mjnaushad
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I fail to see the connection, or any logic behind that statement.
However, leaving aside the misplaced proprietary feeling of some members, on topic, it is worth reminding ourselves that discrimination happens. I know enough cases of the type of discrimination that this article portrays. What it does not portray is the similar discrimination faced by those born Hindu, or Sikh, for fear of their dietary habits. Bengalis, for instance, have a tough time in Madras, as landlords and landladies fear that they cannot stay away from fish. My uncle and aunt had a terrible time, admittedly some forty years or more ago. There are similar barriers in Bombay, and these may have been aggravated by the riots, and the attacks in following years.
Bengali fish-eating habits, and cooking styles, are resisted the world over. I was thrown out of a lease in Hounslow because the group I had lodged there were two of them Bengalis, and the landlord started getting complaints from the neighbours about cooking smells. Similarly, some of the fear and dislike of one community for another is rooted firmly in dietary habits and what is imagined as going along with them; my wife's cousins, vegetarians to the core, spent years in Hyderabad, and tell stories of crowding into a corner of the house furthest from their neighbours at the time of the Feast of Abraham, as the stench of blood filled the air. Yet these same relatives came home for dinner and were bitterly disappointed that they got no fish curry! Ironically, I was as discriminating and particular a vegetarian as my wife.
It is not always bigotry of a religious kind; sometimes it is a milder but still corrosive variation which is as objectionable as the other kind.
Its because of green flags.....Change it to tri color and you'll suddenly see the connection and logic....