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Secularism lives due to Hindus: Bukhari
UNI | October 28, 2006 | 23:47 IST
The convenor of the United Democratic Front and Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Maulana Sayyed Ahmad Bukhari today said that if secularism was surviving in India, it was only because of Hindus and not the political parties.
Talking to mediapersons in Allahabad, the Shahi Imam said the political parties only know how to seek votes of the minorities and other weaker sections of the society but fail to do anything for their welfare.
''It is not the only duty of Muslims to defeat the Bhartiya Janata Party but all the secular parties should come together. Muslims have neither given their votes except in 1989 to BJP nor they would give in future,'' he added.
''UDF is a secular party and the doors are always open for those having faith in secularism.'' he stated.
The Imam further called upon all secular forces to come on one platform to be a viable political power and hoped that one day both the Hindus as well as Muslims would come together for the cause.
He maintained that nobody had the right to attain power by dividing people.
''Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav claims himself to be a '' messiah'' of Muslims, therefore, I want him to show the steps he has taken for the betterment of the community. Has he given proper representation to Muslims in his cabinet or in government services,'' he queried.
Imam Bukhari alleged that a number of Muslims hold important posts in various states and union governments and even the prestigious post of the President but had done nothing for the uplift of the community.
''They worked for their respective parties and remained loyal to their parties.'' he maintained.
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Secularism lives due to Hindus: Bukhari
UNI | October 28, 2006 | 23:47 IST
The convenor of the United Democratic Front and Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Maulana Sayyed Ahmad Bukhari today said that if secularism was surviving in India, it was only because of Hindus and not the political parties.
Talking to mediapersons in Allahabad, the Shahi Imam said the political parties only know how to seek votes of the minorities and other weaker sections of the society but fail to do anything for their welfare.
''It is not the only duty of Muslims to defeat the Bhartiya Janata Party but all the secular parties should come together. Muslims have neither given their votes except in 1989 to BJP nor they would give in future,'' he added.
''UDF is a secular party and the doors are always open for those having faith in secularism.'' he stated.
The Imam further called upon all secular forces to come on one platform to be a viable political power and hoped that one day both the Hindus as well as Muslims would come together for the cause.
He maintained that nobody had the right to attain power by dividing people.
''Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav claims himself to be a '' messiah'' of Muslims, therefore, I want him to show the steps he has taken for the betterment of the community. Has he given proper representation to Muslims in his cabinet or in government services,'' he queried.
Imam Bukhari alleged that a number of Muslims hold important posts in various states and union governments and even the prestigious post of the President but had done nothing for the uplift of the community.
''They worked for their respective parties and remained loyal to their parties.'' he maintained.
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 Hindus make India Secular by Pakistan PM.From a post here in sify during Pakistan PM visit a while ago.. --------- 'Hindus make India secular' NEW DELHI: A group of Indian Muslim leaders on Friday told former Pakistan prime minister Shujat Hussain that India was a secular country "because of Hindus". "It is because of the Hindus that India remains a secular country," a spokesman for the Jama Masjid mosque said. "This is what we told him." The spokesman said the group, including Jama Masjid Shahi Imam Syed Ahmad Bukhari, met Hussain for about 30 minutes when he came to offer Friday prayers. Later on in a speech laced with political significance, former Pakistan prime minister Shujat Hussain prayed at the historic Jama Masjid and called upon Indian Muslims to integrate themselves fully with the mainstream. Almost six decades after the sub-continent's partition, Pakistan's ruling party on Friday gave a formal burial to the two-nation theory by urging Indian Muslims to love their motherland. "You are Indians by choice. So live like Indians. Nobody forced you to stay back (and not settle in Pakistan)," Hussain told a large gathering at the 17th-century red stone mosque in the city's old quarters. He reminded the gathering in Urdu that Indian Muslims should love their motherland as they stayed back in India,... ...rejecting the offer to move over to the newly created Pakistan. "You (Indian Muslims) should do everything for the progress and development of the country," he said. Hussain arrived at the mosque with Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan. He was welcomed by the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari. "We pray for peace and prosperity of all countries, be it India, Pakistan or Bangladesh," Bukhari said. ================================ http://mjakbarblog.blogspot.in/2010/06/bjp-needs-to-convert-modern-hindu-woman.html
M.J. Akbar's Blog :Editor of The Sunday Guardian, published from Delhi, India on Sunday, published from London and Editorial Director of India Today and Headlines Today.
