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Thank You Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah for giving us the freedom we take for granted....

Did you also voted for BJP?
I was in Malaysia at that time, so could not vote. But just to make my stand clear, I would have voted for BJP this time, just like I voted for Congress last time. I would have voted for progress and development.

There is a very wrong image that you have in your mind about the govt. Of India, not entirely unfounded, for what some of them are doing now, I don't agree with some of them, for example, beef ban. Thank god the supreme Court has stepped in. But, the general perception that you have is wildly exaggerated.

There are sane people in India, who will take them a notch down. Our system of democracy has not failed us.
 
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During partition, a lot of people(including muslims) were against the creation of pakistan as they saw no point; except for political supremacy there wasn’t any urgent need to carve out a new nation out of India. Many had to leave huge property and relatives, friends on both sides and start from scratch. In light of such situation, it became a national responsibility for Pakistani leaders to address the ‘unspoken truth’ among the minds of Pakistani-“Why Partition”.

Pakistani leadership has since its inception has directed its national policy answering the question ‘why Pakistan’. Their culture evolution, education system, foreign policy, all have been to justify their existence, by attempting to 1) distance themselves from Indian culture as much as possible 2) use selective bias to highlight the misery of Indian muslims while blatantly ignoring the reality.

As was not expected by leadership of Pakistan, muslims in India are now in better position than the ones left for Pakistan. Not do they have access to better education, healthcare, opportunity, they enjoy security more than majority of Muslims of the world. The major uniting factor for any society is development. Indian muslims along with other Indians are experiencing development and progress, none of their ancestors have ever had. They are a part of this growing India and that’s why we hardly see any major muslims problem in our country that we are seeing everywhere these days.

It is natural that muslims who crossed border now more than anything to have this unconscious question of their existence. That is why such type of articles will keep publishing there and give the reader momentarily satisfaction. But such policies are detrimental to any development and progress which can only happen when you have a sense of identity.
 
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What freedom ?

Well, Mr. Jinnah DID Give you pakistan. True.
But Freedom ? Free dome of "Undivided India" ( which obvisouly came first ) ? Think Again.
Even USA & Germany, had more contribution than Jinnah and Gandhi when it comes to "OUR" Independance.
 
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Another day, another religious controversy. This time, it’s the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Rajasthan, which has made moves to practically cancel the Baqr Eid holiday for thousands of Muslim employed in state colleges. On September 25, the day of the festival, the state government has decided to organise a blood donation drive in government and private colleges to mark the birth anniversary of Jan Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya.

The order takes great care to restrain college staff from leaving the college premises at the time of the blood donation, a fact that has, unsurprisingly, outraged many Muslims. Speaking to the Indian Express, Salim Engineer, national secretary, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind said, “This is a clear violation of human rights of Muslim employees. Eid-ul-Zuha is the biggest festival for Muslims and an official event that day would deny people from celebrating it."

This isn’t the only minority holiday that was targeted. Last year, the Modi government decided to celebrate a day for “good governance” and scheduled it to coincide with Christmas, thus cancelling the holiday for any Christian government employees.

Hindutva identity
This is of course part of a larger trend to push whatever Hindutva’s version of “Hindu” culture is. If this sounds alarming, it’s because these two aren’t the only data points. For the one and a half years that Narendra Modi has been in power, his communication has been exclusively on Hindu lines. As part of its attack on “pseudo-secularism”, the Modi government stopped the practice of massive iftar parties during Ramzan, which was all fine, but before that the prime minister held a massive Ganga aarti to celebrate his election victory in the May 2014 general election.

Of course, Modi is welcome to his personal faith. But the prime minister-elect made his aarti into a public function, ensuring that it was broadcast over national television for millions of Indians too see. As cynical as those iftar parties were, using personal faith for politics, this massive public spectacle of a puja was many orders of magnitudes worse.

This trend, if anything, grew in force: during his August, 2014 trip to Nepal, Modi visited the famous Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. Again, well within the bounds of state secularism for the head of government to believe in the spiritual powers of a place of worship. What was unconscionable was that the offering Modi made to the gods of the temple was paid for by the secular state of India. Narendra Modi offered Rs 4.1 crore worth of sandalwood and ghee to the temple. Tax payer money was diverted so that Narendra Modi could buy temple supplies.

Of course, there was even hard power exercised. Beef was banned in Maharashtra under a near-draconian law based on the upper-caste Hindu taboos against it.

Erasing secularism
Part of this significant cultural shift towards making the state Hindu and the break down the secularism of the Indian state is driven of course by the ideology of the Bharatiya Janata Party. For example, Deen Dayal Upadhya – the same person whose birth anniversary is being celebrated by cancelling the Eid holiday – decried the concept of a “secular state” as a “mere imitation of the western thought pattern” and even criticised individualism as a symptom of the same malaise. No wonder that the BJP can’t understand why using taxpayer money for religious gifts or stopping a person from eating what he wants is wrong.

