Muslims have fallen prey to anti-Muslim forces as there is ongoing conspiracy to suppress strong Muslim leadership in many a State in the country, said Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen leader and Member of Parliament Asaduddin Owaisi while addressing a conference of Muslim Youth League, the youth wing of Indian Union Muslim League, held at Kozhikode on April 20.
“Half of the Muslim population in the country resides in Assam, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar; and it is in these four States that Muslims are the most backward. It is so only because Muslim leadership has not been allowed to rise and work effectively over there,” Asaduddin told the audience, adding that the Sachar Committee Report has clearly pointed out the poor representation of Muslims at political levels. “Illiteracy and unemployment has become the fate of Muslims.”
The Majlis leader remarked that Babri Masjid would not have been demolished had there been a strong Muslim leadership in Uttar Pradesh.
He informed the audience that he along with UML MP Abdul Wahhab recently made a visit to Nandigram in West Bengal. There he could see how backward but deserving Muslims are being deprived of educational and employment opportunities in our democracy, he added.
“The defeat of Muslim League in Kerala is not limited to the deprivation of this party from power rather it should be treated as tantamount to the defeat of a Muslim party in the country,” he said adding that successful efforts are being made to give Muslims their due in Andhra Pradesh due only to the presence of a strong Muslim leadership there.
The Majlis leader called upon the youth participating in the conference to set their feet in the society as the strong boundary wall of a house; for if there is no boundary wall in a house, people start to use it as a way to pass by. “This boundary wall should serve to protect the community from obscenity, waywardness and illiteracy,” he maintained emphasising that it is necessary for Muslims to play the role of Khair-e-Ummah or the best of communities.