Shiv, this soul will go further.
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My responses, for what they are worth:
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Most Muslim rulers and their noblemen in India forsook the ethos of the West Asian nations of their origin and integrated themselves with the culture and soil of India to create the Indo-Islamic civilization. Much as in ancient times the Aryans of central Asia integrated themselves with the same Indian soil to develop the Hindu civilization.
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The "Aryans of central Asia" business is a lie. That "history" has now been rubbished. Note that if Mr Kallem Kawaja can quote history that is convenient to his viewpoint, why be concerned but "injustices" being done to Muslims using similarly distorted history
Not only is AIT a lie but the view that the Moghuls and Turks integrated themselves in the Indian soil is not true. Right till Aurangzeb and before him, Shahjahan, Jehangir, Akbar and before were proud of ther Turkic ancestry. The language of the court in those times was Persian. Their key henchmen were mostly a whole category of noblemen, mostly with Turkish Ancestry, also popularly categorized as the Ashrafs.
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Indian Muslims are justifiably proud of their Indo-Islamic heritage.
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No Doubt No doubt.
But most Hindus too are justifiably proud of their Indic heritage.
Is the partition of India an example of that?
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It can not be forgotten that a majority of Muslims in the provinces that remained in India supported Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Valabbahi Patel and Maulana Azad in their opposition to the partitioning of India.
Sir. The Muslim majority provinces voted for the Muslim league. Some of those provinces still remain very backward.
The 1946 elections disprove the view that a majority of Muslims in the provinces that remained in India supported ....
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However soon after independence in 1947 Muslims in India found themselves the victims of the backlash of the formation of Pakistan, an action that they had opposed strongly. They found themselves excluded from the mainstream and suspect in their nationalism, in the midst of people with whom they had grown up as youngsters.
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True. But look at the Hindu viewpoint. The Hindu could survive ONLY if he chose India. The Muslim in 1947 was free to choose to live in India or Pakistan. And for years it was not clear to Hindus whether a given Muslim would choose this nation or that. The Hindu was restricted, not the Muslim. The Hindu was restricted from living or visiting what had been part of his land. The Muslim was given rights in india and would be welcome in Pakistan.
False. Hindus are not stupid and bigoted and do not follow any exclusivist ideology to suspect muslims on filmsy grounds. The fact of the matter is the ACTIONS of the muslims as a WHOLE spoke volumes about their ideology than any spin on the facts of the events today.
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As for the Kashmir problem, it is not a Hindu-Muslim problem. It is the result of years of mismanagement by successive governments in New Delhi and Srinagar, that allowed the festering impoverishment and deprivation of Kashmiris to acquire an anti-national color.
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Maybe correct sir. Maybe correct. But there is a Hindu viewpoint too. "Years of mismanagement" includes the ethnic cleansing of Hindu pandits by Muslims, so it's a little lie to say that there was no Hindu-Muslim problem there. Another little lie is the complaint that partition made Indian Muslims suspect in an earlier paragraph, and quietly forgetting that Pakistanis, who, for Hindus were "people with whom they had grown up as youngsters." made every effort to portray Kashmir as a Hindu Muslim problem. How can an Indian Muslim conveniently deny that there was no "Hindu-Muslim problem" in Kashmir?
Far from any notion of mismanagement, it is the appeasement of the muslim population of J&K (article 370 is one example) that has led to the current state of affairs in Kashmir. The Kashmir problem would not exist, if it was not a Hindu-Muslim problem. It is nothing BUT a Hindu-Muslim issue.
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Muslims in India have no leadership worth its name, no coherent direction and no roadmap to break out of their sixty year old state- of- siege.
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It is another lie to say that Muslims do not have leaders. When Muslims do not have leaders they go to the ulema and follow what the ulema say. That is part of the problem. There are plenty of Hindu leaders to follow. One has to learn to trust at least some of them. They are telling Muslims what to do, but Muslims do not follow them. Tell the truth sir, are Muslims taught, or are they not taught to distrust non Muslims?
Why on earth should muslims in TN have the same leaders as muslims in UP? Why on earth at a national level President APJ Abdul Kalam, not be the nation's leader for all? Why on earth do muslims need a SEPARATE national leadership in the SINGLE UNITED and INDIVISIBLE nation of India?
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If the Muslims are trying to retain their Indo-Islamic identity then so are all major ethnic groups in India. Punjabi Hindus have very different social practices than Tamil Hindus; Bengali Hindus have totally different social practices than the Gujarati Hindus; UP/Bihar Hindus have completely different cultural practices than the Andhra Pradesh Hindus. So why should mainstream India interpret the attempts of the Indian Muslims to retain their distinct identity as lack of integration and nationalism? Why not lend a helping hand to help break their state-of-siege?
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Yes, yes yes Sir. But you forget that all these Punjabi, Tamil and UP/Bihar Hindus - with all their differences, share in Indic culture. Can Muslims show that they share that Indic culture too? After all that indic culture has been dissed, criticized and trashed. Pakistan has tried to reject it, and you too are denying it by pretending that all these Hindus are different. Yes they are different - but the link is Indic culture boss. It has survived and will thrive. Why do you choose to deny that it is present?
There is a very simple reason to DENY the muslims this political identity. Experience teaches the Hindus that the last time Muslims were provided with this separate identity in British Indian, by way of separate electorates, the result was the division of the Nation. Hindus, who have forgotten this lesson are fools.