Why are you Indians bothering to argue this back and forth with Pakistanis, that too the professional and clueless trolls among them? Any common Indian of any religious persuation will readily agree that India is for everybody, not just for a particular community. We know that as a matter of prosaic fact. Why then this desire to convince that to people who take pride in saying that their country is meant for their religion only? Let them wallow in their delusions, and keep believing what they want to believe.
Some days back, upon his return from hibernation, their prodigal windbag started a thread with a random video clip from facebook, purpoted to be of muslims being harassed in India. It was allowed to run for 20 pages or so, despite the fact that there was nothing in the video to tell us where it was from, or what it really was about. Now here, a widely respected islamic scholar who represents his religious community globally is seen praising India, and @Aeronaut dismissively suggests that he is a hindu stooge or something of the sort. You cannot convince those who willingly wish to remain deluded.
BTW, some of them are revealing their own inner bigotry on this thread without realizing it. For instance, notice how @Pakistanisage uses the phrase "hindu infested areas" - 'infested' is a word usually used only for pests and rats and roaches, or dagerous parasites. If he has lived in the USA since 1976, he cannot be unaware of the negative connotation of that word, because it is a term commonly used there by pest control companies.
@jaunty 's explanation is spot on - many of them don't really understand why their country was created in the first place, since it was meant to be a paradise for musalmans, and ended up as anything but. So to keep clinging on to their founding myth, they have to believe that muslims are not safe in India. The fact as we know is that muslims (not to mention everybody else) are safer in India than in Pakistan, by any measure imaginable. As I told the firebrand Palestinian fellow two days back, India has more muslims than the entire middle east, and they have lived much safely than the ones in the entire middle east. Or Pakistan for that matter. You can add up the number of muslims killed in riots across India since independence, and it will pale in comparison to the number of muslims killed in Pak in the past few years, or in some parts of the middle east on a single day.
Yes we are a large country of 1.2 billion people, and there are some religious extremists unfortunately. But to suggest than ordinary muslims cannot get housing or that muslims are worse off in India than in Pak is simply a lie of biblican proportions.
Some days back, upon his return from hibernation, their prodigal windbag started a thread with a random video clip from facebook, purpoted to be of muslims being harassed in India. It was allowed to run for 20 pages or so, despite the fact that there was nothing in the video to tell us where it was from, or what it really was about. Now here, a widely respected islamic scholar who represents his religious community globally is seen praising India, and @Aeronaut dismissively suggests that he is a hindu stooge or something of the sort. You cannot convince those who willingly wish to remain deluded.
BTW, some of them are revealing their own inner bigotry on this thread without realizing it. For instance, notice how @Pakistanisage uses the phrase "hindu infested areas" - 'infested' is a word usually used only for pests and rats and roaches, or dagerous parasites. If he has lived in the USA since 1976, he cannot be unaware of the negative connotation of that word, because it is a term commonly used there by pest control companies.
@jaunty 's explanation is spot on - many of them don't really understand why their country was created in the first place, since it was meant to be a paradise for musalmans, and ended up as anything but. So to keep clinging on to their founding myth, they have to believe that muslims are not safe in India. The fact as we know is that muslims (not to mention everybody else) are safer in India than in Pakistan, by any measure imaginable. As I told the firebrand Palestinian fellow two days back, India has more muslims than the entire middle east, and they have lived much safely than the ones in the entire middle east. Or Pakistan for that matter. You can add up the number of muslims killed in riots across India since independence, and it will pale in comparison to the number of muslims killed in Pak in the past few years, or in some parts of the middle east on a single day.
Yes we are a large country of 1.2 billion people, and there are some religious extremists unfortunately. But to suggest than ordinary muslims cannot get housing or that muslims are worse off in India than in Pak is simply a lie of biblican proportions.
