Re: Shaheed
indian muslims dont agree it is a holy war
Because the Muslim community did not by and large feel at siege, it responded vigorously to the challenge posed to our secular polity by Pakistan’s aggression against India and presenting it as an Islamic jehad to whip up religious hysteria among their own citizens, who on the whole did not seem much inspired by the misadventure in Kargil. Apart from other modes of expression, there was a continuous flow of articles, comments and letters in the Indian press from a whole spectrum of Indian Muslims condemning the attempt by Pakistani rulers to legitimise their aggression as a holy war and drive a wedge between Hindus and Muslims in India. Dilip Raote, who studied reports published in Urdu newspapers in Maharashtra, wrote in a recent article: “there are more anti-Pakistani letters in Urdu papers than in Mumbai’s English and Marathi dailies.” (The Times of India, August 1, 1999)
http://free.freespeech.org/manushi/113/kargil.html