| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 |
| Sanghvi gets it right |
I applaud this. Of course, any applause is necessary only because it is rarely that the secular media dares to criticise Muslims.
As a member of that tribe, let me clarify.
Generally media is secular and leftie. Me too. media in India usually prefers to criticise majority stupidity rather than minority stupidity.
Criticise Muslims - too general a statement. Majority of the Muslims give two hoots about it all. the vocal noisy minority among them are the pests. True for every religion.
Read on below:
Extracted from Vir Sanghvi's piece in today's HT:
"Nor can many Hindus understand the Muslim reaction to George Bush. Few Indians (of all religious persuasions) approve of the invasion of Iraq or of American foreign policy in general. And yet, most of us are able to distinguish between Washington’s attitude to Iraq and its policy towards New Delhi. If India stands to gain from a US foreign policy initiative, then most Indians will welcome that initiative no matter what their views on US policy towards Iraq, Iran or Palestine are.
But many Muslim leaders seemed to take the line that no matter whether India gained or not, anything that Bush did was to be opposed because America had acted against Muslims in Iraq. As the BJP has not failed to point out, the subtext is clear: Indian Muslims will place the interests of global Islam over those of the Indian State.
Once political leaders encourage Indian Muslims to see themselves as Muslims first and Indians second, then even Hindus begin to accept this caricature."
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"...But this time around, it is not government policies that are provoking the backlash. It is the Muslim community’s own inability to rein in its extremists and to dictate a moderate, indigenous response to political events...." |
| posted by a correspondent @ 6:23 PM |
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