“First came the Rowlatt Bill — accompanied by the Punjab atrocities — and then came the spoliation of the Ottoman Empire and the Khilafat. One attacks our liberty and the other our faith…” - Quaid-e-Azam
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was not against a mass Muslim movement from the subcontinent in order to try to save the Ottoman Khilafa, initially during the 1918's and 1919's the Muslim League was very active and at the fore fronts in order try to jump start the movement with many conferences and meetings, it was Gandhi's non cooperation movement and the convergence of interest from the 1920's onward that the Quaid and Muslim league as a whole took a back seat from the movement, and Ali bothers who then took to the forefronts since they were the founders, keep in mind also that the brothers were part of the Muslim league and were with the Quaid later when the struggle for Pakistan was at full swing.
“… the weapon will not destroy the British empire… it is neither logical nor is it politically sound or wise, nor practically capable of being put in execution.” - Quaid-e-Azam
The Quaid knew that with the convergence of interest and a freedom movement jointly started by Gandhi, the Muslims of the subcontinent were not looking out for their own self interest and if this non Cooperation movement was successful and the British were successfully pushed out of the Subcontinent the resultant would be an overwhelming majority Hindu rule over the Muslims.
Their are many posters here who are presenting their own world views and hindsight onto the Quaid, keep in mind that Pakistan and the ideology of Pakistan was the resultant of over two century of Muslim struggle for freedom, at one point in time (1910's) even the Quaid himself was against the creation of Pakistan and was convinced by others, during the early 1930's he again was disillusioned and disheartened because of no progress and temporarily left politics and was again convinced by others to come back and fight for Pakistan, giving credit albeit without him there would have been no Pakistan but still only giving credit to one man is highly criminal and biased historical views.
Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal were the final resultant optimum leaders for the Muslims of the Subcontinent, there were many forefathers who came before them who laid the foundations of Pakistan.
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