Don’t trade in fake political correctness: Indian Muslims don’t deserve hypocrisy

Don’t trade in fake political correctness: Indian Muslims don’t deserve hypocrisy

The Indian Express

Sep 20, 2008

First, don’t trade in fake political correctness. Indian Muslims don’t deserve hypocrisy because the assumption that straight talk on domestic terrorism will affect the entire community actually condemns the entire community. It also makes Indian Muslims more, not less, vulnerable to popular and political caricature. That encourages brutish communal responses that in turn are used by terrorists as justification. This is, wittingly or otherwise, forgotten by politicians of the kind who question their own government’s actions against SIMI, an organisation viewed as dangerous by many Muslim commentators.

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The so-called “Indian Mujahideen”: False Custodians

The so-called “Indian Mujahideen”: False Custodians

By Arshad Alam

The Indian Mujahideen also conveniently forgets that Indian Muslims have as strong a stake in this country as any other community -- or it doesn't want this to be the case. They forget that some Muslims of this country have scaled great heights in this country which would not have been possible if India was as discriminatory towards Muslims as the Indian Mujahideen wants to have us believe. And that’s why the Indian Mujahideen will not succeed in polarizing Muslims and Hindus. Most of India lives in shared spaces and partakes in each other's joy and sadness. The Indian Mujahideen seem to be the alienated city bred who have lived their lives in community specific ghettos. They forget that the majority of Indian Muslims do not share their experiences.

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