Jews were indeed persecuted by Christians which again points to religious intolerence, their presence among Muslims is again a conflict not because they were percecuted but becuase they are Jews.
Islam is based on puranitical principles with very little to no tolerence towards other religions, the reason why Islam is in conflict with all religions, India is no different. Indian Muslims carry an historical baggage with them and fissures between extreme rightists among both religious groups are at loggerheads - but the conflict is in built and within the state - no group gives up on their Indian identity, so the state has succeeded in keeping them united at the national level becuase of secular principles.
Dear Marathi Manoo, I beg to differ.
Indians have failed the South Indian Dravidian Tamil Hindus (Shaivism) by abandoning the Sri Lankan Tamils, which is why Karunanidhi left the UPA. BTW, this is not an Anna DMK/Jayalalitha or DMK/Karunanidhi issue, it is a Tamil issue.
I am sure you remember when she left Vajpayee and he had to run to her in the middle of the night with his tail between his legs? What was it about? It was the Tamil issue, which goes beyond the Iyers you think you have planted there, or the Christians or Muslims. Tamils are Tamil first, religion, second, Indian third.
Furthermore, the North Indian Hindus (Vaishnavism) are imposing their beliefs in the mythical Ramayana on them by not letting them do any developments in the Sethusamudram and connecting with their people in the South.
They don't even believe Rama exists or in that mythology because that would mean they are the Hanuman (or the monkeys) in the plot. Now, although, according to the story, they did help save Sita, they are still Venera according to it, which makes it all the more disturbing - thus, they don't celebrate Divali and want an actual man-made bridge there - not what god(s) made in the form of Adam's bridge.
BTW, this is the same Rama, whose birth and existence is questioned by Karunanidhi and was debated by Owaisi when he asked where he was truly born whilst speaking on the Babri Masjid issue.
It is ironic that if you find out the details of the issue, you would realize that the Babri Masjid was demolished because, in the mid 1900s, a boy had a dream about Ram being born there and then, Advani rode the wave of Saffron terror into UP, and eventually got Vajpayee into power because of it.
No such examples can be found anywhere in Pakistan or in its history.
Tipu Sultan defended the Kannada Hindus and fought with the British after they demolished their temple so he could protect their rights. Yet, when people of Mysore ask for a university there, the BJP Hindutva extremists play the "secular" card.
Under what code of moral ethics do religious extremists have the right to invoke the secular card when their entire political ideologies revolve around Saffron terror?
Also, they equated the university to the "communal" Aligarh University, which is by far the most moderate and Westernized institution, in all of the Subcontinent.
I mean, even Jamia Millia in Delhi was able to produce chauvinists like Burkha Dutt (a typical jingoistic graduate just like from any Indian university). So what was the issue in allowing Mysore, with a 40% Muslim population to have a university in the name of an undisputed leader who fought wars to protect the temples of Hindus?
Conversely, Indians demolish Sikh temple(s).
The suppression of the culture of people like the Marathis by purposeful influx of UP/Bihar people and other disturbing acts like dividing states along linguistic lines, is terrible
aahe, yet, Pakistan is the problem?
We say in Urdu, bud say budnaam bura.
This is the situation with Pakistan and India.
Pakistanis complain about blackouts and feel they are in terrible conditions but when they see that half of Indians never had power and the other half barely ever get it, they feel satisfied and content in their conditions.
This is becoming very common and the perceptions are slowly being corrected. People do not buy the Indian propaganda about India being a great place to live and Pakistan, the worst. It's only an image issue with us and that is always superficial.
India, on the other hand, is under the worst possible conditions and that isn't just on the surface.
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