On 4th of June, 1858, John Bright, one of the greatest orators in the British House of Commons, raised a question: “How long does England propose to govern India? Nobody can answer that question. But, be it 50 or 100 or 500 years, does any man with the smallest glimmering of common sense believe that so great a country, with its 20 different nationalities, and 20 different languages, can ever be bound up and consolidated into one compact and enduring empire confine? I believe such a thing to be utterly impossible.”
It was a British need that necessitated the creation of Indian nationalism. It was envisioned to be the solution to India’s political problems. But a far greater political need of the British was to suppress the emergence of political Islam. Indian nationalism had to be created at all costs. Through a well-orchestrated education system, the Imperialists, only to thwart the ideology of political Islam, propagated the political ideal of Indian Nationalism. This is how ‘India’ was born. Here was a new idol for its worshippers. Hitherto, there had been no such thing as “India” per se. “India” was a British creation, an administrative unit, governed by a bureaucracy under the sanctions of the sword of England. It was a paper creation that had no basis in flesh and blood. The ideology of Indian nationalism served several other interests. It secured the interests of the elite caste of Hindus. The elite Hindus refused to grant the right of self-determination to the followers of Islam. The Imperialists were equally intolerant of the birth of a political Islam. It was genuinely feared that if Pakistan successfully implemented Islam’s principles of equal distribution of food, wealth and comforts of life, such a success could have a domino effect. There were several other ‘istan’ countries in the world. Pakistan might well be the first crystal for a future Islamistan. What if the several Muslim states came under one union under the banner of The Quran? What if a United States of “Islamistan” came into being? It is fact, little stressed, that Islam was a far greater threat to Imperialism than any threat of Communism. The ‘stateless and classless society’ envisioned, by the founders of Communism had never existed in reality. Islam had a glorious history of equality and justice. It was a well known fact to the mastermind policy makers for the Imperialists that, in recorded history of mankind, it was only Islam that had produced a truly ‘stateless and classless society’, not through denouncing God, but through God and faith in His universal law of retribution.
This fear set up the treacherous machinery of creating ‘Muslim holy men’ that would serve the interests of the Imperialists.
The first Indian “Prophet”: Mirza Ghulam Ahmed
During 1850’s, a century before Pakistan’s creation, fearful of a worldwide emergence of ‘political’ Islam, the Imperialists used stooges who could reactivate medieval Islamic mysticism and meaningless theological debates. Brilliant propaganda machinery was launched to promote Indian Nationalism and Islamic mysticism. Islamic mysticism is the Islam of rituals and prayers. Organized forces of treachery were let loose on Muslims of India leading to widespread anarchy, disorder and disruption. One of these was The Qadiani movement, better known as The Ahmadiyya, after its founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed.
Qadian is a city in India, established in 1530, named after its first Magistrate, ‘Qadi Baig’. In 1834, the estate, consisting of Qadian and five adjoining villages were given to a Mirza Murtaza Ahmad, father of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Towards thend of the 19th century, a religious movement originated in British India founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmed of Qadian (1835-1908). Like Osama Bin Laden of the 1980’s, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad came from an affluent family. Mirza was promoted on the Indian political scene as “a religious scholar,” best known for his numerous inter-religious public debates with Christians and Hindus. His debates were given widespread publicity. His articles, which circumscribed Islam, Christianity, and the Bible, were printed and distributed widely in the 19th century India where literacy rate was very low. Muslim political scene at the end of 19th century was infertile, bereft of any leadership. The mostly illiterate Muslims of a famine and plague struck country perceived little of what Mirza wrote but turned to him because he publicly dared, in British-ruled India, to defend Islam against the intense strivings of the Christian missionaries. In public religious debates where Muslims were a natural majority against the Christian converts, Mirza emerged victorious. Amidst the pomp and show of his well-publicized popularity, Mirza claimed that he was the Mujaddid, the “divine reformer,” the promised Messiah (“Second Coming of Christ”) and the Mahdi ‘whose coming was awaited’. Mirza declared that he, not Mohammed, was the last Prophet.
