Rabindranath Tagore:
As reported in an interview to "The Times of India, April 18th, 1924". The poet said that he had very frankly asked many Mohammedans whether, in the event of any Mohammedan power invading India, they would stand side by side with their Hindu neighbor to defend their common land. He could not be satisfied with the reply he got from them. He said that he could definitely state that even men like Mr. Mohammed Ali had declared that under no circumstances was it permissible for any Mohammedan, whatever his country might be, to stand against any other Mohammedan. (Quoted by A. Ghosh in "Making of the Muslim psyche" in Devendra Swarup, Politics of conversion, New Delhi, 1988, p148).

Lala Lajpat Rai:
"I have devoted most of my time during the last six months to the study of Muslim History and Muslim Law and I am inclined to think that Hindu-Muslim unity is neither possible not practicable… I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity and desirability of Hindi-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the Muslim leaders, but what about the injunctions of the Koran and Hadis. The leaders cannot override them". (Ibid, p147).

Sarat Chandra Chatterji (Oct, 1926):
"If we go by the lessons of history we have to accept that the goal of the Hindu-Muslim unity is a mirage. When Muslims first entered India, they looted the country, destroyed the temples, broke the idols, raped the women and heaped innumerable indignities on the people of this country. Today it appears that such noxious behavior has entered the bone marrow of Muslims. Unity can be achieved among equals…. I am of the view that Hindu-Muslim unity, which could not be achieved during the last thousand years, will not materialize during the ensuing thousand years". (Ibid p148).

Mrs. Annie Besant (A former Congress president):
Writing about the aftermath of Khilafat movement, she said," The inner Muslim feeling of hatred against 'unbelievers' has spring up naked and unashamed…. We have seen, revived, as guide in practical politics, the old Muslim religion of the sword…. In thinking of an independent India, the menace of Mohammedan rule has to be considered. (The future of Indian Politics, p. 301-305)

Mahatma Gandhi (May 29, 1924):
In a rare event of realization of the reality and temporarily coming out of his amnesia about barbaric behavior of Muslims towards Hindus, he wrote in Young India (dated May 29, 1924): " My own experience confirms that the Musalman as a rule is a bully…."

Aurobindo Ghosh (April 18, 1923):
" I am sorry they have made a fetish of Hindu-Muslim unity. It is of no use ignoring facts; some day the Hindu may have to fight the Muslims and they must prepare for it…When some one said that there is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory. Sri Aurobindo replied: You can live amicably with a religion whose principle is toleration. But how is it possible to live with a religion whose principle is 'I will not tolerate'? You cannot build unity on such basis. Perhaps the only way of making the Mohammedans harmless is to make them lose their faith in their religion"(Evening talk with Sri Aurobindo recorded by A.B.Purani, Second series, Pondicherry, 1974, p48).

Dr. B.R Ambedkar:
"To talk about Hindu-Muslim unity from a thousand platforms or to give it blazoning headlines is to perpetrate an illusion whose cloudily structure dissolves itself at the exchange of brickbats and desecration of tombs and temples….

Ram Swarup (a very renowned scholar):
"Religious harmony is a desirable thing. But it takes two to play the game. Unfortunately such a sentiment holds a low position in Islamic theology". (Quoted by K.S. Lal in Theory and Practice of Muslim state in India, Aditya Prakashan, Delhi, 1999, p322).

Shiv Prasad Roy (a very perceptive Bengali writer):
Writing of Muslim mentality he states: " Pakistan and Bangladesh are their fixed deposits. Those are Islamic states. No one else can lay claim on them. India is a joint account. Plunder it as much as you please" (Dibbyagyen Roy, Kandagyan Chai, Calcutta, 1982).

Fran Gautier (a well known writer):
"This is a profession of faith of a Muslim: 'I certify that there is no God than Allah, of whom Mohammed is the only prophet', which means in effect: After and before Mohammed, there is nobody else…'Thus the whole religion of Islam is based on negation: nobody but us, no other religion but ours'. And if you disagree, you shall die. This puts a serious limitation to tolerance and from this strong belief sprang all the horrors of the Muslim invasion of India."(Arise again, O' India). In other place in the same book he writes: " The happiest in this matter must be the Muslims themselves. They must be telling themselves.… What fools these Hindus are, we killed them in millions, we wrestled the whole nation out of them, we engineered riots against them and they still defend us." (emphasis added).

Will Durant (one of the most famous historians):
"Mohammedans conquest of India was probably the bloodiest story in history."(The story of Civilization, vol1, New York, 1972).

Snouck Hurgronj, C (a renowned author):
"Islam has never favored democratic tendencies". (Selected works, G.H.Bousquet and J Schact, eds., Leciden, 1957, p277)

Curt Van den Hevvel:
"Freedom of religion is a part of every civilized country. However, what do we do when one of these religions is antithetical to every thing that Democracy stands for? Islam does not recognize the right of other religions to exist. Murder of apostates is not only condoned, but also encouraged by the prophet (Honest Intellectual Enquiry, USA, 11.8,1977)

Rizwan Salim:
"Their minds filled with venom against the idol-worshippers of Hindustan, the Muslims destroyed a large number of ancient Hindu temples. This is a historical fact, mentioned by Muslim chronicles and others of the time.

Jan Knappert:
"Islamic propaganda, funded by the unlimited means of the Gulf States, is responsible for a plethora of untrue ideas of Islam. Firstly, that it is a religion of peace. It is not and never was, witness the endless expansive wars fought by Muslim rulers and raiders. Even now the majority of conflicts of the world have Islam at their roots: Sudan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Sin Kiang, Kashmir, Timor, Azerbaijan, and the Philippines"(quoted by K.S. Lal, op.cit p302).

Koenraad Elst (A prolific writer):
"More ideologically developed Hindu thinkers hold that the British role in the development of Muslim separatism was auxiliary at most, that separatism is an intrinsic feature of Islam (at least when it is the weaker party, unable to grab the whole territory)…. Pakistan's ideologues too claim that Pakistan came into existence the day Mohammed Bin Qasim stepped in Sindh…."

K.S.Lal (Renowned Historian):
"The Islamic principles of denigrating non-Muslims, of aggression and violence against them, principles that perpetually incite to riot and rapine, have boomeranged. However brave face the fundamentalists may try to put up, the victims of Islam today are by and large Muslims themselves. The prophet must have known that violence begets violence and repeatedly exhorted Muslims not to kill one another after his death. He also had premonition that violence of Islam against non-Muslims will be met with a backlash. There is a hadis in Sahih Muslim which says that once the Rasul (Prophet) opined that Islam which began in poverty in Medina would one day return to Medina in poverty,

"just as a snake crawls back and coils itself into a small hole, so will Islam be hunted out from everywhere and return to be confined to Mecca and Medina " (op cit. p 296-297).