Talk:Khilafat Movement

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Khilafat you claim that " In 1924, the new, secular, Turkish state relinquished any claims to a universal caliphate" and that therefore "There was now no caliph to support" what about king hussein's immediate claim to khilafat upon the deposing of abdul majid? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherif_Hussein_ibn_Ali

[edit] Attention, NPOV, etc.

This page as it stands contains gross over-simplification and, the case can be made, distortions. Needs attention.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 23:28, Feb 22, 2005 (UTC)

I am adding just the attention tag to the main page. Will wait for feedback on the POV issue before tagging the main page with that.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 23:40, Feb 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anon editor strikes again

An anon editor with an anti-Muslim bias re-instated the disputed text, accusing Gandhi of being the instigator of the Khilafat movement and of responsibility for an alleged Muslim massacre. I removed it again. Zora 05:04, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The only way to handle this kind of thing is to address the incidents the POV editor is talking about and to do it in a NPOV way. There were violent incidents. In fact, the narrative in official Pakistani textbooks is that Gandhi arbitrarily and unilaterally called off the whole movement after one specific one.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 06:46, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

I know that the Khilafat movement turned violent in places. I just don't understand blaming Gandhi for it. So far as I know, he was not a leader of the movement, just sympathetic. But I don't know enough about the whole thing to write a better article -- I'm juggling too much right now. Including my first proofreading for hire, which I should be doing RIGHT NOW <g>. Zora 08:13, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Aargh, aargh. OK, I rewrote it, with a less anti-Gandhi slant, but with the Moplah rebellion. However, it's not showing up. When I go to EDIT the page, I see my revision. But only the old stub is showing. Zora 22:47, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anon editor still making inflammatory edits

The anon editor persists in trying to turn this article into a diatribe against Muslims. I am having a hard time keeping my temper with this sort of thing. I regard the Hindutva demagoguery re Muslims as morally equivalent to Nazi diatribes about Jews, or Hutu radio calls to exterminate Tutsis. Innocent people are DYING because of idealogues like the anon editor. Wikipedia shouldn't be the carrier of this plague. Zora 08:22, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)