Ghettos in the making : Why Muslims are made to live in subhuman conditions ?

When I am  a born-Muslim it becomes obvious that I share some of my feelings as to why my community Is being forced to remain inside the ghettos. Let me share some of the reasons here.

1- Media= Even the world is moving towards technologies and speed of change but the Media remains aloof and indifferent to the needs of Muslims. They overshadow and hide many real-life events related to Muslims. They start projecting any suspect to be the real demon in society. I know many cases of willful harassment done by Media which could easily qualify for Court case of defamation and purgery. Social Media also not far behind in hounding the Muslims through internet and various Social Networks. It is some times very difficult to express ones feeling as a Muslim on internet nowadays.

2- Ministries and Ministers = In India, there are so many Departments and Ministers for development of Muslims but they hardly interact with Muslim community. The best examples of course are the two Muslim Ministers of Minority Affairs. They do not care to share new ideas. They are limited to small doles of welfare and charity type work without any focus. The Budgets have also going down each year and recommendations of various Studies and Commissions have not been followed. Muslims are not taken in Government jobs.  Youth are generally avoided in many stage – managed programmes;

3- Minority-Majority Mindset of Many – this is growing day by day. The elite schools hardly enjoy the presence of Muslim students. The majority religion in India is backward looking and shady in giving opportunities to the poor and the weaker sections of the Society. Islam is perhaps the latest edition of a world religion which came much after many of these old religions failed to meet the aspirations of the majority. There is no substance in ghar-waapsi, dharm parivartan,(religion conversion ) etc. as these ideas are now false, baseless, redundant and are hollow in promise. Muslims need safety, brotherhood and care from these abovementioned- MMM of many. Caste System still prevails and Muslims are asked to follow these system in the name of “joining the mainstream” when the mainstream is so polluted, stinking, corrupt and radar less crowd. It can hardly be expected from them that  they will look into the welfare of Muslims when we have more than half the population lying under Poverty;

4- Madarsa- the managers of the schools do not want to include modern day skills and syllabus in the curriculum of Madarsa. These socio-religious Schools do not want grants from Governments fearing that the officers will ask for details of Grants and bribes. These schools are necessary for spread of Islam and the scriptures are taught in line with the International School of thoughts but we still are under pressure to behave the way the majority wants and not what Islam wants.

5- Muslim Countries- Mainly the UAE has been encouraging the ghettoisation of Muslims through wahabism. The Arab World is happy to trade with USA, etc but never wants to encourage poor Muslim youth to start small Businesses and encourage the wealthy Indian-Muslims to establish truly structured Multi-National Corporations which could give Business Opportunities. The countries have ample amount of Funds and sources at their disposal to cater to the needs of poor Muslim families. Khairat and Zakat are two main pillars of Islam which can easily help remove the poverty of a majority of Muslims in India but what these countries are encouraging is war, Haj / Umrah Pilgrimages and stereotype Welfare activities like running of Urdu/ Arabic language Schools, setting up of Madarsa, Construction of Mosques related to Wahabism, etc.  which get further tainted / certified as terrorist –camouflaged- activities by the western World, generally openly supported by Indian authorities as seen from time to time.

The above 5 Ms are working against the general welfare of Muslims in India and we have to understand these Ms if we want to prevent the Ghettoisation of Muslim community of India. 

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Indian Muslims need a pro-active Minister for Minorities' Affairs.

  The new Prime Minister took oath of the Office raising hopes and expectations in the minds of the common man. The ruling party is supported by the traditional conservative forces who want India become a true Hindu State.

The philosophies ruling the Political Parties have direct impact on the lives of the downtrodden and socially deprived sections of the society. When these philosophies are governed by the religious myths and policies, the results are usually unforeseen. The implementation of such Policies is governed by the socially acceptable and widely practiced written constitutions of the country. If we find new kinds of rightist extremism it is basically due to the mutually divert viewpoints of how a country is governed vis a vis how it is being governed. 

The point of consideration here is how well is the Ministry of Minorities Affairs (MMA )  being managed by the present Government of India. Even when the Minister of MMA has a rich background of education , Parliamentary democracies and a World wide experience in Governance and has some exemplary work to her credit when it comes to empowerment of women in India. However, as a Minister of Minorities Affairs she faces three major challenges .

First is how to bridge the widening gap of indifference between the Muslim Minorities and the Governments.

 Muslims are the major among the religious minorities in India. Muslims have built upon the Minority status through the Religious Schools called Madarsa with Urdu, Arabic and Persian cultural and linguistic background. These institutions are usually managed by religious scholars and philanthropists who are sometimes not governed by any group/ NGOs/ Trusts / Religious bodies. These Madarsas shape the Muslim psyche with the basic education in Islam provided to children who generally come from poorer and destitute sections of Muslim communities. These Heads of the Religious Institutions have major difficulty in striking a level of common understanding with the local governments and the rules and regulations related to their Institutions. They do not want “interferences” in their Institutions by the State machinery. Since she comes from the sophisticated class of Muslims, it is a challenge for her to communicate with these religious heads of Muslim Institutions. It becomes more difficult when these Institutions are dominated by Male, Sharia and not dependent on Government funds. 

