Let us stop Labelling People as Muslims ,Hindus,Christians and so on for the sake of getting some political patronage.We are all humans,with a Common ancestry but apparently diverse faith systems.
What is wrong if all of us agree to support each other and shun violence?
Re: Stop Labelling
by MM Gupta on Jun 12, 2015 07:52 PM Permalink
No problem in living side by side! ONLY WHEN THE ZIHADI GROUP LIVES THEY DONT BOTHER ABOUT OTHERS! Their mission is torture even to namazi muslims! 1971 bangladesh warfare was outcome!
I dont like a garbage dump next to my house - because it smells bad.
Does it mean I hate GARBAGE itself??? (I spread it myself too!!)
Does it mean I hate the 'people' who spread garbage???? That I hate 'HUMANITY'???? But its funny how we blow it up big - big enough to feel 'discriminated against', big enough to 'fire back', big enough to riot, big enough to KILL!!
If I dont want my children to watch a goat being lynched, thats MY choice...does not mean that the ACT is bad or the people who do it are bad. I dont KNOW why they do it, neither should I CARE!
If someone does not want to dance at bhajans, its their choice. I can maybe request that they refrain from attending such functions because its a little 'incovenient'. Its like acting as the 'spoilsport' at a party. Nothing more!! Its courteous if we avoid EXHIBITING our non-conformance. And i request the other attendees to treat it just as that. Dont insult your religion YOURSELF by thinking that those people are DISCRIMINATING against you by not 'participating' and hence 'they too deserve the same'.
Religion and its actual practice (they both ARE different!)is very PERSONAL. Do not use it to label ALL.
it does NOT mean that ALL indians are corrupt!!! ITS MY INDIVIDUAL CHOICE!!! Same goes for people prefer India over US. They cannot say 'All americans are rascist, so I stayed back in India'
What am I trying to say?? Arif bhai suffered a humiliating situation. We should be SORRY for that SITUATION - without needing to take it PERSONALLY...as a label on all hindus. We cant start blaming back...and repeating the same mistake he has!!
To Arif bhai, what I can say is "I am sorry that you had to go thru this. No matter who did it to you. But please do not pain yourself further by thinking that everybody is like this - and that you have no place. You are alienating YOURSELF"
To people who complain about discrimination on basis on 'not being allowed to cook non vegetarian food' etc. Please do not confuse tolerance/inconvenience with something as bad as RELIGIOUS discrimination. As much as the people object to a MUSLIM cooking non-vegetarian food, thye would do the same to ANYONE who cooks non-vegetarian food. Its got nothing to do with your religion, its no even gotto do anything with the FOOD - its just the 'smell'- which some find 'inconvenient'....
C'mon folks!!!! We (most of us atleast) are all repeating the same mistake we are accusing Arifbhai of!!
Arif might be over-generalizing - but he DID go through something which is very 'alienating'. And we have got to empathise.
But I see people who say 'Cmon Arif bhai, dont use one example to label all the Hindus'...and in the same breath they continue with 'have you seen what Muslims do??? They dont express prashad, they dont dance to bhajans, they terrorise people in their own country' Do you think all the muslim guys in your school are gonna grow up to be Jehaadi terrorists!!???? GET REAL please!!
There are another bunch of people that say - 'i am ashamed of my country due to blah blah' The truth is - EACH AND EVERY COUNTRY has its own set of plus and minus points. ANY country!! It depends upon the individual choice where he thinks his priorities fit better. I might be a guy who can tolerate corruption...but NOT rascism based on skin color. I would prefer India to the US. I might be other way round - I would then prefer US. But the most important thing to realise I have got to respect OTHERS individual opinions as much as mine. If i shift to the US...
