit converts as scheduled castes be accepted. IV. The parliamentary forum of SC/STs on June 17, 1992 passed resolutions to extend reservation to all dalits. A memorandum signed by about 200 MPs was given to the then Prime Minister Shri. P.V Narsimha Rao. Another Memorandum signed by 325 MPs was submitted to The Prime Minister in May 1995. In all at least 500 MPs have signed in one or other memorandum to the PM on this issue. V. The Supreme Court verdict on 4/9/2007 for 50% reservation ceiling and handicapped quota, the Bench comprising Justice S.B Sinha and Justice H.S Bedi mentioned that reservation might remain among the caste lines drawn by Mandal Commission. The basic idea of reservation for weaker section and depressed classes among Indian citizen was to uplift these people Socially, Economically and Educationally for the sake of their development so that they can achieve not only prosperity but social status also. The special provisions available to the Government as an exemption to Equality before Law were only to uplift the Dalits or oppressed classes and for their advancement only, but the Government used this special provision to suppress and oppress a particular class of Dalit citizens professing the faith, other than Hinduism (later on Sikhs and Buddhists also added). Since our independence, every Government due to their biased attitudes and the step motherly treatments has already done enormous damage to Muslim community. The discriminatory actions of Governments have brought almost entire Muslim community at the level of Scheduled Castes or even below them. This has created a big national problem by leaving a huge Muslim population in the darkness of economic, social and educational backwardness and no country can ever hope to progress if it leaves behind more than 150 million of its population in the ruins of illiteracy, poverty and hunger. The justice demands that following actions should be taken on top priority basis to check further damage to already hopeless condition of Muslims of the country, which will not only rebuild their confidence in our governments and their governance but will also enhance the credibility of our democratic system. 1) Implement all the recommendations of Sachar Committee and Rangnath Misra commission without any further delay and withdraw every discriminatory order issued in brutal violation of our Secular Constitution. 2) The Presidential Orders of 1950 under Article 341 of our constitution, apart from spoiling the secular credentials of our country, may prove dangerous for the national unity and integrity, because a. While it authorises the Hindus, Sikhs and Budhs (HSBs) to try/compete against 100% (General + SCs + STs) seats/vacancies, it forces the entire Muslim community to compete against 76% (General + non-existent STs) seats/vacancies only and that too against the Upper Caste HSBs whose economic, educational and social status is far more superior to Muslims in general. Either withdraw these Presidential Orders or allow the entire Muslims community to compete as a single unit of castles community against 100% vacancies/seats. b. It is a criminal violation of our secular constitution. i. Article 14: The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India. ii. Article 15: Prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. iii. Article 16: Equality of opportunity in matters of public employment. 21

Withdraw the communal Presidential Order and Ensure strict adherence to our Secular Constitution.

Every government since our independence is equally responsible for the pitiable condition of Muslims of the country and their overall pathetic condition is a fit case for providing reservation to entire Muslim community under the provisions of Articles 15 Clause (4) and Article 16 Clause (4) of our constitution. This will be the best way for the government to compensate Muslims for the injustice done against them in brutal violation of our secular constitution. i. Article 15 Clause(4): Nothing in this article or in clause (2) or article 29 shall prevent the State from making any special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. ii. Article 16 Clause (4): Nothing in this Article shall prevent the State from making any provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favour of any backward class of citizens which, in the opinion of the State, is not adequately represented in the services under the State. 4) All the minorities should be brought under the umbrella of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. This will not only create confidence in them but will also be very effective in checking the communal riots which mostly start with provocations and bias or discriminations. 5) Set up Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) to look into grievances about denial of equal opportunity or bias or discrimination by the deprived groups. An example of such a policy tool is the United Kingdom Race Relations Act, 1976

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Secularism Hijacked
After the final result of Civil Services 2009, there has been a lot of hype from various corners regarding the very low presence of Muslims in the list of selected candidates. It is being argued that against the total 875 (672 General +127 SCs + 76 STs) vacancies, only 21 (2.4%) Muslims were successful while, according to 2001 census; the Muslim population in the country is 13.4%, therefore, this figure should have been around 117 (13.4% of 875). The shortfall of 96 (117-21) is alarmingly low and a matter of grave concern. During the arguments for this shortfall, the reasons like illiteracy, lack of competitive spirit, suspicion about fairness of selection and fear of failure, etc. are mentioned. However, without denying those, one of the main reasons responsible for these shortfalls are the two Presidential Orders of 1950 under Article 341 of our Constitution. Barely had the ink of signature of President enforcing the Constitution on January 26, 1950 had dried, the President of Free India, in criminal violation of the Constitution, issued The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 and The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, restricting the facilities of reservation under SCs and STs to the followers of Hindu Religion only. However, later on, even the Sikhs and Buddhists were included in the lists. Initially, all the Dalits known as Shudra, belonged to only one religion. They were kept from the mainstream of the society with the tag of Mlechches or Achhutes. Their total discard from every nook and corner, not only badly affected their Social, Economic and Educational Status (SEES) but also forced them to look for some escape route from such a hostile society. In this scenario, the arrival of other religions which provided right of equality to everyone, brought a welcome relief for them, and a substantial population belonging to this category happily embraced the new religion which suited them the most. However, the followers of their new religion were in minority and the social setup as a whole was in total control of the majority community, which still did not allow them to become part of the mainstream and kept them at bay from all works related with the developments. Therefore, not only their profession but even their Social, Economic and Educational Status remained unchanged. It was only in the background of these facts that the Government of India (Scheduled Castes) Act 1935 was passed by the British, which gave the benefit of reservation to everyone, irrespective of their Religion. The Government of India Act 1935 in scheduled 1st on Serial No. 25 clarified the meaning of Scheduled Castes as The Scheduled Castes means such castes, races, tribes, parts of, or groups within castes, races or tribes to his majesty in council to correspond to the classes of persons formerly known as Depressed Classes. Our Constituent Assembly adopted this Government of India Act 1935 without any modification. But, just after we become Republic, the President of Free India, who is constitutionally the Chief Guardian of our Secular Constitution, through his orders in 1950 itself under Article 341, himself sowed the seeds of communalism in the country by restricting the 23

