Shabana Whines, But What About Those Poor Hindus?

So here is Shabana Azmi saying Indian polity has been unfair to the Muslims. Again! This time her grouse is that being a Muslim she could not get a house to buy in Mumbai. And just because of that she thinks Indian Muslims are given unfair treatment. It may be politically incorrect, but I need to say that Muslims in India, or at least some of them, need to get out their "we were the rulers" complex and stop wallowing in self pity.
I am glad the BJP and even some Muslim leaders took her to task for her comments. Some of the latter even said there are Muslim housing societies in Mumbai who don't sell houses to non-Muslims. Why did Ms Azmi not respond to that?! Forget housing societies, there is even a place in Kerala's coast, called Anjuthengu (formerly Anjengo) where Muslims don't let non-Muslims buy houses or property. And they don't have any qualms in doing that even while clamouring for more state-appeasement by citing their minority status!
I think Ms Azmi should be strippe of her Rajya Sabha MP post. Muslim leaders like her can thrive only when the community feels that they are threatened and they keep crying "wolf" for petty political gains.
It is the bane of Indian democracy and secularism that leaders like Shabana Azmi can thrive and at the same time blame the country's political system for creating Muslim terrorists and Hindu terrorists. These wolves in sheep's clothing are the more insidious lot and should be dealt with sternly and in an exemplary manner.

A Welcome Move, But ...

The Muslim clergy in the country, reports say, are now mobilizing against terrorists from the
community. It is a welcome change, considering the Deoband school which is considered to provide the ideological underpinning to the extremist Wahabi brand of Islam, is at the forefront of the new movement. But then, there are other clergymen opposing them. Their argument: terrorism is not something which only the Muslims should be ashamed about. True, but those intellectuals who parrot the arguments of these clergy forget that all these new-fangled arguments are just a way to cover the extremist intentions of some Muslims at least. Leftist intellectuals have already bought into those arguments, and allowed Islamic extremism some amount of respect, in a trade off for votes.What is disturbing this time around, is the extremists and their intellectual backers are back at a time when there is a serious introspection within the community. Remember, these are the same people who opposed some films saying they were against Islam, when in truth they wanted to suppress a film showing a Muslim girl falling in love and marrying a Hindu boy. If it would have been the other way round, they wouldn't have minded. So much for their secularism! It is time we called the bluff of these wolves in sheep's clothing.

I have nothing against the Muslim community; many of my friends are from the community. What I am against is the competitive appeasement politics that is allowing these preachers of
violence to thrive under a garb of secular respectability.The earlier such idiots are put behind the bars, their intellectual backers exposed, and the moderates in the community given a chance to reasser themselves, the better for humanity and India!