Dear Samir Moosa, RSS is another fundamentalist organization. Majority of hindus do not subscribe to their ideology.
Ours is a secular democratic country where we have the freedom to follow any religion, worship any god or not to worhsip also.
Till about 2 years back I was also under the impression that Islam is a good religion but after reading the vulgur remarks of some muslims (specially one Mr. Rafiuddin Farooqui) against our native culture only I started to look deeper into the matter.
Some of the islamic rulers tried to convert the natives into religion (Aurangazeb, Tippu Sultan in Malabar, etc but that was exception). They were also like the politicians of our time. The muslim population at time was about 8% or so only. They could not have ruled by alienating rest of the population. Aslo once having established they were only interested in amassing wealth, filling up their harems with beautiful women, building monuments, etc. They did not care for the common muslims also.
There is no need for the Indian muslims to justify them nor to be apologetic. Those things happened in a distant past. We cannot correct historical wrongs. The world as a whole resembles nothing that existed prior to World War-II.
The muslims stayed back in India at the time of partition due to their attachment to their native land and/or fear of the unknown. Now they are Indians and there is no need for them to show extra-territorial loyalities in the name of some imaginary