facility of reservation to SCs and STs belonging to Hindu religion only. However, Sikhs and Buddhists were also included in the list at later stages. The population of Muslim STs is very small. According to 1991 Census, it is only 0.25% (negligible) of the total ST population of the country (which is over 8%) and most of them are inhabitants of Lakshadweep. Thus, in 2009 Civil Services competition, while followers of Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Religions (HSBR) tried against 100% vacancies (672 General +127 SCs + 76 STs), the Muslims could try against 76.8% vacancies (672 General+ non-existing STs) only. This discrimination against Muslims is not only limited to employment in Government services but is prevalent in every field related with the development and prosperity. Just to quote a few, promotions in Government Services, admissions in Colleges, Universities and prestigious Professional Institutes, Elected Bodies, Scholarships, Educational as well as Industrial Loans. Muslims cannot contest 130 (out of total 543) seats of Parliament and 1,210 (out of combined total strength of 4120) seats of the Legislative Assemblies of the country. Percentage-wise it works out as 24% and 29.4% respectively. Similar condition prevails even in the cases of village Pradhans, Block Development Committee, Zila Panchayats etc. In a recent development in Uttar Pradesh, even the contract of government works has been reserved for the contractors belonging to SCs only. Here again, the obvious losers are the Muslims and Christians Since 1950, the Governments have followed double standard and discriminatory attitude towards Muslims and Christians. The facility of reservation has been given to the SCs following HSBR, only on Religious grounds but when the SCs following Islam and Christianity demand the same, they are told that ours is a secular country, therefore no reservation can be given on religious grounds. Contrary to Government claims and our Constitution, a person belonging to SCs will get every benefit of reservation till he/she professes HSBR but will be stripped of all the benefits, if he/she converts to Islam or Christianity, though, the Supreme Court has ruled (AIR 1992) that Change of religion does not change the caste. The special provisions available to the Government as an exemption to Equality before Law were only to uplift the Dalits/oppressed Class and for their advancement only, but the Governments used this special provision to suppress and oppress a particular class of Dalits professing the faith, other than HSBR. The lame excuse propagated by the Governments for this injustice is that since there is no untouchability and caste system in Islam, therefore they have not been included in the list of SCs along with their co-professionals following HSBR. This is a blatant lie, because even among the Hindus, barring some remote areas, there are no untouchables and even the Brahmins are touching the feet of SCs to seek their blessings. Moreover, there are no untouchables even in Sikhism and Buddhism; still they are getting the benefit of reservation under SCs. For the time being, even if we consider that there is no caste system in Islam, it would have been logical to open all the (100%) seats/ vacancies to Muslims so that they could have tried against all of them as followers of Islam only. This action of the Government could have not only been taken as some sort of reward to Muslims for not practicing untouchability but would have also motivated others to discard this social evil. But, instead of rewarding, the Government of India penalized the entire Muslim community by classifying the so-called casteless Muslims, as the Upper Castes practicing HSBR and forcing the scavengers, shoe menders, washer men practicing Islam to compete against Brahmins, Thakurs, Kurmis, Yadavas, etc. whose SEES Is (and always was) astronomically high as compared to was (and is) far more superior not only to Muslims SCs but almost entire Muslims community. It is true that Islam prohibits untouchability and caste system but the Muslim population of the country is about 20%, therefore, the right of equality for Muslim SCs is restricted to 20% population only, while the rest treat them like their Shudras or SCs. 24

Though, the Constitution of India has been amended more than hundred times since its enforcement in 1950, the Presidential Order of 1950 under Article 341 of our constitution has neither been withdrawn nor amended. However, as a strategy to garner Muslim sympathy and thus their votes, the politicians cunningly propagate that, our Government is very much willing to include Muslim and Christian SCs in the list of SCs following HSBR. But it is helpless, because to achieve this, the Article 341 of the Constitution will have to be amended with two third majority in Parliament which we dont have. It is a blatant lie because this can be done with simple majority in Parliament as was done in cases of Sikhs and Buddhists in 1956 and 1990 respectively. In fact, contrary to the claim of politicians, so far the governments have done everything to deny Muslims and Christians their due in this matter. According to law, the child born of inter-caste marriage used to belong to SC if either of its parents was from that category. Some three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that castes in Indian context flow from the father. Therefore, a child of Non-Dalit father cannot be a Dalit and a child of Dalit father and even Non-Dalit mother (read any religion) will be a Dalit. To safeguard the interest of persons practicing HSBR and to ensure that Muslims and Christians do not get entry in the list of SCs, the Government of India acted quickly and modified the law as a child will get the benefit of reservation as SCs, if anyone of the parents belongs to SCs and the other parent professes one of the religions which a person belonging to SCs may profess i.e. HSBR. For not including Muslims and Christians in the list of SCs, the only reason propagated by the governments (though false) is presented as the lack of two third majority in Parliament but when it sincerely wants it not only manages the required votes but in brutal violation of every democratic norm, also gets the Members of Rajya Sabha opposing the bill, thrown out of the august house by marshals, as we have recently seen in case of Womens Reservation Bill. Another false reason put forward by the Government for denying SC status to Muslims and Christians is propagated as since the matter is pending for decision in Supreme Court; therefore no action can be taken. No doubt, a number of Writ Petitions are pending for decision but all of them have the same grievances and common prayers that the Government has provided reservation for SCs professing HSBR only on religious grounds but the Muslims and Christians are being denied the same on the pretext that ours is a secular constitution, therefore no reservation can be granted in the country on religious grounds. If the Government withdraws both the Presidential orders of 1950 under Article 341 of our constitution and in the religions where STs are non-existent, the post reserved for them in ratio of population are given to other candidates of that religion, all the writs will become in fructuous and every problem will be solved. The double standard against Muslims has developed a bitter feeling among them that, while other communities get jobs, economic aids, developmental projects, reservations etc., Muslims get destructions and inquiry commissions. Even after 60 years of injustice and discrimination, the Government is not willing to withdraw these communal Presidential Orders, though the Supreme Court has ruled and the National Commission for SC/STs as well as the parliamentary forum of SC/STs have recommended favourably. Enough damage has already been done to Muslims and Christians under the cover of these communal Presidential Orders. They have created a huge national problem because not only the Muslims and Christians have been thrown out of the national mainstream but over 200 million citizens of this country have been left alone in the vast desert of poverty to struggle for their survival. Ironically, similar discrimination existed even in STs and OBCs and none except Hindus were eligible to get the benefit of reservation even under this category. However, the Government amended this through its Resolution No. CBC- 1058/E dated 14th May, 1958 and extended the benefit of Reservation to STs and OBCs belonging to every religion of the country. The same 25

action should immediately be taken for The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 also to include the Muslim and Christian SCs in the list of SCs. The educational social and economic backwardness of the Muslims and Christians should not be taken as the problem of that particular community only but that of the entire nation because no country can ever hope to progress if it leaves behind more than 200 million of its population in the ruins of illiteracy, poverty and hunger.

Uniform Civil Code

In the post-independence India, the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is probably one of the most misunderstood phrases, deliberately propagated by the politicians to confuse public and divide them on communal lines for their political gains. They created a false hype among Hindus that the Muslims, who, according to their Personal Laws, have been permitted to keep four wives at a time, will soon overtake the Hindu population and reduce them to minority and thus the descendants of Babar, the invader, will once again become the ruler of our country and this time by democratic means of majority in elections. Similarly, fear was created among the Muslims that if UCC is implemented in India; they will not only be forced to follow the laws governing Hinduism but their survival in this country will also be seriously threatened. They deliberately hide the fact that Islam came to India way back in the 11th century, some good five hundred years before the arrival of Babar, who took the reins of Delhi in 1526 by defeating Ibrahim Lodhi, a Muslim King and not any Hindu Maharaja. Moreover, a very nominal population of Muslims came to India from foreign lands; and most of the Muslims of this country are the local converts, who embraced Islam due to the prevailing social compulsions of the time. This fact has been repeatedly confirmed not only by historians but even by Swami Vivekananda, the greatest exponent of Hinduism. According to him, Islam was not spread in India by sword. The Muslim conquest of India came as a salvation to the downtrodden, to the poor. That is why one-fifth of our people have become Muslims. Similarly, the Sachar Committee has thoroughly exposed the Sangh Parivars totally false and baseless propaganda that the unchecked growth in Muslim population will result in their overtaking the Hindus, when it gave the following Report in its findings: Projections for future population growth in India show that by the end of the 21st century Indias total population will stabilise in which the Muslim population would be less than 20% of total. (Pg. 45) However, after succeeding in their mission of spreading this false propaganda against Muslims, the communalists along with the Sangh Parivar tried to garner the Hindutva vote in their favour by propagating in public that, they will implement the UCC throughout the country and thus, will not only check the abnormal growth in Muslims population but will also save the nation from going in their hands once again. Similarly, the self-proclaimed secularists showed their apparent sympathy to the Muslims by promising that, if voted to power, they will ensure that nothing of this sort happens in this country, and thus tried to garner their vote in their favour. Obviously, the question of Common/ Uniform Civil Code (UCC) can only be raised when there is more than one Civil Codes (CCs) within the territory of India, but constitutionally, there is no CC of our country, therefore the demand of a UCC should have never cropped up. However, the politicians deliberately and purposely kept the citizens of the country in dark to exploit them for their political gains. Ironically, none, including the media, ever tried to clear this misconception by 26

