I'm sorry , but this might as well be Italian to me. I'm aware of my religious identity because it is extremely hard to ignore that but apart from that my knowledge of any religion (including my own) is about the square root of bugger all. I think if people just abide by the law then All izz well but religion just creates more trouble than what its worth.Atri wrote:Nihat ji,
Here is my two paisa. It would be great if guys like you could resusciate the Dara Shikoh model. Shed the sense of belonging towards the people and religion associated with qazi-mullah power structure and make this dara meme a truly adhyatmika path. There is plenty in Dharma which dara-meme could absorb. Being a silent majority won't help the purpose.
The will of time is that this "Aurangzeb's" Islam is at loggerheads with Dharma. This is a long cycle ever since he patronized mullah Sirhindi, destroyed kashi Vishvanath and others, killed millions and ravaged indian economy. We are still suffering for this stupidity. And this happened probably because dara was defeated. If he were strong, things would have been slightly different. Anyways.
If you consider yourself a Dharmik with islam as adhyatmika maarga, try rediscovering what dara and older Akbar did to rid arabik islam of its political and social interfering aspects. What they did was not enough but if stretched further along same lines and implemented for longer time, could make muslims in India as a whole, different from what they are becoming today.
OTOH , one possible solution to this growing religious polarization and shifting demographic balance which threatens to disrupt status quo in our society in the next few decades is to impose curbs on the number of children each family can have , not like China which is rather cruel with its one child policy but our own version like say 3 children at max. I say this because in a lot of the poor Muslim families (which is most of them) the idea still remains that one should have a lot of children (like 5-7), most of them end up in religious schools about which the less said the better. All this will give rise to a vicious cycle within the community. Enforcing a 3 or 2 child cap will go a long way in protecting everyone's interests in the coming decades.
As for the already budding jihadis , the cure remains in front of us and what we have been doing for the past couple of weeks , those the clowns in jail and don't let them see the light of the sun till the hair on their head turns 100% white.