Kashmir Jihad

Submitted by Secular Indian (Australia), Sep 13, 2006 at 22:02

True Indian has more or less depicted the truth; There is nobody to talk of the minorities(read non-muslims) in kashmir; In secular India, it is almost considered to be a sin to speak or write anything against opression of the non-muslims.

The world should also be aware that with about 15 to 20% muslim population in India, the muslims can follow the sharia for all personal matters(such as marriage, divorce, property matters etc), while the so called majority (hindus) do not get to follow any Hindu law(instead the hindus have to follow laws formulated by the parliment); So India, in a way, has a country within a country(because of different legal systems); Muslims also run parallel sharia courts for the muslim people.

Muslims get government subsidies to go to the islamic holy lands, Mecca; But Hindus do not get any subsidy whatsoever to go to Hindu places of worship.

This is the secular India that I come from; If I talk about this in an educated forum, iam called a right wing activist; Well, God help me and my countrymen.

Also, there is something for the whole world(especially Europe and North and South Americas) to learn from the "Secular Indian" experience; There is a choice for the europeans and the americans - do you want to be oppressed and rolled back into some 7 th century stagnated way of living - where enquiring minds do not have a place or do you want to live in a free non-oppressive world.

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