Hey I am not here to make you dislike India if you love India so much and consider it perfect by sitting in United state .
Now now, here you are simply making up false dichotomies. I never claimed India is perfect - explaining some things about India, maybe even defending some particular aspect of India, does not mean that I claim India is perfect.
I personally never claimed that we don't have any issues in Pakistan or its perfect land. We recognise the social ills in our society and we recognise that we need to adopt more tolerance and acceptance of others.
There you go!!! See, that wasn't so difficult, was it? That's precisely what I feel about India; and I am willing to bet, that's what anybody feels about her country.
You should realize that other people are also capable of this simple understanding, of being able to recognize their society's faults, and probably don't think their country/society is perfect.
Maybe it's the nature of this forum that makes people unable to recognize that - any dialogue here is usually Indian's and Pakistanis insulting the other country and defending theirs, and so everybody thinks that the other side can't recognize their faults.
Take a step back, and forget about the trolling that goes on here, and you will realize that Indians don't consider their country to be perfect, nor does any reasonable adult think so about her or his country.
You can glorify India after living in USA but I have met those Indian Muslims who suffered in the hand of Hindu extremist and their point of views is totally different . You should be living in areas where Muslims are minority or where you have rulers like yogi to get the taste of hate and abuse.
Don't you think I know and have met a LOT more Indian Muslims than you? Anyway, personal anecdotes are not really helpful when we want to judge a very large sample set, in this case that of some 180 million + people.
What is your point anyway? That India has communal tensions? You are right. That there is anti-Muslim sentiment in India? You are right. That Muslims have suffered at the hands of Hindu extremists? Again, you are right. The only question is whether a large majority (or even a significant minority) of Indians are Hindu extremists. There, I beg to differ.
What you are saying is that India have secular laws but by nature it's hindutva. Pakistan doesn't have secular laws and by nature is islamist. Now why India needed secular constitution? To become acceptable to huge numbers of non-hindus, tribals, sikhs in punjab, muslims in kashmir, christians in Nagaland etc
After all reason Indians give to hold on IoK is their secularism. That is very important factor. Because you see in Pakistan constitution shias are like any other sunni muslim, they have been head of states etc But in reality there are extremist groups which target shias. The reason Pakistan hypocrite state declared ahmadi non-muslilms while shias, ismaelies etc are muslims like sunnis. Is because unlike shias, ahmadis make minuscule population of Pakistan and they don't make majority anywhere.
If G-B was ahmadi majority province then Bhutto wouldn't have dared to alienate them even with mullahs pressure.
I didn't say that India is "hindutva" by nature. I gave many examples (in a post previous to the one you quoted) where non Hindu religions have special rights, but more importantly, the fact that everyody can practice
and profess their religious beliefs. That underlined part is a crucial difference. The fact that Muslims are free to proclaim publically that Allah is the only God - from loudspeakers, in cities and towns and villages - do you think that would be possible in a non-secular society? The fact that Muslims (or other religions) can convert others to their religion non coercively - do you think that would be possible in a non secular country?
Not just by law, in practice too, I would wager that India a pretty secular country and society - without of course, denying that there is a lot of Hindu fundamentalism present. And yes, banning cow slaughter etc is an imposition of Hindu values on non Hindus, and it is a violation of secularism. And yes, Hindu extremists have recently harassed Muslims in many ways, I am not denying any of that. It is my hope that India becomes more secular in future.