Dear Imran, A particular people might have different ways of affirming their faith. In so many Muslim countries, minorities either do not exist or are given second rate citizenship. No land rights are claimed as you say, because some would believe that everything belongs to that Supreme Being. The point here is showing respect to the millions and millions of people who have lived their lives and sowrn by the idea that is Ram. When Mohammad Iqbal wrote that nazm on Ram, he was paying his tribute to that reverence in which the Indian people have held Ram in. That sense of respect and reverence must be maintained. The fact also is that about five hundred years ago, a foreign invader (whose children subsequently made India their home) came, and in his time began the process of psychologically ruling the Hindus by desacrating their places of religious importance. That process has to stop. Hindus and Muslims have to sit together and Muslims have to say, 'Brothers and Sisters, our anscestors took away what had always been yours. We apologise for that, and here we return your possessions.' That will mark the start of a new Golden period in India. The Muslims of India are our brothers and sisters as they belong to this land. It is important that we take this historic step together.