Though we acknowledge the role of Muslim nationalists in India as being significant in the history of Islam, we would like to point out an important drawback in their conceptualization of Indian Muslim: they had no truck with the Dalit community in India which kept itself away from Hinduism and Hindu worldview and instead forged alliance with leaders who espoused the vegetarian Hindu nationalism. It is pathetically a problem in the nation formation of India that a moderate form of Hindu nationalism was accepted as being patriotic, which some ulemas and Muslim leaders tried to interpret favourably dictating fatwas against buffalo slaughter. That is one reason why Dalit-Muslim fraternity does not have as much acceptance and glitter in the mainstream Muslim circles as Hindu-Muslim harmony does have.. via Islam Interactive
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:03:36 +0000