As the desire for spiritual equality spread across India, Islam provided the perfect platform. If the Sangh Parivar thinks that through induced or forceful marriages, or through swords or by using state power, masses will change their religion, they are hugely mistaken. Islam and Christianity have grown in the world because of education — both are book-centric religions. Over a period of 1,600 years, Islamic culture has spread through the length and breadth of India, touched all sections of society, and penetrated into various spheres of our life. How can a Prime Minister treat a cultural system — the lifeblood of a nation — as anti-national? This question begs an answer, and the debate should be focused on this alone, and not on who is a majority and who a minority.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 23:14:04 +0000