Harm Caused By Wrong Thinking

HARM CAUSED BY WRONG THINKING “Leaders within the Muslim community should disengage from separatist endeavors characterised by impassioned rhetoric and emotional politics in order to safeguard the community from the adverse consequences of misguided ideologies.” I n 1930, the annual session of the All-India Muslim League was held in the town of Allahabad. It was presided over by Allama Iqbal. In his Presidential address, he made the claim that in undivided India, Muslims would not be able to keep their identity protected and that, therefore, when India becomes independent, in the Muslim-majority areas of the country Muslims should have a separate homeland. This suggestion later became popular among many Muslims under the name of ‘Pakistan,’ and in 1947, a country separate from India came into being with that name. This concept of a separate Muslim territory was accepted by many other Muslim thinkers too. And, based on this same sort of thinking, several movements came into being in different parts of the world. The agenda of these movements can be described in one word: ‘Pakistanisation.’