highlighting the truth so that the misunderstanding about UCC could have been removed before it could have been deeply rooted in the minds of public and acquired a communal overtone which resulted in many unpleasant happenings in the country. In fact, in our country, there are different Personal Laws (PLs) for different communities, which govern the rights relating to property, marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption and inheritance and are applicable only among the persons belonging to the same religion. While The Hindu Marriage Act 1955 governs the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains, the Muslims, Christians, Parsis and Jews have their own PLs. It is a universally known fact that the Sangh Parivar and its allies have always presented Muslims as villains to polarise the voters on communal lines so that they can garner the Hindutva vote in their favour. To substantiate their claim, they quote some isolated cases or false stories, conveniently overlooking the fact that such cases are not only found in Islam but are equally common among other religions including Hinduism. It is interesting to note, that Goswami Tulsi Das, who is the author of Ram Charit Manas, says in this epic: Dhol Ganwar Shudra Pashu Nari, Yeh sab taran ke adhikari (Drums, ill-mannered persons, downtrodden, animals, women, all these deserve beating). Though, as the author of Ram Charit Manas, Goswami Tulsi Das commands blind faith and is very highly respected in Hinduism yet no Hindu will agree to take the above quote as the governing principle of Hindu religion; but at best will accept it as a personal opinion of Tulsi Das. Therefore, some individual or isolated cases, where the personal laws have been misused can neither be generalised nor can be tagged as governing principles or evils of that religion. To clear the misunderstanding, let us consider the logic and spirit behind the following few provisions of Muslim Personal Laws (MPLs): 1. Permission to keep up to four wives at a time It is a universal fact that, since the time immemorial, the job of earning and protection of the family has always been done by the male member of the family. And to achieve this, they are required to go on difficult work sites, battlefields and other such far off and remote places where risks to their lives are many times more than the females, who are mostly confined to their homes doing their household work and looking after the other members of the family. Even today, when the women are having equal rights with their male counterparts, the protection and earnings for the family is primarily the responsibility of the male members and therefore, sheer due to the nature of their work, they are more exposed to the risks of their life than females. In such conditions, the mortality rates of the males is bound to be much more higher than the females and thus the ratio of 50:50 provided by nature is misbalanced, leaving a lot of hapless ladies without the protection and support of males. In these circumstances, only the under mentioned two options could have been offered to such females by society: i. Leave them alone on the mercy of exploiters to struggle with their own fate. In this case there was every possibility of their exploitation in the male dominated society as we have been coming across horrifying stories since ages about the exploitation of widows and helpless girls as personal property even in the shadow of religious rituals. It was also possible that, having no other option for their survival, they might have been forced or themselves fallen in some illegal and immoral trade OR ii. Give them in the protection of another competent male who can smoothly navigate their rest of the life with peace and honour. The latter option was naturally more dignified. Therefore, just to save ladies from social evils, the males were allowed to have more than one wife (up to four), of course with the permission of existing wife and strict understanding that they will treat them equally in every sphere of life. 27

2. The right of inheritance in the property of parents - The girls were given the right of inheritance in the assets of their parents so that even after their marriage, they can have the financial and moral support at their back and do not remain only on the mercy of their husbands or in-laws because in such cases there was every likelihood of their exploitation. Only two provisions of MPLs have been quoted here with the logic and reasoning behind them to clear the misunderstanding deliberately spread by vested interests for their personal gains. There are many others, and if they are studied minutely with an open mind without any pre-conceived bias, these provisions of MPLs will appear more as reforms for the society than anything connected with the rituals of any religion. The Article 44 of our Constitution says, The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India. The broad conception of UCC means unifying all the personal laws to have one set of good secular laws, which will apply to all the citizens of the country, irrespective of their faith or religion. Any perception that a National UCC would necessitate changes in only Muslim personal laws is not correct. A truly secular, nondiscriminatory and progressive code may require changes in all the personal laws or Marriage Acts. This is the reason why changes in Personal Laws have been resisted not only by one community, but by the persons belonging to every religion. However, probably under a pre-planned conspiracy, the politicians as well as the media, instead of highlighting the merits and social values of MPLs, deliberately created the false impression about them. This was probably done to divert the attention of Muslims from the injustices done against them by the governments and its agencies. Since our independence, the politicians have used the Change in Muslim Personal Laws as a tool to tease Muslims and to create fear in their minds so that they exhaust their resources in defending their Personal Laws, and do not concentrate themselves in demanding their due rights of education, employments and developments as guaranteed by our Constitution. This conspiracy of the politicians and the Governments have left Muslims far behind in every field of life, and the Sachar Committee Report is its testimony. We have already created enough issues like Babri Masjid, religious conversions, Maharashtrians and non-Maharashtrians, north and south Indians, terrorism, Naxalism etc. which have cost dearly to our nation. Any further addition like PLs, to the already existing issues may prove disastrous for the country. Since the PLs are applicable among the persons belonging to the same faith, therefore, if the followers of that particular religion do not have any problem with their PLs, why should others unnecessarily poke their nose and create a national problem even after the report of Sachar Committee? In fact, even these self-appointed nationalists are not raising their voice out of sincerity to settle any issue. Instead, the only motive behind all these actions is to tease Muslims and to polarise society on communal lines so that they can garner the Hindu votes in their favour and their propaganda of Vande Matram is propagated as for national sincerity but their real motive behind all this drama is to capture the communal votes in their favour and thus the power to rule the country. Their patriotism can be gauged from the fact that when Sadhavi Pragya Singh Thakur, Col. Srikant Prasad Purohit, Swami Dayanand and other members of their core group were caught for anti-national activities of making and planting bombs at public places, they not only came out openly in their support but also raised the highly inflammatory slogans of victimisation of Hindus for appeasement of minorities (read Muslims). Their innocence was not only pleaded by the highest persons of their organisation at the highest level of the country but they also openly provided the accused every support including the moral legal and monetary assistance. Contrary to this, when Muslims are caught allegedly for the same crime, they do not allow any legal aid to them even though it is their constitutional right. Anyone who dares to present their 28

case in courts, is not only called anti-national but also threatened with dire consequences, misbehaved and even beaten along with the accused inside the courtrooms. Ironically, apart from others, even the lawyers whose duty is to ensure that the constitution of the country reigns supreme and get fair justice according to the law of the land are taking the law in their own hands and doing all the illegal acts like beating, stalling the court proceedings and creating disorder even inside the courtrooms and the courts, which are constitutionally bound for maintaining peace and decorum inside its premises, do not take any legal action against these goons so that it may not be repeated in future. Therefore, the Government should immediately clear the misunderstandings about the MPLs publicly, because due to these misconceptions, the politicians along with the anti-social elements are poisoning the society with communal hatred. Those who try to polarise voters on communal lines by provoking religious feelings, should not only be punished for anti-national activities but also be banned from contesting elections. Because, if caught in such an activity, they try to present themselves as a victim of communal politics for appeasement of minorities (read Muslims) and also play the drama of becoming a martyr to that community to gain the sympathy of that sect and thus their vote. The minorities should be assured not only by words but by action also to believe that nothingdiscriminatory will happen against them and our secular Constitution will reign supreme. This will boost their confidence in governments tremendously, and once they develop the confidence in governance and the deeply rooted fear of their victimisation on communal grounds is out of their minds, they will whole-heartedly concentrate on developmental activities to contribute their share in National Building fearlessly and whole-heartedly.

