We need to know what is the educated Muslim thinking. Why are they not taking up these issues within their community? I have felt really sorry for the un-educated who are brainwashed by the power hungry politicians into violent acts, or take to streets, burn train coach (Godhra), burn policemen (in Bhiwandi). The Muslim society lives in two levels - one the classy, liberal, cultured and highly educated who have very little to do with Islam the common Muslim masses are fed by their Mullahs. Then there is the uneducated (or semi literate), living in ghettos, and who are mostly on the fringe who have become the fertile ground for terrorist thinking and actions. They are unfortunately getting isolated from the common society. They react violently against Hindus in India if something happens in Pakistan or elsewhere, to their co-religionists, their religion/prophet?
Unless Muslim intellectuals wake up and educate their masses, and free them from the clutches of fundamentalists and greedy politicians, there is not going to be real peace. We will alway live in a suspicious world. But who will stand up to take initiative to cleanse the minds?
