Communal Muslims Vs Secular Muslims

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Re: Communal Muslims Vs Secular Muslims

@mahool

On being contacted, the AAP leader told HT, “Communal means ‘of the community’, not in a hateful manner. What I was telling them is not to be a political slave to a party. Not to live in fear.”
“It was more of a sarcastic comment, play of words,” she added.

Don’t be a political slave to a party but be a slave to your religious affiliation instead? I don’t really know what she means here. Honestly, what is the difference between voting for someone simply based on party loyalty and voting for someone simply based on loyalty for other things (ie. religion)?

I think that the statement to look past political party and not be a slave to it could have been made in a much better way. The rather hasty manner in which she made her point comes across as divisive. In general, I don’t think sarcasm works very well on a large scale, such as politics, because not everyone is able to pick up on it and some people have the tendency to take everything that is said literally.