Misbah Quadri, Zeshan Ali Khan: Why is there no organised protest against the discrimination?
Is
India
a
successful
secular
country
without
its
minorities?
The
recent
experiences
of
Misbah
Quadri
and
Zeeshan
Ali
Khan,
two
Muslim
youths
who
were
denied
accommodation
and
job,
respectively,
within
a
span
of
a
week
or
so,
prove
it.
If
religion
becomes
a
basis
for
discrimination
in
the
Maximum
City,
just
think
about
the
reality
in
Bharat
They received the unfortunate treatment in Mumbai, the country's commercial capital! If such is still the case in India's Maximum City, one can well understand what it is like in Bharat. [Muslim woman denied flat in Mumbai]
The media in this country will forget these incidents with time but they will continue to occur time and again, revealing the dark reality of our much celebrated secularism. [Youth denied job in Mumbai for being a Muslim]
Majority community feels ecstatic when a minority student wins first prize in Bhagwad Gita competition...
We celebrate when Mariyan Asif Siddique, 12-year-old minority girl wins the first prize in an inter-school Bhagwad Gita competition but doesn't really put up a resistance when a couple of Muslim youths are denied basic necessities of life.
... but doesn't hesitate to deny basic rights to representatives of the same community
We welcome the minority community when it shows an eagerness to be a part of the majority culture but never feel to take a step to include it into our scheme of things.
This
is
an
immense
double
standard
that
we
display
in
our
'secular' nation.
Such
discrimination
takes
place
openly
and
people
are
even
unapologetic
over
it
The cases of Qadri and Zeeshan are more alarming for nowadays, these incidents of open denial are taking place in full public view.
Onslaught of the majoritarian: The reality of today's India?
The 'liberal' media is projecting these cases of human rights violation 24X7 and the majoritarian voices are unabashedly speaking in favour of such discrimination.
This is a dangerous trend unfolding in secular India. We no more have any sense of guilt while depriving our own countrymen on superficial grounds.
Movement
to
safeguard
individual
freedom
and
social
cohesion
is
the
need
of
the
day
If
a
counter
movement
is
not
started
soon
to
address
this
issue
of
religious
discrimination
in
the
society,
then
the
very
basis
of
a
secular
state
that
has
been
laid
by
the
country's
constitution
will
be
under
threat.
The
way
the
Indian
society
is
displaying
its
illiberal
sides
and
denying
space
to
individuals,
the
need
of
a
movement
stressing
individual
freedom
is
the
need
of
the
day.
The Kadris and Zeeshans have been discriminated against just because they are representatives of the minority community makes the minority society also part of the question: Why are we dividing ourselves to a point of risk?
Can justice be delivered at any level?