Two Faces of India

There is no lack of opportunity for muslims in India. Unlike the west where minorities usually encounter a glass ceiling and are often not acceppted in the mainstream, India has offered equal opportunity to its minorities. India has had two muslim presidents, and several muslim CEOs. Muslim actors rule the Indian film industry and the entire country adores them. One of the most successful captain of the Indian cricket (a sport that is like a religeon in India) team was a muslim.

Commentators should assess the real reasons for the problem and not come out with popular sounding views that seem to align with popular thinking of the western elite.

this is an excellant article written on the basis of truth but unfortunately the indian muslims will take the side of pakistan and perish than supporting the hindus and flourish. This is mainly because of the lack of education and common sense. The indian muslims spend millions of wealth in bomb blasting and other anti social events every year but they have not buit a well known school, college, hospital or any other social upliftment centres for the welfare of the muslims. The public think that the indian muslims are united and if anything takeplace in india, it would be well known to even a small child in the muslim areas. especially when a bomb blast is there, people suspect that some muslims would have been aware of such incidents before they happen. and it is true in some cases. also. Eg:: In tamilnadu, coimbatore when there was a bomb blast, all the muslims adults knew about that and they safte guarded themselves , becasuse the arms and ammunition were stored in a masjid in the area of Kottaovasal, a muslim stronghold of the Al Umma organisation. So hindus and muslims will never be united and some foreces from these two communities will never allow for such reconcilation.

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All readers please read this. I promise this is not yellow journalism. Your chance to read the truth from other than the government.

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/15/20081129200811291119513862f1fe0c1/I-want-to-live

Hindus and muslims have been in UK for the same amount of time with the same social structure. Why is that muslims in UK are economically backward?

All readers please read this. I promise this is not yellow journalism. Your chance to read the truth from other than the government.

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/15/20081129200811291119513862f1fe0c1/I-want-to-live

Hindus and muslims have been in UK for the same amount of time with the same social structure. Why is that muslims in UK are economically backward?

What an absolutely pathetic article! I really expect Newsweek to do better.

As usual, the apologists for radical Islamic terrorism resort to blaming scapegoats like "poverty" and "lack of education" that, much as they are undesirable, are non-factors.

Case in point: Osama bin Laden was a rich man. The people who carried out 9/11, and the people who attacked Glasgow Airport in the UK, were all well educated, with degrees in engineering and medicine. On the other hand, some of the world's poorest people in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Haiti are not terrorists. The Tibetans have a dispute with the government of China, but there has NEVER been a Buddhist Tibetan terrorist, nor will there ever likely to be. Hindus and Christians in Pakistan are discriminated against to a far more severe degree than Muslims in secular India, but you'll never hear of Hindu or Christian terrorists in Pakistan. Actually, Pakistan's sole source of terrorism comes from radical Islamic extremists in the Northwest Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, places so dangerous that even its military dare not venture.

Terrorism stems from IDEOLOGY. This is what you get when Saudi-funded Wahhabist madrassas spring up all over Pakistan, brainwashing young men and little children to hate Hindus, Jews and Christians. It is these brainwashed agents of radical islam who strap bombs on themselves and blow up civilians in India, Russia, Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, Thailand, Philippines and other places. Until the Muslim world disavows radical islamic ideology, and wholeheartedly fight the terrorists and their ideology, this evil will persist and will plunge the whole world into war.

So stop apologizing for Muslim extremists and stop doing their PROPAGANDA that "poverty", "lack of education" or "discrimination" is to blame. It is not. There is an eight-tonne elephant in the room with the words "Islamic extremism" written on it. Now, let's see Newsweek try to address this phenomenon. You'll be doing your readers a service.

