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In light of the recent hate that was posted here, i'd like to appeal to the people not to base their their opinions on indian and Hindu people on what was posted here recently.
most Hindu people are quite moderate and believe in harmony and peace. Ancient india has had a reputation for giving refuge to various persecuted gruops from around the world. For example, the Jews
However, for the last 20 years or so, there has been happening a systematic opression of hindus and unfair advantages given to muslims in the name of secularism. Muslims are potrayed by the left wing political parties as opressed and poor, and are given special rights such as affirmative action in government jobs, schools and institutions of higher education. Not only this, there have been cases where the government has amended the constitution of India to pander to Muslims!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohd._Ahmed_Khan_v._Shah_Bano_Begum
As you can see in the example above, the government of india amended the constitution of India, under pressure from hardline Islamist groups, to neutralise a perfectly just decision of the Supreme Court, that a Muslim man will have to pay alimony to his wife. In india, polygamy is outlawed for everyone except Muslims. In this aspect, Muslims have created another Pakistan within India, where they don't have to follow laws, don't have to respect the constitution and can force politicians to bend to their whims by their sheer numbers. There are around 177,700,000 muslims in India and make up 14-15% of the population. However they don't vote on basis of issues like the economy, unemployment etc, like the majority population. They vote for the party that can pander to them the most. Most parties pander to them by giving them unfair advantages and a free hand during religious riots. these parties have managed to stay in power for the past 40 years by doing so since the muslim vote as a combined block and anyone receiving their votes can win election easily.
The current Prime Minister of india, Narendra modi, is often criticized by Muslims activists around the world for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. However, nobody, ever talks about the reason why the riots started.
The riots happened because Muslims burnt a train full of hindu pilgrims, for no reason at all..! After the incident, the so called seculars tried to downplay that incident by calling the pilgrims fundamentalists.
Basically these days in India, it goes like this-
If you don't pander to Muslims, you are communal(India's version of the race card) and a bigot.
If you don't support Muslim rioters, you are a communal and a bigot.
If you speak out against Muslim separatism and terrorism, you are communal and a bigot.
On the other hand, if you support terrorists and interfere in judicial process on their behalf, you are secular.
If you support Muslim hate speech, you are secular.
If you support illegal Muslim immigrants, you are secular; but if you talk about stopping illegal immigration, you are a bigot.
These double standards for Muslims and secularism have caused a growing resentment among the majority Hindu community of india. The feeling of being persecuted in their own country has started to result in backlash. Corrupt politicians come to power with muslim support and create problems for the economy. Honest, right wing, nationalist politicians are often unable to gain power because of not pandering to Muslims.
This backlash sometimes results in extreme hate speech like we saw recently. However, I can assure the entire Anandtech community that the majority of Hindu people are peaceful and wish to live in harmony. The US itself has 1,543,730 Hindus. The total Hindu population of the world is more than a billion. Yet, they have not caused any trouble for the most part.
Once again, I'd like to request the Anandtech community not to paint an entire population of a billion people on a certain poster's posts.
Thank you for reading.
most Hindu people are quite moderate and believe in harmony and peace. Ancient india has had a reputation for giving refuge to various persecuted gruops from around the world. For example, the Jews
However, for the last 20 years or so, there has been happening a systematic opression of hindus and unfair advantages given to muslims in the name of secularism. Muslims are potrayed by the left wing political parties as opressed and poor, and are given special rights such as affirmative action in government jobs, schools and institutions of higher education. Not only this, there have been cases where the government has amended the constitution of India to pander to Muslims!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohd._Ahmed_Khan_v._Shah_Bano_Begum
As you can see in the example above, the government of india amended the constitution of India, under pressure from hardline Islamist groups, to neutralise a perfectly just decision of the Supreme Court, that a Muslim man will have to pay alimony to his wife. In india, polygamy is outlawed for everyone except Muslims. In this aspect, Muslims have created another Pakistan within India, where they don't have to follow laws, don't have to respect the constitution and can force politicians to bend to their whims by their sheer numbers. There are around 177,700,000 muslims in India and make up 14-15% of the population. However they don't vote on basis of issues like the economy, unemployment etc, like the majority population. They vote for the party that can pander to them the most. Most parties pander to them by giving them unfair advantages and a free hand during religious riots. these parties have managed to stay in power for the past 40 years by doing so since the muslim vote as a combined block and anyone receiving their votes can win election easily.
The current Prime Minister of india, Narendra modi, is often criticized by Muslims activists around the world for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. However, nobody, ever talks about the reason why the riots started.
The riots happened because Muslims burnt a train full of hindu pilgrims, for no reason at all..! After the incident, the so called seculars tried to downplay that incident by calling the pilgrims fundamentalists.
Basically these days in India, it goes like this-
If you don't pander to Muslims, you are communal(India's version of the race card) and a bigot.
If you don't support Muslim rioters, you are a communal and a bigot.
If you speak out against Muslim separatism and terrorism, you are communal and a bigot.
On the other hand, if you support terrorists and interfere in judicial process on their behalf, you are secular.
If you support Muslim hate speech, you are secular.
If you support illegal Muslim immigrants, you are secular; but if you talk about stopping illegal immigration, you are a bigot.
These double standards for Muslims and secularism have caused a growing resentment among the majority Hindu community of india. The feeling of being persecuted in their own country has started to result in backlash. Corrupt politicians come to power with muslim support and create problems for the economy. Honest, right wing, nationalist politicians are often unable to gain power because of not pandering to Muslims.
This backlash sometimes results in extreme hate speech like we saw recently. However, I can assure the entire Anandtech community that the majority of Hindu people are peaceful and wish to live in harmony. The US itself has 1,543,730 Hindus. The total Hindu population of the world is more than a billion. Yet, they have not caused any trouble for the most part.
Once again, I'd like to request the Anandtech community not to paint an entire population of a billion people on a certain poster's posts.
Thank you for reading.
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