“When the Civil Disobedience Movement started there was an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust between communities.” Why was it so? OR Why Muslims did not willingly participate in CDM?

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Alienated from the Congress, large sections of Muslims could not respond to the call for a united struggle. Many Muslim leaders and intellectuals expressed their concern about the status of Muslims as a minority within India. They feared that the culture and identity of minorities would be submerged under the domination of a Hindu majority.