Belajar Dari Bangladesh (Part-7)

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It is 1:00 am night. Two Pakistani boys 5 fit 10 inch around get on the bus. Iqbal woke up. He read ‘Penang Central’. One Pakistani boy sat next to Iqbal and another boy sat in front of Iqbal with another Malay girl who is wearing modern dress with no hijab. Malay girl left her place and went down. This is Marilina bus service and they have two stories in Bus. Pakistani boy sitting next to Iqbal was talking in video call with his uncle living in KL. The boy went down and requested bus driver to talk with his uncle , but Malay bus driver refused to talk with that man in call. The boy came back and Iqbal heard Malay fatty Bus driver talking loudly with Malay girl and boy shouting ‘Bangla’ as to ridicule. Bangla is considered lower class caste in Malaysia like Hinduism do with Indians . They are Pakistanis, how come does he call them Bangla to undermine them. Even the accent is quite clear. Another Pakistani boy was also talking in phone with his parents perhaps and he was crying over the phone. Iqbal realized that they come Malaysia newly and they cant speak Malay and they do not know the place where they are going. Pakistani boy sitting next to Iqbal asked Iqbal to talk with his uncle. Iqbal took the phone and the old Pakistani man informed Iqbal in Malay language that they need to come to TBS Kuala Lumpur and requested Iqbal to inform them when they reach in KL. Iqbal nodded and said ‘ No worries, I am going to TBS, KL as well’. Iqbal returned the phone.

The bus started to move from Penang Central. Night view of City with black sea seemed heavenly beauty to Iqbal. What a bless view Malaysia holds. Iqbal loves Malaysia due to its beauty. Iqbal went for Langkawi tour. He went for island hopping there. It was only rm40 but Iqbal paid rm50 to the guide since he helped Iqbal giving all the information continuously. It was marathon tour for Iqbal because it is only one day tour. Once he reached jetty in Langkawi, Iqbal went to boat for Island hopping. There were only 6 passengers in that boat. One man from Azerbaijan and he is working in Dubai and came for holiday. He got 1 month off and he went to Thailand and other countries and now he is in Malaysia and he would leave for Singapore. Another 4 persons are Malays and they come here as family. It is like idle family one boy and one girl and husband and wife. First they went to one island and it had sandy beach with beautiful view. First time, Malay family members started to talk with both of us since we are from outside. They informed that their first son died and they left only 2 now. Both are SPM students. Malay young boy seem to be very friendly with Iqbal. The boat went to Eagle Island and there were so many eagles flying and they came to eat foods that were thrown by tourists. There were several boats there. From there the boat rushed towards another island and Iqbal notice a mountain shape like pregnant women and the boat reached a new island and boatman informed there is a Sweetwater lake here for kaya boat riding and swimming for tourists. The ticket price was cheap and Iqbal pay rm20 for kaya boat. This boat is for 2 persons. Malay young boy and Iqbal took that kaya boat. They went middle of lake and started to swim, but as Iqbal jump off from kaya, he thought what if crocodile is here pulling his leg or any ghost. The lake is surrounded by hills and obviously this lake must be thousand years old. Iqbal rushed to get on the boat. They came back with Kaya and they took group pictures and Iqbal helped Malay family to have group picture as well. When they came back to jetty, Malay boy invited Iqbal for lunch with their family. Iqbal wanted to go to sky bridge but he saw his times up since he got return ferry ticket at afternoon. Hence, he agreed to go for dinner with that family. They all seem very friendly with Iqbal. Iqbal made already friendship with that Malay school boy. They took lunch together. Iqbal is used to have all types of food. It was hard for him initially to have food but it became normalized for Iqbal now.

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Iqbal came to TBS , KL and informed other Pakistani boys that this is TBS, KL. All droped off there. Iqbal came back campus and attended all of his classes during day. Two days went by and Iqbal got busy with his academic reading. Suddenly Iqbal found an youtube video on the killer who killed Indian great leader mahatma Gandhi. Iqbal watched the video and he noticed this man was unapologetic and patriotic and aimed for Undivided India . Iqbal thought this is the one that he wrote in story mirror. Iqbal searched for pdf what this man said before he was hanged by Inidian highcourt. The speech was hidden from public since this speech got public emotion for undivided India and promote patriotism. Iqbal watched Donald Trump speech today on WW3 and his racism towards other nations to save his people. Iqbal found the pdf of that verdict and started to read :

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        Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any -isms — political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system based on birth alone. I openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste movements and maintained that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights — social and religious, and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession. I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which thousands of Hindus — Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and Bhangis — participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the company of each other. I have read the speeches and writings of Ravana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai Naoroji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, along with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some prominent countries like England, France, America and Russia. Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done. All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well-being of all India, one fifth of human race. This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and programme, which alone, I came to believe, could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan, my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well. Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak, Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and nonviolence which he paraded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible or enlightened person could object to those slogans. In fact there is nothing new or original in them. They are implicit in every constitutional public movement. But it is nothing but a mere dream if you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capable of scrupulous adherence to 4 these lofty principles in its normal life from day to day.

