The other day I was having some casual conversation with some of my close friends. They are extremely empathetic towards Muslims and their cause. We had quite a lot of dis - agreement about what is going on in our country and how Muslims are treated etc. Many of my Hindu friends still think that Muslims are ill treated in India. The same thing is written in newspapers and shown in TV. Some international independent agencies also publish reports saying Muslims are not at all treated well in India. Recently I came across a report that said although the percentage of educated Muslims increased the percentage of Muslims employed is going down. Lets see a fact sheet..
Lets go back down the memory lane:
Thousands of years ago, India remained a very peaceful and prosperous country. Then came the Muslim invaders, who attacked India many times over and conquered our country. There were large number of atrocities and many Hindus were forcibly converted into Islam. Many years have passed since then. Hindus have adopted the Muslim culture and they lived in harmony till the British came. just before leaving India, they created rifts and then the country was divided on the basis of religion and there was Pakistan, Bangladesh as Muslim countries. Although India was suppose to be a Hindu nation, it chose to stay as secular -thanks to Gandhi, Nehru and congress.
The handful of Muslims that stayed in India started multiplying at a rapid rate and when they were just 2% of the entire population during independence now they are sitting pretty at 20%. They have managed to get their own shariat law and they are not governed by a common civil code(Thanks to our secularism). In which civilized country that is secular, has such a system? Government has also created special schemes for minority education, minority universities etc. among other countless pro-minority schemes. Still a large proportion of Muslims are poor!! Who is to be blamed for that? Somebody said the other day that Muslims were poor from the beginning so, they continue to be poor still. But, is that a right logic? Most of the Indian Christians were poor when they were converted - but they have managed to come out of it, then why not the Muslims? Poverty lies in the mindsets of Muslims. They believe in having large number of children but don't want to contribute towards their upbringing. They consider the government has the responsibility to raise their children. Does anyone see any logic in them?
Coming to the employment issues, the unemployment is on rise ever since the economic landslide. Then why somebody just publishes on Muslims. It also has happened to Hindus and Christians as well. Even if there is such a thing as Muslims are biased in job selection procedure, then who is to be blamed for that? They have created lack of trust for themselves. Many educated youths having good jobs were involved in terrorist attack, now who will trust them?
Media creates un-necessary reports like Muslim youths are tortured by police and government. I only hope that they had some sympathy towards the innocent people who lost their lives in terrorist attacks. In last 5 years(Again thanks to congress rule), around 1000 innocent people are killed in terrorist attacks. Invariably all the terrorist attacks are by Muslim fundamentalists. I don't understand what makes us still feel sad for these people. When there are some cricket match, these people tend to support Pakistan - and some people ignore this saying that - it is their personal choice. Can we be this liberal? How can we close our eyes to all the violence that is targeted towards innocent people.
The recent bomb blast in Assam tells a thousand tales. How many years we are going to be inert like this? I think time has come that all nationalist join hands to curb such activities on our great nation. Jai Hind..
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