Monday, May 23, 2005

Intra civilian non-cooperation with Muslims will never help

At times during generic discussions with the Svayamsevaks or pro-Hindu ideologists (non-Sangh), it appears most of them generally believe in “Non-cooperative” missions targeted at Muslims. I have felt it when there are instances where people have denied some Muslims auto drivers an opportunity to get a rental. They instead prefer Hindu auto-drivers who have a few stickers of deities or OM written across the windshield. Before we engorge ourselves with strong emotions against this write up, we first need to categorize Muslims into the following categories

1) CATEGORY 1: Non-Fundamental Muslims, who consider India as their homeland and hardly care about any policy decisions, much like a similar category of Hindus.
2) CATEGORY 2: Fundamental Muslims who dream of making India an Islamic state and practice Jihad in various forms against the Kafirs (us Hindus). Also in this category are Muslims who feel they should have been in Pakistan or feel Arabia is their homeland.

It is estimated only about 5% of Indian Muslims are in reasonable economic conditions and the rest are either lower-middle class, poor or below poverty-line. Since they are about 13% percent of the population, it does make a significant impact on our development index, per-capita growth, etc. The so-called “Intra civilian non-cooperation” may not really help us or Hindus in general, since the majority fund flow is positively happening within the Indian economic perimeters. We need to start analyzing such impacts from a national perspective. What is the objective of this non-cooperation? If the idea is to bring them into economic crisis, then I am completely against such a policy because it has a strong cascading effect. We need to realize that we live in an open economy. For example, let us say that our non-cooperation movement works effectively and assume that 50 million (5 crores) Indian Muslims go below a self-sustaining economic level, then India will plunge in to an economic crisis, these people would become no better than Bangaldeshi immigrants contributing to unemployment, per-capita income downfall, spending on additional relief efforts (we cannot let them die of Hunger).

Muslims have been India for close to 8 centuries (prior to that most of them emigrated from Persia with a very few converts). To add to this India has the second largest Muslim population in the World, which is close to 14 Crores, which only next to Indonesia which has about 18 Crore Muslims. So these 800 years of growth cannot be eliminated within a short span. Similarly a self-inflicting “Intra civilian non cooperation” also looks very immature to me at this stage this cannot be a medium for ethnic-cleansing (if that is what some of us desire).

What is important right now and an imminent threat to our national security is the CATEGORY 2 (C2) Muslims who are roaming around freely in India and ISI is caching on this opportunity to push in some funds to sustain fundamental activities. These C2 Muslims have made the Madrasas and Dhargas a breeding ground for C2 Muslims and harvesting some C1 Muslims as well.

We need to continue to support C1 Muslims as our own countrymen who will contribute towards our nation’s growth; we need to extend all benefits that we espouse for our Hindu populace. For me an elegant solution to have C1 Muslims contribute towards the nation would be to implement the Uniform Civil Code, which ideally should have been a norm in a “secular” country like ours. At the same time we need to fight fiercely against the C2 Muslims so that they start forgetting about destroying their own motherland.