Like the Taliban of the 1980’s and 1990’s, the Ahmadiyya movement emerged as an attractive heroic movement amongst the Muslim masses. Founded as a movement in 1889, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed was being propagated as a champion of the ‘peaceful Islam’ whose ideals were unification of Christianity and Islam. Well equipped with all theological tools, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed proclaimed himself to be ‘the promised Messiah’. He claimed he was the fulfillment of prophecies in all faiths. He referred his birth to the coming of ‘a world reformer of the end times’ who was to herald ‘The Eschaton’ and bring about the final triumph of Islam.
19th century India, with its abysmal socioeconomic misery, was the most fertile ground for planting such a “Messiah.” Like Osama Bin Laden’s emergence on the US-Soviet scene during the cold war of the 80’s, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s political emergence was very well planned and executed by the British Intelligence. However, unlike Osama Bin Laden who was treacherously brought on the scene of Islam as the Messenger of Jihad, the British-India of the 19th century desperately needed a “Prophet” who would condemn Jihad and the emergence of political Islam. Mirza was such a “Prophet.” Most notable were his theological decrees: “Allah has declared all verses in The Quran related to Jihad as null and void. Allah commands all Muslims to serve most subserviently to their British masters.”
The strategies of a “great game” were being laid out. To the intensely religious masses of Islam, only one thing made a most conclusive appeal: Divine Authority. The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria knew this fact, as perfectly well, as it was known to the Reagan Administration years later. Like the Bin Laden phenomenon of recruitment for Jihad, here was an Anti-Jihadi Messiah, appealing subservience to British authority. Ahmadiyya-ism seemed to be serving well the purpose it had been set up for: to provide a Divine basis for the political subjugation of the Indian Muslim. The Imperialists felt that ‘the new Islam’ needed to be spread in the entire British Empire. The Ahmadiyya emerged organized; they were setting up Missions world-wide, spreading the message of the “Indian Prophet.” To the apathic Indian Muslims of the early 20th century, the Ahmadis, were the enviable activists, setting up world-wide Islamic Centers and working ‘for the cause of spreading Islam.’
75 years later, under the Reagan administration, the Wahabbi and the Taliban would be similarly glorified.
Birth of Pakistan
Pakistan was carved out of India not just because it was the only solution to the most complex problems of the Indian sub-continent, but because it was the cherished goal of a hundred million Muslims to establish a premier Islamic State. Pakistan was created without any bloody war and practically peacefully, by sheer moral and intellectual force, and the power of the pen. The consequences of any other alternative would have been too disastrous to imagine. In the creation of Pakistan, Islam manifested its re-emergence from the darkness of medieval mysticism into the broad daylight of fresh thought and experience. The Indian Muslims had awakened from centuries of theological debates that had absolutely no bearing on life. Committed to the principles of democracy, the creation of Pakistan reflected the will of the Muslim people ‘to establish the law of God as an order’. Islam is indeed the Arabic word for “the accepted order.” By the will of a hundred million people, The Islamic Republic of Pakistan came into existence in 1947.
Pakistan was never envisioned to become a theocratic state. Muslim masses of India had awakened from centuries of slumber. They shunned meaningless medieval mysticism and decadent theological matters that had no bearing on the State. Islam had passed out of its darkest age into the broad daylight of fresh thought and experience. Muslims were ready for a total transformation and reconstruction of Islamic religious thought based on the original message of the Quran: a system of government that distributes food and wealth equally to everybody based on the law of God. They knew that neither Marxism nor Capitalism had a solution for world peace and that the only genuine ideology for peace in the world was Islam. They knew there would never be peace in the world unless genuine justice and equality prevailed. Under the British, the Muslims had tasted enough of hypocrisy and deceit. Islam, with its glorious history, was the only ideal they knew. Muslims were eager to attain education. They had been shackled for centuries in chains of superstitious beliefs and rituals. For centuries ignorance had been promoted. Muslims knew well how the Mogul Kings, like the British, waged wars only for their selfish interests and used organized religion to create mad zealots who would fight and kill in the name of faith. Human abuse and exploitation through beliefs in superstitious rituals and gods had already seen its zenith. They were sick of sacrificing humans and animals to please gods. They had a firm conviction that the era of Islam had dawned.
