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Jinnah
was born in 1876. He became a brilliant lawyer and got interested in politics.
He joined Congress party and was considered an important nationalist leader
in Congress. His ambition was to become like Pherorze Shah Mehta, a prominent
Congressman. He joined Muslim League also in 1913. In December 1920, he
parted company with Congress, as his views differed from those of Gandhiji.
He believed that by making speeches and writing petitions to Government,
India could get self- rule. Congress had outgrown from this concept in
the beginning of century by the rise of Tilak, who believed that "swaraj"
was our birthright and we can get it only by putting pressure on government.
In 1916, Gandhiji came on Indian political scene. After Jalianwala Bag
incident, Gandhiji changed his ideas of British Raj and called it "satanic".
He had a brilliant theory how to get "swaraj". As the British
had disarmed Indians, he devised non-violent struggle to gain "swaraj".
He argued, if Indians did not obey British government orders, British
government would collapse. Gandhiji converted Congress into a mass party.
Jinnah on the other hand, wanted only constitutional methods and wanted
politics confined to elite.
Jinnah had joined Muslim league in 1913 and he was elected its president;
but he found Muslim League uncongenial. He remained a lonely figure for
a decade. He withdrew from politics and went to England in 1931. On return
from England in 1935, he became Muslim League President. He toured and
tried to instill fear of Hindu among Muslims. He was willing to join Congress,
if Congress went back to pre-Gandhian days' politics. But Congress did
not agree. In 1937 elections were held for provincial assemblies. His
League's performance was very poor. Muslim League did not get majority
in any Muslim majority province. Jinnah's performance from then on became
very condemnable. No lie was too big for him; he opposed Congress struggle
for freedom and showed lack of belief in democracy in his actions. In
1938 he claimed that Congress was a Fascist Party. In October 1939, Jinnah
told Viceroy that Congress had committed excesses on Muslims in provinces
under its rule. Viceroy said it was not true. His reading was not wide.
On the inauguration day of Pakistan on August 14,1947, Jinnah told his
naval aide that he did not expect to see Pakistan in his lifetime. This
was in contrast with Nehru, who had said in 1927 that India would get
"swaraj". In 1936, Nehru told Linlithgow that India would be
free in 10 years. Jinnah was not alone. Many politicians in the world
have done the same thing.
After WW II, many freedom fighters in Asia and Africa became American
satellites; got paid by CIA and obeyed American orders, which were against
their nations' interests, e.g. Jomo Kenyata, Chiang Kai Shek. America
showered high praises over its puppets, e.g. Diem in Vietnam. The French
quit Vietnam in 1954. To divide Vietnam, America appointed Diem Prime
Minister of South Vietnam in 1954 though he was unfit for the task. The
French told Americans that Diem was hopeless and mad. Vice President Johnson
said during his visit that Diem was Churchill of the decade, who had to
fight on the beaches and in the streets against (Ho Chi Minh's) tyranny.
Ho was a grand fighter and one of the greatest men of 20th century. American
press (free?) highly praised Diem government. Newsweek wrote that Diem
was Asia's one of the ablest leaders and Time called him "doughty
Little Diem." He prevented the unification of Vietnam, even though
elections were to be held in 1956 to unite Vietnam according to 1954 Geneva
Accords. Diem was tyrannical. Under his rule, Diem did great damage to
Vietnam till 1963, when US threw him out in an U.S. inspired coup and
got him assassinated.
