[vauydoot]

ameen, but you need to understand too that almost all culprits of bomb blasts in India were muslims, majority of mafia is run by muslims, most riots happened between hindu/muslim, or sikh/muslim, or recently bauddh/muslim. While I agree, majority of muslims are peaceful and just like any other person, Islam in general is failing to corroborate that image. Instead of blaming other about how they perceive islam, time is ripe for muslims to work for cleaning up image of islam.

[kxc]

Gandhi assassination :- Hindu extremist (RSS member actually).

Indhira Gandhi assassination :- Sikh.

Rajiv Gandhi assasssination :- Tamilian (who happened to be Hindu).

Never mind the maoists, the naxalites, the RSS, the scores or more assorted seperationist groups (majority of which are non-muslim) operating in the North-east provinces. Statistically speaking I would bet the Maoists and Naxalites killed more people than Pakistani and Kashmiri separatists in the last few years.

Also your statements imply that because muslims were a party in all the conflicts and events you cherry-picked - that makes them responsible for all or most of them. By that logic, Jews were persecuted over millenia, (and are still embroiled in conflict today). So does that make them responsible for all those conflicts? Maybe you should face the fact about your anti-muslim prejudices.

I do agree with your last line about muslims needing to clean up their image. Also we need some serious soul-searching in light of the insanity that is happening in Iraq and Syria(Luckily the 175 million Indian muslims have been practically un-involved in these outside conflicts). But it is a uphill battle because the bad guys always get more ink than the good guys. The media in turn, are just feeding off the public fascination with shock and violence.

[ameen]

There was a report recently that most of the prison inmates were Dalits and Muslims, and the reason were mostly socio-economic than anything nefarious.

Illiterate people are an easy target and can be swayed by emotions. The need of the hour is education. And the worst part is our education system is regressing rather than progressing.

A parallel in the US is the case of African American youth. Most of them are of lower socio-economic status.

Also coming to your first point, there have been bomb blasts committed by Hindu extremists, Maoists, Naxalites, etc. Riots still occur in 2014 due to ugly vote-bank politics. So called leaders fan flames and then feign innocence in the media.

Not unless we conquer ignorance and prejudice can peace prevail.