Whenever people attain ‘conviction’ over an ideology a nation is born. To the Muslims of India, the slogan, ‘There are no gods but God,’ gave an entirely new dimension to their political movement. Its echoes were heard everywhere. India of the 1940’s resounded with this slogan. In spirit, this slogan implied the establishment of the law of God for distribution of food and wealth. This was a simple proposition for world peace put forth by Mohammed, centuries ago. It was no religious dogma. There was no irrational belief, no metaphysical import. The faith of Mohammed was simple: “There is One God”. The same law of God that governs everything else must distribute food and wealth. One God for all matters! In essence, Mohammed’s Islam is a belief that laws of God are the laws of Nature discovered by man therefore food and wealth must be distributed by same law of God—to each according to his needs, hence the significance of ‘One’. The second part of Muslim faith, that Mohammed is the Messenger of God, the last of those blessed individuals who have appeared throughout mankind’s history as reformers, is no dogma either. Mohammed had proven himself to the world. The success of Mohammed’s ideology, the establishment of a stateless and classless society, a welfare state that became a model for mankind and led to the Renaissance of Europe, was a fact well known to the Muslims of India. Islam had blessed mankind with ‘the age of reason’, centuries ago; it would serve mankind again. With faith in God’s law of retribution and in His law of equal distribution of food, wealth and comforts of life, Islam is light years ahead of the Godless ideology of Karl Marx. Despite all the negative efforts of the forces of Imperialism including Marxism, and of their stooges who propagated rituals of mysticism, it was this conviction of the Muslims of India that made Pakistan a reality.
To the Christian of British-India, Islam was an Arab cult, evolved out of a plagiarized Judea-Christianity. Their Eurocentric Christian education had indoctrinated several wrong beliefs. Foremost was the myth that Islam had spread through the sword. They had no means to access the original message of the Quran. All they could read were ‘translations of the interpretations of The Quran’, done by Christian converts and priests, centuries ago. Indeed it were Christian converts who had drafted these ‘translations’ and ‘compilation of traditions’, which served to glorify their parent faith. The Indian Muslims, though illiterate by all standards, had awakened to the call of their ‘common sense’. They did not know any Adam Smith or Karl Marx. But they knew, by absolute conviction, that in the entire course of human history, it was only the message of The Quran that had ever liberated mankind from exploitation. To the Muslims, Islam and not Communism, was the ideology for the world’s future.
The ideology of Pakistan was unanimously perceived as ‘dangerous’ by the imperialist powers that had emerged victorious after the Second World War. The word ‘Pan-Islamism’ had begun to appear in print quite regularly. A successful and prosperous Pakistan was perceived as a socio-economic threat to the elite caste Hindus. It haunted the Imperialists.
When passivity and hopelessness overtakes a nation, its poets, philosophers, saints and statesmen, become a class of apostles who glorify apathy and everything else that is ignoble and ugly, by sheer force of seductive art and logic, and through religious rituals. This is how religion destroys the spiritual virility of a nation. Over time, her people develop an addiction for hate. It was in 1920 that Dr. Mohammed Iqbal, the poet-philosopher and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan, wrote a masterly article in The Calcutta Times on the Ahmadis, declaring them “Traitors to Islam.” Fifty-four years later, in 1974, the Supreme Court of Pakistan started a judicial probe into the matter and heard arguments related to the Ahmadiyya case and officially denounced them as non-Muslims. The decision was later ratified by the country’s parliament and then incorporated in the constitution of The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Not through the power of the sword, and without firing a single bullet, Pakistan was created amidst all opposition through the sole power of conviction. Like the first Islamic state of Mohammed, it was created by virtue of “the power of the pen and the written word.” Never before had India seen her hundred million Muslims united like this. A hundred million people, free from the age old shackles of Indian superstitious beliefs and rituals, had de facto declared that a government based on God’s laws of distribution of wealth and social justice could, and would, prevail. This alarmed the Imperialists; they needed another ‘holy man’ like Mirza Ghulam Ahmed to divert and confuse the Muslims.
