Are Muslim countries secular like
India?
When the elections come close our politicians start
chasing for votes. There is no political party which does not practice vote
bank politics.
Some parties will even go to any extent
to get votes even if it means going against the party’s ideology.
Every party feels that to win any election they need
to appease Muslim community and they will even go out of the way to win the
goodwill of Muslims.
Pre-elections also witness clashes
between growing westernization and the conservative fascist ideology.
It is true that conditions of some Muslims in India
are pathetic. Some sections of Muslim minority are even more deprived than the
Dalits, and Muslim representation in bureaucracy is just 2.5 %, whereas, the
Muslim population is 14 % of the Indian population. So there is a need to show sympathies to
Muslims in India.
Only during the elections every party will try to
prove that it is secular in nature by wooing the Muslims in particular. But is
there any political party in India which is genuinely secular? Being secular is to treat everyone equal
before the law, take strong action against anti national forces, and make genuine
attempts to improve the social and economic conditions of all people together
regardless of the religion. Instead of giving subsidies for religious
pilgrimages, support should be given to all needy to improve the education levels.
Now which political party in India actually practices all the above rules of
secularism?
Indian Muslims by and large are relatively safe
despite hawks in Bharatiya Janata Party, due to the sanity and catholicity of
outlook from majority Hindu Brothers who do not have prejudice or bigotry
towards law abiding Muslims. Successive Lok Sabha and State elections have
taught Muslims whom not to vote for.
But are the Hindus in many Muslim countries given
the kind of secular treatment that Muslims in India get?
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