Early Jinnah and Indian Muslims

"Along with law, political developments in London also began to interest Jinnah. He admired the British for their sense of fair play and their adherence to the democratic system. All through those years Jinnah showed no interest in the Muslims ·of India or the difficulties they faced. In fact their loyalist stance. in politics appalled him. He was then all for the Congress; its non-communal, nationalistic stand enthused him. In private conversation he often bitterly criticised Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the pre-eminent Muslim leader, for his opposition to the Congress and for his exhortation to the Muslims to keep away from it. That is why in the early twenties when the Muslims started a movement for turning the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, founded by the Syed at Aligarh, into the Muslim University, Jinnah took no part in it, condemning it as a sectarian move to which he refused to subscribe."