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The problem is not with your beard Sir !
by Vivek Agrawal on Aug 25, 2006 09:25 AM

The frustration among the Muslim community is understandable. Many largely innocent people bear the brunt of a small section of people who are misguided to become terrorist.
But I think that the same community should start thinking rationally as to why all this is happening and try to gather some confidence of the people who are not-so-assured about their reactions even to some very obvious things. Here are some illustrations.
The Muslim community should realise that when they take pride in calling themselves Indians, they should not heed to anybody's anti-nationalist guidelines. Example would be the Vande-Mataram Fatwa episode.
They should understand that actions of some people of the community tend to mark the general attributes for the whole community. Just think that as you consider the actions of George W. Bush as anti-muslims and share a sense of difference with the Western people, similarly, for the actions of terrorists, coming largely from the sections of your community are enough to make others apprehensive of your pausible conduct.
Another thing is that, if the people who were interrogated often travelled abroad, why did they not heed to instructions fm the crew?

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