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Namah Vol. 33, Issue 1, 24th April 2025

Moghul, fought one another for centuries. But backwardness of others one forgets one’s
amongst the people, there was a strong sense own shadows. One tends to compare one’s
of being part of one culture with a common ideals with other’s practices. Each religion
heritage. When the Afghans or Persians has lofty ideals that have distorted forms
attacked during the Moghul reign, the in practice. The Hindus think keeping
various kingdoms within India recognised Muslims in separate housing quarters and
the attackers as foreign powers, but not the concealing butchers’ shops is a solution.
Moghul who shared the same religion as the This may work, as long as it is not social
attackers. Some of the attackers remained segregation, which means condescension
in India, formed their own kingdoms and and hatred. Another solution — meeting
built cities, armies and factories where they their population increase with increasing
employed the native population. They became Hindu children is a race to the bottom.
Indian. Sometimes foreigners came as asylum Bringing awareness about the problem
seekers, such as the Zoroastrians from Persia of over-population is a better solution.
and Syrian Christians. They are now two big Muslims will listen to Muslim messiahs. So
communities, and very much Indian. These bring back the Muslims reformers who have
naturalised Indians are different from the spoken about the need to modernise Islamic
colonisers, who came to exploit raw materials ways. One of them is Allama Muhammad
and enrich themselves in the name of the Iqbal (14), the poet of sare jahan se achha,
white man’s burden. They lived a few years India’s military anthem. The song has a
in the colonies and did not consider it home. powerful line: mazhab nahin sikhata apas
me bair rakhna, religion does not teach us
to keep differences between us. Sir Syed
Ahmad Khan was a Muslim reformer way
back in the 1860s. He set up Aligarh Muslim
University, brought in scientific learning and
encouraged women’s education. Reform
will take time. Meanwhile, the question is:
how can one engage with a terrorist state?
The fallacy here is to treat the state as a
monolithic unit. It has other elements that
are not terrorist, with whose cooperation
terrorism can be stemmed, some of which
Contention II : Incompatibles Cannot Form this paper has presented above.
a Relationship
Conclusion
A common complaint when dealing with
Muslims is that they don’t measure up to Much of what we know of the current border
modern-day standards. It is perceived situation is from what we are fed by the press
that they believe in having multiple and social media. Since the visa situation does
children, polygamy, in women wearing hijabs, not allow Indians and Pakistanis to visit each
infidels, beef eating. When dealing with other’s countries easily, and the trains are

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