भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

unquestioning subjection. But the fall of the Chinese Empire, the Japanese conquest of the large portions of the Chinese territories and the simultaneous rise and spread of the pan-Islamic movement about the time of the last great European war stirred up the Moslems in China too, with the consciousness which was latent in all Moslems through the Koranic teaching itself of being a separate entity unallied with and even antagonistic to, anyone else, who did not believe Koran and especially the Hindus, including Buddhists. We know how the Moslems bore a special hatred to and massacred the Buddhists on their way to India and how the word Buddha prashasti, which means, in fact, the worship of the Lord Buddha, had come to mean the greatest sin man can commit in the Moslem eyes. The Chinese Moslem Federation was formed and a large section of the Chinese Moslems refused to merge themselves with the Chinese, but maintained that they should keep up their separate entity and even a political brotherhood. The Marshal’s Fable We have great respect for Marshal Chiang Kai Sheik as a doughty warrior and a farsighted statesman. But that is the very reason why he could not but tell us the fairy tale that in China they were all Chinese first and last and in politics there was no clash between the Buddhists and the Moslems. But in face of facts we cannot but take this statement of the Great Marshal with a pinch of salt. Was it not only a couple of years ago that a batch of young Chinese Moslems was sent to Turkasthan and Egypt to get themselves initiated into pan-Islamic mysteries and who, on reaching Bombay, sought the interviews of Mr. Jinnah and other Leaguers, discarded their National Chinese dress and paraded their newly-bought fez caps as an insignia of a new order? This present mission, led by Mr. Woo, is a far more significant step on the part of the Chinese Moslems and is primarily meant and was perhaps invited by the Indian Moslem Leaguers themselves to establish a closer pan-Islamic contact. They have chosen to interview the leading lights of the Pakistani movement including the Nizam, and they are already emboldened to talk such trash as that they would not fail to help their Islamic brothers in India after the war is over. But are they sure whether they themselves would be in a helping or a helpless position at the end of this war? A covenant between the sparrows and the rabbits to defeat the eagle has no sense so long as the eagle dominates the field. Again, what kind of help