Defending Aligarh Movement

Rather than offending the people around them Aligs can better spend their valuable time in defending Aligarh Movement. One simple consequence of Unity of Allah(SWT) is the unity of purpose of life. This entails some uniform standard for Muslim behaviour - in particular Islamic society can not be chaotic, free for all or a pandemonium is progress. It is strange the coming of Islam in contact with the west has produced precisely that. Here is a discussion group that looks like a troubled US neighbourhood. This will be alright if they would keep it to themselves. But they do not. Here is a comment about Aligarh Movement and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (RA):

Aligarh Uni is in Aligarh, UP, not hyderabad. Mohammadan was the name given to Muslims by the brits. To be more disgusted by Sir Syed, read 'The Loyal Muhammadans of India'. Ask kamran if he can arange a copy.

AMU might have been mentioned in some lecture but those lectures are not available as of now on the above thread but the mood is clear. The topic of thread is a conference about which the Original Post says:

This month at Lewisham Islamic Centre we will be focusing on the Ahmadiyyah, the Shia, the Nation of Islam, the Sufis and the neo-salafis.

Clearly the group is trying to sow divisions in Muslim Ummah and any such activity can not be Islamic. The event is two years old but it will be interesting to follow their subsequent activities. One thing is already clear that this western idea of unchecked freedom is fragmenting Ummah from within - the intended goal of successors of Macaulay.

The second example from the same site is the following quote:

Any form of Muslim resistance against the British occupation of India was branded as ‘Wahhabi influenced’ and the British Raj desperately sought an answer to this ‘Wahhabi’ problem. One such answer came in the form of Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). Western historians honour Sir Sayyad as a ‘modernist and Islamic reformer’, but Indo-Pak Muslim history remembers him differently: as a traitor to the Muslim freedom movement. Sir Sayyad was employed by the British Raj, and was renowned for vigorously advocating Muslim acceptance of the invading forces, to the point that he called upon all Muslims to loyally become subservient to the British Raj and abandon any legitimate opposition to the British occupation.

Uh! What was that again?