As an Indian Muslim,what kind of discrimination did you ever face?

[scionoftheindus]

By syed Naser

I have faced discrimination a lot of times:
During Ramazan my friends discriminate between themselves and me and say "You go home, we will manage the work"
One Ramazan evening, a non-Muslim friend discriminated between his house and mine and said "We will finish the project work at your house, after all it's Ramazan and I don't want to miss the delicacies prepared at your home!!!"
Whenever I have a party with my alcohol consuming friends, if they are bringing the stuff, they discriminate against me and bring soft drinks for me.
Whenever we plan for an outing in which we would like to eat non-veg, I experience the discrimination my friends do with the restaurants and we go to only those restaurants where we are sure I will get halaal food.
During my job, every Friday I experience the discrimination between me and my non-Muslim friends and I am permitted to go for Friday prayers and they sit and work for that half an hour.
During hangouts, I am discriminated against and am expected to narrate some Urdu shayari, if the mood gets created for it.
I face discrimination whenever I go home. While coming back, I am expected to bring a lot of biryani, no one else faces this compulsion. It's clear discrimination.
Everyday, when I used to offer my afternoon prayer beside my table at my workplace, my friends used to discriminate me and they used to leave the room, so that I don't get disturbed for those five minutes with their lunchtime chatter.

I hope I have answered the question.

Anyways to answer it straight I would say " I don't remember if I was discriminated against ever anywhere. I got the job without facing problem, I got the promotion purely based on my talent, I resigned without facing much issue. I could progress in my career without feeling that I missed this opportunity just because of my faith."

A few Muslim friends of mine did tell me the slight issue they faced while getting a house for rent in a new city, and this, I guess, is more to do with the repulsion of owners towards non-vegetarianism rather than repulsion towards Muslims. It's part of their religion to avoid "maas-machli" (meat-fish) and may be they want to keep the house they own, free of meat. Just ignore such persons and move on. After all, you were not planning to marry that landlord's daughter.

If you think you faced discrimination in India, I would rather call it, Baader Meinhoff phenomenon. Baader-Meinhoff is the phenomenon where one happens to come across some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly.

May be you are getting conscious about your faith and that is making you believe that you are being frisked more at the airport or have been stopped by the traffic cop because of your skull cap. Just ignore these feelings and move on. India has ample opportunities to prove yourself.

From civil services examinations to jobs in software industry, there are ample and transparent ways in which you can prove yourself. Focus on those rather than imagining that the lady sitting at metro was looking at you repeatedly because of your beard. Answer and address genuine concerns of your non-muslim friends which they usually ask out of curiosity rather than xenophobia. Keep a smile on your face, it is a curve that makes many things straight. Believe in your religion and its power to heal and spread goodness. You will have wonderful time !!!!
Happy independence day by the way. Proud and happy to be Indian. Jai Hind....

Source :Quora

 

[SQ8]

Just ignore these feelings and move on. India has ample opportunities to prove yourself.

That is where the slip up is. There is discrimination but not as much on a micro scale but as a macro phenomenon and more importantly in terms of a mob mentality.

To look at this phenomenon is to understand it from the persepctive of a village. 20 families in a village that is strictly vegan might have 1 meat eater come in and try to settle down. 18 would accept them but 2 would not. The two will start a panchayat and then in that mass anger and hysteria get 16 to act against the vegan. Then, at the end it was not that the 16 would not accept and care less and treat them equal, but that the fear created in the 16 will eventually cause the meat eaters to be thrown out.

Same way, it is not what one does in daily lives in calm situation but what one does in anger and brain shutoff sequences. There was a reason the massacres during partition occurred and it had little effect if the same people who had been neighbours for decades suddenly turned bloodthirsty. Mass anger is what matters.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

True. When I go to my Muslims friends home and call his mom as Amma, She treats me as her son. Even in office we manage our colleague's work when they go to pray on Friday's, sometimes on my own bike.

As the article says, even Hindus face problems marrying an girl of different caste, even among OBC's and OC's. As does Muslims, and does North Easterners. If u ask me, the most "slanged" people in India are the North Easterners particularly in the NCR area. Muslims are doing just fine.

They can construct 100 masjid's for 1 Babri (before someone brings it). They are like normal people.
They do not need my sympathy or comments to prove themselves anyway.

That is where the slip up is. There is discrimination but not as much on a micro scale but as a macro phenomenon and more importantly in terms of a mob mentality.

To look at this phenomenon is to understand it from the persepctive of a village. 20 families in a village that is strictly vegan might have 1 meat eater come in and try to settle down. 18 would accept them but 2 would not. The two will start a panchayat and then in that mass anger and hysteria get 16 to act against the vegan. Then, at the end it was not that the 16 would not accept and care less and treat them equal, but that the fear created in the 16 will eventually cause the meat eaters to be thrown out.

