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Secularism and Islam
by Kris iyer on Jul 01, 2008 04:56 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

Muslim minorities like "secularism". But muslim majorities say, "Secularism is against Islam"!! Even in Turkey, the only officially secular muslim-majority country in the world, many Christians have been murdered there, as late as 2001. In 1918, nearly one million Armenian Christians were killed by Turks, mostly muslim neighbours who turned on the Christians, probably, blaming them for Turkey's defeat in the first world war.
The Zorastrians (Parsees in India) tried to live under a muslim-majority in Persia. Even as late as the early 20th century, they arrived in British India unable to withstand the persecution by the muslim majority. If a Muslim and Zorastrian on horse-back meet in the street, the latter must stop, get off the horse, allow the muslim to pass, then climb on his horse to continue!!
Even today in Iran, Zorastrians who are "staunch" about their religion, may be detained as "Israeli spies". Many innocent Bahais are also hanged as "Israeli spies". Talk to any Bahai to know the persecution they are suffering in Muslim Iran.
The Christian "Copts" in Egypt are migrating out since the "Wahabisation" of Egypt through the "Muslim Brotherhood".
In Pakistan of the 1950s, authorities used to detain Hindu citizens on the ground that they were "staunch Hindus". See Chandra Banu v. Province of Sindh, Pakistan Legal Decisions, (1950).
The trouble is the Hindu elite ruling India has no clear understanding of these issues.

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