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Terrorism, Our Home Grown Monster

Nineteen years have passed, since Babri Mosque at Ayodhya and along with that, our secular constitution as well as secularism of our country was demolished by Hindutva Terrorists on December 6, 1992. However the action taken against the culprits and the justice is still awaited. With the kind of approach of government, neither anyone has been punished nor does any possibility appear even in future. The government is propagating the impression that it is vigorously pursuing to check external terrorism but are totally inert and silent on the internal ones which is more dangerous and harmful than external. Our government and media remain very active and sympathetic on the anniversary of 9/11 of USA but none cared to speak a single word on the anniversary of Babri Mosque demolition on 6th December which has not only changed the secular fabric of our country but also the faith in governments and their governance. Ironically, vigorous publicity is made from every platform fixing the responsibility for every act of terror over Muslims but instead of highlighting the truth about Hindutva Organizations, the media also propagates the nefarious designs of these communal forces and internal terrorists to misguide the public. This has further encouraged the Hindutva organizations for further antinational and terrorist activities. Had they been exposed at the right time, and proper legal action taken against them, the country could have been saved from enormous damage. Here is a stunning and brutal fact exposed by none else but the ex-Defence Minister of India himself. During the discussion in the Legislative Assembly on Integral University Lucknow, the Government was being repeatedly attacked for age old fictitious allegations of Muslim appeasement by some Legislatures of BJP. While replying their false allegations, our ex-Defense Minister and the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, is on record to have said openly in the Assembly that, had the Babri Masjid been not demolished by the BJP and its allies, Terrorism would have never come in our Country. He further added that if anyone is interested in knowing the fact, he can verify them from the documents compiled by Defence Ministry after receiving inputs from various national and international sources. Here are some eye openers. Government will have to act impartially with justice to restore the lost confidence of Muslims in its governance otherwise frustration may prove disastrous for our country:Under a well planned and precisely implemented conspiracy hatched by the governments and the District Administration led by the then Collector Faizabad, Mr. KK Nayyar, statues were planted inside Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in the night of December 22-23, 1949. An order for locking the gates of Masjid was manipulated from a District Court. Every detail including the video recording of confession of the person who planted the statues inside the Mosque can be seen in the documentary RAM KE NAM produced by Anand Patwardhan which is available now even on U-Tube. In 1949, after locking the gates, both the communities were barred from entering the Mosque. But in 1986, to appease the Hindus for their votes, the Government in connivance with the District Judge Faizabad, manipulated an order in such a way that the gates of Mosque were 30

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Governments remained mere spectators and probably mute supporters and took no action against these murderers of law of our land. On December 6, 1992, the BJP along with the Hindu Terrorist and other goons irrespective of their political affiliation with total support of the Governments and local administration, not only demolished the Babri Masjid but along with that, the secular structure of our Nation also. With the incumbents inside their homes, they not only bolted the Muslims houses from outside to block every escape rout and burnt the occupants alive but with them, they also brutally murdered and burnt the secular character of our nation for which we are known world over. Though, the government knew each and every detail about the culprits with documentary evidences, but took no legal action against them. Had the stringent action been taken timely against the terrorists who demolished Babri Masjid, probably the likes Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Purohit, Swami Aseemanand etc would have not dared to do the crimes, they committed. Thus the soft paddling and negligence of their duty by governments are solely responsible for encouragement of terrorism in our country. Instead of taking any action against culprits, the age old drama of setting up an enquiry commission was played again and the Liberhan Commission was appointed with the direction to submit its report within a short time. However, neither the government wanted nor the commission was interested in submitting the report. Therefore, government of every political party granted extensions after extension to the Enquiry Commission and thus created a record of highest number of extensions ever granted to any Enquiry Commission in the country. The commission finally submitted its report after almost 18 years and as expected it is lying buried in government records without any follow up action. The demolition of Babri Masjid by Hindutva Terrorists followed the carnage of Muslims in whole of the country. With the backing of governments, the goons of Hindutva organizations with active participation of the law enforcing agencies and antisocial elements massacred the Muslims in thousands in which hundreds were burnt alive. Their properties worth millions of crores were looted, destroyed or torched. The women were gang raped, murdered and put on fire to destroy evidences. Almost the same condition existed through out the country but at some places like Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Surat etc. their brutality and barbarism was so severe that, it was like genocide. Again to avoid any action and to buy time, the government appointed Srikrishna Commission to enquire all the cases of Mumbai carnage. The Commission submitted its detailed report with the documentary evidences, way back in 1998, fixing specific responsibilities over the individuals, organizations and even the government agencies responsible for the massacre. However, as expected, so far no action has been taken against the culprits and like other enquiry reports since independence, it is also gathering dust in the government offices which has further encouraged terrorism. Immediately after the carnage, there were serial blasts in Mumbai in March 1993 and persons of every faith died in this ghastly crime but contrary to our rules, no judicial enquiry was done to pinpoint the culprits and record the evidences. Sheer on assumptions and sweet will, more than hundred persons, mainly Muslims were arrested, and kept in jail for years only on the basis of police story of self confession of alleged culprits during interrogations in their custody. The alleged accused, while narrating their version in court, not only strongly denied of giving any self-confessing statement to police but also informed the court that police applied extreme torture to obtain their signature on blank sheet of papers. However, without taking notice of their statements or any solid proof against them, a fast track court only on the basis of police story of self confession, punished about a dozen Muslims with death sentence and about two dozen with life imprisonment. Many others have also been punished, depending 32

