@Old School @Clutch
Muslims are generally poor... they live in ghettos... no proper school, hospital in their area... so the disparity is another motive why women want to live a 'prosperous' life...
see how they were lured by bhakts, as a religious duty.. don't come in the mainstream news. so Hindutva portray itself as victim, when it is the main perpetrator..... and see their living conditions..
@jamahir
Firstly, I didn't get notification for you tagging me I just chanced upon your post.
Secondly, good documentary all around.
Thirdly, the Indian Muslim middle class of the last 15 to 20 years has largely failed to be the entity that will enable the progress of all Indian Muslims. This set of people has become busy in appearing pious. This is the doing of the Tablighi Jamaat.
Sometime before 2015 I got to know that some TJ "brothers" in IBM-India had agitated in their office not for an employee union that would benefit all employees but agitated for special prayer place and time. These IT-type TJ drones used to then come to my house to invite me to the mosque. I mentioned to them that I had written a simple computer operating system but strangely no spark in their eyes. As if it is absolutely common for an Indian to write an OS.
Now in early 2015 IBM-India removed thousands of employees without notice or valid reason. And these employees didn't have an employee union to challenge the management. And did not come of use the TJ-obtained prayer time and place. Please note that IBM-USA, the parent company, has employee union but not IBM-India.
AFAIK the typical middle class Muslim of nowadays doesn't marry non-Muslims but the poorer class of Muslim may, but he ( or in very rare cases she ) doesn't have the support of the wider middle class Muslim community who act all pious and consider such marriages as sinful. These middle class Muslims in India are not much different than many of the Hindu middle class who obeyed Modi's call to "Thaali bajao, Corona bhagao" ( watch
this woman. Turn on the volume ).
But maybe, maybe, the anti-CAA protests of last year and the involvement in them of some progressive Muslim students may induce progressive thought in the Indian middle class Muslim and remove from them the self-suffocating ghetto mentality.
