How dare you bunch of cowards
think of calling yourselves as believers of Islam. My name is Major
Mohommed Ali Shah ( Veteran). My family has had a tradition of
soldiering for 200 years. My father retired from the Army as the Deputy Chief
of Army Staff and was the Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University thereafter.
Because of his and his brilliant team's back breaking and tiring efforts AMU
was ranked as the no.1 university of the country as ranked by the Times Higher
Education Ranking London ( The most reliable ranking of universities in the
world). However, because of your ill actions such a fine university of the
country too has to bear a brunt of having the name " Muslim" in it.
My father's honest autobiography titled " The Sarkari Musslaman",
which talks very highly of a fine and secular organisation like the Indian Army
was misunderstood because of having the word " Mussalman" in the
title.
My ancestors were veterans of both
the world wars. My family chose not to go to Pakistan but rather stay in India
during the partition because of various reasons. We are the children of this
soil. We are a family of proud Indians and have performed the pilgrimage of
Haj.
There can not be a person more
qualified and eligible to tell you cowards that no where in Islam does it say
go kill anyone. You people are truly the enemies of Islam, giving Islam a bad
name, to the extend the community is getting type cast. Like in the old days
every hindi movie would have a vamp, shown smoking and drinking bearing a name
like suzzie or Marrie, wearing a skimpy dress being shown as a lady of easy
virtue and we all knew which community they belonged to. Today every hindi
movie has a criminal or a gangster bearing a Muslim name. Hailing from an Army
background I have seen my father fight insurgency in Punjab in the early 90's,
in Manipur, in Nagaland and J&K. I have personally endangered my life on
several accounts while serving in the Army in J&K and the North East, both
Muslim and non Muslim areas of insurgency. However, it is only one particular
community being branded as a terrorist community because of ignorant fools like
you.
My religion ( Mind it I am not saying
yours, because you are not Muslims - You are terrorists, and terror has no
religion) is actually a very peace loving religion and talks of unity in
diversity.
The term " Jihad" which
actually means struggle and not terrorism has been misunderstood and
misinterpreted by people who are non Muslims to the extend that the national
media also have started misrepresenting the religion for which terror outfits
like you are responsible. Today all the good work that the Muslim community is
doing is being discredited because of the wrong doings of a few misled,
uneducated, disloyal enemies of humanity like you.
The brainless " Fidayeen's"
you have been breeding are going to hell to rot and not to any heaven as you
mislead and brain wash young, unemployed, ignorant youth who have absolutely no
idea what the holy Quaran says. Islam is actually a very peace loving,
scientific, logical and simple religion. There has to be an end to this
madness. You people have spoilt the name of such a beautiful religion that on
one account and instance I, a right thinking citizen of my motherland India
personally too had to suffer, however fortunately my parents had equipped me
and given me the best gift a parent can give to a child, the gift of education
- I could stand tall and fight and teach the perpetrators a lesson that they
would never forget in their life. Lifting weapons and killing people is no
answer to anything.
Education is the only key to
progress. I am a proud Muslim and a very proud Indian and am qualified enough,
not because of the fact that I was educated in the best school and college or
an IIM only but because I understand the religion much better than you and
appeal for peace in order to be a true Muslim. You might have enrolled people
with little intellect level who might be PHD's however there is a huge
difference in being literate and educated. Terror outfits like you are
uneducated and should make an effort to analyse yourself, do a self
introspection and face and understand the reality that you are not only doing a
great disservice to a peace loving religion but a great disservice to humanity.
Shame on you!
You are non believers of Islam, in
other words " Kafir's". My reason for writing this open letter is so
that some where and somehow this letter of mine reaches you and may be it can
make a difference somewhere. I truly believe that the change wont begin and the
society will not change unless and until we change our ownselves. I truly
hope it reaches you and you do a serious introspection and the change begins.
Violence of any form is not the answer to anything.
As Martin Luther King once
said-" Darkness can not fight darkness only light can do that, hate can
not fight hate, only love can do that". The Muslim terror outfits must
realise that they inflict casualty directly and indirectly on Muslims itself
and any sensible person can see through that it is not the cause that you are
fighting for, but it's a racket that you are running and are the manufacturers
of hate. Please use your brains - The Fidayeen whose video I saw will certainly
not be going to heaven to enjoy the hospitality of hoors as he claimed however
will rot in hell. Quoting a line from the film " Khuda ke liye"
(which made a lot of sense to me as a Muslim ) said by a great actor playing a
maulvi " Deen mein daari hai, daari mein deen nahi". There is no need
to wear religion or patriotism on one's sleeve. People are intelligent enough
to see through what is inside a person's mind.
- MAJOR MOHOMMED ALI SHAH (VETERAN)
@MajorAliShah
