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		<title>By: Suresh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Suresh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the whole point of the article was not whether muslims protest against mf hussain or terrorsm (may be that was an additional point, but).. what sanghvi wanted to convey was the lack of freedom given to Atheists, and how they are always suppressed and terrorised.. and this goes for all religions.. how many of us have the guts to question/criticise out own religion (we do it liberally for others religions).. i think the time has come to have forums where we can (constructively) criticise OUR OWN religions.. for eg- a hindu community where they discuss debate shortcomings of their own religion.. and this blog can start debating amongst indian muslims, what they like and dont like about islam etc..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the whole point of the article was not whether muslims protest against mf hussain or terrorsm (may be that was an additional point, but).. what sanghvi wanted to convey was the lack of freedom given to Atheists, and how they are always suppressed and terrorised.. and this goes for all religions.. how many of us have the guts to question/criticise out own religion (we do it liberally for others religions).. i think the time has come to have forums where we can (constructively) criticise OUR OWN religions.. for eg- a hindu community where they discuss debate shortcomings of their own religion.. and this blog can start debating amongst indian muslims, what they like and dont like about islam etc..</p>
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		<title>By: Do not use word &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and &#8220;jihad&#8221; together</title>
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		<dc:creator>Do not use word &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and &#8220;jihad&#8221; together</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the best and are with them in their time of sorrow. Lets see who goes deeper and deeper in chaos. http://indianmuslims.in/letter-to-mr-vir-sanghvi-and-hindustan-times/ [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the best and are with them in their time of sorrow. Lets see who goes deeper and deeper in chaos. <a href="http://indianmuslims.in/letter-to-mr-vir-sanghvi-and-hindustan-times/" rel="nofollow">http://indianmuslims.in/letter-to-mr-vir-sanghvi-and-hindustan-times/</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mudit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mudit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is heartening to see this free dialogue, and it fills me with joy that our country provides us the freedom to think and talk like this, regardless of who we are or what we believe in. This is the essence of India. The Muslims have some problems with the Hindus. The Hindus have some problems with the Muslims. The Christians have some problems with the Hindus, and vice versa. The South Indians have problems with the North Indians, about the imposition of Hindi as a national language. 

Lets talk about them. Lets have more such blogs - not from the point of view of my community against another, but - how the hell do we solve this? 

The problems for most of India and the communities are created by politicians and leaders on either side, who benefit from this division. We need to get educated, learn, and the new wave of educated and wise Muslims and Hindus that we see today need to take up leadership roles going forward. You and I need to not vote on community issues, or quotas. This division kills all of us, and we need to realize it. There is no better way of realizing it than articles such as these, and the healthy discussion (for the most part) that follows. 

Bravo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is heartening to see this free dialogue, and it fills me with joy that our country provides us the freedom to think and talk like this, regardless of who we are or what we believe in. This is the essence of India. The Muslims have some problems with the Hindus. The Hindus have some problems with the Muslims. The Christians have some problems with the Hindus, and vice versa. The South Indians have problems with the North Indians, about the imposition of Hindi as a national language. </p>
<p>Lets talk about them. Lets have more such blogs &#8211; not from the point of view of my community against another, but &#8211; how the hell do we solve this? </p>
<p>The problems for most of India and the communities are created by politicians and leaders on either side, who benefit from this division. We need to get educated, learn, and the new wave of educated and wise Muslims and Hindus that we see today need to take up leadership roles going forward. You and I need to not vote on community issues, or quotas. This division kills all of us, and we need to realize it. There is no better way of realizing it than articles such as these, and the healthy discussion (for the most part) that follows. </p>
<p>Bravo.</p>
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		<title>By: kk</title>
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		<dc:creator>kk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 20:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The naxalites are godless people ,believing in Communism unlike
the muslim terrorist who blow themselves up in the name of Allah.
How can you Adnan miss this??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The naxalites are godless people ,believing in Communism unlike<br />
the muslim terrorist who blow themselves up in the name of Allah.<br />
How can you Adnan miss this??</p>
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		<title>By: Gus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Adnan

Your article is well written. Muslims have grievances but that needs to be handled better. 

Do not give values to any leadership who blames one community or another, we must look into issues that affects us day to to day, that includes security of each individual whether hindu / Muslim or any religion. 

Saftey security and prosperity is what we need to work upon. All religions have issues, but every religion the reformer and leaders need to come out and take responsibility of misdeed of their co-religionist and handle the situation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adnan</p>
<p>Your article is well written. Muslims have grievances but that needs to be handled better. </p>
<p>Do not give values to any leadership who blames one community or another, we must look into issues that affects us day to to day, that includes security of each individual whether hindu / Muslim or any religion. </p>
<p>Saftey security and prosperity is what we need to work upon. All religions have issues, but every religion the reformer and leaders need to come out and take responsibility of misdeed of their co-religionist and handle the situation.</p>
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		<title>By: kartik</title>
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		<dc:creator>kartik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Adnan

