While Scrolling through Twitter I saw a trend, which said ‘Public Place not for Namaz’. It was not a surprise to me when checked the trend location. This was happening in India, the world biggest democracy and secular country. Here the point to be noted is that most of the twitter users here in the subcontinent are educated.
Muslims
in India are minority, while the majority is Hindu. Obviously the trend came
from the Hindu majority.
India was divided into two countries on the religious
ground. The Muslims in India were not
happy from their Hindus Fellows. So, the
Muslims of India started for their own separate land. Eventually the country
was divided in 1947.
Obviously
I was not born at the time of Partition. When I grew up an realized that a
country was divided on the religious ground, I opposed the idea of division on
the basis of religion. Now that a party with extreme Hindu Ideology is in power
in India, the Hindu extremism is gradually on the rise since the BJP came into
power. Hindus are after revival of the Asoka glory(a Hindu king 2300 years
ago). In pursuit of their goals they are suppressing the minorities. Not only Muslims,
Christians and Sikhs are not happy with the present government.
So, why
is it such a big issue that one cannot offer a prayer in the public places,
such as Parks etc.? I have lived in the west and I have seen Muslims offering prayer
along the roads. The people there don’t have any issue with it. That is the
spirit of a true secular society.
If you
call yourself a secular country then you should live up to the spirit of
secularism, which gives freedom to all religious sects. What if the same minority has an objection on
any of the Hindu’s rituals? What will the result be? Sectarian division which already has happened
in 1947. If one does not learn from the History, I believe he is the biggest
fool on the Planet.
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