upon the police version of their alleged involvement in the crime. Here it is worth to mention the eye opening truth that happened in Malegaon. After the blast there in 2006, young Muslims were arrested and police forced them to confess to a crime which they never committed. They languished in jail for over five years without committing any crime. The fact came to light only after the self-confession of Swami Aseemanad in front of Magistrate that it was a group of RSS pracharaks who were behind the blasts. To, show their false sympathy to Muslims, a self-proclaimed secular political party which was then in opposition at the center as well as in the state, played a well-publicized drama of demanding governments action on the report of Sri Krishna Commission. To fool Muslims they not only created unruly scene in the Parliament and State Assembly but also boycotted their proceedings. Now, the same political party has proven its own crookedness by not taking any action on the Sri Krishna Commission Report despite being in power for third continuous term in the state and over seven years continuous rule at the center. 7. During NDA Rule, our politicians made mockery of our democratic system and constitution. Knowing it very well that CBI works under the Home Minister, and it has not only charge sheeted Mr. LK Advani in Babri Masjid demolition case but is also pursuing the criminal case against him in the court, he was deliberately made the Home Minister of India. This deep rooted conspiracy was hatched to protect him from any punishment because after the CBI comes under his administrative control, evidences against him can be doctored or destroyed and this will ensure his acquittal in the criminal case of Babri Masjid demolition. Further, to make our governance a laughing stock, the CBI continued to play the drama of pursuing the criminal case for his prosecution in the court. But no one including self-proclaimed secularists, socialists, communists or honest ideologists raised any objection for this blatant misuse of power by this dishonest person who claims himself a true follower of Hinduism and promises to bring Ram Rajya in the country. Could anyone including Maryada Purshottam Ram would have tolerated him on this criminal misuse of His name for his personal gains. Perhaps, unable to bear these injustices, instead of living in Ayodhya, He would have himself preferred to go back for Banvas for ever. Contrarily, Taslimuddin, a Muslim MP from Bihar who had some court cases pending against him in his home state was sworn as the Minister of State (MOS) in the central government. But, knowing it very well that while working as MOS in the central government, neither the state police nor the courts would come under his administrative control, objections were raised against making him MOS by everyone, and he was forced to resign. The double standard adopted by the government on different persons and communities and denying justice even in extreme cases of brutalities committed mainly by government agencies has given birth to Terrorism and Maoism in the country. Probably, this is the reason that their attacks are mainly focused on governments, their forces and courts. No charge could ever be proved against SIMI in any court but the government banned them and they are languishing in jails since years on the whim of police and politicians to save the real culprits. However, a High Court Tribunal quashed the ban of SIMI because not a single charge against them could be proved by the government. But the Secular Government immediately rushed to Supreme Court and obtained stay against the Tribunals order. Even after decades of legal battle, the case has not been decided. Legally, the case of any organization can be filed by its member only but being member of any banned organization is in itself a crime and the litigant will be arrested and put behind the bar. Will the government or any legal expert explain how the case of such organization can be filed in court to get justice? Contrarily, even after recommendations of many enquiry commissions, and in spite of innumerable proven cases of violence, rape, murder, arson and burning alive of Muslims and Christians, the government has 33

not dared to ban the Bajrang Dal, RSS, Ram Sena, Shiv Sena etc. The Parliament lead by our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on behalf of the whole nation rightly apologized with entire Sikh Community for 1984 carnage against them and adequately compensated for their loss. The congress stalwarts like Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler, HKL Bhagat etc. were forced to resign from the cabinet and not only denied ticket to contest further elections but the criminal cases of carnage against them were also reopened for trial in courts. But, the same actions were not taken for innumerable genocides of Muslims since our independence. The Hindutva terrorists, who actually committed the crime of Malegoan blast and were arrested in 2008 by Karkares SIT, were granted bail in 2010, but the Muslims who were proven innocents after the self-confession of swami Aseemanand, were released, after more than one year. The court issued the order to release them on bail on November 5, 2011 but they were actually released from Jail on 16-11-2011 only i.e. after eleven days of orders, that too, after strong protests against delay by office in sending the order to concerned authorities for their release. Thus, due to criminal bias, innocent Muslims languished in jail for more than five years without committing any crime and natural justice demands that the officials responsible should be punished for this communal bias. Why the government is not agreeing to enquire that how the deadly bullet which killed Karkare, pierced through his bullet proof jacket and where that jacket which was so important for knowing the facts, disappeared or deliberately disposed off and by whom to hide the truth.? Why the Kashmiris, who, preferred to remain with India instead of aligning with co-religious Pakistan in 1948 are now distancing away from us? Why even after heavy deployment of Army and AFSPA since more than last two decades in states of North East and Kashmir, we are unable to control terrorism even after suffering enormous physical and financial losses. Why our armed forces are opposing the withdrawal of AFSPA even after bitter experience of not only its ineffectiveness but instead of controlling, it has increased violence. The answer is simple; because they want immunity for their brutality. So long as AFSPA remains enforced, no legal action or proceedings of prosecution can be initiated against them without Government permission for any crime whatsoever which has seldom been granted that too in very extreme cases. They can commit fake encounters, rapes, murders, lift or arrest persons forcibly who never returned back to their homes without any accountability and on inquiry they expressed not only their ignorance about them but flatly denied even their arrests. Why the Muslims who preferred to remain in their motherland India instead of going to Pakistan in 1947 are now feeling alienated from the main stream and have developed strong feeling that they will always be victimized and will never get fair justice? Why government is not paying any attention to Irom Sharmila though she is on Hunger Strike since last eleven years but it bent on its knees within 11 days in case of Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdeo. Because, probably they had the massive back up to create every nuisance and violence threatening the very existence of their government? Why the government is after Azamgarh and is not agreeing even for judicial enquiry of Batla House encounter? Our Prime Minister is on records to have said that judicial enquiry will demoralize the Security Forces. Does it not amount to self-confession by none else but our PM that the security forces have done some thing wrong whose disclosure will demoralize them? Why the country is being denied the truth about the incidence in which apart from death of two teenager Muslims, one Hindu Police officer also died within twelve hours after receiving bullet injury, though he came down the stairs himself from third floor and walked about 100 meters on his own legs to sit in a vehicle for hospital and got best possible medical treatment. Why not in Gujarat, those responsible for murdering innocent teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others should also be tried and hanged for their heinous crime? What sort of terrorist activity was committed that the persons (all Muslims) allegedly involved in murder of Hiren Pandya in Ahmadabad were 34

booked under POTA instead of ordinary Cr PC. Though, no charge could be proved against them and the court acquitted them honourably but whom and how anyone will compensate them because they were not granted even bail and languished in Jail for more than five years without committing any crime. From day one, the family members of Hiren Pandya are publicly telling that the persons arrested for his murder are innocent and have been made escape goat to save Narendra Modi. They have been demanding CBI inquiry to unearth the truth but Government is not yielding to their demand even after proven innocence of alleged accused. Similarly the alleged accused of Jaipur blast has been acquitted by court because no charge could be proved against them but they languished in jail for years. Again how and by whom they are going to be compensated for the enormous loss and the physical, financial and mental torture they have suffered during all these years. With all the aforesaid facts, are we not inviting revengeful reactions, which may ultimately lead to terrorism? The security can only be ensured when justice reigns supreme, when democratic principles are applied in their true sprit, when the legitimate grievances of people are solved and not crushed and when everyone is treated equally without any bias and discrimination. The false claim of Equal Right to every citizen and propaganda of Secular Constitution will be meaningless unless proved by Justice to everyone irrespective of caste, creed and religion. The solution lies not in suppression but implementing our secular constitution in its true sprit without discrimination and in solving the genuine grievances of victims with justice so that the aggrieved persons may develop faith in impartiality of government and its governance. But alas, this has not been done. Thus, the politicians and their governments are solely responsible for the creation of Terrorists and Terrorism in our country. Politicians take oath to implement our constitution with all fairness and impartiality without any fear and favour but it has never been seen in practice, which has given way to Terrorism. Therefore, Instead of blaming others let us accept the reality that Terrorism is our Home Grown Monster and can only be controlled by justice and equality to everyone irrespective of his/her cast, creed and religion.