Maudoodi: The Second Indian Prophet, US-Saudi Sponsored
The British Imperialists had successfully implanted in them the idea, and reinforced it through their education machinery, the Madrassas and schools of India, that Islam was simply another great religion of mystical prayers and rituals. “Why do we need a separate homeland for Islam when we can pray five times a day anywhere in India?” they asked. The progressive political party for Pakistan, The Muslim League, with Jinnah as its President, was condemned unanimously by The Jamiatul-Ulema---The United Front of Muslim Theologians of All Faiths. A divine edict, a fatwa, similar to the one decreed upon Salman Rushdie, was announced for Jinnah, declaring him a heretic. The Mullahs who had British support, formally excommunicated Jinnah from Islam. The fatwa declared, with all its force and might, that any Muslim that supported Jinnah and Pakistan was an enemy of Islam, and was excommunicated. The leader of this Anti-Pakistan campaign was a Mullah: Abul’aala Maudoodi.
Pakistan came into being despite all the Fatwas. The success of Pakistan’s leader, Jinnah, whom Maudoodi had labeled ‘a heretic devoid of even a speck of faith,’ shamefully embarrassed him and his followers. Hate becomes an addiction for all those who undergo the regimentation of painful religious rituals. Hate found a large number of refugees from India who had lost everything they had for the cause of the creation of Pakistan. Maudoodi exploited these sentiments. He reorganized a ‘Pakistani Jamaat-e-Islami’, which he had founded in India. After migrating to Pakistan in 1947 he wrote several pamphlets, books and articles. Maudoodi capitalized on the popular post-war Anglo-US frenzy against Communism. Around 1950, to show full harmony with the US policy and his fear of the threat of Communism, Maudoodi wrote several articles in which he declared the Government of Pakistan incapable of standing up against the Communist threat. Calling Communism as a common threat to all believers in God, Maudoodi said, “The US needs to learn to identify those who can truly influence the masses against the threat of Communism. The Government of Pakistan does not have the support of the masses. The US needs to know whom to turn to for help against the Soviets.” He further propagated that only the Jamaat-e-Islami’s appeal against Communism could touch the hearts of the masses. He expressed strong opinion against Communism, condemning it as Godless. His political approach, like that of Mirza a century earlier, appealed to the Muslims. It started an influx of US aid to the Jamaat-e-Islami. The Taliban were as yet in their pre-embryonic stage.
There were other competitors for the US aid besides the Government of Pakistan. These were the Ahmadis. Maudoodi perceived the Ahmadis as his staunchest rivals for US Aid. He fanned riots against his rivals, declaring them apostates. He declared the Government of Pakistan as an ‘apostate government.’ Widespread riots broke out against the Ahmadis in 1953.
