Confessions Of A British Spy

in mind and speech. Mustafa Rashîd Pâsha, the most infamous of
these men, had been in office as the last Grand Vizier only six days
when he congratulated the British for the Delhi massacre they
perpetrated on the Muslims of India on 28 Oct. 1857. Earlier than
that, the British had asked permission from the Ottomans to use
the Egyptian route for the dispatch of the British soldiers coming
from Britain to suppress the Muslims who had revolted against the
British cruelty in India. The permission had been provided by the
masonic agents.
The British not only prevented the opening of new schools in
India, but they also closed all the madrasas and the primary
schools which were the foundations and the most salient symbols
of the Islamic Sharî’at, and they martyred all the scholars and
religious authorities who could have led the people. At this point
we consider it appropriate to relate a real story that a friend of
ours told us when he was back from his travels to India and
Pakistan in 1391 [A.D. 1971].
“After visiting the graves of the Awliyâ, such as Imâm-i-
Rabbânî and others ‘qaddas-Allâhu sirrah’ in Serhend city, I went
to Pâniput city, and thence to Delhi. Performing the Friday prayer
in the biggest mosque in Pâniput. I went to the imâm’s house upon
his invitation. On the way I saw a huge door locked with a chain
with thick rings. The inscription on the door said it had been a
primary school. I asked the imâm why it was locked. The imâm
said, ‘It has been closed since 1367 [A.D. 1947]. The British
provoked the Hindus against the Muslims and caused a massacre
of all the Muslims, women, men, children and old people, all of
them. This school has been closed since that day. This chain and
the lock remind us of the British cruelty. We are emigrants who
came and settled here afterwards.’ ”
The British did away with all the Islamic scholars, Islamic
books, and Islamic schools, a practice which they applied to all the
Islamic countries. Thus they brought up young generations totally
unaware of the religion.
The notorious British Lord Macauley, as soon as he arrived in
Calcutta in 1834, prohibited all sorts of Arabic and Persian
publications and ordered that the ones that were already in the
process of printing should be stopped, and this attitude of his
earned him a great deal of acclamation from his British colleagues.
This oppression was assiduously carried on in places with a Muslim
majority, especially in Bengal.
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