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Demonizing Islam
Perhaps, no religion of world permits destruction and violence; instead they all preach for peace and harmony among human beings. However, a few technologically advanced countries, mostly belonging to a particular color of skin think themselves as superior from others, have grouped together like a notorious gang and are behaving like Monsters with the countries which cant match their technical knowhow. They have not only become self-appointed Custodians and Godfathers of rest of the world but also champions of Human Rights and democracy. Surpassing every norm of civic society, they are in habit of unnecessarily poking their nose even in the internal matters of other countries. Their expansionist approach, the tendency to grab others territory along with their wealth and lust to establish their proxy rule for dictating other countries, have created hell of problems in whole of the world. For achieving their ambitions, they will first target a nation, especially a Muslim, which is either rich in natural resources or has strategic importance in their future planning. Thereafter, either they will themselves create some trouble there or will spread such baseless stories about the country as if the very survival of world is in danger. Through their lobbying coupled by rigorous propaganda and threatening, they force the world to believe them. Once the ground is prepared, these self-appointed custodians will jointly attack and capture that nation on the pretext of saving this world from extinction. Then these champions of democracy will install there such a puppet King or Government which can serve them as their obedient servant and also help them in siphoning out countrys wealth. Apart from losing its independence and wealth, the victim faces mass devastation and massacre and its citizens are treated like slaves. Ironically, all these violence and massacre is done by these champions of Human Rights on the pretext of establishing peace in the world. These actions induce natural anger and feeling of revenge among its citizens but, unable to match the might of these monsters, they retaliate in their own way to damage these invaders. However, instead of withdrawing from the country to defuse tension, these Godfathers add more vigor to their aggression and those who oppose them, are designated as Terrorists. Thus, these self-appointed custodians of world are solely responsible for the creation of Terrorists and Terrorism in whole of the world. Though, the UNO came into existence after World War ll on the pretext of establishing permanent peace in the world but factually, it was part of their deep rooted conspiracy to rule over the rest of the world. In UNO, the VETO Power was manipulated in favour of five Godfathers, namely USA, USSR, UK, France and Taiwan (a puppet of USA) which gave them unlimited power and self-issued license to kill, capture and destroy any helpless country which doesnt have their protection. Thus not only they but even the countries who are members of NATO led by USA have also taken the shape of a Monster. This has also ensured that irrespective of their crime, no punitive action can ever be taken by UNO against them or the countries under their protection. Because any such proposal will not get passed in UNO, instead, if required, it will be vetoed by the Godfathers. The other helpless countries of world have no option but to accept their destruction, brutalities and barbarism without even lodging their protest. Muslims constitute the second largest population of the world but as a follow up action of their master planning, no VETO power was deliberately given 36

to any Muslim country so that they will not only be forced to follow the diktat of these Godfathers but will also have to remain always at their mercy. If their interest demands, these brokers of peace will create terrorists in a country far away from their own, but once their purpose is served, it will be the duty of that nation to eliminate them. Otherwise, these monsters will not only destroy that country by their Military Actions but will also get Economic Sanctions imposed through puppet UNO. Thus the country where they create terrorists for their own interest becomes sandwiched between the devil and the deep sea. Because, if it takes any action against terrorists, it will have to face their destructive reaction of and if it doesnt do, these custodians of peace will punish that nation. The glaring example of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Osama-Bin- Laden, Al-Qaida, Taliban and numerous others are in front of the whole world. The USA and its allies promoted the Al-Qaida and Taliban to throw away Russian armies which had occupied Afghanistan to take the revenge for their humiliating defeat in Vietnam. USA brought in Osama-Bin-Laden, as the leader of Al-Qaeda and provided him with 8,000 million dollars and 7,000 tons of armaments to defeat the Russian army. And once their purpose was served, they murdered Osama too apart from killing hundreds of thousands of other innocent civilian. Islam, as we know, is a religion of peace, tolerance, brotherhood and humanity which has been preaching equal right to all humans, irrespective of their colour, stature, profession, cast and creed. However, contrary to the fact, these Monsters have been deliberately demonizing Islam to achieve their selfish aim. They have succeeded in creating such an image of Islam among non-Muslims that whenever the word terrorist is pronounced, the image of a bearded Muslim instantly flashes up in their mind. So much so that when in Norway on Friday July 22nd 2011, the twin acts of terror killed 93 innocents, even before the fact about the horror was fully known, the verdict about who did it was out. The experts and the media, who in most of the cases have prefixed opinion for obvious reasons, revolved their discussion around Al Qaeda and other related organizations which in their opinion are involved in terrorism. It was commented that the Al Qaeda, the dreaded Islamic terrorists have done this because Norway is also involved in the invasion of Afghanistan. None dares to question these champions of Human Rights what wrong Afghanistan or even Al-Qaida have done against Norway or other members of NATO for which their armies are involved in destruction and killing of innocent civilians? The answer is simple. Because the greatest Monster of earth, the USA dictates these countries and they dont have the courage to disobey its diktat. However, before the discovery of oil and other natural resources, there was nothing wrong with Islam. This is an open secret that the root causes behind the malicious campaign against Islam and fictitious propaganda of Weapons of Mass Destruction or Nuclear Bomb or Al-Qaida is the Oil Wealth which they want to grab by hook or crook. For the time being, even if it is supposed that Iraq had the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), has the world ever thought seriously that, what wrong USA and its allies have done against Iraq due to which it may use WMD against them? If Iraqis possessed WMD, why they did not use that against Iran during their decade long war or against USA and NATO forces when they invaded them? USA masterminded Iraqs war with Iran with the aim of destroying the arms and ammunition; which it has dumped in Iran during the rule of Shah Pahlavi on an enormously high price though they were obsolete and useless for US Army. Like Iran, Iraq war, USA also masterminded the attack on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia by Iraq so that on the pretext of protecting them, they can permanently station their army in the middle of these nations which is probably the richest in oil reserve. They charged their highly escalated expenses as protection money (read Ghunda Tax) from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Though these countries dont need US Army now because there is none who can attack them but still USA is keeping its army there and charging astronomically high bills for its maintenance and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are forced to pay them. Thus, probably, this was the only war in the history of world which, instead of inflicting physical and financial losses, earned enormous profit for USA. The demand of Osama37