In fact, honour, duty and love of one’s own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard nonviolence and to use force. I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is unjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and, if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force [In the Ramayana]. [In the Mahabharata] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita. Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and relations including the revered Bhishma because the latter was on the side of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama, Krishna and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human action. In more recent history, it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny in India. It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and kill an aggressive Afzal Khan, failing which he would have lost his own life. In condemning history’s towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical as it may appear, a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and nonviolence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen forever for the freedom they brought to them. 5 The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslimfast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. Gandhi had done very good in South Africa to uphold the rights and well-being of the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted his leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way. Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality, metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him. He alone was the Judge of everyone and everything; he was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement; no other could know the technique of that movement. He alone knew when to begin and when to withdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold disaster and political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma’s infallibility. ‘A Satyagrahi can never fail’ was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause.

These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible. Many people thought that his politics were irrational 6 but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with as he liked. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failure after failure, disaster after disaster. Gandhi’s pro-Muslim policy is blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national language of India. It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of his career in India, Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is called Hindustani. Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a mere dialect, it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue and crossbreed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma’s sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India. His blind followers, of course, supported him and the so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purity of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus. From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson.

The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government 7 formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League members right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi’s infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork. The Congress which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from August 15, 1947. Lord Mountbatten came to be described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but Mountbatten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls ‘freedom’ and ‘peaceful transfer of power’. The Hindu–Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic state was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called ‘freedom won by them with sacrifice’ – whose sacrifice? When top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore the country – which we consider a deity of worship – my mind was filled with direful anger. One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi 8 occupied by the Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned.

Gandhi was shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had he imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan, there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown some grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty inasmuch as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah’s iron will and proved to be powerless. Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost all my honour, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the 9 nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan. People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course founded on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nation-building. After having fully considered the question, I took the final decision in the matter, but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House. I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus.

There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for this reason I fired those fatal shots. I bear no ill will towards anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present government owing to their policy which was unfairly favorable towards the Muslims. But at the same time, I could clearly see that the policy was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi. I have to say with great regret that Prime Minister Nehru quite forgets that his preaching’s and deeds are at times at variances with each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and out of season, because it is significant to note that Nehru has played a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of Pakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi’s persistent policy of appeasement towards the Muslims. I now stand before the court to accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and the judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as may be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg for mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism levelled against it on all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.

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Iqbal finished his reading and he went for walking around the campus. He was reflecting himself in his mind:

The way the trump is trying to defend his race for possible WW3 , the dream of this young Indian man was not illogical. Undivided land would make Indian race united for possible attack from outside world. This century seems race-based war. One strange thing with Penang central if Bangladeshis or Pakistanis were Indians today, they could devote these people to the development of India as a whole by educating them, they did not need to come outside of India for slavery and they did not need to be exploited and downgraded. British for sure got this luxury by looting from Indian subcontinents and other countries did same in Europe. Why do we need to listen others when we have everything. Our only problem is our political instability. Mhammadean ideology is such dangerous which can not deal with other ideologies as the young man mentioned. Max Weber famously spoke of how science led to the “disenchantment of the world”. Gyan Prakash, a close friend of Edward Said, and a historian at Princeton University, already detailed how the British colonial imposition of science, as a cultural power, led to India’s fractured identity, where Muslim & Hindu histories were distorted by modernity. No doubt mahatma Gandhi read biography of Muhammad and show good attitude like Shadhguru, but Jinnah was no less than Abdullah Ibn Ubay in Madina. Ghandhi agreed to divide India for good but it went to the hand of hypocrite leader like Jinnah and Yahyah. They exploited Indian Muslims more. Even in modern science was used or nationalism was used to create division. It seems scientific thinking and objective thinking can bring peace and harmony in society. There is no alternative to secularism. If you want to destroy racism, you must use racism to destroy racism.

Nothing can destroy racism from world except via racism it seems. This is state level politics and it is the fighting between superpower and it seems racism is necessary as Donald trump uses for his nation. Youngman was mistaken by upholding Hinduism to bring peace and justice rather it must promote secularism to bring peace in Indian society. Lets say God and heaven and hell. Nobody can prove it and this is the human weakness that early leaders as prophet used to play with general people and this fear can not be removed from either hindu or muslims and this is where Arab ideology got superiority. An Indian by color he is an Indian but he is arab by ideology and this can not be removed from his brain unless you educate them by secular education. But the problem of sexual violence and other violence will be still there . Then, how come will you introduce undivided India theory. We live here 50 years and we love to do only politics related food and sex. I asked one man in Penang and he said ‘Indians never rule because so long they get food and sex , they do not like to bother with anything outside. Hence. They do not have mentality at all for ruling.’ This is strange psychology of people in Indian subcontinent........................



Iqbal stopped thinking and said to himself, ‘ Iqbal, you better focus on praying and doing Islamic rituals since you can not change nobody and who would listen to you stupid who got no position in society’.