Jinnah's idea of getting independence by issuing protest letters and petitions
to get concessions from the British was completely wrong. India got independence
due to military pressure. He wanted constitutional methods and opposed
Gandhiji's mass pressure. But he gave up constitutional methods in 1946
and adopted method of violence like stabbing innocent Hindus. This was
immoral, heinous and wrong. As Patel pointed out violence by minority
was fruitless and dangerous to minority. This was proved in Calcutta,
East Bengal and Bihar during August to November. Patel said that "violence
is a game, which both sides can play." Jinnah realized it and started
wavering in demand for sovereign Pakistan. When he went to London in December,
he changed his mind due to two reasons. First was Churchill who asked
JInnah to carry on demand of Pakistan more vigorously. He asked Jinnah
(1) to address him as Miss E.A. Gilliat at an insignificant address, (2)
Jinnah should assume an alias and use an ordinary address to carry on
correspondence secretly. Second was the British government, who declared
that May 16 plan was an award and not a suggestion. Patel bitterly wrote
to Cripps that he had misled him. And that JInnah had realized the futility
of method of violence, when British government called him and gave him
support. On return from London, Jinnah started communal riots in Punjab.
In 1948, Jinnah joined the British in claiming that paramountcy would
lapse after British departure and the princes were free to decide, if
they wanted to remain independent, or join either of two Dominions. He
thought that it would be troublesome for Congress and he would gain. He
tried to get four Hindu majority states (Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Hydrabad
and Junagarh) in Pakistan. He failed and lost even Muslim majority Kashmir.
From 1937, Jinnah started to create hatred against Hindus in Muslim minds.
All major religions teach brotherhood among men. Hatred is wrong in an
atomic world. Humanity needs love not hatred. Hatred instilled in Muslim
minds will recoil on Pakistan, as next few years will show. To use religion
against people of other faiths is wrong. Government and religion were
conceived by men long time ago to let people live in peace. Even though
both have the same aim but they are different and should not be mixed
together. Nation states have to be secular. Protestants and Catholics
both fought against each other in Europe. They migrated to U.S., which
adopted secularism. The result was people of different faiths lived together
in peace and the U.S. became the mightiest nation in the world.
In 1940, Jinnah asked Linlithgow that no constitutional advance should
be made in India without the consent of Muslim League. Linlithgow replied
that minority could not be given veto against advance of the country.
JInnah's veto was negative idea, and he should come out with positive
suggestion. Jinnah asked Viceroy what positive suggestion he should make.
Viceroy was amused with Jinnah's reply. Linlithgow ordered Zafarullah
Khan to make Pakistan plan for Jinnah. This plan was passed by Muslim
League and Jinnah in a resolution in March 1940. It is important to remember
that Pakistan plan was made by the British and not Jinnah, as JInnah had
rejected Pakistan plan by Rahmat Ali many years earlier as impractical.
To, justify Partition plan, Jinnah said that democracy was not suited
for India. Previous to Zafarullah Khan, Choudhary Khaliquzamman, Feroze
Khan Noon, Mohammad Iqubal and Sardar Aurangzeb had made Pakistan schemes,
but their schemes were rejected by the British. Even the British understood
the impracticality of Pakistan scheme. They used it only to create trouble
for Congress demand for independence. On May 6, 1943, Secretary of State,
Amery wrote to Viceroy "That the practical case, indeed, against
Pakistan seems to me overwhelming. Was a special school of logic required
to understand Pakistan?" As a matter of policy against Congress,
British refused to announce their ideas on Pakistan plan till Mountbatten
claimed in the end in 1947 that partition was madness.
In his last days, Jinnah told Colonel Ilahi Bux, personal physician to
Jinnah, that he told Liaquat Ali Khan, "I made you Prime Minister.
You think you made Pakistan. I have made Pakistan. But now I am convinced
that I have committed the biggest blunder in my life. If now I get an
opportunity, I will go to Delhi and tell Jawahar Lal to forget about the
follies of the past and become friends again." Jinnah wanted to suggest
to Jawahar Lal reunification of Pakistan with India. G.M. Syed, the veteran
Sindh leader also said in 1987 that Jinnah had realized that the British
rulers had created Pakistan for their own benefit. Jinnah told three top
leaders of his reunification plan.
After partition, Pak had 60% Muslims of India, but 97% of Hindus were
in India. Thus Jinnah really divided Muslims in three parts. Jinnah had
been preaching that 100 million of Muslims are a nation, but he left 40%
of them in India. Many of them had been abusing Hindus and creating communal
riots. Now Jinnah turned 180 degrees and told Muslims left in India to
be loyal citizens of India, an unenviable and difficult task for disillusioned
Muslims in India.
