Fear psychosis has been haunting the Muslim community in India since the country’s partition in 1947, only to be aggravated occasionally by state-sponsored pogroms like those of Gujarat riots in 2002 and the 1992 demolition of the 400-year old Babri Masjid, which was followed by a string of anti-Muslim riots in the country.
Both these incidents were orchestrated and executed to precision by the Hindutva brigands, whose leader, Narendra Modi is the prime minister today.
The government’s pick and choose policy to execute Muslim convicts only has further deepened the belief that the Hindutva dispensation at the center has just one national agenda: Hound Muslims to the extreme margins of the nation.
The decision to hang Yakub Memon, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai blast, on July 30, while absolving Hindu terrorists, is yet another chapter in India’s majority appeasement policy.
This has widened the gulf between the two major communities — Hindus and Muslims — polluting the communal atmosphere.
India has slid deeper into that unfairness and bigotry since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power.
The political class that is reaping the harvest after sowing division in the society has pushed India into social disturbance and chaos.
I am afraid if Muslims in the face of prejudiced politics may force the Muslims to resort to the same degree of extremism that the world in general is currently coping with. — Shams Al-Arifin, New Delhi
Prejudice against Muslims
