Muslims being Abused and discrminated in India

A report prepared by a seven-member committee headed by Justice Rajinder Sachar has conceded that India's Muslim minority faces appalling socioeconomic deprivation and is the victim of official neglect and frequent police harassment and violence.

The committee, which was charged with investigating the socioeconomic status of India's 150 million Muslims and recommending means of improving their lot, was appointed by United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in March 2005.

It has long been patently obvious that India's Muslims are disproportionately represented among the poor and that they have been the target of official discrimination. From 1998 to 2004, India's government was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which openly espouses the Hindu-supremacist doctrine of Hindutva. In 2002, more than 2,000 Muslims were killed and tens of thousands more left homeless by an anti-Muslim pogrom in BJP-ruled Gujarat.

Nevertheless, the Sachar Committee's findings constitute a devastating indictment of bourgeois rule in India. In particular, they puncture the claims of the Congress Party, which dominates the current UPA coalition and has governed India for most of the 60 years since independence, to be the architect of a secular democracy.

Representing 13.4 percent of India's population, Muslims are far and away India's largest religious minority, living, albeit in varying concentrations, in all parts of the country.

The Congress-led UPA had two major motivations for appointing the Sachar Committee.

Addressing or at least appearing to address some of the grievances of India's beleaguered Muslim minority is a way the current government can differentiate itself from the former BJP-dominated coalition, while pursuing the same socially incendiary neo-liberal economic agenda. Sections of the Indian establishment have become apprehensive over the politically destabilising consequences of the growing alienation of India's Muslims, and in particular of a spurt in support for Islamicist organisations, some of them with terrorist affinities.

However, so damaging were the Sachar Committee's findings to the Congress's secular pretensions that the UPA government delayed the report's release for some two months. Discrepancies between leaked copies of the report and the final version indicate, moreover, that the government insisted that some parts be deleted before making the Sachar Committee's findings public.

The report concedes that India's Muslims live under a shadow of fear due to a communalised political establishment and state machinery: "Communal tension or any untoward incident in any part of the country is enough to make Muslims fear for their safety and security. The lackadaisical attitude of the government and the political mileage sought whenever communal riots occur has been very painful for the Community."

The report adds that Muslims have come to fear the police and security forces: "Concern was expressed over police highhandedness in dealing with Muslims. Muslims live with an inferiority complex as 'every bearded man is considered an ISI [Pakistan's foreign spy agency] agent'; 'whenever any incident occurs Muslim boys are picked up by the police' and fake encounters [between security forces and alleged Muslim terrorists] are common. In fact, people argued that police presence in Muslim localities is more common than the presence of schools, industry, public hospitals and banks. Security personnel enter Muslim houses on the slightest pretext. The plight of Muslims living in border areas is even worse as they are treated as 'foreigners' and are subjected to harassment by the police and administration."

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[htgajjar]

Muslims in India are always Criminals, Killers, and Islamic Terrorists. Muslims go to your Islamic Terrorist Pakistan where you can do your Islamic Terrorism.

[incredibleindia100]

@htgajjar Bharat is the mother of all terrorism, hinduism promotes terrorism thats why all the biggest terrorist organistaion are based in bharat, such as bjp,rss, vhp, bajrang dal

[incredibleindia100]

@htgajjar Let me know about your qualification i dont want to waste my time talking with illitrate hindu fanatics who are nothing but 6th grade drop out taxi drivers. Pakistan is 10,000 years old while bharat founded by british is only 60 years old. Bhartis are desperately trying to steal Pakistan's heritage, particularly the Indus Valley Civilization! This bharti hegemonic agenda is based on myths and false propaganda for religious and nationalistic imperialism.

[incredibleindia100]

@htgajjar Muslims are peace lovers, Give Kashmir back to its motherland Pakistan otherwise you will continue to have bomb blast throughout India. No one is safe

[Shelby902101]

I THINK hindustan is for hindus , u feel lucy we gave u every ting . first of all u dont belong in india bastards . fucking haji ali muslum batards .

we should creat them a country i mean come on this is too much . these bastards are the poorest in india and we been carrying their weight for so long by payingTAX.

india should considercreating them another country around afghanistan or some where far cu they are not indians , inian is hindu not some mulim terrorist

[gobuddyboy]

@htgajjar You hindus support BJP, a terrorist party. You filthy hindus need to stop worshipping rats and stop drinking cow piss

[pakdomination007]

Fuck india

[Hinduismglance]

2000 muslims were killed by congress in Bhagalpur riots.It was worst than the riots after Muslims burnt the train carrying 59 pilgrims.

[khwrshj]

GAY HIND.

[sonuEEE]

This man said Muslims In America have equal rights,, That shows his level of knowledge..

[BiswaRSingh]

@incredibleindia100 So as pakistani... world's most wanted terrorist Osama found in Pakistan....

[code925301]

fuck india

[incredibleindia100]

@MrQwertyui12345678 kid, indus valley civilization is pakistani civilization, Hindustan was a name given by Muslim marauders to north bharat not to Pakistan

[MrQwertyui12345678]

@incredibleindia100 hahaha pakistan is 10000 old empire

u thing that we are fools

we know history better

persia was an empire not pakistan. persia is the place called iran iraq n others

hinduatan was an empire now called india pakistan bamgladesh