xeuss
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It is important to remember that the Muslim community in India is not homogeneous, but rather contains numerous schools, sects, and approaches. The most important of these, outside of mainstream Sunni Islam is India’s Shia community. Sunnis make up the vast majority of India’s 180 million Muslims and tend to dominate India’s Muslim discourse and institutions, often to the chagrin of Shias. Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh and a bastion of Shia Islam in India has been an especially fertile city for pro-BJP sentiment among Shia Muslims. Shia alienation from the Sunni-dominated Islamic world has made individual Shias more likely to throw their lot in with the BJP and adopt a more India-centric approach to politics, rather than an approach that focuses on the global Muslim community.
The BJP’s most prominent Muslim figure, party Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is Shia and such type of tweets are expected from him and For the BJP, Shias community holds an important place. When the saffron party comes to power, Shias are hopeful that their time has come and India is heaven for them. But whatever the tweets came out from him it is not representing vast majority of 180 million Sunni people and makes the Shia community more individual making the same mistake as Iran did. They should focus on the global Muslims community cause if they want to survive
Er...all Shia's in India also hate him. They consider him to be Hindu.