But this is not only about the BJP’s ideology. It’s bigger than that. There is also a deeper shift underway in the way the Indian state connects with India’s minorities. The earlier Congress system had many flaws when it comes to any strict practice of secularism. As Hamid Dabholkar, son of assassinated rationalist Prof Narendra Dabholkar puts it, the “Congress is pragmatically communal and BJP is programmatically communal."

However, the Congress pragmatism mean that it set up cross-community patronage networks. Since, it wasn’t driven by any narrow ideology but a simple self-serving urge to stay in power, the Congress picked up votes from wherever they came in. In this, Muslims were a target group and the Congress would spend time asking for their votes – even if, as many allege, after getting their votes, there would hardly be any work done and Muslim areas remained backward.

Disconnect from power
The Bharatiya Janata Party builds up its programme of attacking Muslims and of course, does not even consider their votes as potential BJP ballots. This means a complete disconnect of Muslims from power. From a tiny stake in Congress rule, Muslim have been pushed into the situation of having no stake now in the ruling party. With the BJP, not only is there an ideological but an electoral wall as well. This is, of course, an anecdotal truism but has also been proved using hard data. Muslims representation in the legislatures and executive falls with the BJP in power. More insidiously, data shows a strong correlation between communal riots and the BJP’s electoral performance, again driven by the this same wall. As a study by researchers at Yale University in the United States put it, “The pacifying effect of Congress incumbency appears to be driven by local electoral considerations, in particular the party's exceptionally strong linkages to Muslim voters."

One outcome of this massive disconnect of Muslims with the powers-that-be – for the first time in independent India – is the rise of a multi-state communitarian Muslim force, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and its leader Asaduddin Owaisi. Like identity-based parties have used caste and Hinduism to push its politics, the MIM expects to do the same for the development of Muslims.

Of course, as a solution for the severe marginalisation that Muslims now face, communitarian politics might seem to be a Hobson’s choice but it is fraught with dangers, given the nature of the communal public discourse. At least in the short term, Muslim identity politics, along the same lines as caste and Hindu identity politics, will generate a backlash and will find it far more difficult to find its place under the Indian political sun than, say, the BJP or Bahujan Samaj Party.

For the meantime then, the Muslim employees of the state government of Rajasthan might have to find a different way out if they want to celebrate Eid.
feeling is mutual sir! thanks Mr Jinnah so much for ur noble deed. u proved to be true son of mother india. thousand salutes !
 
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God bless Modi, he is proving to be a greater enemy of India than Pakistan would ever be. Let's hope he gets two more terms in office and our India problem will be solved.
 
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God bless Modi, he is proving to be a greater enemy of India than Pakistan would ever be. Let's hope he gets two more terms in office and our India problem will be solved.
Inshallah

Ameen for the bold part. :dance3:
 
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I was in Malaysia at that time, so could not vote. But just to make my stand clear, I would have voted for BJP this time, just like I voted for Congress last time. I would have voted for progress and development.

There is a very wrong image that you have in your mind about the govt. Of India, not entirely unfounded, for what some of them are doing now, I don't agree with some of them, for example, beef ban. Thank god the supreme Court has stepped in. But, the general perception that you have is wildly exaggerated.

There are sane people in India, who will take them a notch down. Our system of democracy has not failed us.
What I'm seeing is a rise of Hindu right wing mentality and major sign of it electing Modi as premier, banning beef intercepting( Dakhal Andazi ) in their
religious days are your internal affairs Your country your rules But all these giving not giving good images inside or outside world, tension rising between Pak and India's already crippling relations since Modi took over.
We Pakistanis never vote for a right wing party in an absolute majority though we have such Islamic parties if we elect them as our head of state the situation get hell worst between us.
Please do vote for Modi next time too and be a responsible character of dark future of India.
 
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What I'm seeing is a rise of Hindu right wing mentality and major sign of it electing Modi as premier, banning beef intercepting( Dakhal Andazi ) in their
religious days are your internal affairs Your country your rules But all these giving not giving good images inside or outside world, tension rising between Pak and India's already crippling relations since Modi took over.
We Pakistanis never vote for a right wing party in an absolute majority though we have such Islamic parties if we elect them as our head of state the situation get hell worst between us.
Please do vote for Modi next time too and be a responsible character of dark future of India.
1. I personally object to the beef ban incident, but as I said, Supreme court has put it on hold.

2. You don't need to elect right-wing parties to power in Pakistan. They are already in power, countless cases. Besides there was active support for Taliban provided by Pakistani army and still there are sympathizers for them within the institution.

3. I will keep your advice in mind.
 
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you should worry about Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras, hindu casts based on hatred and intolerance.

Sunni and Shia are religious branches like Catholics and Protestants

Correction.
"To live a decent life the way a Muslim (preferably a Sunni) likes."
 
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you should worry about Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras, hindu casts based on hatred and intolerance.

Sunni and Shia are religious branches like Catholics and Protestants
I know what Shia and Sunni are. Most of the violence that takes place in my city are the fights between Shia and Sunni every muharram.
 
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you should worry about Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras, hindu casts based on hatred and intolerance.

Sunni and Shia are religious branches like Catholics and Protestants
Did they teach you that in your madrassah ? Did they tell you about 72 virgins too ? Bunch of wannabe Arabs.
 
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