I am here today not to write anything against Muslim community or any other community and I believe I don’t have any right to. I want to express my bitter feelings about the thinking of youth of our country"Muslim is just like any another religion...................." This is what most of the people in India like to showcase but is it true to their heart? Well I don’t think so....
Continous assault by terrorists in India have affected the life of Muslim badly, especially the ferocious Mumbai attack just a few days back. Serious investigations by Indian government have revealed that those attackers are from Pakistan and this activity has been promoted from there only. A month has passed when this horrendous act happened and it has touched the hearts of all the people of our nation. But who are the most scared after this attack?
Hindus, Sikhs or Christians? No but the Muslims living in India, those innocent ones, who consider India as their mother land. I agree that Mumbai terror attack was laid by Muslims who came from Pakistan (acc to Govt. of India) but don't understand why our Muslim citizens are suffering because of the deeds of those Pakistani terrorists.
Muslims are already a minority in India, and Terrorism is doing more damage to India and Indian Muslims in particular. Whenever there is any war like situations with Pakistan due to terrorism, a parallel situation emerges inside India, between Hindus and Muslims. I don’t understand why?
I read about an incidence from somewhere recently which clearly indicates the plight of Muslims in our country. It says
"On December 1, a Class 9 Muslim student who wears a headscarf walked in late to class in a prominent central Delhi convent school. "You Pakistani," said the teacher.
"Excuse me, Ma'am, I am not a Pakistani," the stunned student replied.
The 14-year-old student, requesting anonymity, said she complained to the principal, who was sympathetic. "I was told the teacher would be spoken to," the student said.
I read about an incidence from somewhere recently which clearly indicates the plight of Muslims in our country. It says
"On December 1, a Class 9 Muslim student who wears a headscarf walked in late to class in a prominent central Delhi convent school. "You Pakistani," said the teacher.
"Excuse me, Ma'am, I am not a Pakistani," the stunned student replied.
The 14-year-old student, requesting anonymity, said she complained to the principal, who was sympathetic. "I was told the teacher would be spoken to," the student said.
Initially I thought it was only the older generation who considers Muslims and terrorist (from Pakistan) the same and the one who is responsible for all atrocities in our country. But what offended me is that even our younger generation; the Youth of our country considers the same. And I don’t have to go far to find an example.
Is it the urban India where open prejudices against Muslims are growing? Perhaps that's why Indian Muslims are more worried.
On this I want answer to just one question. Why Muslims are considered as refugee in their own Country, India?
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Muslims now a days are considered terrorists not just in India, but the entire world. After the 9/11 attacks the Muslims all across the globe have come under fire. Incidents like the Glasgow attack and London's 7/11 have further bred fear and hatred against the community. In the wake of the terror attacks we have to realize that the entire country is certainly not responsible for the malice bred and excercised. As responsible citizens it is our job that none of the communities should be marginalized on ethnic grounds. Concerted efforts by various seminaries and other politico-social organizations would be a way to spread the message of peace in the country and world over......
ReplyDeleteHi Veenu....good insight in the matter, I want to add some reasons to the biased attitude towards Muslims.
ReplyDeleteFor the actual causes of this I think we should go back to the history itself as this problem has not occured a fornight before.
After emergence of Islam it made itself alienated from the other religon.There are lot of overlappings between different religons but in case of Islam it is not. You can see throughout history Islam tried to promote itself as an alternative to other religons by highlighting the shortcomings of other religons.
This biased attitude has been there from centuries.Even the formation of Pakistan was on this principle.Here are the wordings of Muhammad Ali Jinnah In Lahore summit of Muslim League :
Jinnah stated that Hindus and Muslims belonged to two different religious philosophies, with different social customs and literature, with no intermarriage and based on conflicting ideas and concepts. Their outlook on life and of life was different and despite 1,000 years of history, the relations between the Hindus and Muslims could not attain the level of cordiality.
This was the main reason behind formation of Pakistan.So when two nation were formed due to this bias,this not surprising that this still affects the mind of the people.
We have been learning the history through our older generation only, so it is obvious that we have that bias till now in our minds and when any bad things happens our feelings come out in form biases.
For solving this problem I think only eduactaion can help.In a country of 30% iiliterates , how can you think that they wont be affected by these incidents?