Indians are tolerant, enjoy religious freedom, Islam rising fastest and Christians to remain the largest religious group in the world: Pew study

[Goritoes]

Perks of being American ally.

 

[Mugwop]

 

[CIA Mole]

i see no benefit of being known for most religious freedom/diversity

 

[jamahir]

A good review of the poll.

@jamahir @xeuss

How accurate is this religious survey ? Does it reflect reality in your experience?

Many years ago I had read that many Indians tolerate each other economically. That means they will adhere to their discriminatory beliefs within their family units and neighborhoods but because of the pan-Indian vision for the country that Nehru and co. instituted these Indians will tolerate each other in workplaces and shops. They will buy from each other and receive salary from each other but won't intermarry. This situation can be seen even in the so-called educated middle class. Actually Ravish Kumar had said in his 9 PM program Prime Time that all these years Indian middle class people did not bother to think if the system they are surrounded by is correct or not. Only the COVID situation brought the system's inadequacies to the doorstep of the middle class.

Coming to me, I as an Indian Muslim have honestly never faced discrimination. But then I have always lived in the Deccan / South, never living in Bombay, Gujarat and even Delhi like is said in the vid. Although some Muslims in my neighborhood whose male members were part of the local Tablighi Jamaat have self-ghettoized by living in the same lane.

About food, there is a meat food lane in my city where I think even Hindu male and female youth go to eat bone soup, beef kabab etc. This lane is off the main road which keeps the eaters safe.

I have found south indians to be far MORE educated and generally tolerable then regular indians.

I live in the Deccan / South and see tolerance. But this is not to say that ultra-religious groups don't exist, whether Sri Rama Sena, Hindu Munnani or the Tablighi Jamaat. I must point out that the bogeyman of "Love Jihad" was first invented by the Kerala Catholic Church in 2009 and later was picked up by Hindutvadi groups.

 

[Leishangthem]

People don't realize that the concept of religion is a human made ,and it's imaginary bluff feeding on the work of karma ,it's the sole cause for most atrocities in human history.Nothing is more wasteful than investing in human made bluff,but that's your big business ,enable control of female by male,and wields great political implication.

 

[Drizzt]

As individuals, Hindus are generally very tolerant and respectful of Muslim beliefs and customs. This, despite the current trend in India to curtail Muslim religious practices as a political and state-sanctioned effort.

It is only when they become a mob, their mentality changes and their tolerance goes out the window and the "devil" within them is unleashed.

Also, when anonymous on internet.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Indians are very tolerant.

Two Men Have Been in Jail for 45 Days for Saying Cow Poop and Piss Can’t Cure COVID

Their Facebook posts said cow faeces and urine are not the cure, “science and common sense is.”

www.google.com

 

[N.Siddiqui]

If Indians are tolerant to Islam and Muslims, they wouldn't have voted the Islamophobic and fascists, the bigoted anti Muslim RSS/BJP, the Hindutvadis to power, and at the center.


Most of this tolerance and civilized behavior by a few educated class is a hogwash, deep down Indian Hindus hate Muslims and Islam...

And Islam being the fastest growing in India doesn't have anything to do with the tolerance of it in India ...the more you suppress Islam the more it will rise, rising all over the world.

On the contrary:

Hindu population in Pakistan has grown at a faster pace than in India

Despite a new Bill giving sanctity to Hindu marriages being passed in 2017, Pakistan continues to be rattled by Hindus' conversion to Islam

www.business-standard.com

 

[HalfMoon]

In Punjab Christianity is taking root. Many sikhs are converting to Christianity.

Yes. Christianity will be the majority religion in the Indian state of Punjab in the next few years.

Sikhism is a dead religion.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

People of which caste did they poll?

Han caste

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

As individuals, Hindus are generally very tolerant and respectful of Muslim beliefs and customs. This, despite the current trend in India to curtail Muslim religious practices as a political and state-sanctioned effort.

It is only when they become a mob, their mentality changes and their tolerance goes out the window and the "devil" within them is unleashed.

Don't you think, there is an influence of Global Islamophobia post 9/11?

Also, historically, previous Indian leadership has focused on Integrity of the nation on religious and linguistic lines considering what happened with India's neighbors