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