The concept of veil (Purdah) for women in general, Haram and halal of the Government Funding and the rejection on the money given by non-Muslims make the participation of such religious Institution for the Minister.

Secondly, the Minority status of Muslims is challenged repeatedly by the social organisations working , in tandem, with the ruling political parties. 

The concept of  who is “Hindu” is one such myth generated time and again to question the existence of Muslims in India. I agree that this is a Secular country with a name of India , that is Bharat than why is this not respected by the majority residing here? 

The Minister faces the challenge of how should Muslims be looked at ? 

The poor allocation of Budgetary-funds to her Ministry, rescheduling of previous Government’s Schemes by giving them to other Ministries and no full- time engagements with the Minorities of India makes the Ministry of Minority Affairs outdated and slowly , redundant. Same is the situation with the most of the Commission for Minorities, The Wakf Board and the Boards made for promotion of Urdu language at the State level where the political persons are elected / nominated by the ruling Political parties to push forward their agenda of mainly suppressing minorities.

Thirdly, and more importantly, where , how and when will she generate jobs for the Unemployed Muslim Youth ?

 Her Ministry faces an uphill task of generating goodwill among the MNCs, homegrown big Industrialists and potential job-givers and also creates more number of jobs in the Government sector. We have not seen much change after Sachchar Committee’s  recommendations to provide more number of jobs for the Muslims. I do not expect there would be a noticeable shift from what UPA2 has done and what this Government will do. She also faces an imminent challenge of how to wean the youths away from the attraction of Armed struggle under the banners of ISIL  / IS , as is being seen in the Gulf.

These can only be achieved by a pro-active Minister not an aloof-personality, cocooned in her own little world, bound by imaginary “Hindi” belief-system.

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Will he prove an Angel or a Bhasmaasur ?

As the results of the General Elections 2014 are out and the details are available for the public through the Election Commission of India ( vide their website www.eci.gov.in ) I would like to share three important real incidents of my life.

1.     ECI is not committed to updating data online.

The election booths were changed near the one on which I voted. I  registered a complaint alongwith a site photograph that two Booths have been changed and the voters are not aware about the change. Thanks to the ECI the central Observer visited the Booths soon after and noticed hinsewlf that Voters were not aware of the change. He advised the Officers to update the information and inform the Voters. Following this the District Level officer talked to me thrice on my mobile and said that the changes were made in the last “ minute so it is not possible to update these data now” but noticeably the data on the official website ( of ECI,in pdf format) was removed .

However to my shock after I was informed that my complaint had been replied to ,the same ( incorrect ) data was uploaded on the website ( and remains so till date !) giving the wrong locations of the two Booths.

This shows that the Election Commission is fully dependent on the sluggish official-machinery which refuses to accept electronic-transparency and be a responsible to the people of India. The online data are as faulty and misleading as the workforce that works behind these machines.

2- The ornamental- Muslims have lost the charishma , thanks to religious-polarisation in Indian Elections.

One of the poster boy from Bhagalpur lost the elections even when he was doing good work in his constituency. One of my-in-laws had toiled there for him and he was candid in his opinion when he said  jokingly ,” Modi-lehar proved a Pepsi to Shahnawaz bhai. He lost elections as he did not get the votes from majority community.” The wave raised in favour of this Party downed the Muslim candidates all over the country. This indicates clear religious-intolerance and on -way voting by the assumable majority community against Muslims of all shades in India.

Therefore, no , I repeat , No Muslim was able to win this election on this party’s ticket , thus, they have to do “face-saving” by “donating” the Ministry of Minority Affairs to a much more capable women from the Upper House Member.

3.- Gujarat-Model is not an “inclusive” but an “exclusing” Model-

Gujarat is not new to me . I have been in constant touch with the ground-realities there and the Model generated there is exclusively for – the Capitalists, hard working people ( aka Biharis ), toiling Middle-men of all sorts and the various mafias ( including  bootleggers ) .

This G-Model includes-

·        G- Gujaratis, Gujjus and Gujjas Only

·        G- Goods ( deliverables, quantifiable, commodities, sadhus, ) and

·        G- Google- rs ( No Doodlers but those who have infos …and infos )

G-Model  excludes-

¨     B- babas  (who have ) turned Capitalists,

¨     B- Biharis ( the toilers, living in inhuman conditions )

¨     B- Bachchans (see how they remained aloof in this Mega Show ! )

It clearly violates the  very nature of the canvas on which this country remains colorful, with more than 1.28 Billion  alive and living people and which can never be managed by the simplistic and monotheistic approach of the parties that stand behind the present Government of India.

And …..Will  he prove an Angel or ..a…… Bhasmaasur ?