Pakistan government believed in a policy of bilateralism as regards the Soviets. This was of concern to the US. In 1953, Pakistan government, having all the proof it needed, banned the Jamaat-e-Islami and charged Maudoodi with high treason for being on the CIA’s payroll. Maudoodi was tried by a Military Court and served a death sentence, however, the US pressure on the Pakistan government lead to his release. Maudoodi had clearly won US favors as being the staunchest anti-communist whom the US could trust. Maudoodi was assigned the job to hijack Islam and Pakistan. Now his party set up Taliban Centers in every school and college in Pakistan. These lawless gangsters, despite being a minority in the progressive Pakistan, challenged all authority. Like the Mirza of the Ahmadis, Maudoodi was proclaimed as a God-sent ‘holy man.’ The US sponsored media proclaimed him as “the world authority on Islam”. The Saudi-US collaboration had created yet another prophet. Though Maudoodi never claimed to be a prophet, he claimed that he could ‘identify himself with the temperament of Mohammed’. His followers called him “the authority on Islam,” a title less than what the Ahmadis had given to Mirza Ghulam Ahmed. Maudoodi resigned from the leadership of The Jamaat due to ill- health in 1972 and died in the US in 1979. The US-Soviet Afghan war, indeed would have crowned him, and not Osama Bin Laden, as the Prophet of Jihad. He had spent the last 30 years of his life laying the foundations for Islamic Terrorism.
Maudoodi, sponsored by the USA, was the second Indian prophet. The first, Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, was raised from the heavens by the British to suppress India’s war for freedom that started in 1857. Mirza served British interests for being God’s Messenger calling for Anti-Jihad. Maudoodi, gave birth to the Prophet of Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden. Pakistan is paying a heavy price for this new prophet.
The Wahabbi Prophet
To develop an insight into the Prophet of Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, one must understand the evolution of the Saudi religious cult of Wahabbi-ism and how it differs from Mohammed’s Islam. Contrary to the general Eurocentric beliefs, the ideology called Islam was not any pagan cult propagated in stone-age. A thousand years before Islam, mankind had already witnessed the dazzling millennium of mathematics. Greek mathematicians had already grasped the fact that the Universe was controlled by One set of laws that were fixed and permanent. Mohammed’s pre-eminence becomes even more remarkable when we consider illustrious names, including Anaxagoras, Zeno, Hippocrates, Theodorus, Eudoxus, Euclid, Eratosthenes, Apollonius, Hipparchus, Heron, Menelaus, Ptolemy and Diophantus, all thinkers and mathematicians that lived centuries before him. Thales of Miletus and Pythagoras of Samos in the 6th century BC, Archimedes of Syracuse (287 - 212 BC) and Pappus of Alexandria in the 4th century AD, are all pre-Islamic figures. Whereas these are the undisputed leaders that shaped human thought, Mohammed of Arabia invited the men of science to join his movement. Proclaiming a system of government that would unify all nations under the law of God, The Quran has powerful and irrefutable argument. Why have they created a separate law of God for distribution of food, wealth and comforts of life? There is One God. If His law enables the fetus to develop in a mother’s womb, without any discrimination, let us distribute food and wealth based on the same Universal law of equality and justice. “Why have they banned the law of their Lord for distribution of food and wealth”, asks The Quran of man. (Al-Rahman) Mohammed liberated mankind from the shackles of superstitious religious rituals. Mohammed condemned ritualistic worship and instead called upon believers to rise and establish the law of God: a system of government that would deliver food and comforts of life equally to everybody.
