November
18 was very important for some victims of violence in Muzaffarnagar, when more
than eight hundred fifty people belonging to 72 families were given permanent
shelter. This work of giving consolation and solace to these families was
carried out by the Jamiat Ulema of Maulana Syed Arshad Madani. Hindi and
English newspapers gave no special importance to such a big event; however Urdu
dailies published this news with the photographs and much fanfare, under bold
headlines. This Jamiat is working very
well in this field. Apart from helping the families implicated in false cases of
terrorism, it has been fighting cases for them, for which it deserves praise of
the community. In the prevailing situation it is not usual to provide permanent housing for at least eight to nine hundred people
out of 25 thousand victims of Muzaffarnagar. Maulana Arshad
Madani and his colleagues
definitely deserve appreciation for the work - but before congratulating the Maulana, we need to ask
a question on one more aspect of this situation. Can this kind
of effort help even a bit in solving the basic problem? And after all what kind
of massage is it conveying?
One objective of riots
Yes, this is the main issue, which must be considered
with farsightedness, not only by Jamiat Ulama but by the whole community leadership also. The
first question in this context is why these systematic and planned anti-Muslim
riots are being enacted? The answer is that, apart from other objectives,
the aim of the rioters is to evict the rural Muslim populations from their
aboriginal lands and to capture them. This fact was pinpointed at the time when
the same Jamiat had devised the same solution to the problem of Bodoland Muslim
riot victims in Assam. Bodoland rioters also want the
Muslims to leave the land and go somewhere else, and the work of building
separate shelters for Muslims was surely helpful in achieving the objectives of
the wrongdoers. Now with this move at Muzaffarnagar, the massage is being
conveyed that the rioters will thus keep killing and destroying properties, and Muslim organisations will thus keep rehabilitating
the victims, and in this way the country's rural Muslim
populations will be rendered to refugees in their own
country. That is, planners of the riots are
happy that their arrows are
targeting in the right direction. Muslim leadership itself is proving helpful to them. What a nicer and easier thing would be for
them.
Critical aspect of the situation
The
most serious aspect of the situation is that our own government administration
is at work in this criminal conspiracy. In Muzaffarnagar, the rioters have done
their part of work, now the bureaucrats are doing the remaining work. They want
that the people who have went out of riot-affected areas do not go back there
in any case, voluntarily surrender their properties, evacuate the refugee camps
also and get settled elsewhere after accepting the amount of five lakh. These
government officials have prepared a document for affidavit and are getting it
signed by the victims, forcefully. This affidavit is the masterpiece of
government’s oppression and excesses, and of the murder of law and justice. (See
The Indian Express, 19 November). That is, the case of Muzaffarnagar is not as easy and simple as is being
understood. For this Muslim leadership
will have to work by sacrificing their
personal desires and sectorial ambitions, keeping faith
only in God and the Day of Judgment as there is no other choice . This work
needs unity and concord. Do help the victims, build housings
for them, but only as temporary relief;
the real problem is
their rehabilitation to their ancestral and original
lands.
25/11/2013 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by:Miss Khalida Hussain
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