Muslims in India
Harsh Mander of the "Hindustan Times" paper, wrote an article titled "The Marked People", and after reading this write-up, I realised that Muslims in India are really having a hard time. On August 25, 2007,three bomb blasts hit Hyderabad and within days of the incident, the author says that a large number of Muslim youth had to undergo abduction, illegal detention and torture by the police.
According to the writer, hundreds of Muslim youth have been arrested forcefully. In other words these youth were innocent people who were picked up from their homes and some had been arrested while they were on their way to work .There was an embroider, a medical student, a software engineer, an auto-rickshaw driver among the ones arrested illegally by the policemen. And apparently these men had no criminal records. The author further elaborates that these "Muslim" youth are then taken to unknown places and undergo severe torture---for instance electric shocks, beatings on the sole of their feet, being deprived of food etc. These innocent youth have no choice but to face the severe hardships and some of them are forcefully asked to admit that they were involved with the bomb blasts and that they are militants when they are actually not. To make matters worse, their families are not informed about their miseries or whereabouts. Their families are not educated and hence they cannot make much progress i.e. they fail to gather information about their loved ones.
The Indian government must realise that hurting the Muslims will dent their reputation and will raise questions about their justice system. They call themselves "secular" but they have to prove it through their actions, not words only.
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