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Islamic JihadBritish Empire, the formation of a consolidated Northwest Indian Muslim state appears to me tobe the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of Northwest India.’In a 1937 letter to Jinnah, Iqbal candidly agrees that his proposed separate Muslim state was meant for saving‘Muslims from the domination of Non-Muslims’ and also proposed to include the Muslim-dominated far-offBengal in such a state, saying: ‘Why should not the Muslims of North-West India and Bengal be considered asnations entitled to self-determination just as other nations in India and outside India are.’ 534 Just before hisdeath in 1938, Iqbal urged Muslims to rally around Jinnah, saying,‘There is only one way out. Muslims should strengthen Jinnah’s hands. They should join theMuslim League. Indian question, as is now being solved, can be countered by our united frontagainst both the Hindus and the English. Without it our demands are not going to be accepted.People say our demands smack of communalism. This is sheer propaganda. These demandsrelate to the defence of our national existence.’ 535The campaign for creating Pakistan gathered momentum under Jinnah’s stewardship. Muslim League passedthe "Lahore Resolution" in 1940 demanding the creation of a separate independent Muslim state, Pakistan.The resolution said, ‘…the areas in which Muslims are numerically in a majority, as in the north-western andeastern zones of India, are grouped to constitute "independent states" in which the constituent units will beautonomous and sovereign.’ 536Having exercised their brutally mighty lordship over the non-Muslims for so long, Muslims’historical pride could not bear to let them become a minority but equal citizens in an independent seculardemocraticIndia. They unleashed mindless violence in their secessionist campaign for founding a Muslimhomeland (see below), which convinced the British that the Hindus and Muslims could not live together.These circumstances led to the eventual division of subcontinental India in 1947. Islam, fundamentally, thinksAnwar Skaikh, is an ideology of "Divide and Rule". He thinks this Islamic Divide and Rule, not the divisiveBritish policy, was responsible for the Partition of India: 537…but the wound inflicted by their (Islamic invaders’) ideology i.e. Islam, which brought them toIndia, cannot be effaced from memory because instead of healing, this hurt has turned into anincurable abscess. Though 95 percent of all Muslims descend from the original population andthe remaining 5 percent also qualify as Indians owing to their permanent residence over thecenturies, they all want to be considered as a separate Muslim nation, dedicated to the belief thattheir motherland is a Dar-ul- Harb. It is this iniquitous philosophy, which caused the partition ofIndia. What the Arabs (Arab invaders) failed to do themselves, the Arabian doctrine of Divideand Rule has done for them.As Muslim zealotry for creating a separate Islamic state gathered strength, there arose a nationalistic Hindumovement, which opposed the division of their motherland. This neo-Hindutva movement is often viewed asan equally culpable partner in the Partition-related riots and bloodbath. But, indisputably, Muslims’unwillingness to accept a united and democratic India with a non-Muslim majority population was theprimary reason for the violence and massacres that took place during the Partition.The Hindutva nationalists have also received severe condemnation for the continued communaltension and violence in independent India. In the first place, the birth of Hindutva movement was a naturalreaction to Muslims’ unreasonable, bigoted campaign to include India into a pan-Islamic Caliphate as534. Allama Iqbal Biography; http://www.allamaiqbal.com/person/biography/biotxtread.html535. Iqbal and Pakistan Movement; http://www.allamaiqbal.com/person/movement/move_main.htm536. Menon VP (1957) The Transfer of Power, Orient Longman, New Delhi, p. 83537. Shaikh (1998), Chapter 7169