Few Muslims were ready to concede the possibility that the rights of Hindus included the ability to stop cow slaughter. Muharram Ali Chisti, editor of Rafiq-i-Hind (Lahore) and subsequently a Congressman, argued in 1888 that “if Muslims were prevented from kine slaughter merely because the practice was prohibited by Hinduism, the Hindu idols and temples would have to be razed to the ground....

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Few Muslims were ready to concede the possibility that the rights of Hindus included the ability to stop cow slaughter. Muharram Ali Chisti, editor of Rafiq-i-Hind (Lahore) and subsequently a Congressman, argued in 1888 that “if Muslims were prevented from kine slaughter merely because the practice was prohibited by Hinduism, the Hindu idols and temples would have to be razed to the ground...." in the context of "Indian nationalism and the early Congress by McLane, John R., 1935- https://archive.org/details/indiannationalis0000mcla/page/292/mode/2up also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857." to mean that wisdom is timeless.