Same way, it is not what one does in daily lives in calm situation but what one does in anger and brain shutoff sequences. There was a reason the massacres during partition occurred and it had little effect if the same people who had been neighbours for decades suddenly turned bloodthirsty. Mass anger is what matters.

Its on how you adapt. You see in my village (Oh yes, my nativity is an remote village) no body are allowed to drink. Its a rule which is still strictly enforced. I have seen people beating some people when some got drunk during an festival, and that's it. And its a rule for 2 weeks before the annual festival no one should cook or eat meat. 1 muslim family in my village also participates in equal fervour.

Its not like nobody in my village drinks or eats meat during that period. They do their thing outside the borders of my village.
When in Rome, be an Roman.
Fundamentally speaking, they have every right to do what they want. But "social" relations is another thing altogether. You cannot break the "faith" of the other villagers and expect them to "respect" you at the same time. This applies to Hindus as well.

 

[ConcealCarry]

try googling and you will find millions of such videos

By syed Naser

I have faced discrimination a lot of times:
During Ramazan my friends discriminate between themselves and me and say "You go home, we will manage the work"
One Ramazan evening, a non-Muslim friend discriminated between his house and mine and said "We will finish the project work at your house, after all it's Ramazan and I don't want to miss the delicacies prepared at your home!!!"
Whenever I have a party with my alcohol consuming friends, if they are bringing the stuff, they discriminate against me and bring soft drinks for me.
Whenever we plan for an outing in which we would like to eat non-veg, I experience the discrimination my friends do with the restaurants and we go to only those restaurants where we are sure I will get halaal food.
During my job, every Friday I experience the discrimination between me and my non-Muslim friends and I am permitted to go for Friday prayers and they sit and work for that half an hour.
During hangouts, I am discriminated against and am expected to narrate some Urdu shayari, if the mood gets created for it.
I face discrimination whenever I go home. While coming back, I am expected to bring a lot of biryani, no one else faces this compulsion. It's clear discrimination.
Everyday, when I used to offer my afternoon prayer beside my table at my workplace, my friends used to discriminate me and they used to leave the room, so that I don't get disturbed for those five minutes with their lunchtime chatter.

I hope I have answered the question.

Anyways to answer it straight I would say " I don't remember if I was discriminated against ever anywhere. I got the job without facing problem, I got the promotion purely based on my talent, I resigned without facing much issue. I could progress in my career without feeling that I missed this opportunity just because of my faith."

A few Muslim friends of mine did tell me the slight issue they faced while getting a house for rent in a new city, and this, I guess, is more to do with the repulsion of owners towards non-vegetarianism rather than repulsion towards Muslims. It's part of their religion to avoid "maas-machli" (meat-fish) and may be they want to keep the house they own, free of meat. Just ignore such persons and move on. After all, you were not planning to marry that landlord's daughter.

If you think you faced discrimination in India, I would rather call it, Baader Meinhoff phenomenon. Baader-Meinhoff is the phenomenon where one happens to come across some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly.

May be you are getting conscious about your faith and that is making you believe that you are being frisked more at the airport or have been stopped by the traffic cop because of your skull cap. Just ignore these feelings and move on. India has ample opportunities to prove yourself.

From civil services examinations to jobs in software industry, there are ample and transparent ways in which you can prove yourself. Focus on those rather than imagining that the lady sitting at metro was looking at you repeatedly because of your beard. Answer and address genuine concerns of your non-muslim friends which they usually ask out of curiosity rather than xenophobia. Keep a smile on your face, it is a curve that makes many things straight. Believe in your religion and its power to heal and spread goodness. You will have wonderful time !!!!
Happy independence day by the way. Proud and happy to be Indian. Jai Hind....

Source :Quora

 

[navtrek]

try googling and you will find millions of such videos

If a country of a billion people can be judged by a few videos in the internet then that would be bad there are some political groups that engage in such activities because they position themselves as religious hard liners.

These goons in the video are ppl with political affiliations to Shiv Sena, RSS, VHP etc but the article is talking about common people.

We have lots of Muslim friends and normally we don’t differentiate based on religion.

However I don’t say things are 100% OK as still there needs lot of improvement and the only way things can improve if Muslims of India get educated and take up good jobs and take care of their families; right now they really don’t emphasise on education and there is lots of poverty among Muslims because of that.

poverty also causes problems.

 

[911]

Mob mentality takes over individual mentality.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

There are several aspects here

India being a very large country has a very diverse
socio economic living conditions in all states

However the ALL important issue is the condition of Muslims
in other countries where they are in a minority