Like you said that some muslims were killed in chattishgarh and no body noticed. I understand that its wrong. But when you raise the point of one muslim person being a terrorist suspect it defines what i said ealier in my response--- That due to the enormous number of extremists out in other countries eg afghanistan, pakistan, Turkey.. Every other innocent muslim is looked down upon. That&#039;s the only reason and its very natrual to do so. I&#039;m not saying its right but it comes natural when most wars being fought around the world are so called islamic wars by extremists.  Do you ever wonder why terrorist attacks on Kashmir are never blamed on buddhists or the 9/11 attacks? Beause just the idea of having a buddhist monk walking around with a AK-47 or flying a plane into WTC is laughable. 
Because even if a certain muslim person is innocnet of any crime it suddenly becomes very easy to blame the attacks on him due to the condition and continous unrest in the Muslim world. ITS VERY WRONG. I aknowledge that fact. 
But only the exteremists are to be blamed. 
Islam must declare Jihad against the extremists instead of declaring it against other nations who due to no fault of their own consider the lack of action of peafull muslims as them being a part of the Jihad against the non-muslims.  
THE FIGHT TO GAIN RESPECT IN THE WORLD NOW MUST COME FROM WITHIN THE MUSLIM POPULATIONS AGAINST EXTREMEISTS. It is the only way to truly get Islam the respect it deserves back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Adnan</p>
<p>Like you said that some muslims were killed in chattishgarh and no body noticed. I understand that its wrong. But when you raise the point of one muslim person being a terrorist suspect it defines what i said ealier in my response&#8212; That due to the enormous number of extremists out in other countries eg afghanistan, pakistan, Turkey.. Every other innocent muslim is looked down upon. That&#8217;s the only reason and its very natrual to do so. I&#8217;m not saying its right but it comes natural when most wars being fought around the world are so called islamic wars by extremists.  Do you ever wonder why terrorist attacks on Kashmir are never blamed on buddhists or the 9/11 attacks? Beause just the idea of having a buddhist monk walking around with a AK-47 or flying a plane into WTC is laughable.<br />
Because even if a certain muslim person is innocnet of any crime it suddenly becomes very easy to blame the attacks on him due to the condition and continous unrest in the Muslim world. ITS VERY WRONG. I aknowledge that fact.<br />
But only the exteremists are to be blamed.<br />
Islam must declare Jihad against the extremists instead of declaring it against other nations who due to no fault of their own consider the lack of action of peafull muslims as them being a part of the Jihad against the non-muslims.<br />
THE FIGHT TO GAIN RESPECT IN THE WORLD NOW MUST COME FROM WITHIN THE MUSLIM POPULATIONS AGAINST EXTREMEISTS. It is the only way to truly get Islam the respect it deserves back.</p>
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		<title>By: Adnan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adnan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ironically when Naxalites kill by dozens nobody in the country calls it terrorism or associates it with their religion or whatever ideology it is. 55 killed in Chhattisgarh don&#039;t make the news but one suspect if he is a Muslim and is even arrested just on suspicion by police or rather framed for any blast or attack, raises eyebrows. 
The situation in Chhattisgarh is worse than any Indian state and almost it is looking like a Maoist state run within the country but does anybody care. If you bother to read &lt;a href=&quot;http://editindia.blogspot.com/2007/03/is-it-naxal-republic-of-chhattisgarh.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Click&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ironically when Naxalites kill by dozens nobody in the country calls it terrorism or associates it with their religion or whatever ideology it is. 55 killed in Chhattisgarh don&#8217;t make the news but one suspect if he is a Muslim and is even arrested just on suspicion by police or rather framed for any blast or attack, raises eyebrows.<br />
The situation in Chhattisgarh is worse than any Indian state and almost it is looking like a Maoist state run within the country but does anybody care. If you bother to read <a href="http://editindia.blogspot.com/2007/03/is-it-naxal-republic-of-chhattisgarh.html" rel="nofollow">Click</a></p>
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		<title>By: kartik</title>
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		<dc:creator>kartik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Adnan. 
I believe that the reason muslims everywhere are being looked down upon is because of the tension that has been created by extremist muslims all over the world. Everywehere from our Kashmir, Israel, recents incidents in France, London Bombing, 9/11, the destruction of hindu temple in Lahore Pakistan for building a shopping complex, Christian massacre by extremeists in Indonesia, forceful conversions of Hindus in bangladesh and Bangladeshi muslims crossing the border into assam and other bordering states and forcully converting people to Islam. 
Although these activities are performed by extremeist muslims they are perfromed on such a LARGE SCLAE THAT the better half of the muslim community is overshadowed by them. 
We cannot blame THE Indian government, public or the west for blaming Islam for terrorism. 
I truly understand that most muslims are PEACEFUL people who just wnat an ordinary life just like anyone else. 

But the reason this has increased all over the world is due to the lack of action from peacfull muslims who fail to have their voice heard in the media. They are trying though. 
I have nothing against Islam. I have lots of muslim friends with whom i have visited the mosque quite often and they have visited the temples. 
Look all i&#039;m saying is that if muslims all over the world speak out against this false image of Islam, things would turn around. UNITY LACKS AMONG PEACFUL MUSLIMS AND IS INCREASING AMONG THE EXTREMISTS OF ISLAM. Unity lacks among Muslims all over the world for changin the image of Islam.  
One or two websites like these won&#039;t help. If massive protests are organized all over the world against the terrorist groups who give islam a bad name I&#039;m sure there would be a reaction. 
The image of Islam has been deterorating continously for the last half of the century. It will take massive efforts and an organized system to bring it up to the level it truly deserves.

