Maulana Azad's Grandniece: "Muslims Not Minority" in India

[Tshering22]

every minority community in India, whether its sikhs, jains, buddhists, christians, parsis etc seem to do better than hindus economically on a per capita basis. Its just the muslims that are lagging behind a lot. I wonder if they need to introspect than always crying discrimination. just my $0.02

Because they don't work for it. I know this Telugu friend of mine from Andhra who told me the mentality of Hyderabadi muslims until very recently. While many of them do work, they are typically brought up with the 'nawab or Nizam' style of thinking. Hyderabad as a separate kingdom had the whole EU style welfare mindset where the local muslims were very lazy and inactive.

This pervades even now and that is what causes them to not work. While initially this was to encourage assimilation, even BR Ambedkar wanted to scrap off reservations in Indian work culture. But thanks to VP Singh, it returned as a bane for Indian society.

I don't blame muslims. But they simply have the wrong inspiration till now.

While Parsis are inspired by the likes of JRD Tata, Muslims look towards 'government hand'.

While Sikhs continue to prosper as a northern business community, Muslims think that they are being left behind.

While Jews are known as one of the most vociferous businessmen around the world, Muslims feel that they need support.

While we in the east and northeast look to our rich texts to work hard from times immemorial, they feel that someone should keep bringing them forward.

They as a society have only begun to realize the pinch of not developing scientifically now when they see all are going forward. While the more open minded muslims like the shias, ismailis, sufis, bohris etc are business minded and work towards it, sunni majority sadly wants to wait for concessions from the state.

It is time they look at APJ Abdul Kalam for inspiration rather than quota.

That is the true identity of a great Indian.

 

[RiazHaq]

The extreme anti-Muslim bigotry spewed out here by Indian posters is not a surprise given that they just elected a Nazi-loving Hindu fanatic Narendra Modi by a landslide to be India's prime minister.

Modi's guru Golwalkar looked for inspiration to the Nazi thinkers of 1930’s Germany. He believed an independent India should emulate Hitler's treatment of religious minorities, which he thoroughly approved of: "To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging of its Semitic Race, the Jews," he wrote admiringly in We soon after Kristallnacht. "Race pride at its highest has been manifested there. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures having differences going to the root to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by... The foreign races in Hindusthan [ie the Muslims] must adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence the Hindu religion, must entertain no ideas but those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture[… and] may [only] stay in the country wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing -- not even citizen’s rights."

During Partition in 1947, the RSS was responsible for many horrifying atrocities against India's Muslims, and it was a former RSS swayamsevak, Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi for (in RSS eyes) “pandering” to the Muslims. In the aftermath of this, Nehru decided to deal with the threat he believed the Hindu Nationalists posed to the nation and denounced the RSS as a “private army which is proceeding on Nazi lines.”

Haq's Musings: India's Israel Envy

 

[HariPrasad]

The extreme anti-Muslim bigotry spewed out here by Indian posters is not a surprise given that they just elected a Nazi-loving Hindu fanatic Narendra Modi by a landslide to be India's prime minister.

Modi's guru Golwalkar looked for inspiration to the Nazi thinkers of 1930’s Germany. He believed an independent India should emulate Hitler's treatment of religious minorities, which he thoroughly approved of: "To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging of its Semitic Race, the Jews," he wrote admiringly in We soon after Kristallnacht. "Race pride at its highest has been manifested there. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures having differences going to the root to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by... The foreign races in Hindusthan [ie the Muslims] must adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence the Hindu religion, must entertain no ideas but those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture[… and] may [only] stay in the country wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing -- not even citizen’s rights."

During Partition in 1947, the RSS was responsible for many horrifying atrocities against India's Muslims, and it was a former RSS swayamsevak, Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi for (in RSS eyes) “pandering” to the Muslims. In the aftermath of this, Nehru decided to deal with the threat he believed the Hindu Nationalists posed to the nation and denounced the RSS as a “private army which is proceeding on Nazi lines.”

Haq's Musings: India's Israel Envy

Haq's Musing is very amusing.

 

[RiazHaq]

NY Times editorial: Religious Intolerance in India


Hope is in danger of crumbling that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would rein in the divisive agenda of his militant Hindu-nationalist supporters and allow India to concentrate on the important work of economic reform, and the blame lies squarely with Mr. Modi.

During the last days of its winter session ending on Tuesday, Parliament was unable to deal with important legislative business because of repeated adjournments and an uproar over attempts by Hindu groups to convert Christians and Muslims. The issue has come to a head following a “homecoming” campaign by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad — groups dedicated to transforming India’s secular democracy into a Hindu state — to “reconvert” Christians and Muslims to Hinduism.

In recent weeks, Hindu militants have engineered conversions of Muslims and Christians in Agra and in the states of Gujarat and Kerala. Police are investigating accusations that people have been induced to participate in mass conversion meetings by a combination of intimidation and bribery, including the promise of food ration cards. Attacks on Christians and their places of worship have intensified in recent weeks. One of New Delhi’s biggest churches burned down on Dec. 1 — arson is being blamed — and Christmas carolers were attacked on their way home in the city of Hyderabad on Dec. 12.

More than 80 percent of Indians are Hindus, but Muslims, Christians and Sikhs form important religious minorities with centuries of history in India. Religious pluralism and freedom are protected by India’s Constitution. The issue of religious conversion is contentious in India. Many Dalits, known formerly as untouchables, and other low-caste Hindus and Tribals admit they convert to Islam or Christianity primarily to escape crushing caste prejudice and oppression. The main architect of the Constitution, Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, born a Dalit, famously converted to Buddhism to escape caste-oppression under Hinduism.

As opposition political leaders are demanding, Mr. Modi must break his silence and issue a stern warning to emboldened Hindu militants before their actions turn further progress on economic reform into a sideshow, with the politics and divisiveness occupying center stage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/opinion/religious-intolerance-in-india.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0