My friends would highly disagree with you.
GOOD Education plays a important role. I hope you are able to understand what i am trying to say.
Have the lives of muslims improved over the last 60 odd years under india is the real question.
By all indicators it has got worse and worse over the decades in every area.
By Simon Denyer..take the armed forces of india.
NEW DELHI, Nov 6 (Reuters) - There are scarcely any Muslims working in India's 10,000-strong external intelligence agency, and neither Muslims nor Sikhs working as bodyguards for the country's top leaders, according to officials and media reports.
Mainly Hindu but officially secular India has its first Sikh prime minister, Manmohan Singh, but his community is not trusted enough to guard him, according to Outlook magazine this week.
The magazine said India's minority Muslims were not trusted by the security apparatus because of fears they could sympathise with the country's mainly Muslim neighbour and long-time foe Pakistan.
It said none had been recruited by the country's external spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), since 1969.
The domestic Intelligence Bureau (IB) had decided to recruit Muslims in the l990s, Outlook said, but the organisation still only had a "handful" of Muslim officers.
A government spokesman declined to comment on the report.
An intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Outlook was wrong to say there were no Muslims in RAW but right to say there were scarcely any.
Nor were there any working as bodyguards in the Special Protection Group (SPG) assigned to protecting current and former prime ministers and their families, he said.
"It is an unwritten rule in the SPG that they cannot recruit a Muslim or a Sikh," he told Reuters.
A.S. Dulat, who served as RAW chief from 1999 to 2000, said he did not recall coming across any Muslims in the organisation but could not confirm the Outlook report.
"If we do not have any Muslims obviously this is a handicap," he told Reuters. "If there are no Muslims, there must have been a reluctance to take them in. It is also not easy to find that many Muslims."
"NEED FOR MUSLIMS ACUTE"
Sikhs have not been used as bodyguards since Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her personal Sikh bodyguards in 1984 at the height of a Sikh insurgency, Outlook said.
Dulat said Sikhs had come "under a cloud" following Gandhi's murder, but found it hard to believe they would still be excluded from bodyguard duties today.
The status of India's estimated 140 million minority Muslims is the subject of intense debate.
Leaked excerpts of a specially commissioned report, due to be published this month, have shown Muslims are significantly underrepresented in government jobs and in the judiciary but overrepresented in the prison populations in many Indian states.
There are just 29,000 Muslims in India's 1.3-million strong armed forces, according to the defence ministry.
But Outlook magazine's report will also raise concerns about whether India's intelligence gathering will be effective without Muslim agents and officers.
"The need for Muslim officers in intelligence-gathering is acute," another former RAW chief, Girish Chandra Saxena, was quoted as saying. "There are very few people who have knowledge of Urdu or Arabic. The issue has to be addressed."
India is not alone in failing to recruit Muslims to the top levels of its security and intelligence apparatus.
America's Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are still reportedly struggling to recruit Arabic, Urdu and Farsi speakers five years after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
Sikhs constitute nearly two percent of India's 1.1 billion population and the army is currently headed by General J.J. Singh, a Sikh.
(Additional reporting by Y.P. Rajesh)
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Prison is the only place where Muslims are over-represented
New Delhi, October 28: In sharp contrast to education and employment, where their share is way, way below their share of the population, Muslims have a disproportionately high representation when it comes to being in prison.
In fact, in many states, Muslims even make up a higher percentage of the population in jail than they do outside.
This statistic, a key finding of the Prime Minister-appointed Justice Rajinder Sachar committee which is looking into the status of Muslims nationwide has major social and political implications. Such a high figure of incarceration, experts say, means further marginalisation of the community, deepening prejudice and distrust.
While there is no break-up of the nature of the crime for which these inmates have been imprisoned, sources said the total number of inmates surveyed is 102,652 and a majority of them are not in for terrorism.
A dozen states with significant Muslim population shares were asked to furnish statistics on the number of Muslims in prison, convicted and under-trials. West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh have not reported back to the committee on this so the data available is only for eight states that did.
Incidentally, West Bengal, UP and Bihar, as was first reported in The Indian Express this week, rank at the bottom when it comes to representation of Muslims in Government employment, including state public sector undertakings and the lower judiciary.
Data accessed by The Sunday Express shows that when it comes to Muslims in the prison population, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Kerala are the most disproportionate.
In Maharashtra, the percentage of Muslim jail inmates in all categories (see chart) is way above their share in the population (Muslim share in population is 10.6%, share in the total prison inmates is 32.4%.
When it comes to those in prison for less than a year, Muslims contribute 40.6% of all prisoners in Maharashtra.
In Gujarat, the percentage of Muslims in the state is just 9.06% but they make up over a quarter of all jail inmates.
Assam, the second highest Muslim populated state in the country, after J&K, has 30.9% Muslims, and here, the percentage of Muslim jail inmates is 28.1.
Even Karnataka, which did relatively better than other states in providing jobs to Muslims, shows the same trend: 17.5% of its jail inmates are Muslim as compared with 12.23% of its population
Prison is the only place where Muslims are over-represented
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The data, accessed by The Indian Express, shows:
94.9 per cent of Muslims in Below Poverty Line (BPL) families in rural areas do not receive free foodgrains.
While only 3.2 per cent of Muslims get subsidised loans, just 1.9 per cent of the community benefit from the Antyodaya Anna Yojana Scheme, a programme meant to prevent starvation among the poorest of poor by providing food grains at a subsidised rate.
60.2 per cent of Muslims do not have any land in rural areas. National average: 43%
Just 2.1 per cent of Muslim farmers have tractors. With 15,25,000 tractors, India ranks No.4 after US, Japan and Italy
A mere 1 per cent own handpumps.
On the educational front, the picture is equally dismal: 54.6 per cent Muslims in villages and 60 per cent in urban areas have never attended schools. National average: 40.8 per cent in rural areas and 19.9 per cent in urban areas.
Only 0.8 per cent of Muslims in rural areas are graduates.
Although in urban areas, nearly 40 per cent of the Muslims now receive modern education, only 3.1 per cent of the community in urban areas are graduates. Just 1.2 per cent are post-graduates.
When contacted by The Indian Express, Justice Sachar said: These figures are based on what people and organisations told us when we met them in the states. But they need to be analysed before arriving at any final conclusion. The committee is yet to submit its report.
The committee also found shocking instances of discrimination against the community. These include cases of Muslims not getting loans from even nationalised banks and finding it difficult to sell or buy property.
There is an implicit diktat that loans should not be given in specific areas dominated by Muslims because of the high probability of default the committee observed after its visit to Rajasthan between August 22 and 24 last year.
The committee also found inadequate number of government schools in the Muslim-dominated areas contributing to the low number of Muslim boys and girls attending the schools.
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What about in Pakistan why are there so many suicide bombers, terrorists(Talibans), etc. ?
Can you tell why there so many indian separatist movements from kashmir,khalistan to Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh ect and why do they around bombing and killing people.
