In India, religion plays a second fiddle...if you ask a common man "who are you" , his first answer will be "I am an indian" (at worst he will say , i am a bengali , i am a malayalee , i am a punjabi ...) ...but you will rarely find an answer such as "I am a hindu, i am a sikh , i am a muslim ..."....that is because irrespective of the faith , your country comes first....the very idea of India means 'its secularity" and not the idea of a country based on religion......Right from our schools , we are taught that we are indian's first and religion comes a distant third.....Pakistani's will find it difficult to understand , because they associate Islam as the corner stone of the country.....
Even consider this ....when your soldier goes to battlefield ....the war cry is "Allah oh akbar" ....whereas the war cry of a indian soldier would be "Bharat mata ki jai" (Salutations to mother india)...ofcourse regimental war cries are different....but hope you saw the difference...
So next time when you ask a Indian muslim soldier , who is he ? ...his answer will be "
I am an indian".......
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