Muslims have been presented by people of certain
ideology as unpatriotic. For the last seventy years,
there has been a conscious and continuous effort to paint
Muslims as anti-nationals and unpatriotic. This is a lie that
has been told and retold so many times, that many innocent
people have started believing it without ever questioning the
narrative.
This is a monumental lie and has no basis. Muslims led the
first war of independence and fought the initial incursion of
the East India Company in the country. Tipu Sultan and his
father, Hyder Ali, the rulers of Mysore, were the only rulers
in the country who tried to face the British expansionism in
India and gave it a tough fight, beating the colonial armies on
multiple occasions. Without the support of Marathas and
Nizam, the East India Company wouldn’t have been able to
emerge victorious.