Dear, did you really have to start this thread? I can't believe it's 15 pages long.
I understand it is the duty of every Muslim to stand by their Muslim brothers, as in the Muslim Ummah. And they should do so according to their power. And not putting some other country's interest before theirs.
Sure, India may not have a great relationship with Pakistan for reasons best known to themselves. But they do maintain pretty good relations with other Muslim-majority countries. There are many Muslims in India, and the largest minority in the country. I'd say they are doing good for the most part.
And frankly, I'm not really qualified to have any say about India's complexities in regards to how religion and other personal and social factors come into play within the country's politics. But what I do know is that there isn't anything too extreme going on there against Muslims. At least they are given what they truly want, that want can be both being dirt poor or be like Sharukh Khan. Life's all about choices, and that freedom matters.
No country (including Muslim-majority ones) have a perfect human rights record. Even the superpowa US do not have the greatest human rights record ever.
Muslims living as a minority should serve their nation well. And any Muslim country, or a country with a large Muslim population should at least have amicable relations with other Muslim-majority nations. The concept of the Muslim Ummah is fact (since it is in The Koran), but not holistically applicable if we put it in today's perspective. Please, get rid of the delusion that all Muslims are united. Given the unfortunate limitations, we should try out best to uphold that value and according to our power.
I don't see India or Pakistan spitting venom against other Muslim-majority countries (apart from at each other of-course
). So they are fine in the book. Maintain good relations and aid them when they are in trouble. And do so according to your power. Don't deceive or have hidden agendas.
Some experts say that the next key conflict in the Middle East is not an Arab-Israeli one, but a Sunni-Shia one. Both the Arab and the Persian leadership openly use the Palestinian issue as a political tool rather than for humanitarian purposes and justice. I just don't know what to do about it.
That'd probably be the single greatest tragedy that has fallen on the brotherhood. And none of us can do anything to improve that. Even with nukes, we are powerless.
The Ummah can be applied to its full potential when the time is right, or when the world is in great danger with no one to oversee it. But not now. It's impossible. Uncle Sam is going about his daily business, and will continue to do so for a long time.
We'll see...
