Maulana Mahmood Madani’s Provocative Statement:
“If There is Oppression, There Will Be Jihad”
– The Same Old Slogan, The Same Bloody History
29 November 2025, Bhopal. What Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind president Maulana Mahmood Madani said in Bhopal is nothing new. The moment he uttered “Whenever there is oppression, there will be jihad”, the blood-soaked pages of India’s history flipped open on their own. The same slogan, the same passion, the same invocation of “jihad” – this country has seen rivers of blood flow in its name, time and again.
Remember:
– 16 August 1946 – Direct Action Day: In Calcutta, All-India Muslim League leaders Suhrawardy and Jinnah openly called for “jihad”. The result? In just four days, more than 5,000 Hindus were slaughtered, over 15,000 injured. Corpses piled up in heaps; the city was drenched in blood. The very same Jamiat justified that jihad.
– Noakhali Massacre (October 1946): In Bengal’s Noakhali and Tippera districts, Hindus were massacred in the name of “jihad”. Thousands of Hindus were killed, hundreds of women raped, and forced conversions carried out on a mass scale. Mahatma Gandhi had to go on a fast unto death there. The slogan of that jihad was exactly the same – “Jihad against oppression”.
– 1921 – Moplah Genocide (Malabar): In Kerala, under the banner of the Khilafat Movement, “jihad” was declared. The outcome – more than 10,000 Hindus murdered, hundreds of temples destroyed, thousands of women abducted and raped. Even the British reports recorded it clearly: “This was a religious jihad, not a peasant uprising.”
– 1947 – Partition Riots: Punjab, Bengal, Delhi, Sindh – everywhere the cries of “jihad” and “eliminate the kafirs” echoed. Lakhs of Hindus and Sikhs were butchered, lakhs of women stripped naked, gang-raped in public, and crores turned homeless. Trains arrived filled with corpses. The same jihad, the same slogan.
And now, in 2025, the same slogan again – “If there is oppression, there will be jihad.”
Maulana Mahmood Madani calls terms like “Love Jihad”, “Land Jihad” a “conspiracy”. But the truth is these words were born out of police FIRs, court charge-sheets, and the tears of victim families. From Kerala to Kashmir, UP to Bengal – the same pattern everywhere: lure a Hindu girl, force conversion, threaten the family. When courts themselves used the term “Love Jihad”, even the Allahabad High Court acknowledged it as an organized conspiracy. Yet the Maulana believes it’s all a “plot to defame Muslims”.
He labels questions raised about madrasas as “Islamophobia”. But when weapons, jihadi literature, and ISIS flags are recovered from madrasas in Bihar, UP, and Bengal, questions are bound to be asked. When children are taught bomb-making alongside the Quran, who will stay silent?
The same people cry about “mob lynching” who openly support cow-slaughterers. When illegal encroachments on lakhs of acres of Waqf Board land are proven, they still scream “attack on Muslim property”. The bulldozer runs strictly under the law – illegal construction will be razed, whether it’s a mosque or a temple. But for them, even an illegal Muslim structure instantly becomes a “religious site”.
Most serious of all – the direct attack on the Supreme Court. This is the same court that abolished triple talaq, delivered justice to Shah Bano, and gave the Ram Mandir verdict in Ayodhya. But the moment it refuses to rubber-stamp their every whim, it becomes “anti-Muslim”. This is nothing short of contempt of the judiciary.
India has already witnessed the bloodbath of 1946.
Malabar 1921, Noakhali 1946, Partition 1947 – all happened in the name of jihad.
Now the same slogan again? The same threat again?
It won’t be tolerated.
This is no longer the weak India of 1947.
Here, the Constitution reigns supreme – not any maulana.
Cases of sedition and inciting religious hatred must be registered immediately against such inflammatory statements.
Otherwise, tomorrow another Madani will stand up and shout the same slogan even louder.
India will be governed by the rule of law, not by cries of jihad.
