The Indian Express (December 29, 2009) on its front page carries a story that exposes the depth of ingrained communal feelings against Muslims in India. It narrates how in Modi’s Gujarat, Muslims are changing their Muslim names to Hindu names, just to get jobs, which would have been denied to them, if their Muslim identity is known.
I will blame Congress, Nehru, Indira, Rajiv and now Sonia for this state of affairs. It is they who had indulged in double game and systematically reduced 150-200 million Indian Muslims to such a level of desperation that their very survival as Muslims at grassroots level has been so thoroughly become impossible. The other day, Indian Express had carried an interview with World Human Right Watch. A Pew report mentioned in The Times of India earlier gave India the dubious distinction of being wrecked by communal strife of the same intensity that has wrecked Iraq.
It is time, the world at large takes note of how oppressed Muslims are in the so-called ‘secular’ and democratic India. If Muslims are forced to change their religion by undergoing such hardships for their very survival, this is cause for serious alarm.
Muslims should thank The Indian Express and Times of India, for swimming against the tide and forcing themselves against odds to bring such unpalatable ghastly truth into the public arena.
Congress must pass very stringent hate crime laws to punish those who have enjoyed absolute freedom and unaccountability to carry out their nefarious hate campaigns. If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is so reputedly enamoured of his US connections, let him be bold and courageous enough to press for the same criminal laws that US upholds to fight religious hatred and criminal acts within their communities.
Ghulam Muhammed
Mumbai, Maharashtra