Comment: I really wonder why a widely read magazine like Newsweek could publish such a stupid article written by Sameer Reddy. There are rich and poor people in India irrespective of caste and religion. Muslims are treated well in India. Terrorism happened in USA, U K and other European countries..Can Newsweek draw same conclusion or you should explain why you published such an article to tarnish India.Shame on you, Newsweek
Posted by Kurian

Sameer Reddy - Can you be clear? Disaffected Muslims or disaffected Indian Muslims or disaffected Pakistani Muslims?
What has that got to do with an al Qaeda terrorism inflicting wounds on the city of Mumbai. This is a shoddy theme (the poor Indian Muslims) which has shown up in 3 of pre-eminent US newspapers and magazines this week (NY times ??? Somini Sengupta / Christine Fair, Times ??? Aryn Baker and now Newsweek).
Muslims have a lot of opportunities in India if they choose to take it. In fact they have largesse handed out to them more than any other community in India. There is a special budget earmarked just for Muslims by the government of India. They get government subsidy to go on 'hajj pilgrimage'. (This is Indian tax payer money (from the general population) set aside for Indian Muslims only). No other religious groups in India get to go on pilgrimage at the Indian government???s expense.
As minorities they get admissions in colleges and universities (special reservation).
Muslim universities in India are allowed to admit on communal basis - just Muslims (which is 100% Muslim students in these universities). The Muslim Universities in India do not have to admit Hindus. Besides that the Indian Muslims get to go to the general universities based on reservation (quota system for minorities). (If there is a Hindu university - even there the Muslims get reservation first, not the Hindus).
They have job reservation set aside as well.
The Muslims in India also have special sharia laws enacted for themselves. While the rest of the Indian populations have the uniform civil code the Indian Muslims have special privileges to carry out their own law based on religious injunctions. No other Indian communities have these privileges.
Muslims in India are pampered by politicians. The social policies are all geared for their success. If they want to they can reach the moon or the mars. They just have to seek it.

Sameer Reddy is an idiot. He should think about how much better Muslims are treated in India than Hindus in Pakistan - or any religious minority in every Muslim country.

This is a reckless and irresponsible piece of wring which I never expected from a publication like News Week. There is no systematic discrimination against any religious religious groups inside India If that was the case then why are other religious minorities thriving in India? . Regardless, you just can't justify terrorism no matter what the root cause is. BTW, I did not recollect seeing any such analysis in US media after 9/11.


9/9/11?

india is secular country... all religions enjoy their freedom... infact muslims have more freedom than in their own nations around the world... the problem is even a well educated muslim gets brain washed by extreme throughts... they have to rise above their religion and respect other religions to live in peace...

"cost of truth" is correct. I am APALLED that Newsweek would allow such amateurish, unsubstantiated and anecdotal information to be published by this person.

Newsweek is losing SERIOUS credibility with this article. The poor of India, regadless of religion, are disenfranchised, and the economic "boom" in recent years has not improved the lives of the poor of India, regardless of ethnicity, religion or any other demographic attribute.

A lot of misinformation here.

This article is nothing but absolute rubbish. Any reasonable Indian (doesn't matter which faith) who read this article should realise the utter nonsense perpetrated. The nation's economic momentum did not take place to benefit only one religion other than Muslims. The participants and recipients of the wealth created by the economic boom comes from people of all faiths in the country. The boom requires hardworking and willing talented people to step up. Whoever in Newsweek responsible for recruiting such an analytically challenged, worth for nothing writer to be on their staff, open your eyes to the reality, read the article, realize the meaningless gist, purge the writer "Sameer Reddy" from your organization to restore sanity.

It's all about poor, disaffected, muslims.
Religion got nothing to do with it?

So, are there no Hindus who are poor How many Hindu terrorist groups can you name? But just to humor all those, including renowoned reporters like Amonpur, who allege that Islamic terrrorim is basis of disenfranchised Muslims, can you please explain 9/11, the attacks in London and Russia? Indian muslims are on a similar boat as anyone else. There are rich Indians and poor Indians, but only Muslim terrorist groups. There is a number of Islamic nations in the world, they can leave and go there if they feel so slighted in India. They don;t go bcos they enjoy individual freedom which they won't enjoy in an Islmaic nation, barring a few. Please do cut the crap.