Bin-Laden that USA should vacate his native country and let the people of Saudi Arabia decide their own fate, is still fresh in our memory. However, these champions of democracy not only rejected his demand but supported kingdom and declared him a dreaded terrorist. It is alleged that Al-Qaida was responsible for 9/11 attack in which around 3,000 persons of various Nationalities and Religion, including Islam, lost their lives. Have we ever tried to know or analyze that why should they do it? What was the reason that forced the alleged Al-Qaida personnel to take this extreme step in which apart from others, they too lost their own lives? Though there are numerous books, articles, films, documentaries and websites mostly prepared by Americans themselves, which dont agree that Al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11 tragedy. Contrarily, with their analysis and logic supported by evidences they have unanimously concluded that it was all stage managed by USA in collusion with Israel to prepare ground for attacking Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries of the region. However, the memory is still fresh how President Bush threatened the whole world after 9/11 Either you are with us or with Terrorists meaning there by that none can remain even neutral but willingly or unwillingly, will have to align with USA and follow its diktat. However, contrary to the impression created by these Monsters, here is a factual report released by European Police Office (Europol) (WASHINGTON DC -- October 25, 2010). This week Europol released an annual study of terrorism; the results do not support claims that "(nearly) all Muslims are terrorists". Europol (portmanteau of European Police Office) is the European Union's criminal intelligence agency. According to a report from Loonwatch.com's Mr. Danios, various news commentators and others expressing Islamophobia have been popularizing the claim that not all Muslims are terrorists, but (nearly) all terrorists are Muslims. Despite this idea becoming axiomatic in some circles, it is quite simply not factual. In fact official FBI records show that only 6% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by "Muslim" extremists. The remaining 94% were from other groups (42% from Latinos, 24% from extreme left wing groups, 7% from extremist Jews, 5% from communists, and 16% from all other groups). However, across the Atlantic Ocean, in Europe, the data is even more staggering. The data gathered by Europol strengthens the argument even further. Europol publishes an annual report entitled EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report. The results are stark, and prove decisively that not all terrorists are Muslims. In fact, a whopping 99.6% of terrorist attacks in Europe were by non-Muslim groups; a good 84.8% of attacks were from separatist groups completely unrelated to Islam. Leftist groups accounted for over sixteen times as much terrorism as radical Islamic groups. Only a minute 0.4% of terrorist attacks from 2007 to 2009 could be attributed to extremist Muslims. The ideology of instant declaration of culprits just after every act of terror is equally common even in India. Whenever any incidence of terrorism takes place anywhere in the country, may be Makkah Masjid Hyderabad, Jama Masjid Delhi, Ajmer, Malegoan, Samjhauta Express, Goa, Thane, Nanded, Kanpur or Indore, even before the investigating agencies have investigated and reached to some conclusion, the leaders of communal political parties and extremist Hindutva organizations instantly give their verdict that this act of terror has been performed by some Muslims. Their verdict is so spontaneous that sometimes it gives the impression that they had the prior knowledge and the terrorists had informed them before committing the ghastly crime. Ironically, while falsely trying to demonize Islam, these Monsters have deliberately tried to hide their own barbaric actions which these self-appointed custodians of Human Rights and peace committed against the Red Indians in North America, with the original residents of South America and Africa, Aborgese in Australia and in most part of rest of the world. They captured their country, establish their rule and not only barbarically and brutally exploited the locals as their slaves but also took away their wealth to their parent country in Europe. Had the barbarism seen 38

their brutalities as a person; it would have also got terrified and probably committed suicide due to shock and frustration. It is on record that Mr. Rudd, the ex-Australian Prime Minister apologized to Aborgese community on behalf of the whole nation for the brutal and barbaric treatment Europeans gave to them after capturing their land. No such complain is found against Muslims anywhere in the entire world. They ruled over Spain and major part of Europe for almost eight hundred years but now, one can hardly find Muslims and Mosques there. Have the world ever thought that where they have vanished? As a matter of fact, after the fall of Muslim Empire, they were forced to convert to Christianity and Mosques were converted into Churches. Had the Muslims during their rule treated Christians in the same way as they treated them after fall of their empire, probably the Christianity would have been wiped out not only from major part of Europe but even from most part of Asia and Africa. All Christians are not bad people, but the Christian countries, especially those which are dominated by white skinned persons, are responsible for the most deaths worldwide since ages and USA is the only country which has used Atom Bomb against human beings. In Palestine, after World War II, Jewish groups (the Haganah, Irgun and Stern Gang) fought for the creation of a Jewish state, bombing hotels and installations and killing civilians. The British, who then governed Palestine, rightly called these Jewish groups terrorists. Many of these terrorists later became leaders of Israel- Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon. Ironically, these former terrorists then lambasted terrorism, applying this label only to Arabs fighting for the very same nationhood that the Jews had fought for earlier. In Europe, the Irish Republican Army has been a Catholic terrorist organization for almost a century and they have killed far more people in Britain than Muslims, yet the subway bombings in London and Madrid are what Europeans remember today. Spain and France face a terrorist challenge from ETA, the Basque terrorist organization. However, these self-appointed Custodians of peace deliberately planted Israel in the middle of Oil Rich Arab Nations to have their firm control over the area so that, if they feel that Arabs are not obeying their diktat, they can attack and capture their territory through their adopted child Israel or directly using Israel as their base. And till date, the nefarious designs of these self-appointed civilized persons and their countries have confirmed it by their action on numerous occasions. Dual policy has always been adopted while taking decisions against Israel and Arabs. Barring a few exceptions, Resolutions against Israel have rarely been passed by Security Council for the destruction and genocide of Muslims. However, even if it has been passed in some odd cases, it has never been complied by them. But no Military Action or Economic Sanction was ever enforced against this enemy of peace. Contrarily, if exactly the same thing is done by any Muslim country, these self-appointed custodians of peace will get the punitive resolution passed immediately and in case, the country dares its non-compliance Military Action or Economic Sanction or both will be enforced at once. The glaring examples of countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Libya, Pakistan etc are in front of us. On the pretext of establishing Peace, USA and its allies have not only destroyed these countries but have killed more than one and a half million civilians including women and children and a large number are still dying due to the Military Action and the Economic Sanctions got imposed by these champions of Human Rights through puppet UNO. Apart from the dead, there are persons who have suffered permanent disability and there number is far more than actually dead. It is alleged that in 9/11 tragedy around 3,000 persons died. Without entering into the controversy of who did it the truth remains that for every single person killed in 9/11 mishap, these monsters have killed or permanently disabled more than a thousand persons including women and children in these countries. It is the height of barbarism that due to these Economic Sanctions, more than half a million children were left helpless to die for want of baby food and medicine apart from hundreds of thousands of other 39

civilians who died due to shortage of food, medicine, shelter and cloth in sub-zero temperature. But UNO didnt bother to take even notice of this genocide and no case of war crime was registered in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at Hague for this mass murder against Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Bush Senior, Bush Junior, Tony Blair, and heads of NATO countries who took active part in this massacre. These Godfathers have not only made mockery of UNO but have also made the prestigious International Prizes, a laughing stock. Just after sending around 37,000 extra troops to Afghanistan for inflicting more devastation and consequently killing more civilians, President Obama was selected for the Noble Prize for Peace. This funny action did not end here only but in the prize receiving ceremony, during his almost an hour long speech, he spoke only on war situation for about forty five minutes. These incidences have not only repeatedly confirmed the fact that the UNO is a tool in the hands of these Godfathers and its functioning is absolutely biased but have also raised serious suspicion about the fairness with which the recipients of such prestigious international prizes are selected. Everyone knows about the happenings in whole of Palestine, especially Gaza. Israel is not only keeping them as hostages and massacring them but is also blocking any aid on humanitarian grounds to its civilians but these champions of Human Rights are totally silent on these anti-human activities of enemy of peace. Absolutely no action was taken against Israel for its brazen and inhumane act of destroying the Turkish ship which was carrying food, medicines; clothe etc to help suffering people. However, the cases of war crimes have been registered in ICJ against Gaddafi, the Libyan President and Basher, the Sudanese president for killing a few hundred or at the most a few thousand civilians in their country, who revolted against their rule. However, these self-appointed custodians of peace and human rights unilaterally decided for bombing which killed thousands of civilians in these countries, especially in Libya without any provocation from their side. Even in the past, USA supported by NATO have repeatedly bombed Libya and attacked Sudan by missiles loaded with deadly weapons for mass destruction, since they did not bow to their diktat. Could anyone ask them that what was their locus standee in that country and in what capacity or right they entered in their air space and territory for bombing? And will they tolerate the same action by any other country against them? When Iran conducted missile tests and constructed uranium enrichment plant, they not only cried foul and made every hue and cry throughout the world but also tried every possible trick in their kitty and might to topple democratically elected government of Ahmadijad. Similarly, if any other country conducts such tests; these custodians will use UNO to impose economic sanctions immediately, as we have seen in the case of India, Pakistan, and North Korea apart from Iran. But these Godfathers and their allies can freely conduct nuclear or missile or other tests to make their arsenals more deadly and destructive and none can dare to speak against them. Notably, the defence (read offence) budget of USA is more than the total combined defence budget of rest of the whole world and needless to mention that it has never been used for the purpose of defence but always for offence only. Since the time immemorial, the coverage of body has increased with the advancement of civilization and persons especially the ladies coming in public without properly covering their body were not seen with the same respects as others. However, lately a gimmick is being propagated by Australia, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and some other countries against the scarf and veil used by Muslim women on the pretext of non-uniformity in dress code and they have declared it a punishable offence. However, the catholic nuns have also been dressing and using the veil exactly in the same way as the Muslim women but there is nothing objectionable against them. One can very well judge now that how hollow and false message these champions of democracy are spreading about equal right and freedom to its every citizen? These custodians of world have also used UNO in division of Sudan by carving out a new country in its southern part which is dominated by Christians and now they are trying to include 40

