The Khilafat Movement aimed to ensure that Muslim holy lands remained under the direct control of the Ottoman Caliphate and not under any foreign mandate. The Muslims demanded that Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine containing holy Islamic sites remain under the Caliphate's suzerainty. Mohammad Ali demanded that the Caliphate not be dismembered and that the Caliph have sufficient power to defend the Islamic faith and ensure exclusive Muslim control over Arabia without any mandate. In response, the British Prime Minister Lloyd George pacified Muslims by assuring that the Allies had no intention of dismembering Turkey or depriving it of Asian lands, and that Islamic holy places would be honored and protected.
The Khilafat Movement aimed to ensure that Muslim holy lands remained under the direct control of the Ottoman Caliphate and not under any foreign mandate. The Muslims demanded that Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine containing holy Islamic sites remain under the Caliphate's suzerainty. Mohammad Ali demanded that the Caliphate not be dismembered and that the Caliph have sufficient power to defend the Islamic faith and ensure exclusive Muslim control over Arabia without any mandate. In response, the British Prime Minister Lloyd George pacified Muslims by assuring that the Allies had no intention of dismembering Turkey or depriving it of Asian lands, and that Islamic holy places would be honored and protected.
The Khilafat Movement aimed to ensure that Muslim holy lands remained under the direct control of the Ottoman Caliphate and not under any foreign mandate. The Muslims demanded that Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine containing holy Islamic sites remain under the Caliphate's suzerainty. Mohammad Ali demanded that the Caliphate not be dismembered and that the Caliph have sufficient power to defend the Islamic faith and ensure exclusive Muslim control over Arabia without any mandate. In response, the British Prime Minister Lloyd George pacified Muslims by assuring that the Allies had no intention of dismembering Turkey or depriving it of Asian lands, and that Islamic holy places would be honored and protected.
The Muslims demanded that:- Jazirat-ul-Arab including Mesopotamia,
Arabia, Syria and Palestine with the Holy places situated therein must always remain under the direct suzerainty of the Khilafat. The Khilafat Movement aimed at presenting the Ottoman Empire and the continuity of the temporal power of Khalifa to protect Muslim lands without any mandate. Mohammad Ali put forward the demands of the Khilafat Movement in a speech delivered at Paris on March 21, 1920 by declaring: The Khilafat shall not be dismembered but that the Khalifa shall have sufficient temporal power for the defence of the Faith, that in the Island of Arabia there shall be exclusive, Muslim control without mandate or protection and that the Khalifa shall remain as heretofore the warden of the Holy places. VICEROY REACTION TO THE DELEGATION: Lloyd George,the British Prime Minister pacified the delegation and muslims all over the world, had assured the world that the Allies had no intention to dismember Turkey and after the war Turkish possessions would be made over to Turkey. He said, nor are we fighting to deprive Turkey of the rich lands of Asia Minor and Thrace, which are predominantly Turkish in race. and the sacred places of turkey would be honoured and no harm should be done to the sacred and holy muslim places.