The Imposter Prophet opposes Mohammed of Arabia
Contrary to the general beliefs, Mohammed was not illiterate. As a true Apostle, he successfully liberated his people from centuries of exploitation through organized religion. The hardest of all of his goals was to educate his people and liberate them from superstitious rituals. Mohammed’s opponents, The Kafirs, were hard-core religious zealots, like The Taliban. The capitalists condemned Mohammed for being anti-religion and enraged the masses against his Message. Notable amongst all the opponents was Musailma, a religious leader from Najd, a province in Arabia. A brilliant speaker who had an excellent physique and charm, Musailma could sway the masses. Like Mohammed, Musailma declared himself a Messenger of God. He had a massive following in Najd and all over Arabia. Musailma introduced the religious rituals of worshipping three times a day. Known in Muslim history as the “Imposter Prophet,” he was one staunch enemy of Mohammed’s liberal ideology. Musailma, a poet, created a brilliant imitation of Mohammed’s Quran. The institution of human exploitation by the capitalists badly needed a religion. Musailma’s genius came up with just such a religion. The Quran condemns rituals. “They do rituals that yield no results,” is a phrase oft repeated in the Quran. “Nations that engage in superstitious beliefs and rituals, live in misery, a life of hell on earth,” says the Quran. Musailma was clever and understood the human appetite for superstitious rituals. He organized a cult, a mixture of Zoroastrian, Christian and Jewish rituals. Musailma’s cult was their last ditch effort by the Elite against the spread of Mohammed’s ideology of liberty. He was ruthless and had a massive following of pagans. He successfully led his cult from his base in his home town, Hawta-Bani-Tamim in Arabia. Musailma even sent an impudent letter to Mohammed. He demanded the division of the Arabian peninsula into two halves: one part for the followers of Mohammed, the other for Musailma and his followers. His was the only major pagan cult that survived at the time of Mohammed’s death. After Mohammed’s death, Musailma’s followers mustered an army of 40,000 that was finally defeated by the Muslim General, Khalid Bin Walid. Musailma was killed in battle.
Rebirth of the Imposter Prophet
Whereas Mohammed of Arabia had liberated mankind from the shackles of superstitious religious rituals, it is one of the saddest paradoxes of history that his name is associated with the most decadent religious culture of our times. Few realize how, over the course of centuries, Kings totally transformed Islam through self made ‘traditions of the Prophet’ to serve their needs. Whereas the word Jihad originally implied to a lawful struggle to establish a system of government that would distribute food and wealth equally to everybody under the law of God, Kings began using it for their own vested interests, no different than the United States use of the word “Jihad” in the 1980’s to serve its purpose.
These Kings transformed the teachings of Mohammed, turning them upside down. A prominent King amongst the era was the 17th century Indian monarch, Aurangzeb. Aurangzeb, ruled most of India for 48 years. His reign lasted from 1658 until his death in 1707. Aurangzeb was the first person in India to coin and use the terminology “Laws of the Sharia.” A terrorist King, who used organized religion to spread fear, had a Kingdom that spread across Balkh, (Mazar e Sharif) in Northern Afghanistan to Tajikistan. Balkh was the traditional home of The Zoroastrians. These Indo-Iranians built their first kingdom in Balkh and it was from this area that different waves of Indo-Iranians spread to Iran and India, where they became Persians, Pashtuns, and Baluch; those that stayed in Balkh are the modern Tajiks.
Aurangzeb took personal interest in the compilation of his “Laws of the Sharia.” His Fatawa-e-Alamgiri spans over 30 volumes and was the law and doctrine imposed by him throughout his empire. He enforced the Zoroastrian prayer rituals, compounding these with the reading of verses from the Quran. He had a great appetite for puritanical values, and created a potpourri of religions. From an ideology that had liberated mankind from superstitious religious beliefs, Islam was transformed into the world’s worst ritualistic religions.
One most impressed by Aurangzeb’s Sharia law that enforced religious prayers ritual was a man named Mohammed Bin Abdul Wahab (1703-1792). Born a millennium after Musailma, and again in Howta-bani-Tamim, the town of Musailma, Wahab, like Mirza and Maudoodi, was well versed in theology. He had travelled far and wide, including education at Basra in Iraq. He wrote extensively on religion and Sharia. Hopeless humans have a natural appetite for magical beliefs and for a religion with painful rituals. Wahab developed a great following. He became the head priest of Arabia with the support from Mohammed-bin-Saud (1765), the first head of the House of Saud. With him, Wahab is recognized as the founding father of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed bin Saud, like Aurangzeb, knew too well, the powers of religious rituals and how such gimmicks attract the masses. Wahab’s ideology of enforced ‘prayer rituals’ were condemned by Muslim scholars who called these ‘innovations of Wahab’ or Bid’aat. The chiefs of local Arab tribes, from Al-Hassa and Al-Qatif, called upon the rulers that Wahab be put to death for reactivating Musailma’s cult. Meanwhile, Ibne Saud had set up his power base in the town of Dar’iyah. Wahab fled to Saud for protection. Ibne Saud granted this and the two decided to work together to rid the Arabian peninsula of all liberties which Mohammed’s Islam had guaranteed. Music was banned. A reign of terror similar to the one in present day Swat ensued. The veil was enforced, women forbidden to attain education, stoned, hands chopped off, floggings introduced and schools burnt. Wahab desired to bring religion back to its “purest” form. Saud and Wahab formed an alliance. It was formalized by the wedding of Saud's son to Wahab’s daughter. The religion of Musailma was born again. It started from the same town. Dar’iyah, a town near Riyadh, became the base or the Al-Qaida of 1744.
