Re: Are Shia muslims safer in Pakistan or in india?
I dont know why christians are more educated than hindus in India. Do u see why. Because there is a wish for them to learn. Not reciting religious books but proper scientific learning. Religion has to be placed secondary to scientific learning.
Great.
And as I pointed out above when someone else made a similar point, according to recent research less than 4% of Indian Muslim school children are educated at madarsas. Just because Indian society has stereotyped Muslims as shunning all things modern (perhaps to justify to justify the shoddy treatment it mets out to them), doesn't make it true.
But hardly any muslim university of any repute has been around for a while. Aligrah Muslim university has now become hot bed for terrorism.
Thank you for demonstrating for everyone here yet another reason why being a Muslim in India is a miserable existence. AMU is a perfectly fine university, where more than half of the students aren't even Muslim. But because it is associated with the Muslim population, Indians like yourself naturally assume that its associated with 'terrorism' and 'anti-national elements.' The fundamental assumption among you people is that anyone with a Muslim name must be a terrorist, or a closet-Pakistani....perhaps one of the reasons Christians are more successful in India is because they don't have to deal with these absurd stereotypes.
I'm an American-born, US citizen, and I've traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East. Honest to God, the only place in the world that I have ever been openly discriminated against was in India.
In the present indian set up, those who have tried always succeeded. An example is Abdul Kalam. Son of a fisherman would not have made it if there was negative discrimination.
You can trot out that one example every time someone criticizes the was Muslims are treated in India. First of all, from what I've gathered from his interviews, Abdul Kalam is a Bhagavad Gita-reading, devotee of Rama who happens to have a Muslim name...in other words, he's the BJP's ideal, completely Hindu-ized "Muslim."
And in any case, you can't bring out one or two examples and pretend that there are no problems...yes, Abdul Kalam was president, but at the same time, despite making up 15% of the population, their representation in the Lok Sabha and the Council of Ministers is just 6%. Honestly, its like someone pointing out that there have been a handful of Black senators in the US, so there is no discrimination against black people here....