The  Herald

The Article, "Mumbai Muslims claim they are being shunned" is an eye opener to the kind of discrimination against Muslims in many parts of the world. At one time, immediately after the 9/11 attacks, Muslims faced some very traumatising and humiliating experiences. Although the occurrence of such incidents is less frequent, the long term repercussions and this ‘Islamophobia’ continue to linger in the air.

Of course in India, the fear of attacks by "Muslims" is often on the minds of the local people. One needs to understand that in order to create animosity and hatred between two religious groups especially the Muslims and Hindus, a simple way is to squarely place the blame on Muslim extremists even though there is no evidence whatsoever but mere speculation. Let's take the example of Iraq, after so much of blame and the destruction of an entire nation, no evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction by the very perpetrators of the war has been forthcoming. Therefore, one needs to be careful before making claims and rushing into conclusions which are later difficult to undo and remedy.    

Sulaiman

Fordsburg