The Two Minorities: Jews-Zionists and Urdu Party Their empowerment by the British created problems of world proportions
(This article is based on my work: Sarab Punjabi Manifesto, 400 pages 2015, Lahore Pakistan. – Manzoor Ahmed Manzoor 23-04-2018)
In the inaugural session of the All-India Muslim League (Dacca, December 30, 1906) a fifty- eight member Provisional Committee was formed with two Joint Secretaries, namely, Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk. The Muslim majority areas/provinces which were later to constitute Pakistan had 14 members, while 44 members belonged to Muslim minority areas/provinces. U.P. alone which was a Muslim minority province had 22 members. The both Nawabs (Joint Secretaries) hailed from U.P. Of the future Pakistan areas 3 members hailed from Eastern Bengal, 1 from Sylhet, 7 from Punjab, 2 from Frontier Province and 1 from Sindh. It is interesting to note that the sole member from Sindh (Hyderabad) was Mr. A.M. Dehlavi! Not only that, Hakim Ajmal Khan from Delhi was one of the 7 members representing Punjab! Delhi at that time happened to be part of the Punjab.
Who can claim to represent whom practically, is a question of time and circumstances! And if you investigate those few who came from the future Pakistan areas or Muslim majority areas/provinces, you will find, I guess, that many belonged to the same stock as their ancestors had settled there.
Descendents of Muslim ruling classes and other Muslims who had come to India from outside or converted to Islam from the local population and belonging to Muslim minority provinces – by now Urdu-Speakers – had no collective name which could distinguish them from the Muslims of the Muslim majority provinces who were by and large converts from the local population. They were now to claim the political leadership of Muslim masses who were in majority in their provinces originally belonging to India and had converted to Islam at various stages and under different circumstances. For Punjab, for example, the nameless U.P. Muslims and even their brethren from other minority provinces were ‘Hindustanis’. They did not belong to any other Muslim people or community of India. For example, they were not Punjabis, they were not Sindhis, Kashmiris, Bengalis, Baluch or Pakhtuns. If some of them had Afghan background, in no way they belonged to Pathan or Pakhtun society or culture of North-West Frontier Province or Tribal Areas. Therefore, for others also, like Punjab, they were ‘Hindustanis’.
This minority to whom I have given the name ‘Urdu Party’ not belonging to any majority in any province/state/area of India was able to hide behind an Islamic cover which they orchestrated vehemently and became unrecognizable for the Muslim masses of India. Obviously they indulged in religious deception. Then there was British imperialism like a caring father to encourage, guide, help and protect them at every step. When the British got old and withdrew, Americans stepped in for Pakistan.
And what was their state of mind? In the same inaugural session of the Muslim League (Dacca, December 30, 1906) above referred, Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk in his presidential address said:
‘I feel it necessary to state that . . . we who have not yet forgotten the tradition of our own recent rule in India and elsewhere, and are more intimately acquainted than other communities of India with the proper relations which should subsist between the Government and its subjects, should accept it as a rule of our conduct that the plant of the political rights of a subject race thrives best in the soil of loyalty, and consequently the Musalmans should prove themselves loyal to their Government before they ask for a recognition of any of their rights. The Musalmans are only a fifth in number as compared with the total population of the country, and it is manifest that if at any remote period the British Government ceases to exist in India, then the rule of India would pass into the hands of that community which is nearly four times as large as ourselves. Now, gentlemen, let each of you consider what will be your condition if such a situation is created in India. Then, our life, our property, our honour, and our faith will all be in great danger. And to prevent the realization of such aspirations on the part of our
neighbours, the Muslmans cannot find better and surer means than to congregate under the banner of Great Britain, and to devote their lives and property in its protection. … I shall be the last person, gentlemen, to suspect our neighbours of evil intentions, but I do not hesitate in declaring that unless the leaders of the Congress make sincere efforts as speedily as possible, to quell the hostility against the Government and the British rule, which is fast increasing in a large body of their followers, the necessary consequence of all that is being openly done and said today will be that sedition would be rampant, and the Muslmans of India would be called upon to perform the necessary duty of combating this rebellious spirit, side by side with the British Government, more effectively than by the mere use of words.’
And they did what they had said. And I believe the British departure from India was delayed by them by about anything between 20 to 25 years. In return the British rewarded them at every step, hence their empowerment in 1947.
On 29 November, 1947 the partition plan of Palestine of the United Nations, through Resolution 181, was approved by 33 to 13 votes, with 10 abstentions. All 33 countries which voted ‘Yes’ were Christian countries. The 13 countries that voted ‘No’ were: Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and Yemen. At that time all independent Muslim countries (10) voted against the creation of Israel. Unfortunately there was no one to appreciate that India went along with Muslim countries and voted ‘No’. China abstained.
Imagine what the West, the so-called ‘civilized’ and ‘advanced’ were collectively doing: putting Christianity and Islam ‘democratically’ in a confrontationist mode’ the end of which nobody knew.
Today there are more than 40 Muslim countries which are members of the United Nations. As you can see, out of the present population-wise top 15 Muslim countries – Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Syria, and Kazakhstan – six (in bold) were not independent and therefore not members of the United Nations when Israel was created.
And in this case the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzal wrote in his “The Jewish State” in 1896:
“We should there [in Palestine -MAM] form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization [the Christian world – MAM] as opposed to barbarism [the Muslim world – MAM]. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence. … It is true that the Jewish State is conceived as a peculiarly modern structure on unspecified territory. But a State is formed, not by pieces of land, but rather by a number of men united under sovereign rule. … Every valuable invention, which exists now, or lies in the future, must be used. By these means a country can be occupied and a State founded in a manner as yet unknown to history, and with possibilities of success such as never occurred before. … Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man’s greatest efforts. … But the Jews, once settled in their own State, would probably have no more enemies. … I think the Jews will always have sufficient enemies, such as every nation has. … And whatever we attempt there to accomplish for our own welfare, will react powerfully and beneficially for the good of humanity.”
Not that the game went un-understood, Adolf Hitler whom they always try to make un- mentionable was precise and to the point: “[The Jews] have not the slightest intention of building up a Jewish State in Palestine so as to live in it. What they are really aiming at is to establish a central organization for their international swindling and cheating. As a sovereign State, this cannot be controlled by any of the other States. Therefore it can serve as a refuge for swindlers who have been found out and at the same time a high school for the training of other swindlers.” [Mein Kampf, 1924]
The empowerment of these two minorities Jews/Zionists and Urdu Party (Urdu-speakers) was made possible by British imperialism. To start with, both these empowerments were illegitimate because by these acts Palestinian Arabs lost their homeland and Indian Muslims who were majorities in there own provinces – Bengal, Punjab, Sindh, N.W.F.P., and Baluchistan were practically denied enfranchisement. And the Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir and those who remained in India were put in a perennial dilemma of loyalty to their country India or wishing well for Pakistan which had been made contradictory by the ideology the Urdu Party had assembled and developed under the permanent protection of the British. And as history moved forward, the problem got worsened showing thereby the potential of evil-doing in their ideology. The present stand-offs between Christian and Muslim civilizations and between India and Pakistan have their geneses in these empowerments. ■