The whole argument is silly. The debate should not be whether the representatives belong to the majority community or not, simply because being a Hindu will not make the minister any less corrupt than he/she already is. If a Sikh PM or a Muslim President is doing fine on the administrative level, where does his community come into the picture? If he is not doing fine, it is irrespective of what community he hails from. He/she may personally favour his/her own community, but one's allegiance to community does not in any way add to or take away from one's competence. You don't have to belong to the religion of a man in distress to feel his pain. Either you can, or you can't. If you can, it is a human feeling; if you can't you belonging to his religion is not going to help one bit.
This argument is like the age-old belief that persons of a particular community need to represent them for their upliftment. While that may be partially true due to some inherent empathy, it does not in any way mean a person belonging to that community will be any less inept or corrupt than any other. No Hindu organization today really works for the honest betterment of Hindus, no Muslim organization today works honestly towards betterment of Muslims. All of them work only towards their own agendas, which affect only those parts of their communities that happen to agree with them. Once one tastes power, money and greed overrides any other factors and destroys any attachment to one's own community.
If rediff is kind enough to publish my comments (as it has not been doing recently, due to reasons unknown) I just wish to acknowledge & appalaud Gautier's Bold & Forthright warning to Indians.
Hello Everyone, its a great article, but there have been many articles this good, and the real question is how would we change whats happening? i am already working with few RSS organizations in Hyderabad who run an orphanage and educate them. please join hands and we can spread our reach into the Hindu community. lets donate what we can - food, clothing, money, time. one more thing we should do is vote, rather than have a stand that politicians are not gonna change anything. then we have more politicians who have our thoughts speaking for us on a national level.
Dear Thanveer Mohammed, why are you so upset with this article. I honestly feel you have no right to demand about the quality and nature of this article. India is a Democratic country. Well, may be you can set up a web site or your won Blog site and discuss the nature of this article. Like what you have done I also sent this article to 20 of my friends and they all said they don't approve cheating and coverting poor people to other religion. Why can't these missionaries go to Muslim countries and do good work for example Kashmir earthquate victims. Poor people there are starving and dying slowly to hunger and cold. I know Missionaries wouldn't go because they cannot convert Muslims, and they are staking their lives. Please don't get involved anymore in this issue and put this issue into deeper and deeper analyzation. Thanks