On August 11, 1947, Jinnah said that all people living in Pakistan should
consider themselves Pakistanis, whether they were Muslims, Hindus or Christians.
Thus Jinnah was reversing from his previous claim that Hindus and Muslims
could not live together and Democracy was not suited to India. Mullahs
asked him logically what was the necessity of partition then. Jinnah wanted
Pakistan to be a democracy, but he dismissed Congress ministry of Dr.
Khan in North West Frontier Province, which was not a democratic act.
Then he went to Dhaka in March 1948. He dismissed demand in East Pakistan
that Bengali should be a national language of Pakistan. As population
of Pakistan was 70 million out of which East Pakistan had 40 million,
Bengali should have been national language. of Pakistan. The rejection
was undemocratic. On the other hand he threatened East Pakistan with bullets.
Result was break-up of Pakistan in 24 years.
The fact is Pakistan plan was made by British Viceroy. Jinnah swallowed
the idea without understanding all its implications. He did not understand
that Bengali would be national language of democratic Pakistan being the
language of majority of people in Pakistan. He proposed all 100 million
Muslims to migrate to Pakistan. This meant additional 40 million Muslims
of different ethnic background to come to Pakistan. Pakistan had great
trouble in bearing the burden of settling even a few million Muslims from
U.P. Bombay, Rajasthan and Bihar. The burden of 40 million additional
migrants was beyond Jinnah's capacity. Secondly, he did not understand
the ethnic problem. Humanity has not advanced as yet to a level, when
people of a different ethnic background can go to live in an area where
people had different ethnic background. A few can, but not big numbers
can go and live peacefully. Had 40 million more Muslims gone to Pakistan,
that country would have become a volcano, errupting off and on constantly.
On May 1, 1945, two American officials, Ronald A. Hare, Head of South
Asian Affairs and Thomas E. Well, second secretary of US embassy in India,
visited JInnah. Jinnah told them that he was not going to accept united
India, but to insist on division. Further, Pakistan was in the interest
of America. Being, a Muslim country, it would stand against Russia together
with other Muslim countries. In this endeavor, Pakistan would look for
US assistance. Pakistan would help America in the protection of American
interests in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.
Reader should note the irony and contradiction in Jinnah's talk. Jinnah,
the defender of Islam, was offering help to Christian America to dominate
the heart of Islamic world. And so it has been used by the US so far.
West Pakistan (now Pakistan) is faced with many contradictions mostly
created by Jinnah - Islam vs. Islam demanded by US; creation of two different
economic classes (very rich and very poor) as Jinnah did not institute
land reforms and abolish zamindari (Muslim Leage was financed by Nawabs
and big zamindars); imposition of Wahabi Islam on Sufi Islam of Pakistan.
Now, the Muslim world is waking up. Muslims in Pakistan do not like killing
Muslims in Middle East. The result will be big clash inside Pakistan,
whose Muslim people hate US from the bottom of their heart. West Pakistan
(Now called Pakistan) may be drowned in vast massacres as had been the
case in East Pakistan in 1971. Pakistan may break up in pieces. Jinnah
had unthinkingly put Pakistan under American domination. According to
Hezira, Muslims do not live in tyranny or oppression from peoples of other
faiths. They should live in Dar-ul-Islam. People in India, who claim that
Pakistan was due to Muslim belief in Hizera and Dar-ul-Islam, should note
Jinnah's talk with Americans.
The final verdict on Jinnah is that he could not be corrupted by money,
but by power. Linlithgow understood this and succeeded in making him British
puppet by taking advantage of his great ego and he became second Mir Jafar
of India. On August 9, 1945 Patel said, "Give me just a week's rule
over Britain, I will create such disagreements that England, Wales and
Scotland will fight one another for ever." If not Jinnah, British
could find other Muslim leader to do their dirty work. When Muslims begin
to know true history, they would curse Jinnah.
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