It is time that history books reevaluate the acts of these so called great Muslim rulers. The lie that bigotry and communalism in India started only after 1857 needs to be dispelled.
India need not take in lessons in secularism and religious freedom from a country whose official motto is “In God, We Trust”, which has never elected a non-Christian Head of State till now and where hate crimes are all too common.
इस्लामिक कट्टरवाद भारत के लिए सीधा शत्रु है लेकिन ईसाई कट्टरवाद अदृश्य खतरा है जो कि भीतर ही भीतर हमें खोखला कर रहा है। हमें भूतकाल से सीखना होगा कि किस प्रकार रोमन सभ्यता और साम्राज्य का विनाश हुआ। कहीं ऐसा न हो कि हमें भी वही दिन देखने पड़ें!
Not a word of condemnation or even advice to Tablighis to abide by govt rules, can be heard from the lips of ‘secular’ mediapersons, leaders and activists.
Due to apathy and antipathy of the regimes in past 70 years, this Hinduphobic narrative has become the dominant narrative not only in India but also in foreign universities.
We see stark parallels of Jinnah in today's India. From the leaders of rabidly communal AIMIM to many Muslim leaders of other parties, from the firebrand Maulanas to the Jihadi army in social media, from certain 'journalists' to unrepentant Jamatis one can see the same pattern repeat again.