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sonz
09-07-2006, 08:33 AM
NEW DELHI — Indian Premier Manmohan Singh has underlined the urgent need to counter a sense of alienation among the country's 140 million Muslims and champion a pro-active policy to ensure that they would not pay for the actions of a few extremists.

"It is unfortunate that terrorism has resulted in certain sections of our population being targeted, with a result that a wrong impression has been created of the radicalization of the entire Muslim community," Singh told top central and state governments officials, reported Reuters.

"No innocent person should be harassed in the struggle against terrorism," he stressed.

"If a mistake is made, effective remedial corrective measures should be taken well in time."

Indian Muslims have complained of increased harassment since a series of bombing attacks against commuter trains in Mumbai, India's financial hub, on July 11 killed 186.

The attacks, blamed but not claimed by Muslim groups, resulted in increased police raids on the city's Muslim areas and the detention of hundreds.

Experts warn that the random arrests alienate an already frustrated minority and could backfire pushing some green youths to fall prey to radicals and extremists.

On Tuesday, the Indian Express newspaper said heavy handed policing in the wake of the Mumbai blasts had left Muslims in the city feeling "under siege."

India, which is officially a secular nation, is home to the world's largest Muslim population after Indonesia and Pakistan.

Hindus account for more than 80 percent of the country's 1.1 billion population while Muslims make up about 13 percent.

Grievances

Singh said India had to immediately embark on a pro-active policy "to ensure that a few individual acts do not result in tarnishing the image of an entire community."

He also underlined the importance of working to "remove any feelings of persecution and alienation from the minds of the minorities".

Being himself a member of the Sikh minority, Singh said Indian Muslims nursed a strong sense of grievance that they have not actively benefited from the processes of social and economic development.

"All of us have an obligation to redress legitimate grievances of our minorities," he said.

Though the country's top woman tennis star, president and richest man are Muslims as are several top film stars and federal ministers, such high-profile success stories mask the real status of Indian Muslims.

The country's Muslim minority has suffered decades of social and economic neglect and oppression.

Official figures reveal Muslims log lower educational levels and higher unemployment rates than the Hindu majority and other minorities like Christians and Sikhs.

They account for less than seven percent of public service employees, only five percent of railways workers, around four percent of banking employees and there are only 29,000 Muslims in India's 1.3 million-strong military.

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AvarAllahNoor
09-12-2006, 01:20 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by sonz
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Being himself a member of the Sikh minority,]
He's no Sikh he's a hindu puppet!!
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ManchesterFolk
09-13-2006, 01:34 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by AvarAllahNoor
He's no Sikh he's a hindu puppet!!
He could still have Sikh beliefs. How do you know for sure he isn't Sikh?
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AvarAllahNoor
09-13-2006, 08:13 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by ManchesterFolk
He could still have Sikh beliefs. How do you know for sure he isn't Sikh?
You can't have Sikh beliefs if you don't follow the Sikh religion. He doesn't so that's evidence enough.
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AvarAllahNoor
09-14-2006, 07:59 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by zÂk
Doesnt he follow the sikh religion ? :confused:

esp tht turban he wears... shouts he is a sikh.
Just as you would say a man with a cap and the Kuran in his hand, does not make a muslim, correct? A turban does not mean he's a follower of the Sikh religion. He's a BJP candidate in the disguise of a Sikh
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AvarAllahNoor
09-14-2006, 09:01 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by zÂk
lol u r the first one to say tht :p
I know my poiltics. - If he was a Sikh he'd have all the perpetrators of crimes committed against Sikhs behind bars. And he'd not be worshiping in hindu mandirs in front of idols. THAT is not Sikhism!


BTW - All Sikhs know it too! :)
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AHMED_GUREY
09-14-2006, 03:20 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by AvarAllahNoor
I know my poiltics. - If he was a Sikh he'd have all the perpetrators of crimes committed against Sikhs behind bars. And he'd not be worshiping in hindu mandirs in front of idols. THAT is not Sikhism!


BTW - All Sikhs know it too! :)

Bhindrenwale's era?
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AvarAllahNoor
09-14-2006, 06:39 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by AHMED_GUREY
Bhindrenwale's era?
I'm talking about now!
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Nσσя'υℓ Jαииαн
09-14-2006, 07:59 PM
Lol, your ticked aren't you.
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Islamicboy
09-14-2006, 08:25 PM
BJP Hindu extremist Responsible for Gujarat killings.

http://www.islamicthinkers.com/massa...ls.php?album=6
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