If anyone wants to comment please mail me at successfever@gmail.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Adnan.<br />
I believe that the reason muslims everywhere are being looked down upon is because of the tension that has been created by extremist muslims all over the world. Everywehere from our Kashmir, Israel, recents incidents in France, London Bombing, 9/11, the destruction of hindu temple in Lahore Pakistan for building a shopping complex, Christian massacre by extremeists in Indonesia, forceful conversions of Hindus in bangladesh and Bangladeshi muslims crossing the border into assam and other bordering states and forcully converting people to Islam.<br />
Although these activities are performed by extremeist muslims they are perfromed on such a LARGE SCLAE THAT the better half of the muslim community is overshadowed by them.<br />
We cannot blame THE Indian government, public or the west for blaming Islam for terrorism.<br />
I truly understand that most muslims are PEACEFUL people who just wnat an ordinary life just like anyone else. </p>
<p>But the reason this has increased all over the world is due to the lack of action from peacfull muslims who fail to have their voice heard in the media. They are trying though.<br />
I have nothing against Islam. I have lots of muslim friends with whom i have visited the mosque quite often and they have visited the temples.<br />
Look all i&#8217;m saying is that if muslims all over the world speak out against this false image of Islam, things would turn around. UNITY LACKS AMONG PEACFUL MUSLIMS AND IS INCREASING AMONG THE EXTREMISTS OF ISLAM. Unity lacks among Muslims all over the world for changin the image of Islam.<br />
One or two websites like these won&#8217;t help. If massive protests are organized all over the world against the terrorist groups who give islam a bad name I&#8217;m sure there would be a reaction.<br />
The image of Islam has been deterorating continously for the last half of the century. It will take massive efforts and an organized system to bring it up to the level it truly deserves.</p>
<p>If anyone wants to comment please mail me at <a href="mailto:successfever@gmail.com">successfever@gmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: First Anniversary Of IndianMuslims.in at Indian Muslims</title>
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		<dc:creator>First Anniversary Of IndianMuslims.in at Indian Muslims</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: bhavesh</title>
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		<dc:creator>bhavesh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Adnan &amp; Bangaloreboy786...

You mentioned that all Muslims should be provided 3 meals everyday. Probably you expect the Muslim community should now be given more liberty over &amp; above that is provided. 

The Indian Government subsidises the Haj visit for all Muslims. No other minoroty community shares this privilege.

There is a Mosque in Ayodhya where nobody worships for more than 50 years. I am not a Hindu. But I feel that when a vast majority of Hindu&#039;s feel that a grand Hindu temple needs to be built in the Birth place of Lord Rama why can all the muslims not support this cause willingly. Same is the case of Mathura &amp; other places also.

You mentioned that the sex ratio of M/F in muslims is the best. However I feel that the Muslim is one religion which exploits women the maximum. You can unanimously divorce any women &amp; not give her any alimony. 

I have many Muslim friends. Let me tell you that most of them are more concerned about Muslims in other countries than their fellow Hindu&#039;s in India.

Riots have happened against Hindu&#039;s &amp; other monority communities also. You will always have people like Togadia (you found him offensive). I feel he has his right of speech same was as the Maulana&#039;s talk openly. 

I would agree with Vir Sanghvi. The modern liberal muslims needs to come out more openly for uplifting the conditions of the fellow Muslims &amp; also speak against the religious hegemony.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adnan &amp; Bangaloreboy786&#8230;</p>
<p>You mentioned that all Muslims should be provided 3 meals everyday. Probably you expect the Muslim community should now be given more liberty over &amp; above that is provided. </p>
<p>The Indian Government subsidises the Haj visit for all Muslims. No other minoroty community shares this privilege.</p>
<p>There is a Mosque in Ayodhya where nobody worships for more than 50 years. I am not a Hindu. But I feel that when a vast majority of Hindu&#8217;s feel that a grand Hindu temple needs to be built in the Birth place of Lord Rama why can all the muslims not support this cause willingly. Same is the case of Mathura &amp; other places also.</p>
<p>You mentioned that the sex ratio of M/F in muslims is the best. However I feel that the Muslim is one religion which exploits women the maximum. You can unanimously divorce any women &amp; not give her any alimony. </p>
<p>I have many Muslim friends. Let me tell you that most of them are more concerned about Muslims in other countries than their fellow Hindu&#8217;s in India.</p>
<p>Riots have happened against Hindu&#8217;s &amp; other monority communities also. You will always have people like Togadia (you found him offensive). I feel he has his right of speech same was as the Maulana&#8217;s talk openly. </p>
<p>I would agree with Vir Sanghvi. The modern liberal muslims needs to come out more openly for uplifting the conditions of the fellow Muslims &amp; also speak against the religious hegemony.</p>
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