SUNDAY, JUNE 06, 2010BJP needs to convert the modern Hindu woman
BJP needs to convert the modern Hindu woman
By M J Akbar The BJP seems caught in a bit of bind. It is beginning to look like the punter who lost a flutter on the football match and then a fortune on the action replay. Its original mistake was a misconception; its contemporary error is a misperception. The historic flaw is its belief, at some gut level, that India is a secular country because the minorities want secularism. Indian Muslims do have a vested interest in secularism, since it ensures equality and democratic power, but that is less than half the story. In 1947, a politicized Indian Muslim elite partitioned India to create Pakistan. Over the last six decades Pakistan has been unable to live with fellow-Muslims who happened to be Bengalis, driving them into a separate nation; marginalized minorities and turned the country into the Islamic Republic of Bloodistan. The obverse does not work in India, however much Rama Sene-style zealots might salivate at the prospect. The reason is quite simple. India is a secular country because Indian Hindus, who constitute the majority, and therefore have a proportional impact upon the political ethos, have created and defended a Constitution that is a remarkable triumph of reason over the temptations of sectarian passion. India is secular not because Muslims need it, but because Hindus want it. There is nothing new about it. The Hindu Mahasabha did not win a single Hindu seat in 1937, even in an age of separate electorates, and did not do much better in 1946 despite the fact that Muslim League swept the Muslim seats in an environment darkened by raging communal storms. Logic suggests, therefore, that if the BJP wants to define itself as a “Hindu” party, it should tread the middle road of coexistence rather than the extreme path of discord. Harmony requires more courage, commitment and moral consistency than conflict. The misperception arises out of a peculiar inability to comprehend the dimensions of an extraordinary Indian cultural revolution that has seeped across divisions of caste and community, with its epicenter located in Hindu society. The new Indian woman is all around us, seeking a place on a college campus, en route to the workplace; participating in television as activist, audience and artiste; on the sports field; on the street; she is everywhere you look — most of all, at home. The revolution is not limited to the urban rich. A week ago we were forced, by that inedible curse called the traffic jam, to take a secondary road through villages from Dehradun airport to the academy in Mussoorie. Women, compelled by circumstance and male prejudice, were carrying large utensils of water on their head from source to home. The younger women were in jeans, or some variation of it. Women everywhere share the common aspiration for modernity and economic success. The more ardent flag-wavers have missed this pervasive and continuing emancipation, which started tentatively in the 1980s but has acquired an unstoppable momentum now. There is change wherever the eye falls, in whatever the senses pick up: dress, public icons, shifting sexual mores — and examination results, where women are asserting their will to be future leaders. The new Indian woman has claimed the mantle of independence as the means of empowerment. She wants freedom, to choose, at a life-changing level; career above marriage if she so desires; or, at an incidental level, a pub over the confines of home. She is demanding the prerogatives of men. Cinema, that persistent barometer of behaviour, has long abandoned the image of a sati savitri naari at the feet of her pati parmeshwar. The new Indian woman is increasingly contemptuous of any cage, gilded with gold or paste, in the name of tradition or any spurious ism. She barely bothers to hide her contempt. Fear, or trepidation, might make her hesitate occasionally, but this is a circumstantial restraint. Check her inner will. One is not suggesting that this is true of everyone; but this is the role model that is influencing attitudes of decisive numbers. You cannot chase this generation out of a pub without sending a nationwide signal advertising your gender bias. The girls in the Mangalore pub did not go to drink senselessly; they went there to exercise the right to go there. Those who attacked the pub, incidentally, had the full support of conservative reactionaries from all religions. While reactionary politics might persist among some ethnic groups, it is becoming malodorous to the young. Religion remains an important aspect of Indian life; the Hindu young celebrate Durga Puja, Holi and Diwali with as much joy as their elders. But their faith, regrettable exceptions apart, is socially inclusive, not aggressively exclusive. As India becomes an increasingly younger country, it is this culture that will tip power towards one party or another. If the BJP cannot get the vote of the young, modern Hindu woman, it has no future. ( Times of India Column : 6th April 2010)
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'Hindus make India secular'
New Delhi: A group of Indian Muslim leaders on Friday told former Pakistan prime minister Shujat Hussain that India was a secular country "because of Hindus".
"It is because of the Hindus that India remains a secular country," a spokesman for the Jama Masjid mosque said. "This is what we told him."
The spokesman said the group, including Jama Masjid Shahi Imam Syed Ahmad Bukhari, met Hussain for about 30 minutes when he came to offer Friday prayers.
Later on in a speech laced with political significance, former Pakistan prime minister Shujat Hussain prayed at the historic Jama Masjid and called upon Indian Muslims to integrate themselves fully with the mainstream.
Almost six decades after the sub-continent's partition, Pakistan's ruling party on Friday gave a formal burial to the two-nation theory by urging Indian Muslims to love their motherland.
"You are Indians by choice. So live like Indians. Nobody forced you to stay back (and not settle in Pakistan)," Hussain told a large gathering at the 17th-century red stone mosque in the city's old quarters.
He reminded the gathering in Urdu that Indian Muslims should love their motherland as they stayed back in India,... ...rejecting the offer to move over to the newly created Pakistan.
"You (Indian Muslims) should do everything for the progress and development of the country," he said.
Hussain, who is president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, is the highest- ranking Pakistani leader to visit the Jama Masjid, which along with the Red Fort across the street was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
The Pakistan Muslim League, although now divided into more than one faction, considers itself the rightful successor to the Muslims League that led the drive for Pakistan's creation.
Hussain also referred to India-Pakistan relations, saying he was optimistic that both countries would be able to resolve all their differences and soon.
"I am positive India and Pakistan will resolve their differences. This is also because Indian leaders, be they in the government or the opposition, are in agreement on the issue of overcoming the differences with Pakistan.
"When the attitude of the leaders is right, then there can be no hitch."
He also singled out Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for the thaw in India-Pakistan ties, ..."There are impediments in India-Pakistan relations, but Musharraf is determined to do away with them."
The former prime minister, who spent about an hour at the mosque, said: "I am overwhelmed by the hospitality I received.
"I bring a message of peace. I bring greetings from Musharraf and the people of Pakistan."
Hussain, who was prime minister of Pakistan from June 30 to Aug 28 last year, was almost mobbed as a crowd flocked to see and shake hands with him.
Hussain arrived at the mosque with Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan. He was welcomed by the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari.
"We pray for peace and prosperity of all countries, be it India, Pakistan or Bangladesh," Bukhari said.
During the violent days of the 1947 partition, the Jama Masjid became a refuge for hundreds of Muslims who fled their homes fearing mob attacks. While many eventually made their way to Pakistan, many more stayed on in India. With some 140 million Muslims, India is home to the second largest Muslim population after Indonesia.
(Courtesy: The Times of India; April 1, 2008)
(URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1067089.cms )
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