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Holi O Holi! How can You be a Threat to Islam? Lalit K Kaul Islam is the only religion which breathes in and out the “threat” to its existence. Any socio-cultural event(s) not practiced by followers of Islam is perceived as a “threat” to its existence. Any world-view that’s incompatible with tenets of Islam is perceived as a “threat” to its existence. The people who question unilateralism of Islam are labelled as “threat” to existence of Islam. Al Quran makes repeated mention of “enemies of Allah”; the One who is the Master of all that He surveys; is “omnipotent and omnipresent”; “knows All”; “sees All”; “punishes and rewards”, who all in the mortal world can afford to be His “enemies”! The problem here is that Islam is said to be “secure” only if an Islamic state is in vogue; so, the slogans of “Islam Khatrae Mein Hai” essentially chanted by Moulvis , Maulanas and Muftis (3Ms) is essentially a call to all Muslims to work together, using all available means, untiringly until Islamic ...

  Who Were Responsible For Partition Of Indian Subcontinent? British Or Muslims? Lalit K Kaul The Khilafat movement which began in 1919 culminated into Muslim separatism because it failed to achieve its political ends. It was a political campaign by Indian Muslims to protest British policies towards Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. The movement was started to defend the Ottoman Caliph as a symbol of unity among the Muslim community in India. The movement was led by the Ali brothers, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Maulana Shaukat Ali. It was initially supported by Gandhi's non-cooperation movement which saw it as the opportunity to forge Hindu-Muslim unity; Muslims’ leadership were only to betray the trust the Congress had reposed in it. It collapsed after the abolition of the caliphate in 1924. Anticipating its failure insofar as retention of Ottoman Caliph was concerned- the one to which Muslims in India looked up to as torch bearer/pillar of Islamic rule and hoped to establish Islamic ru...