Know regarding the Calcutta Khilafat Committee the place Mamata Banerjee often known as for Muslim unification

On Saturday (April 22), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee courted controversy after she requested the Muslim group to ‘unite’ and vote in direction of the BJP throughout the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

She made the contentious remarks at an event organised, by the ‘Calcutta Khilafat Committee’ at Red Road in Kolkata, on the occasion of Eid-al-Fitr. She congratulated the Committee members and often known as for the unification of the Muslim vote monetary establishment.

“Today the Constitution is being changed, history is being manipulated…I am ready to give my life but will not let this country divide,” Mamata Banerjee launched amidst loud cheers from Muslims present throughout the crowd.

She vowed to not allow implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) prepare throughout the State to extra appease the illegal immigrants residing in West Bengal.

Banerjee often known as upon the Muslim group to want to Allah and stop BJP’s so-called ‘Dadagiri’. Ironically, the West Bengal Chief Minister was mouthing platitudes about pluralism, and societal cohesion from a platform that carried out a pivotal place throughout the disintegration and Partition of the nation in 1947.

The snipper of Mamata Banerjee’s speech does level out quite a lot of necessary components that we must always decode.

First and foremost, Mamata Banerjee often known as for the unification of Muslims to oust ruling BJP in 2024 General Elections. This deeply communal trope that is being peddled by Mamata Banerjee comes as no shock since she has made way more communal statements even throughout the present earlier, which reveals clearly that she is fanning the anti-Hindu sentiment and pandering to basically essentially the most extremist elements all through the Muslim group.

After Islamists had run rampage in direction of Hindus in West Bengal all through Ram Navami processions and devoted horrible violence in direction of the Hindu group, correct after the instigation of Mamata Banerjee when she said that Hindus should keep away from “Muslim areas”, Banerjee moreover made completely different problematic statements. She not solely exonerated the Muslim group saying that they cannot commit any violence by the month of Ramzan, however as well as went ahead of requested the Muslim group to want to Allah to “teach rioters a lesson”, hinting on the Hindus. In the current speech as successfully, Mamata tells Muslims to want to Allah to stop BJP and their “dadagiri”.

Further, Mamata moreover says that she just isn’t going to let NRC be utilized. It turns into essential to stage out that there is no draft for nationwide NRC, however, when Mamata rakes up the issue many times, it turns into essential to know that possibly, she is signalling to illegal immigrants who reside in Bengal, largely from Bangladesh and Myanmar (Rohingyas), that she’s going to ensure they are not ousted from the state.

The two narratives coupled collectively clearly marks how dangerous her political rhetoric is. Demonisation of Hindus coupled with pandering to not solely illegal migrants, however as well as basically essentially the most radical elements from the Muslim group.

What possibly makes her speech way more dangerous is the reality that this dangerous speech by Mamata Banerjee was delivered whereas she was attending an event organised by ‘Calcutta Khilafat Committee’.

The Khilafat movement from 1919 onwards, was primarily a movement by Indian Muslims in assist of the Caliphate in Turkey. Khilafat movement was a movement demanding from the British restore the powers of the Caliph of the Ottoman Empire. It had nothing to do with India, the Indian freedom movement or our demand to self-govern. While it is usually peddled as a wrestle for India’s freedom, fuelled by the title itself which appears as if the Muslims had been “against” the British rule, if truth be told, the Khilafat movement drew its title from the “Kaliph” since they’d been stopping to maintain up the authority of the Turkish Caliph of Islam. Officially, Khilafat means ‘caliphate’ however as well as a broader one as ‘succession’ – Specifically Khilafat refers again to the administration of the Islamic group after the dying of the Prophet.

The Calcutta Khilafat Committee should not be a fringe organisation which merely adopted the title “Khilafat”. It is, the reality is, the distinctive regional committee established 1919 to implement the targets of the Central Khilafat Committee.

Khilafat, pan-Islamism and Parition of India

The first stirrings in favour of the Khilafat Movement in Bengal had been seen on 30 December 1918, on the eleventh Session of the All India Muslim League held in Delhi.

When the Paris Peace Conference (1919) confirmed these apprehensions, Bengali Khilafat leaders similar to Maulana Akram Khan, Abul Kasem, and Mujibur Rahman Khan held a public meeting in Kolkata on 9 February 1919 to enlist public assist in favour of preserving the integrity of the Ottoman Empire and saving the institution of Khilafat.

On 17 October 1919, the first Khilafat Day was seen and most Indian-owned retailers in Kolkata remained closed. Prayers had been equipped at fully completely different mosques, and public conferences had been held all through Bengal. On 23-24 November 1919, the first All-India Khilafat Conference was held in Delhi, presided over by AK Fazlul Huq from Bengal. It was decided that until the Khilafat problem was resolved, there could possibly be a boycott of British gadgets and a protection of non-cooperation could possibly be adopted in direction of the British.

