Minorities in India?

[keyplus90]

Taking a lead from another question here, I wanted to ask people's opinion on the other side of the picture. Minorities in India How are they treated? I am posting few links but I am sure although media does not give as much coverage to certain issues and is more than keen to jump onto the others. Still I am sure there is enough material on the internet if someone wants to have a look, what are your own experiences if you are from India, or you know someone who is. Any free thoughts, unbiased of course would be appreciated. I am not against any individuals or any country itself, but I believe that most of the violence against minorities in India is usually sponsored by the govt or politicians in the govt. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/08/india12 802.htm http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-puniyani15 0905.htm http://www.holocaustinkashmir.50megs.com/ka040 05.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a rticle/2007/10/25/AR2007102501829.html

[keyplus90]

So far 100% what I expected......

[WaldoMcFroog]

When someone posted a question about Muslim on Hindu violence, you were quick to insist, 'Oh, but it happens to Muslims, and worse.'

Surely the decent response is to deplore both, rather than getting all defensive and inferring that one utterly repugnant example of discrimination on religious grounds is of more merit than another utterly repugnant example of discrimination on religious grounds..?

Still, I am, after all, an atheist and therefore lacking any moral conscience, and I have spent most of the day sacrificing babies to Satan.

Perhaps I'm missing some key point about two utterly repugnant examples of discrimination on religious grounds that makes one more of a disgrace than the other.

[naomi24]

Quite right, Waldo. Two wrongs don't make a right. As I said on the other thread, one does not negate the other. Still, as you say, devoid of religion, our moral conscience is clearly no match for that of some of those who profess to being guided by a compassionate God.

[keyplus90]

Yes, you are 100% right and I will say this in bold letters that two wrongs never make a right but then if you condemn one wrong categorically then you should condemn the other as well. Then I did not ask only about Muslims but all minorities so you can not say that I am asking due to my own belief. A report by Human Rights Watch was posted in the other question and a report by the same organisation has been posted in this one. Then what is the difference? I know saying one phrase I condemn all sorts of innocent killing by the state or individuals should sum up every thing. But why people can not condemn one and are more than eager to condemn others. After all we are talking about Innocent killings wherever or whoever. Or who actually is killing makes it right or wrong?

[WaldoMcFroog]

Well, that's good. However, your reaction to the first thread was not to say, 'That's awful', it was to highlight another example, but this time featuring Muslims as the oppressed. You saw it as an attack and reacted as such.

Each is unilaterally awful and deplorable. That there are other examples of similar things happening doesn't affect how awful each one is in it's own right. It's not a competition for who can be the most sinned against, is it?

[terambulan]

In India and Pakistan there are cultural differences which the West have no place interfering, like the caste system. This is perpetuated even though, supposedly, illegal by both Govs.

As I said on the earlier site, a division of the countries was made in 1947 when Britain gave independance, (and opened UK immigration gates). The peoples from these lands only seem able to live together under British rule, as they do here.

I am dismayed at young Pakistaniis who know more about the Koran than they know of Pakistans history.

[naomi24]

Ditto to Waldo.

[keyplus90]

Terambulan � I know what you are saying, but all those people did live together for centuries even before British rule. And people still are living together with odd confrontations. But my point was that one should look at the both sides of the coin.

Any way I appreciate all the answers. Thanks to all of you.