Whatever has been happening in regard to the Barailawis is already in your knowledge, because it has been reported in the newspapers. Furthermore the President of Pakistan has already declared in a statement that ‘there is no room for Mushrikin here’. The real bone of contention between the Barailawis and Diyubandis (or, between the Najdis and the Barailawis) is that the Barailawis complain that they are wrongfully accused of being mushrik [i.e. those who associate partners with God]. And they try to prove that their detractors are mushrik. So this remark by the President is pregnant with foreboding; it is not that he said something meaningless without rhyme or reason. This is a broad hint at the considered official policy to be implemented in future. Having singled out the Ahmadis for his statement—‘we have no room for Ahmadis here’—he added that there was no room for Mushrikin there, either.
The historical background makes it clear that the same debate was raging on at the time when the Najdi government was being established. The British manoeuvred Muslims to fight against other Muslims, who were led by the Turkish government, on the same pretext that the latter were a ‘mushrik’ bunch, and alleged that a coterie had been imposed on the people which lent support to that ‘mushrik’ government of Turkey. The pre-existing call to conduct Jihad against Shirk was, thus, craftily exploited by the British to achieve their political objectives. A great Muslim Empire was delivered such a colossal blow that the subsequent entry of Britain and France in the Middle East was a natural outcome of that. If the Turkish Empire, which is also known as the Ottoman Empire, had not fallen, there would have been simply no question of the intervention of the British, or other Western powers, in the Middle East. A similar, horrifying, conspiracy is being hatched against the Islamic world by the major powers of the world. It is the same Western powers who simply transfer their portfolios of mutual interest, from one of them to the other, among themselves. Sometimes the British take charge of the Middle Eastern affairs, sometime the United States shoulders that responsibility and sometimes their manoeuvres are implemented through a third country. But their fundamental interests are the same.