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Islamic Jihadoutbreaks of religious violence—there were thirty-two, for instance between 1836 and 1919.’ 539 The victimsof their Jihadi outbursts were always the innocent Hindus.In 1921, Muslims in Malabar (called Mopla) unleashed a heinous wave of violence against innocentHindus, which became known as the "Mopla Rebellion". This rebellion was instigated by two Muslimorganizations: Khuddam-i-Kaba and Central Khilafat Committee. These movements were in favor offounding a pan-Islamic Caliphate. According to Ambedkar, they preached the doctrine that ‘India under theBritish government was Dar-ul-Harb and therefore, the Muslims must fight against it, and if they could not,they must carry out the alternative principle of Hijrat (departure to a Muslim land).’ 540 Although the rebellionwas against the British, in their absence, Muslims unleashed terror on their innocent Hindu neighbors.Ambedkar recounts the horrific barbarity committed by the Moplas as thus:The Hindus were visited by a dire fate at the hands of the Moplas. Massacres, forcibleconversions, desecration of temples, foul outrages upon women, such as ripping of pregnantwomen, pillage, arson and wholesale destruction—in short, all the accompaniments of brutal andunrestrained barbarism, were perpetrated freely by the Moplas upon the Hindus… The numberof Hindus who were killed, wounded or converted is not known. But the number must have beenenormous.JJ Banninga, who lived in India between 1901 and 1943, published an account of this horrific brutality. 541Banninga records the verdict of a three-judge panel that tried some of the leading culprits:‘For the last hundred years at least, the Moplah community has been disgraced from time to timeby murderous outrages. In the past, these have been due to fanaticism… their tutored mind isparticularly susceptible to the inflammatory teachings that Paradise was to be gained by killingKafirs. They would go out on the warpath, killing Hindus no matter whom… no grievance seemsto have been necessary to start them on the wild career.’On the atrocities, adds Banninga:…wells were filled with mutilated bodies; pregnant women cut into pieces; children torn fromtheir mother’s arms and killed; husbands and fathers tortured, flayed, burned alive before theeyes of their wives and daughters; women forcibly carried off and outraged; homes destroyed…not less than 100 temples were destroyed or desecrated; cattle slaughtered in temples and theirentails placed around the necks of the idols in place of garlands of flowers; wholesale looting.According to Moplas, notes Robinson, "10,000 lives were lost". 542Mahatma Gandhi, a supporter of the Khilafat Movement—embracing the brutal Moplas as "amongthe bravest in the land" and "God-fearing", and to downplay the quantum of the brutality—wrote in hismagazine Young India: ‘Whilst I was in Calcutta, I had what seemed definite information that there were onlythree cases of forced conversions... But I don’t think that it seriously interferes with Hindu-Muslim unity.’ 543But in reality, a large number of Hindus were converted.539. Robinson, p. 247540. Ambedkar, Vol. 8, p. 163541. Banninga JJ (1923) The Moplah Rebellion of 1921, in Moslem World 13, p. 379–87542. Robinson, p. 247543. Gandhi K (1921) Young India, September 8 edition171