The one thing that all the incredible RSS cretins who frequent this column fail to understand is that Hindoos are not a community or a united religion but Hindooism is just a way of life. The Hindoos are a population hopelessly divided into myriads of castes creeds and communities. The interests and aspirations of all these blocks are all against each other. So there is absolutely no question of their coming together as a single vote bank. They have never been able to forge a unity at any point of time in the history of this country. This is the greatest advantage of the Muslims of India. History is witness to the fact that whenever Muslims stood united behind a single banner – whether it be to establish the Sultanate or the Mughal empire or to carve out Pakistan or to uproot the Emergency or to get the Muslim personal law altered their way or to kick out Vajpai from power – they did what they wanted and there was nobody to stop them. So let them be 15% or 5%, ignorant or illiterate, wealthy or poor, Islam has been a formidable force in ancient and modern India and will continue to control the destiny of Hindustan forever – like it or not. Don’t you see that, in accordance with the desire of the Muslims, reservation for backward communities is a reality in India despite all the hue and cry from the upper caste Hindoos?