maximum possible area which is rich in natural resources in the new country. The biased functioning of puppet UNO has raised a big question mark over its very utility. Because one thing is now very clear that this organization is not going to serve any purpose for the countries which dont have the patronage of these Godfathers. Therefore, the time has now come to seriously consider that is it worth to remain the member of this puppet organization? Because, even if they are not its member, at the most they will have to face the brutalities of these monsters, which they are doing even today as its members. Therefore, all the countries of world which arent given any Importance or Say in functioning of the present UNO should unite to show their solidarity and quit in mass to register their protest. They should agree to rejoin UNO only when it is reorganized to become truly democratic so that every member should have equal Right and Say in its functioning. The VETO Power and Security Council should be abolished and the decisions should be taken by the General Assembly on the basis of truly democratic way of majority votes. After all, China was not member of UNO for more than thirty years but no damage could be done to them. It became the member of UNO after great persuasion. Ironically, it was not China which approached for its membership but it was USA who persuaded it to become its member after facing humiliating defeat in Vietnam. Henry Kissinger, the then Secretary of State of USA flew from Pakistan on a secret visit of China, arranged by the Late ZA Bhutto, to meet and talk the Chinese Leaders. After vigorous persuasion and hectic negotiations; China agreed to join UNO, but on its own terms. It not only snatched the VETO Power from Taiwan, a puppet of USA but also got it expelled from UNO and now it has emerged as one of the most powerful country of the world. Switzerland has never been a member of UNO but has never suffered on this ground. The countries which are behaving like a servant to these Godfathers should learn a lesson from China and Switzerland. Before blaming others, we should first look to self, because if an accusing finger is raised towards someone, three fingers point towards ourselves. As Saint Kabir Das saidBura jo dekhan main chala, bura na deekha koi , Jo dil dekha aapna, Mujhse bura na koi (I tried to find a bad person but couldnt find any, but when I searched my own soul, none appeared worst than me.) Theoretically, these champions of democracy plead for democratic governance in every part of the world but in practice, their action is just opposite. They support and protect dictatorship, especially in Islamic Countries to serve their own interest. Because, if a country is being ruled by a King or dictator, they will have to control only one person to safeguard their interest, however, if it will be democratic government, hundreds of persons may be involved in taking decisions and it may become far more difficult for Godfathers to tackle so many persons at a time. The cases of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and many others are in front of the world where they have been supporting and protecting kings or dictators to achieve their personal interests. Ironically, in a Muslim country, the democratic form of Government has never suited these champions of democracy and not only they got them eliminated but have also planted a puppet king who can fulfill their interest and if needed, can handover the reigns of his country in their hand. The case of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan is in front of everyone. They helped Shah Saud to oust Turkey and planted him as king of Saudi Arabia. They got Mosaddiq; the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran assassinated in 1950s, and planted self-exiled Shah Pahlavi as its king. Similarly in Afghanistan, they toppled the government of Taliban and planted 95 years old self-exiled king Farooq as its king. Further, in 1970s Shah Faisal of Saudi Arabia refused to follow their diktat, consequently, Americans got him assassinated and planted their puppet as its king. These incidences have sent a threatening worldwide message that anyone who dares to disobey their diktat even in future, will have to face the same consequences. 41

A lot of damage has already been done to humanity due to false egos and misadventure of these self-appointed custodians of world in grabbing others territory and their wealth by hook or crook. Our mad race of expansionist approach has divided the whole world in innumerable factions which is seriously threatening the very existence of human being on this planet. It would be better if these self-appointed custodians of world look towards their own barbaric past and brutal present and not only try to correct the past mistakes but also withdraw their armies from every part of the world so that suffering nations can develop confidence in them. Unless called for, they should refrain from unnecessary interference in the internal matter of other countries and let its citizens take decision about their present and future. Instead of remaining like personal properties of some mighty countries, UNO and its other wings should work according to their statutes and should strictly follow the democratic principle of equal right and say to every member country in its functioning. In the present highly charged atmosphere, this has become very vital for our survival on this planet. In spite of enormous technological developments and our unending efforts, we have not been able to find any other inhabited body in whole of the universe. Therefore, let us take our earth as a God gift to humanity and make it a peaceful and happy place to live in for every human being. Grabbing of others wealth and territory by force should be strictly prohibited and we should contain ourselves with in our own geographical boundaries and available resources. Anyone betraying this principle should be punished severely. However, we should strictly follow the age old and trusted principle of live and let others live honorably and peacefully and if possible, should help each other and cooperate in fulfilling even the requirements of others for mutual co-existence. The Monsters of the world should stop interference in internal affairs of others and contain themselves with in their own territory. They should stop Demonizing Islam which they have been doing till now not only to cover their own barbarism but also to achieve their selfish aims and personal gains. And finally, with a cool head, keeping every fact of the past and present in mind, they should themselves decide impartially as a true humane that who are the real demons responsible for genocide and devastations all over the world?

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About Author

I was born in a small town Deogaon in Azamgarh District of Utter Pradesh and studied both in Aligarh Muslim University and Banaras Hindu University. I am a Civil Engineer by profession and served in Irrigation Department UP from 1969 to 2006 and retired as Superintending Engineer in January 2006. Even before retirement, apart from other social organizations, I was associated with Aligarh Old Boys Association, Lucknow Branch and served it in various capacities including Honourary Secretary. Ours is a secular country and Persons responsible for the governance take their oath to strictly implement our constitution with all fairness and impartiality without any fear and favour but it has rarely been seen in practice since our independence which has given birth to monstrous problems for the country and thus to its citizens, who is the ultimate sufferer. The country is not being ruled by our constitution but the personal gains and vendetta remain supreme and the decisions are taken accordingly. After retirement, I started writing Articles about the communal approach, bias and discrimination of Governments in brutal violation of our Secular Constitution. That is enough about me. Its my first attempt to compile articles on various fields in shape of a book and many errors might have crept in unknowingly for which I request for your apology. With Thanks and Regards Afzal Ahmad Khan Kashana-E-Afzal 41/2 Prag Naraian Road Lucknow 226 001, INDIA +91- 522- 2209066, +91- 9415151983 <afzalk1945@gmail.com 43