Muslims
may become most intolerant and secluded people if not guided properly and if
there are no leaders like Gandhi, Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad in India.
Muslims
come to believe that there religion is religion of God and their Prophet and
their Book are final Prophet and final Book. Naturally every individual thinks
himself on most correct path and it seems to him that those who differ they are
wrong – not only wrong but deviated from
path of God and as it is their duty to bring everyone to correct path of
God and so coercion is right and people must be forced to accept their correct
path and if they refuse they may be killed or forced to live as zimmi paying
Jaziya. But all these extremist thoughts are against humanity and against human
nature. The Muslim child or teenager comes to believe that all those who are
not on correct path will go to hell. The clergies and madarsas are constantly
preaching these things. During Muslim rule, clergies from Arab and Iran
compelled the rulers to forcibly convert indigenous people or impose Jaziya –
some rulers submitted to their extremism and some did not.
In
India, all these years, Hindu and Muslim families lived amicably all these
years then after 1857 the seeds of discord were sown that partitioned the
country but even then human nature could overcome all fear and hate and Hindu
and Muslim families kept living amicably in villages and in cities.
Our
childhood passed in this amicable environment – our Hindu friends used to come
in our house and no difference even if our parents were performing namaz or
reciting Quran and for me jhankis of Janmashtami in Hindu houses and Ram Lila
in the city were very attractive things and we used to celebrate diwali, holi
and raksha bandhan.
But
gradually Saudi sponsored Wahhabism took ground and atmosphere got vitiated. I
myself dislike loudspeakers used for azan and religious activities and all
those excessive display. The things are turning bad to worse in Muslim
countries – Shias are being attacked and killed in Pakistan.
The wrong policies
of Congress and Samajwadi Party have encouraged clergies, communal leaders and
Muslim goons and criminals.
1.
There must be uniform Civil Code to save innocent Muslims especially Muslim
women from injustice.
2.
Loudspeakers must be banned from religious places and gatherings.
3.
Communal leaders of both communities must be brought to justice. Criminals and
goons be brought to justice.
4.
Institutions that fan bigotry and hatred must be transformed into secular
schools.
5.
Secularism means religion must be banished from public affairs.
Such
steps will bring common Hindus and Muslims together and interreligion and
intercaste marriages must get protection and promotion.
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