Date: January 13th 2007

From: kalyan97 <kalyan97@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007


http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/09/letted.htm#4

Muslims in India

I RECENTLY saw a television interview in which Hussain Haroon spoke of a report commissioned by the prime minister of India on the social status of the Muslim minority of India. He tried to prove that the two-nation theory was correct and that the current condition of Muslims in India still reflects the need and the foundation for the two-nation theory.

I have had a chance to read the excerpt of the report and would like to point out that Mr Haroon failed to mention a detail highlighted in the same report that the social state of Muslims in India is mostly related to the fact that the Muslims in India are still backward in their thinking and do not believe in modern education and educating their children to grow in any field or participate in the economy of India.

One should note here that education in India is almost free and there is no discrimination against anyone on religious grounds in primary schools.

So if the report mentions that 25 per cent of Muslim children of age 6 onwards have never attended schools, it really isn't a case of discrimination but rather non-participation on the part of Indian Muslims that is to blame.

Although I agree that discrimination against the Muslims in India may exist, it is highly unlikely that in such a fast-growing economy Indian Muslims cannot participate and carve out a niche for themselves if they really wanted to.

Since they comprise such a large percentage (13 per cent) of the total Indian population, all they need to do is support themselves and their Muslim brothers in all endeavors.

MISHAL LATIF
Karachi

--
Let noble thoughts come from all sides.
aa no bhadraah krtavo yantu vis'vatah

S. Kalyanaraman



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