--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Elisabeth > Thanks for you very interesting question about what > prompts Pakistani originating Muslims to adopt > terrorist behaviour/action, unlike the Indian > originating Muslims in London. > Mario adds: > To add to Cornel's pretty reasonable comments on the subject, there is definitely a huge inherent difference in the general attitudes of Indian and Pakistani Muslims, which may stem from the different notions of freedom and secular democracy and respect, or lack thereof, for other faiths, and continue when they migrate from India. > I experienced this at first hand recently when a Pakistani physician claimed that he would have been "sweeping floors" in India had his family not migrated to Pakistan, then stormed off in high dudgeon when I pointed out a prominent Indian Muslim physician who was sitting across the table from us and asked how he could make such an absurd claim. > Pakistan is a hotbed of radical Islam and support for Al Qaeda. Indian Muslims brag that none of them have been recruited by Al Qaeda, which is largely but not entirely accurate - radical attacks in India could not take place without some local collaboration. > Going back to the partition of India, about half the Muslims in the sub-continent supported Jinnah's paranoia of being dominated by the Hindus and therefore wanted their own country. The rest stayed within a secular India and are probably the most secular and tolerant Muslims in the world. > In Pakistan it would be virtually impossible for a non-Muslim to achieve any prominence, whereas in secular India this is not even remarkable and President Abdul Kalam is the second Muslim to attain that post. During the recent Indian cricket team's visit to Pakistan a fight broke out at a party when a Pakistani suggested that Indian Muslims were second class citizens and an Indian Muslim took strenuous umbrage at that characterisation and pointed out the many stellar achievements of Muslims in India. > In 1947, when Kashmir was kept out of the partition of the sub-continent pending a plebiscite to decide whether they wanted to stay independent or join either India or Pakistan, the Pakistani Muslims decided not to wait for the plebiscite, but to take Kashmir by force. > Indian Muslims are allowed to practice their religion unfettered, whereas in Pakistan radical Muslims routinely impose their radical interpretation of Islam on others, and especially target women to make them conform with extreme notions of dress and subservience to men. >
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