Proportional Response Quotes
One of the must difficult ethical problems is raised in wartime, when one side uses its homes and civilian institutions to store arms and ammunition and house fighters. By international law religious institutions, hospitals, schools and homes forfeit their status when there are fighters in them or weapons are therein. For most American Indians there was no concept of military facilities as separate from civilian, unlike many Arabs of the 20th and 21st century where the military fighters deliberately choose these civilian facilities to fight from. See General Sherman’s reply {617990}.
Muslim League leaders wanted to stir up India's Muslims in order to prevent Indian Independence from Britain unless India were partitioned and the Muslims could have their own nation. At that point the British and the Congress Party of India—the majority political party were both starting to plan for independence. Most of the Muslim nationalists did not want to have any Muslims living in a Majority Hindu nation. To stop it, they first used fear claiming that when the British left, the Hindus would massacre all the Muslims. They galvanized the Muslims to first attack the Hindus to dissuade then from their attacks which at that point were imaginary except in the conspiracy theory of the Muslim League. The moral logic of this statement was similar, albeit not to the same bloody degree, as the famous quotation of Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater on extremism." H. S. Suhrawardy