As per opinions, the office of the Calcutta Khilafat Committee was established, reverse the Nakhoda mosque in Kolkata, in 1920. The first Bengal Provincial Khilafat Conference was held on the Kolkata Town Hall on 28-29 February of the equivalent 12 months, with quite a lot of members of the Central Khilafat Committee in attendance. Prominent Bengali Khilafat leaders participated throughout the conference and reiterated that non-cooperation and boycotts would proceed till their requires on the Khilafat draw back had been met. The conference decided to take a look at 19 March 1920 as a result of the Second Khilafat Day.

The pan-Islamist movement which was based totally on extra-territorial allegiance rapidly confirmed its true colours. What adopted was mindless fanaticism by the Moplah Musalmans that resulted throughout the brutal murder of over 10,000 Hindus, the rape of 1000’s of Hindu ladies and the desecration of temples that Hindus held sacred.

During the Malabar massacre in 1921, the Moplah Muslims went on a murder frenzy killing Hindus in basically essentially the most brutal technique. On one specific incident on the twenty fifth of September 1921, the Moplah Muslims massacred 38 Hindus by beheading them and throwing them throughout the successfully.

It has been documented by the district collector of Malabar on the time how even after 2-3 days, quite a lot of Hindus who had been beheaded and thrown throughout the successfully had been crying out for help.

Dr Ambedkar had said regarding the Malabar genocide: “The (Khilafat) movement was started by the Mohammedans. It was taken up by Mr Gandhi with tenacity and faith, which might have surprised many Mohammedans themselves. There were many people who doubted the ethical basis of the Khilafat movement and tried to dissuade Mr Gandhi from taking any part in the Movement the ethical basis of which was so questionable.” (Pakistan or Partition of India, pages 146,147).

Dr Ambedkar had extra said: 

“As a rebellion against the British Government, it was quite understandable. But what baffled most was the treatment accorded by the Moplas to the Hindus of Malabar,” he wrote. The Hindus had been visited by a dire future by the arms of the Moplas. Massacres, forcible conversions, desecration of temples, foul outrages upon ladies, comparable to tearing open pregnant ladies, pillage, arson and destruction— in short, all the accompaniments of brutal and unrestrained barbarism, had been perpetrated freely by the Moplas upon the Hindus until such time as troops might very effectively be hurried to the responsibility of restoring order by a tricky and in depth tract of the nation. This was not a Hindu-Moslem riot. This was solely a Bartholomew. The number of Hindus who had been killed, wounded or reworked, should not be recognized. But the amount might want to have been monumental.” 

The dangerous parallels and tropes that Mamata Banerjee invokes usually

Mamata Banerjee has usually invoked dangerous parallels and tropes that led to the massacre of Hindus and the partition of India – ensuing throughout the creation of Pakistan on non secular traces. If one remembers, by the Assembly Elections, Mamata Banerjee had launched a “Khela Hobe” advertising and marketing marketing campaign. Upon profitable the West Bengal elections, the violence unleashed has been documented significantly. However, unphased, Mamata Banerjee had then launched that TMC could possibly be celebrating “Khela Hobe Diwas” on the sixteenth of August to remove BJP from power from quite a few states.

sixteenth of August was the equivalent day when Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah of the Muslim League had launched the horrific “Direct Action Day” in direction of Hindus in 1946.

On the sixteenth of August, 1946, Mohammad Ali Jinnah gave a reputation to fellow Muslims all through India for a “Direct Action Day” on the streets of Kolkata (then Calcutta) and grandly proclaimed that they shall have “either a divided India or a destroyed India”. The terror that adopted was nothing India had seen sooner than. Thousands of sword-wielding Muslims went on a killing spree, and nearly 10,000 people had been killed and as a lot as 15,000 wounded in a span of three days. The Direct Action Day, which resulted throughout the Great Calcutta Killings, is taken into consideration one of many essential brutal violence unleashed by Islamists on Hindus throughout the ultimate century.

Further, as talked about earlier, solely simply currently she invoked how Hindus ought to keep away from so-called “Muslim areas” for his or her Ram Navami processions. This was moreover used to justify the violence that had ensued in direction of Hindus. Interestingly, throughout the run-up to the partition, quite a lot of such assaults had taken place in direction of Hindus and one of many essential excellent causes was that the procession was crossing an area with a Mosque or that music was being carried out throughout the entrance of the mosque by Hindus.

With Mamata Banerjee passing dangerously communal statements in an Eid event organised by the very Calcutta Khilafat Committee, which was a part of the extraterritorial Khilafat movement, fundamental as a lot because the genocide of Hindus in Malabar, it should seem clear that political expedience has trumped good sense as far as sustaining the integrity and sovereignty of the nation is fearful and Hindus are merely sacrificial lambs when it comes to consolidating the vote monetary establishment that may preserve Mamata Banerjee in power.