Interfaith Cooperation Quotes
The "enemies" were many of the Muslim and Hindu Maharajas of the independent Indian states who were afraid of losing their kingly powers under an Indian democracy, some of the wealthy businessmen and large landowners, many of the Bureaucrats of the Indian Civil Service who feared politicization, and many leaders of the smaller religious minorities, Buddhists, Christians, Baha'is, Zoroastrians, and others. And most of all, there were English Conservative politicians including Winston Churchill who did not want to see the British Empire diminished. They often played on the religious fears of Indians—never far from the surface. Jinnah strongly opposed this until he wanted the Partition of independent India into 2 countries—Muslim and Hindu. Then he not only plaid to these religious fears, but stoked then to a feverish pitch and did nothing to stop Muslim religious violence and in some cases even supplied private Muslim groups with arms, ammunition, transport, and intelligence to put pressure on the Congress Party leadership and the British to get more land and other resources for Pakistan.
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Muslims had engaged in violent demonstrations to insist on more Sharia law and the curtailment of behavior that the Muslim Mullahs determined to be contrary to Sharia and Islam. In Nigeria Muslim violence and intimidation had at the time already caused one of the Nigerian states to adopt Sharia instead of civil law. Many Muslims continued the violence in order to spread the adoption of Islamic law. In most counties, there were threats of law enforcement crackdowns to curtail the Muslim violence and attacks on Christians and other religions. In Nigeria however, the Christians under Akinola’s leadership made this not so subtle veiled threat to retaliate. It seems to have worked in the short run although the religious tensions remained very high and no one knew whether or not religious violence or even war would break out.
No other country would not retaliate with outright war if it was daily attacked by missiles, frequently attacked by terrorists, and threatened with extinction by its neighbors. Only Israel because of its military superiority is supposed to ”turn the other cheek”