Applying the doctrine of Wahab, Ibne Saud established the House of Saud. The use of religion as a basis for his legitimacy elevated the House of Saud. Like Aurangzeb who threatened his opponents with Fatawa-e-Alamgiri, Saud exploited the Arab appetite for religion and rituals. Through Fatwas from the House of Wahab the enemies were eliminated. To this day the highest priests of Saudi Arabia have been the grandchildren of Wahab. The current Saudi minister of Justice and the current grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia are both Wahab’s descendants. Musailma’s faith has fully engulfed Islam. It was set to engulf Pakistan. The traitors of Islam, the usurpers of Quran’s liberties, were systematically organized by a collaborative US-Saudi support.
Solution for Swat:
Declare Osama Bin Laden and The Taliban, Non-Muslims
It is imperative for the government of Pakistan to wake up and prove itself equal to the task. In 1920, the poet and philosopher, Dr. Mohammed Iqbal was the first to declare the Ahmadiyya as ‘traitors to Islam’. Only in 1974 did the people of Pakistan finally able to see through the smokescreen. It was Pakistan’s Supreme Court that declared them apostates and it was the constitution of the Islamic Republic that put a final closure to that chapter. A seed of treason planted by the British intelligence, was identified and isolated for good.
The Jamaat-e-Islami and the Islamic Religious political parties of the pre-1947 India are all seeds of treason planted by the British. From 1952 and later, it was the US funds that started nourishing them. It is imperative that the Pakistan government holds a public grand jury to investigate the past sixty years of accounts and funds of The Jamaat. Pakistan’s government needs to take an action similar to the legal action against The Ahmadis. Simple condemnation of Al-Qaida and its base station, Jamaat e Islami is a meaningless thing. The US regrets it wrong policies during the Reagan times. Hilary Clinton regrets ‘reaping of the seeds which the US sowed’. She says, “Let’s remember here, the people we are fighting today, we funded them twenty years ago and we did it because we were locked in a struggle with the Soviet Union. They invaded Afghanistan and we did not want to see them control Central Asia and we went to work and it was President Reagan in partnership with Congress led by Democrats who said, “You know what, it sounds like a pretty good idea! Let’s deal with the ISI and the Pakistan military and lets go recruit these Mujahideen. And great, let them come from Saudi Arabia and other countries, importing their Wahabbi brand of Islam, so that we can go beat the Soviet Union.”
The people of Pakistan are confused. They need to know the truth about the Religious political parties. The Jamaat e Islami has now developed its roots everywhere in the press and the media. It plans to engulf the Army. Moreover, thousands of Islamic Centers in the US are under a direct or indirect control of the Jamaat, the legacy of a blunder of the Reagan policy. It is imperative that affiliation with religious political parties be condemned through Islamic laws. Indeed, this is what The Quran says. It is imperative that Osama Bin Laden be declared a non-Muslim and a traitor to Islam. Unless the Taliban are declared non-Muslims, like the Ahmadis, there is no solution. Only a concerted effort and a genuine legal mandate passed by the Government of Pakistan can end this evil.
