“Post creation, God opined… “Everything is so perfect!! Then
he gave us Religion“ ..
It’s Id. A day of our Muslim brothers! Brothers?? sadly there is little brotherhood left! One of my dearest & closest friends no longer seems to call me up! We hardly talk these days. I called him up to wish him, he wasn’t in!
photo credit: Terminalnomad Photography
When i met him last,i had marked that his behaviour was strange, he seemed at unease! We met like old friends but there seemed to be the latest embarrassing instances in the news hovering above us(Read Gujurat). The tension never left us, we didn’t talk about the incident. I didn’t because i feared he might be hurt!
His sister is no longer allowed to go anywhere alone for fear of backlash! His mom fears some anti social elements might get him while he is out working! Some of my friends query, ” Why would they kill him .. he is a muslim after all!!”. I keep mum!! Maybe its my long held policy of “I do not argue with ignorant people”!
Some of my Hindu friends swear at every Muslim they encounter! Some of my friends tell me, ” you are a fool to think they are good people“.
Yes iam a fool because i believe in humanity & equality. Iam a fool because i think people who bomb others do not belong to any religion and because i think we, as humans, should be compassionate towards each other!
Maybe the atheists are right, Religion was invented for mass control!! Maybe it’s a farce .. then why do some of us still believe in god? Why do some of us still touch our parents feet when we wed or why do we still seek blessings from elders?
It says in the Koran(so a hindu site claims)that says, “Those who do not beleve in Allah and are upto mischief should be punished”, Which justifies the massacre of other religious groups by mulims.
I have been through a few texts & have not not come across any such statement! The closest i came across was, “Those who do not believe in the me are kafirs and michief mongers. Such will not go unpunished”. Anyone with sanity & a basic understanding of English can understand that “me” used here was in the third sense meaning, “the lord” and not specifically Allah!
Interestingly, a very highly educated Doctor has written totally inflammatory and baseless allegations upon the Hindu’s & Hindu dieties on another site.
They say “Hindi me urdu ka milan jaise sone mein suhaag”, wonder whether people remember it now! My friend still lives his daily life, he still works at the same place he joined 3 years ago,he still rides his bike, he still looks at beautiful faces just like we used to do earlier. He still eats chinese …
The Biryani i ordered has arrived …. do you guys like biryani??? They invented it you know!!
a thought: Is it a folly to be wise, when fools preside?? …
photo credit: Michael Foley Photography
History of Muslims in India have dated back to the Mughal invasion, most Hindu’s then were forced to change to Islam by the then Muslim hard-line rulers! It wasn’t until Akbar came along that the hard-line policy followed till then was relaxed! Some kings, fanatical to the extreme, staunchly believed that they were the sole bearers of Allah’s work and message! They believed it to be their duty to spread Islam wherever they set foot.
Numerous forcible conversions were a norm in some Muslim dominated provinces and many converted right back when their Muslim rulers were overthrown.
Such false notions and superstitions no doubt stemmed form the power they wielded over the poor locals. Hinduism as been interpreted in a number of ways, some experts lately have gone to the extent of renouncing the word religion & opting for “it’s a way of life” instead.
If Hindus had evils like casteism in its hierarchical structure then some extremist religious fanatics(erf’s) denounced every other religion other than Islam!
Recently the Taliban government even disfigured the Buddhist statues present in Afghanistan. India remained a spectator as so many other nations.
Such instance of disfigurement is neither rare nor solitary. In the early 15th century township of erstwhile Vijayanagari, now Hampi was vandalized and all the monuments were disfigured.
Not a single temple was spared in the mad quest for wealth! Whether it was religion or the search for the incredible wealth of the Indian rulers there is any body’s guess. Incidentally Hampi has been declared as a world heritage site.
If the moghul rulers were to blame for sowing seeds of discontentment then the Hindus are definitely not to be spared for the demolition of Babri Masjid. Kar Sevaks as they called themselves landed at Ayodhya for the fateful event. A sad day in the history of Secular India.
It was followed by riots in Mumbai, no doubt, a planned setup by miscreants or maybe just local idiots out to have fun! The images come quickly across the fading wretched memory, that of a boy, 5 or 6 years old hurling a huge brick onto a stationed vehicle .. amidst shouts “maro maro“. Live on TV! Maybe he understood what the hulla was all about.
Both ironically stood justified & correct viewed from extreme angles. These are the days when a gun totting 14 year old in Afghanistan is a way of life while seperatist groups have its own suicide squads elsewhere!
There was a time when in every film watched in India there was necessarily a muslim friend or acquaintance of the protagonist. Those times stretch few and far between.
