140 years later, Gandhi's message resonates in Muslim societies
It’s Mahatma Gandhi’s 140th birthday on Oct. 2, and his spirit of nonviolence lives on around the world, including in Muslim societies.
Muslim nonviolence inspired by Gandhi surfaced with Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a friend of the Mahatma. In the 1930s and 1940s, he led a nonviolent peaceforce of more than 100,000 Pashtuns for social reform and against British rule in a region synonymous today with violence: the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. Khan (popularly known as the Frontier Gandhi) spent almost 30 years in prison — evenly divided between the British and the Pakistani governments — for his efforts to get self-rule for the Pashtuns. Read more.
Muslim nonviolence inspired by Gandhi surfaced with Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a friend of the Mahatma. In the 1930s and 1940s, he led a nonviolent peaceforce of more than 100,000 Pashtuns for social reform and against British rule in a region synonymous today with violence: the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. Khan (popularly known as the Frontier Gandhi) spent almost 30 years in prison — evenly divided between the British and the Pakistani governments — for his efforts to get self-rule for the Pashtuns. Read more.
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