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[NudiJuicervich]

and you are telling me that this is the so-called democracy.... lol. In india muslims are treated like rubbish.... Check out the statistics...

[Esmeralfaf]

and you are telling me that this is the so-called democracy.... lol. In india muslims are treated like rubbish.... Check out the statistics...

Well Shah Rukh Khan is their idol. So was Yusuf (aka Daleep)? The pity is that "Muslims" are singled out and targeted "everywhere" on Globe. If not by the opponents then from within also. Iraq, Pakistan, Iran and even more places can be cited. Something is "lacking" at some level.

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And the whole report.

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If We Walk Together

Harsh Mander

The Constitution of the republic of free India was crafted in troubled but idealistic times. The Indian people were still reeling from Partition bloodshed and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, in the dark shadows of politics of religious hatred and division. Millions of refugees displaced from the land of their birth were painfully battling penury, loss and memory. The secular democratic Constitution adopted in 1950 promised India’s religious minorities equal protection and equal citizenship rights under the law, and the freedom to practice and propagate their faith.

Decades later, in 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resolved to publicly take stock of the conditions of India’s largest religious minority, the Muslims, and appointed for this a High Level Committee chaired by Justice Sachar. For decades, India’s largest opposition party, the BJP, had denounced what they alleged to be a ‘pseudo-secular’ policy of ‘appeasement’ of Indian Muslims, in pursuit of ‘vote-bank’ politics. They charged that Muslims vote en block, and to capture their bulk votes, they were unfairly benefited by successive governments led by the Congress Party, at the expense of the country’s majority Hindu community.

The report of this Committee lay to rest this long-orchestrated political untruth, by demonstrating that on most socio-economic indicators, the average condition of Muslims in India was comparable to, or even worse than the country’s acknowledged historically most disadvantaged communities, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. This was evidence not of favoured treatment, but cumulative and comprehensive official discrimination and neglect. Therefore the constitution of this Committee by the Prime Minister was in itself was an act of political sagacity and courage. But, as we will observe, the government has displayed lack of nerve and loss of the same courage and conviction when called upon to address the development deficits in the Muslim community which were diagnosed by the Sachar Committee.