to some extent (layman's pov) you are correct.
whatever helps to sleep buddy.
cant agree more with u. Although i feel state of muslims are better in india than hindus in pakistan.
u see in pakistan hindus are struggling for mere survival while in india, muslims are struggling for more representation in different walks of life. I suppose there is the difference in between the two. Surely, 2% is much lesser than 16%.
Are Muslims marginalized in India?
Yes. The Muslim literacy rate ranks well below the national average and Muslim poverty rates are only slightly higher than low-caste Hindus, according to a November 2006 government report (PDF). Muslims (mostly Sunnis) make up 13.4 percent of India's population, yet hold fewer than 5 percent of government posts and make up only 4 percent of the undergraduate student body in India's elite universities. The report also found that Muslims fall behind other groups in terms of access to credit, despite the fact that Muslims are self-employed at a far higher rate than other groups.
Have there been problems with violence between Hindus and Muslims?
Yes. Communal violence has flared up between the two religious groups since before partition. In recent decades, the proposal to build a temple in Ayodhya repeatedly set off interethnic violence. Hindus and Muslims dispute whether the sixteenth-century Babri Mosque was built on the site of a Hindu temple. In 1992, Hindu militants destroyed the mosque during a rally led by right-wing political parties. Three thousand people died in ensuing riots. In February 2002, a fire broke out on a train carrying members of Hindu nationalist party Vishva Hindu Parishad from Ayodhya. Hindus accused Muslims of setting the blaze and riots broke out across the country. In the following months, the communal violence broke out claimed two thousand, mostly Muslim lives, according to a Congressional Research Service report (PDF). The report also notes widespread allegations of "state government complicity in anti-Muslim attacks" in the BJP-led state.
Varshney calls the 2002 violence in Gujarat India's "first full-blooded pogrom" because clashes went unchecked by India's central government. "The national government [then under BJP control] did not fire the BJP state government. The state government actually used the power of its patrons in Delhi," he says. He argues that western Indian cities, where Muslim populations are segregated from Hindus and ghettoized to a greater degree, are more prone to interethnic violence.
India's Muslim Population
Submitted by kashif on Fri, 06/22/2007 - 19:59.
Indian Muslim
Author:
Carin Zissis, Staff Writer
June 22, 2007
Condition of Indian Muslims in current day India: Justice Saachar Report
Posted on 09 January 2012.
The salient features of the Sachar Committee report are:
Like Slumdog’s protagonist,
94.9 per cent of Muslims are in Below Poverty Line (BPL); families in rural areas do not receive free food grains.
While only 3.2 per cent of Muslims get subsidized loans, just 1.9 per cent of the community benefit from the Antyodaya Anna Yojana Scheme, a programme meant to prevent starvation among the poorest of poor by providing food grains at a subsidized rate.
60.2 per cent of Muslims do not have any land in rural areas.
Just 2.1 per cent of Muslim farmers have tractors. With 15,25,000 tractors, India ranks No.4 after US, Japan and Italy
A mere 1 per cent own hand pumps.
On the educational front, the picture is equally dismal: 54.6 per cent Muslims in villages and 60 per cent in urban areas have never attended schools.
Only 0.8 per cent of Muslims in rural areas are graduates.
Although in urban areas, nearly 40 per cent of the Muslims now receive modern education, only 3.1 per cent of the community in urban areas is graduates. Just 1.2 per cent is post-graduates.
Muslim population growth has slowed down as fertility has declined substantially; the growth rate for Muslims is bound to fall further and eventually reach a zero growth stage well before the end of the century.
Muslims are altogether excluded from “sensitive” posts such as jobs in the intelligence agencies, especially the external-espionage Research & Analysis Wing, the National Security Guard and other elite protection forces. Their presence in the top national police and paramilitary agencies is nominal.
However,
there is one place where Muslims are over-represented: prisons. Muslims claim a grossly disproportionate share of prisoners, including convicts and those undergoing trials.
The Sachar study, revealed that there was extreme prejudice in Bharat against all minorities,
but especially against Muslims. It pointed out that being
dressed as a Muslim was enough to create extreme suspicion. In Delhi DWB (Driving while black) is a major offense.
In Bharat Muslim men wearing a beard and a ‘topi’ [skull cap] are often picked up by police for interrogation from public places like parks, railway stations and markets. It is worse for women.
Muslim women wearing an Islamic scarf or Muslim veil or full-body burqa complained of facing hostility at markets, hospitals, and schools and found it hard to get a job.
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My family migrated from Dehli in 1947, leaving behind our property and other assets, but we have never regretted the decision and count ourselves lucky and privilege to live in our Pakistan. I feel sorry for the muslims who did not make the journey as we can see from the reports that indian muslims are discriminated against.
